This comprehensive and engaging ELA and Social Studies unit created by Ms. Carlene Hackett and Ms. Carolyn Driscoll develops students' reading, writing, speaking, listening, and vocabulary skills as they are exposed to literary and informational texts all focused on Westward Expansion and the hardships faced by America's early pioneers. Ms. Hackett and Ms. Driscoll have thoughtfully planned multiple content and language objectives and differentiated them for the level 2, 3, and 4 ELLs in their classrooms. The unit includes a long mentor text (Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder) as well as numerous shorter literary and informational texts, with explicit instruction around text features to help students tackle each genre. It is rich in vocabulary that is effectively tiered, pre-taught, and practiced throughout the unit. Strategies utilized to support ELLs include Turn-and-Talk, the 7-Step Vocabulary Process, Partner Reading, Sentence Frames for writing and speaking, Lexical Arrays, Word Wheels, Write Arounds, a Vocabulary Roundtable, Double-Entry Journals, a Jigsaw reading activity, and an engaging kinesthetic activity called "Slide & Glide." Ms. Hackett and Ms. Driscoll have both included thoughtful reflections on what they found particularly effective for ELLs as they implemented this unit in their classrooms.