Accelerated and Enriched Instruction → Elementary Programs → 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 |