NYS ELA Research Collections
American Reading Company has developed thematic
Research Collections to support each of the NYS ELA
Common Core Curriculum Modules, Grades 3–8.
Each Research Collection has 25 titles, including
as many of the titles from the recommended text
lists as are currently in print and in stock. Where
additional titles are needed to complete the 25-title
set, ARC’s collection development experts will select
additional titles on the same theme and in the same
text complexity range.
Titles included will vary.
$260 per collection
ELA Module
Module 1: My Librarian Is a Camel, Bringing Books to Children
around the World
Module 2a: Adaptations and the Wide World of Frogs
Module 2b: “Then and Now”
Module 3b: Wolves: Fact and Fiction
Module 4 The Role of Freshwater Around the World
Research Collection
Grade 3 Modules
Schools Around the World (Units 1& 3)
The Power of Reading (Unit 2)
Frogs (Units 1 & 2)
Animal Adaptations (Unit 3)
Japan/Asia (Unit 1)
Iraq, Italy, India (Unit 2)
Wolves Literature (Unit 1)
Wolves Informational Text (Unit 2)
Water on Earth
ARC Leveled Text Set
Animal Adaptations
Asia Text Set
Weather & Climate
Grade 4 Modules
Module 1a: Native Americans in New York
Native Americans of the Northeast
Module 1b: Poetry, Biography, and Writer’s Identity
Poetry
Poets
Colonial America
Animal Adaptations (Units 1 & 2)
Animal Stories (Unit 3)
Module 2a: Interdependent Roles in Colonial Times
Module 2b: Animal Defense Mechanisms
Module 3a: Considering Perspectives and Supporting Opinions: Simple
Simple Machines
Machines
American Revolution Informational (Units 1 & 3)
Module 3b: The American Revolution
American Revolution Literature (Unit 2)
Women’s Suffrage (Units 1 & 2)
Module 4: The Suffrage Movement and the Importance of Voting
Voting (Unit 3)
Grade 5 Modules
Human Rights (Unit 1)
Module 1: Stories of Human Rights
The Great Depression (Unit 2)
(Units 1 & 2)
Module 2a: Biodiversity in Rainforests of the Western Hemisphere Rainforests
Rainforest Insects (Unit 3)
Inventions (Unit 1)
Module 2b: Inventions that Changed People’s Lives
Sports (Unit 1)
Jackie Robinson (Unit 2)
Module 3a: Sports’ and Athletes’ Impact on Culture
Barrier Breakers (Unit 3)
Module 3b: Considering Perspectives and Supporting Opinions Inuit People & the Arctic
Natural Disasters–Geology
Module 4: Natural Disasters in the Western Hemisphere
Natural Disasters–Weather
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Native Americans
Poetry
Colonial American Era
Animal Adaptations
Forces & Motion
American Revolution
Civics
Latin America
Bugs
Economics
Sports & Society
Geology
Weather & Climate
NYS ELA Research Collections
ELA Module
Research Collection
ARC Leveled Text Set
Grade 6 Modules
Module 1: Myths: Not Just Long Ago
Greek Myths Set 1 (Reading Levels 3-5)
Greek Myths Set 2 (Reading Levels 6-12)
Module 2a: Working With Evidence: Rules to Live By
Healthy Habits
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Bullying
Module 2b: Drama: Voices of Adversity
Medieval Civilizations (Units 1 & 2)
Poetry (Unit 3)
Medieval Civilizations
Poetry
Module 3a: The Land of the Golden Mountain
The Land of the Golden Mountain
Immigration
Westward Expansion
Module 3b: Sustaining the Oceans
Oceans & Conversation
Environmental Studies
Module 4: Insecticides: Controlling Disease or Saving Wildlife?
Bugs, Plants & People
Our Environment
Bugs
Environmental Studies
Grade 7 Modules
Module 1: Reading Closely and Writing to Learn: Journeys
Sudan (Unit 1)
Survival (Unit 2)
Module 2a: Working With Evidence: Child Labor
Working Conditions
Module 2b: Identity and Transformation, Then and Now
Memoir
Identity & Perspective Informational Text
Module 3: Slavery: The People Could Fly
Slavery in America: History
Slavery in America: Narratives & Novels
Module 4a: Screen Time and the Developing Brain
The Brain
Technology
Module 4b: Reading and Research: Water Is Life
Water Conservation
Civil War Era
African American History
(Beginnings to 1880)
Grade 8 Modules
Module 1: Finding Home: Immigration
Vietnam
Module 2a: Working With Evidence: Taking a Stand
Taking a Stand: Civil Rights
Module 2b: A Midsummer Night’s Dream & the Comedy of Control
Shakespeare
Module 3a: Japanese American Relations in WWII
Japan, America & World War II
Module 4: Sustainability of the World’s Food Supply
Human Food Chains
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ARC Leveled Thematic Text Sets
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While each student is reading books that fit his/
her reading level and interests, all are building deep
knowledge on the same theme.
2 Baskets and 1 Set of Research Cards
4 Baskets and 1 Set of Research Cards
6 Baskets and 1 Set of Research Cards
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Life Cycle
Behavior
infancy
youth
mate
maturity
mortality
reproduction
male
female
fertilize
offspring
display
carcass
Habitat
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Research Questions:
behavior
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help it survive.
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Physical Characteristics
camouflage
pigments
venom
organs
adaptation
evolve
structure
internal
external
function
senses
sensory
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Leveled thematic text sets are available for some
themes. Each text set includes a range of reading levels,
ensuring success for students with varying levels of
achievement in a given classroom.
Civil Rights Era
Food Chain/Food Web
herbivore
omnivore
carnivore
predator
prey
scavenger
nutrients
apex predator
consumer
primary
secondary
decomposers
Wild & Endangered
species
population
colony
individual
specimen
solitary
captive
endangered
poaching
deforestation
survival
decline
decrease
increase
extinct
ancestor
preservation
and explain how these adaptations
and explain how these
physical characteristics
2. Describe the animal’s
adaptations help it survive.
What are the biggest
which this animal lives.
3. Describe the biome in
help the animal
biome? What adaptations
survival challenges in this
biome?
its
in
survive
to
help the animal
food web. What adaptations
4. Diagram this animal’s
eaten?
find food and avoid being
animal’s
5. Chart the stages in this
help
life cycle. What adaptations
grow
the animal to successfully
and reproduce?
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6. Explain why this animal
endangered. Identify and
describe threats to its survival.
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Sample of Animal Adaptations Text Set