The Connected ELA Block Checklist

A comprehensive ELA block can include all the right components and still leave students and teachers doing the work of connecting them.

The Connected ELA Block Checklist gives curriculum and instructional teams a practical way to step back and look across the full ELA block. Use it to examine how reading, writing, language, foundational skills, knowledge building, and other components work together—and identify where instruction may be disconnected, repetitive, or unnecessarily complex.

With guided questions and an ELA resource inventory, the checklist can help your team uncover gaps and overlap, see where teachers are having to create connections themselves, and identify opportunities to better align or simplify instruction.