K-12 ELA Literature Curriculum Map
Grade
Level
K
1
2
Semester 1
Semester 2
Resources
 Story Elements: plot, setting, and characters
 Story Analysis: inferences, cause and effect,
compare and contrast, summarize,
sequencing, predictions
 Story structures: rhyme, rhythm, word
choice, point of view, main idea, details, text
structure
 Story Elements: plot, setting, and
characters
 Story Analysis: inferences, cause and
effect, compare and contrast, summarize
sequencing, predictions
 Story Structures: rhyme, rhythm, word
choice, point of view, main idea, details,
text structure, author's purpose
 Poetry: rhyme, rhythm, beat
 Story Elements: main ideas/details, plot,
retelling, setting, and characters, story
listening
 Story Analysis: inferences, compare and
contrast, summarize, sequencing,
predictions
 Story structures: rhyme, rhythm, main
idea, details, text structure
 Story Elements: Plot, setting, and
characters
 Story Analysis: Inferences, cause and
effect. Compare and contrast, summarize
sequencing, predictions.
 Story Structures: Rhyme, rhythm, word
choice, point of view, main idea, details,
text structure, author's purpose.
 Poetry: rhyme, rhythm, beat.
 Treasures Reading Series
2009
 MacMillian McGraw Hill
Adventures & Delights
2001
 Houghton & Mifflin
 Story Elements: main ideas/details, retelling,
setting, and characters, story listening
 Story Analysis: inferences, compare and
contrast, summarize, sequencing,
predictions
 Story structures: rhyme, rhythm, main idea,
details, text structure
 Story Elements: Plot, setting, and characters
 Story Analysis: Inferences, cause and effect.
Compare and contrast, summarize,
sequencing, predictions.
 Story structures: Rhyme, rhythm, word
choice, point of view, main idea, details, text
structure.
 Treasures Reading Series
2009
 MacMillian McGraw Hill
Supplemental Materials
 Listening centers
 Treasures Reading Series
2009
 MacMillian McGraw Hill
Adventures & Delights
2001
 Houghton & Mifflin
Other
3
 Locate details to answer questions
 Retell/Summarize
 Define and explain theme
 Story Elements
 Context Clues
 Define literal language
 Text Structures
 Compare/Contrast (Topics, authors, stories,
etc.)
 Read complex grade level text
 Basic Comprehension Strategies (visualizing,
inferring, predicting, questioning,
summarizing)
 Cause and Effect
 Main Idea
 Author's Purpose
 Continue with first semester skills as well
as the following
 Drawing Conclusions
 Response to Literature
 Poetry
 Basic Comprehension
 Strategies
 Identify and explain illustrations
 Define and explain point of view
 Describe how chapters, scenes, and
stanzas give information and work
together
 Read complex grade level text
 Storytown
 Storytown Leveled
Readers
 Novels
 Locate explicit information in text
 Inferences/draw conclusions
 Story elements
 Summary context clues, root words, affixes
 Compare/contrast stories
 Author's purpose
 Read complex grade level text
 Reading strategies (ask questions,
connections, take notes, make inferences,
visualize, re-read, etc)
 Continue with first semester skills as well  Story town
as the following
 Story Town Leveled
 Analyze details to identify theme
readers
 Mythology characters
 Novels:
o Charlotte's Web
 Inferences/draw conclusions
o The Canada Geese
 Poems, drama, and prose
Quilt
 Points of view
o The Hoboken Chicken
 Read complex grade level text
Emergency
 Reading strategies (ask questions,
o The Report Card
connections, take notes, make inferences,
o Frindle
visualize, re-read, etc.)
