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Enriched Literacy Curriculum (ELC)

The Enriched Literacy Curriculum  provides advanced, rigorous instruction to fourth and fifth grade students in their local school. Select elementary schools implement the Enriched Literacy Curriculum within the English Language Arts instructional block, while addressing grade-level standards and making explicit connections across content areas. The curriculum provides instructional opportunities with complex literary and informational texts, writing instruction based on developing the writer through writing process and writing workshop, and establishes an instructional atmosphere that promotes critical and creative thinking.  The curriculum uses best practices in gifted education research and incorporates components of supplemental programs including: Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program, Junior Great Books, William and Mary Language Arts Units, and Lucy Calkins Unit of Study in Writing.

 

 ELC Parent's Guide to Year Long Learning

The Parent’s Guide to Year-Long Enriched Literacy Curriculum Learning describe the skills and concepts for each marking period.

 Fourth Grade 

  Fifth Grade      

       

 

 ELC Sites - The schools below offer the Enriched Literacy Curriculum to selected students.

Ashburton Belmont*
Bethesda*

 Beverly Farms

 Bradley Hills

 Burtonsville* 

 Cannon Road

 Carderock Springs* 

 Cashell

 Cedar Grove

 Clarksburg* 

 Clopper Mill* 

Cold Spring (pilot)*

 Cresthaven

 Capt. James E. Daly* 

 Diamond

 East Silver Spring

  Fallsmead*

Farmland

 Fields Road

 Flower Hill

Forest Knolls  
Gaithersburg 

 Galway

 Garrett Park

 Glenallan* 

 Great Seneca Creek

 Greencastle

 Greenwood

 Harmony Hills

 Jackson Road

 Jones Lane

 JoAnn Leleck

 Kensington-Parkwood* 

 Lakewood* 

 Little Bennett* 

 Luxmanor* 

 Thurgood Marshall

Montgomery Virtual Academy 

 S. Christa McAuliffe

 Ronald McNair

 North Chevy Chase 
Olney*

 Poolesville

 Ritchie Park* 

 Rosemont

Sherwood

 Sargent Shriver

 Flora Singer

 Snowden Farm

 Somerset

South Lake*

 Strathmore

 Summit Hall* 

Harriet Tubman*

 Waters Landing* 

 Wayside* 

 Weller Road

 Westbrook*

 Whetstone

 Wilson Wims

 Woodlin

 Wyngate


 *Schools new to ELC in the 2022-2023 school year. 
 
  Updated 9/12/22