Culturally centered ELA units for every grade band, K–12. Click any unit to open it in the Teacher View.
Every family has stories — funny ones, brave ones, and ones that teach big lessons. In this unit, we read folktales and family stories from all over the world, …
In this unit, students explore the many helpers who make a community strong — from firefighters and teachers to grandmothers and neighbors. Through culturally r…
Exploring the world through food, music, language, and traditions. Students connect maps and places to living cultures — making geography feel alive, not abstra…
In this unit, students explore what it means to build bridges — between cultures, languages, generations, and ideas. Through powerful fiction, biography-inspire…
In this unit, students grapple with one of the most important questions in literacy: who gets to tell the story — and what happens to everyone else? Inspired by…
In this unit, students explore the universal human experience of migration — leaving one home and finding another. Through original texts inspired by the voices…
In this unit, students explore how identity shapes voice and how voice shapes the world. Through diverse texts spanning cultures, continents, and centuries, stu…
In this unit, students explore how people across cultures and centuries have resisted injustice and found strength in adversity. Through texts spanning the Afri…
In this unit, students move from understanding injustice to demanding change. Building on the roots and routes of Grade 6, the identity work of Grade 7, and the…
In this unit, students examine how geography, history, and systems of power shape what people are allowed to be and become. Building on the justice and advocacy…
Join our teacher community and receive free sample units tailored to your grade level — no credit card, no commitment.
No spam, ever. Unsubscribe anytime.