Curriculum Guides/Manuals Evaluation and Analysis ESL 2 Amy Reese March 29, 2014

Curriculum: Houghton Mifflin Science Grade level: 4

Adequate Insufficient N/A

Material reflects a variety of ways to differentiate instruction and model content to support all learners. Material reflects sensitivity with regard to gender, race/ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, intellectual, and physical abilities. Material includes access to a multilingual glossary. Material provides resources for students with disabilities and English Language Learners aligned to grade level content.

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Analysis: This science curriculum by Houghton Mifflin included representation of several different ethnicities in its photos of students. Included are materials for extra support for students as well as ELL beginning and intermediate learning

activities for each lesson. It is lacking a bilingual glossary, which can be helpful to beginning ELLs to learn content vocabulary.

Curriculum: Houghton Mifflin Reading Grade Level: 4

Adequate Insufficient N/A

Material reflects a variety of ways to differentiate instruction and model content to support all learners. Material reflects sensitivity with regard to gender, race/ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, intellectual, and physical abilities. Material includes access to a multilingual glossary. Material provides resources for students with disabilities and English Language Learners aligned to grade level content.

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Analysis: The Houghton Mifflin Reading Manual for grade 4 has a variety of learning activities for learners of many levels. Not only does it include cross-curricular activities for art, math, social studies, it also incorporates ELL support as well. Each lesson includes a section in the manual for supporting comprehension at three levels of ELP. This Reading curriculum is sensitive to other cultures and includes

literature that focuses people of different ethnic backgrounds, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. For example, there are stories that feature Spanish, African Americans, and Chinese. There is also a story on Louise Braille, who was blind and another story about a blind musician. There is also a section for the teacher to assist those who are below reading level and need extra support or intervention. Overall, this reading curriculum reflects sensitivity to all and has a great variety of activities and support for any level 4th grader

Curriculum: Houghton Mifflin Math Grade Level: 4 Adequate Insufficient N/A

Material reflects a variety of ways to differentiate instruction and model content to support all learners. Material reflects sensitivity with regard to gender, race/ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, intellectual, and physical abilities. Material includes access to a multilingual glossary. Material provides resources for students with disabilities and English Language Learners aligned to grade level content.

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Analysis: Houghton Mifflin Math curriculum for grade 4 has a variety of learning activities and helps for students at several levels. There are resources for extra

support, enrichment, cross-curricular, special needs, and ESL students. The material does portray students of different ethnic backgrounds and disabilities. There are also technology links that can be utilized on the computer if math is held in a computer lab. As with content area, I feel a multilingual glossary is necessary for ESL students to grasp the vocabulary if they can get a translation of the terms that are introduced in the math lesson. Overall, this math curriculum is a good fit for students at any level as long as the teacher follows the resources that are provided in the manual.