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    To what extent do you use textbooks in ELA?
    ELA 6th

    Hi. I'm new to teaching 6th grade ELA. My classes will be
    blocked, so I'll have each class for about 104 minutes. My
    question is, to what extent do you use textbooks in your ELA
    class? My school doesn't use grammar textbooks at
    all...they just do some mini-lessons and incorporate it via
    bellwork. Spelling isn't taught at all.

    They do rely fairly heavily on the literature text, but they
    seem to spend a lot of time on one story. They might play
    the audio of it for students to hear, then have them read it
    round-robin style, then have them answer the textbook
    questions, as well as lots of other activities. Is this how
    most ELA classes work?