These thematic anthologies present voices from African American, Arabic, Asian, Greek, Hispanic, Italian, Jewish, and Native American.
The selections are organized by themes that relate to student's lives. The stories, poems, and essays raise questions common to all and help students identify which cultural differences actually matter. Students reflect on the uniqueness and commonalities of all cultures. They learn to understand and appreciate cultural heritage by thinking, speaking, and writing about its effects on all people, including themselves.
A special chapter addresses personal narrative and personal voice, provides student-written models, and guides students through the writing process.
Special Focus: Making Cultural Connections
Students connect with the universal themes in the books and begin to break cultural barriers by:
• comparing and contrasting cultural heritages and viewpoints
• making personal connections with the stories
• debating relevant issues
• writing about their own cultural heritage
Benefits of Many Voices
- A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
- The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and nonfiction by highly regarded authors.
- The literature selections are both challenging and relevant for students.
- The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
Student Editions
- A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
- The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and informational text by highly-regarded authors.
- The selections and academic vocabulary are both challenging and relevant for students and provide an appropriate mix of text complexity.
- The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
- Writing prompts and suggested research projects encourage deeper analysis of the texts.
- Revised editions align instruction with a focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks. State standards alignment correlations are available for all titles.
Teaching Support
- Teaching and Assessment Resources—active reading strategies; pre-, during-, and post-reading activities; writing workshops; multiple assessment opportunities; and more.
Teaching and Assessment Resources
- Support for teaching each selection
- Direct instruction of reading strategies
- Selection quizzes and unit tests
- nit organizers for differentiating instruction
- Skill-building activities with graphic organizers
- Writing workshops with extended instruction
- Abundant extended project choices
- Writing rubrics for instruction and assessment