Offering a full year of ELA instruction, each full course of study comprises a comprehensive series of inquiry-based units featuring detailed lesson plans for building critical, standards-aligned literacy skills. Each unit is built around challenging, grade-appropriate texts and spiraling cycles of work marked by reading, writing, and collaborative small-group and whole-class discussion. A foundation of student-focused work to build fluency in reading and writing continues through the year alongside close reading of compelling texts and formal, genre-based writing instruction.

The full curriculum package from Inquiry By Design includes all teacher print materials, a one-year teacher subscription to the digital toolkit, and all student print materials. Student materials are consumables repurchased yearly as needed. The teacher d