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Core ELA curriculum • Grades 9–12

New Mexico ELA, driven by inquiry

Kiddom Odell Education HSLP New Mexico brings structured, inquiry-driven ELA instruction, built-in literacy support, and flexible teaching tools together in one connected print and digital experience.

Kiddom Odell HSLP New Mexico is the curriculum and the platform

A complete high school literacy program (HSLP) and the tools to plan, teach, assess, and respond to student work in one place.

What sets the Kiddom experience apart

Faster Planning

Move from course to unit to lesson with teacher guidance, texts, activities, and assessments connected in one place.

Flexible Delivery

Choose from activities labeled Core, Support, or Extension and decide what fits your students, your schedule, and the goals of the lesson. Teachers stay in control of pacing and delivery.

Visible Progress

Use section diagnostic tasks, formative checks, and culminating work to see how students are reading, writing, discussing, and researching across a unit.

Layered Support

Get real-time help inside the lesson, self-serve answers for questions that can’t wait, and ongoing professional learning when you’re ready to go deeper.

Designed for New Mexico

A coherent 9–12 pathway

Distinct courses for grades 9–12 build skills and knowledge across high school.

Integrated literacy skills

Reading, writing, speaking, and listening develop through inquiry and discussion.

Young girl busy in class

Local relevance,
meaningful learning

Texts by Mexican and Native American authors support close reading and analysis.

Complex texts and
multiple perspectives

Students explore diverse texts and viewpoints to deepen understanding.

Teacher in action

Literacy built around questions that matter

Kiddom Odell HSLP New Mexico gives students substantial ideas to investigate and meaningful reasons to read, write, speak, listen, and conduct research.

Knowledge

Students build understanding across connected texts, topics, and tasks.

Agency

Students make choices, develop positions, and take greater ownership as the year progresses.

Perspective

Mixed-genre text sets invite students to examine ideas, experiences, and arguments from multiple points of view.

Inquiry

Central questions guide close reading, discussion, evidence gathering, writing, and research.

How the program is organized

Each course builds reading, writing, and research skills through a clear progression of learning, preparing students for increasingly independent work.

Foundation Unit

Open the year by building a learning community and establishing the core reading, writing, discussion, and research practices students will use throughout the course.

Development Units

Explore central questions through mixed-genre text sets, sustained analysis, discussion, and multiple modes of writing.

Application Unit

Close the course with student-selected topics and ongoing research that culminates in a presentation of findings.

Sections and lessons

Each unit is divided into sections with diagnostic tasks. Lessons contain selectable Core, Support, and Extension activities.

Everything you need to teach Kiddom Odell HSLP New Mexico

Teach your way with connected digital, print, and multimedia.

Digital

Lessons, activities, assignments, feedback, and student work in one place.

Print

Teacher and student materials support planning, close reading, annotation, writing, and learning away from the screen.

Media Kits

Bundled media kits support the multimedia resources used across selected units.

Trade Books

Supplementary trade books support the reading, discussion, and inquiry in specific units.

Flexible support, guided by the teacher Kiddom Odell HSLP New Mexico gives teachers options for opening access to rigorous work while keeping the course goals intact.

Math Language Routines

Core, Support, and Extension

Activity labels make instructional choices visible, so teachers can add support or extend learning with purpose.

Access for Students with Disabilities

Literacy tools at the point of use

Graphic organizers, question sets, vocabulary resources, and other tools help students navigate complex texts and tasks.

Choice that builds agency

Choice that builds agency

Students have meaningful opportunities to choose research directions, develop ideas, and decide how to communicate what they have learned.

Choice that builds agency

Teacher-led differentiation

Teachers select and adapt the available materials based on student work and classroom needs. The program is not adaptive software.

The tools ELA teachers love

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Discover how students learn with Kiddom

Explore how students solve problems, play and learn through digital centers, share their thinking, and make sense of ideas together.
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