o My Life as a Book
o Owls in the Shower
o A Day in the Tropical
Rainforest
o Lemonade Wars
o Rules
o Enormous Egg
o Cricket in Time Square
o Rabbit Hill
o Bunnicula
o Classics (children's
version)
 Main idea, Reading for detail
 Inference, theme, compare/contrast
 Figurative Language
 Finding evidence to support reasoning
 Writing: Opinion, Persuasive
 Presentation of Information
 Summarize, paraphrase information
 Informational text structure
 Identify and interpret maps, graphs,
pictures, diagrams, charts, media clips, to
 Main idea, Reading for detail
 Inference, theme, compare/contrast
 Figurative Language
 Finding evidence to support reasoning
 Writing: Informative, Narrative
 Informational text structure
 Summarize, paraphrase information
 Presentation of Information
 Identify and interpret maps, graphs,
pictures, diagrams, charts, media clips, to
4
5
 StoryTown
 Novels:
o Because of Winn-Dixie
o A Time for Andrew
o The Secret Garden
o In the Year of the Boar
and Jackie Robinson
o Holes
o American Plague
6
7
understand text
 Reading strategies: infer, cause & effect,
plot, predict, sequence of events,
compare/contrast, author’s purpose,
Literary terms, motives, theme, text
structure
 Vocabulary
 Context clues
 Main idea,
 Inference, theme, compare/contrast
 Figurative Language
 Finding evidence to support reasoning
 Presentation of Information
 Summarize, paraphrase information
 Reading strategies: infer, cause & effect,
plot, predict, sequence of events,
compare/contrast, author’s purpose,
Literary terms, motives, theme, text
structure, point of view
 Vocabulary
understand text
 Reading strategies: infer, cause & effect,
plot, predict, sequence of events,
compare/contrast, author’s purpose,
Literary terms, fact/opinion, motives,
theme, text structure
 Vocabulary
 Context clues
 Main idea,
 Inference, theme, compare/contrast
 Figurative Language
 Finding evidence to support reasoning
 Presentation of Information
 Summarize, paraphrase information
 Reading strategies: infer, cause & effect,
plot, predict, sequence of events,
compare/contrast, author’s purpose,
Literary terms, motives, theme, text
structure, point of view
 Vocabulary
 Short Stories
 Flawed Dogs
 The Red Pony
 A Christmas Carol
 To Be a Slave
 One Eyed Cat
 Good Night Mr. Tom
 Adventures of Ulysses
 Prairie Songs.
 Novels:
o A Long Way from
Chicago
o The Egypt Game
o Watson’s Go to
Birmingham
o A Wrinkle in Time
o Roll of Thunder, Hear
my Cry
o Number the Stars
o Hatchet
o Elijah of Buxton
o The Call of the Wild
 Short stories: Prentice
Hall
 The Outsiders
 Ghosts I Have Been
 The Teacher's Funeral
 Computers for
research and
background for
novels
 Teacher created
materials.
 Novels
o The Contender
o The Outsiders
o Fahrenheit 451
o Debates--see Speaking and Listening for
7
more information
Advanced
o The Christmas Carol
8
8
Advanced
 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
 Johnny Tremain
 The Sledding Hill Dragonwings
 And Then There Were None
 Continue literary terms
 Literary Terms List with
definitions
 Prentice Hall Literature
 Short Stories
 A Light in the Forest
 Animal Farm
 Johnny Tremain
 Anthem
 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
 Literary Terms List with
definitions
 Prentice Hall Literature
 Hamlet
 Silas Marner
 Prologue
 “The Nun's Priest's” from The Canterbury
Tales
 Watership Down
 The Good Earth
 Huckleberry Fin
 McDougal/Littell
Literature
 Web documents and
online resources
 Novels:
o To Kill a Mockingbird
o Of Mice and Men
o Great Expectations
o Lone Ranger and
Tonto
o Romeo and Juliet
o Huck Finn
o The Hobbit
o The Catcher in the Rye
 Computers for
research and
background for
novels
 Teacher created
materials
9
10
11
12
 Literary Elements/Devices in: Short Stories
 Novels: (Examples: Theme, Character,
Setting, Plot, Point of View)
 Poetry: (Examples: Pun, Metaphor, Simile,
Imagery, Personification, Form, Style, voice,
ect.)
 Character Analysis and Responses Individual
Novel Reading (Free Reads)
 Continued work with literary
elements/devices in: Biographical Essays
Novels, Drama (Shakespeare) Epic Poetry
(Odyssey & Illiad)
 Character Analysis and Response
 Continued Individual Novel Reading (Free
Reads)
 Literary elements Short Stories
 Drama (Antigone)
 Novel (Basic)
 Literary Devices
 Short Stories
 Novel (Basic) Character Analysis
 Independent student novels
 Continued work with literary
elements/devices in: Biographical Essays
Novels, Drama (Julies Caeser)
 Continued work with thematic short
stories
Under Development
Under Development
 McDougal/Littell
Literature
 Web documents and
online resources
 Novel: Monster (Basic)
Iron Man (Basic) Cold
Sassy Tree, Huck Finn
(Standard)