CLEAR Curriculum Units

CLEAR Curriculum Units (Research and Rhetoric Language Arts Units for Gifted Students in Grade 5) are language arts units designed by scholars like Catherine Little, Claire Hughes, and colleagues to challenge advanced fifth graders. Published by Routledge, these units integrate research skills, rhetorical writing, close reading, and critical thinking around big questions, not just isolated skills practice. Detailed lesson plans, texts, and writing tasks are aligned with gifted education best practices and can be adapted for homeschool use. Families with advanced readers and writers use CLEAR units as an in-depth framework for language arts, often stretching them across multiple grades or co-op settings.