Student Edition Features:
? ELA integration—students practice and apply reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills as an extension of close reading of complex texts.
? Writing focus—each unit culminates with a chapter that focuses on an essential writing type—narrative, argumentative, informative, or research reports.
? Language skills instruction—students learn and practice language skills within the context of authentic texts.
? Technology integration—Tech-Connect activities engage students through texting, tweeting, and social networking.
? Practice for standardized tests—special sections, Connect to Testing and Practice Performance Tasks, help students practice chapter skills in a simulated testing format.
? Project-based assessments—each chapter culminates with differentiated projects that require students to extend their knowledge of the text through speaking and listening, writing, artwork, technology, and more.
Students practice and apply reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills as an extension of close reading of complex texts.
- Scaffolded instruction—readers advance through increasingly complex texts with guided and scaffolded instruction.
- Close reading—students read complex texts multiple times as they uncover a deeper meaning through strategies for using textual evidence and annotation.
- Writing focus—each unit culminates with a chapter that focuses on an essential writing type—narrative, argumentative, informative, or research reports.
- Language skills instruction—students learn and practice language skills within the context of authentic texts.
- Project-based assessments—each chapter culminates with differentiated projects to extend students’ knowledge through speaking and listening, writing, artwork, technology, and more.