K-2 Curriculum Map
Integrated core ELA and social studies
In Inkwell, one 70-minute block teaches reading comprehension, writing, and social studies. Content-rich social studies investigations build knowledge that deepens over lessons, units, and grade levels. Download the K-2 Curriculum Maps to see how every Inkwell unit integrates ELA and social studies into one instructional block.
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What's inside
Each grade gets three units and about 150 days of instruction. Units run 50 to 52 days, so the maps show a full year rather than a sampler. Here's what's on each page.
- Unit overviews. What students investigate in all nine units, from Kindergarten's Working Together to Second Grade's Innovation.
- Investigation modules. The questions inside each unit, like "How do people track the passage of time?" and "Why do communities need different jobs?"Sample anchor texts. The trade books and the inquirED-written Sourcible texts students read, listed unit by unit.
- Standards connections. Reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language standards alongside C3 civics, economics, geography, and history codes.
- Writing focus. Which units carry informative, opinion, and narrative writing, and where each one falls in the year.
About Inkwell
K-2 core ELA and social studies in one, 70-minute instructional block.
Inkwell is an inquiry-based HQIM for both ELA and social studies, designed so each subject strengthens the other. Students develop their literacy by reading, writing, and discussing within sustained social studies investigations.
- Supports mastery of ELA and social studies standards in one block
- Grounded in the Science of Reading
- Embeds explicit writing instruction in daily lessons
- Builds knowledge through content-rich social studies investigations
- Connects and deepens learning through inquiry
Save time
Inkwell’s 70-minute block replaces two separate ELA and social studies blocks. Teachers no longer have to choose between ELA and social studies, and the time they get back goes to foundational skills, math, and intervention.
Deepen comprehension
Inkwell’s integrated design develops the background knowledge and academic vocabulary comprehension depends on. And, each unit students apply that knowledge to a new text, task or idea to deepen comprehension and extend their learning.
Give writing purpose
Inkwell writing starts with explicit daily instruction and asks students to use writing to make meaning of texts. Then, it asks students to go one step further and use the knowledge they’ve built as evidence for a broader disciplinary idea.