Secondary Language Arts

Close the gaps to ELA success

• Standards-based instruction, practice, and assessment designed to build students’ mastery in English Language Arts.
• Using authentic literature, each lesson develops a standards-based skill through four steps to success—skill/concept introduction, guided instruction, independent practice, and application.
• Three full-length practice tests diagnose proficiency, measure progress, and ensure mastery and stamina for state exams.
• Five writing workshops help students analyze prompts, evaluate writing effectiveness, and develop their independent writing skills.

Build competence and confidence through concise, focused minilessons!

• Each chapter features step-by-step instruction for a commonly tested writing genre such as a research report, narrative, opinion/argumentative, informative/explanatory, and literary analysis.
• Starting with a source text, students focus on the key elements that distinguish good writing for the genre.
  —Scaffolded tasks help students break down each element into manageable chunks.
  —Each task builds upon the last, leading to a finished product.
  —You Try It writing performance tasks provide test practice and additional feedback opportunity.
• Student models, differentiated instruction, and group/partner activities all help strengthen writing skills and understanding.
• Editing skills practice of common language and style issues.

Power students' writing with essential composition, grammar, and thinking skills

• Equip students with the writing, language, and 21st century skills they need to be successful on high-stakes tests and in college and career.
  —Integrates grammar instruction to power students' writing.
  —Promotes collaborative learning.
  —Supports classroom management.
  
• Engaging collaborative writing projects in every chapter capture interest.
• Strengthen students' critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and technology skills for school and the workplace.

All the grammar basics students need to succeed

• This three-book series offers instruction, review, and practice in the basics of grammar, mechanics, and composition.
• Concepts build on one another from book to book, providing students with the tools necessary to write polished compositions.
• Select specific lessons, work cover to cover through the entire sequence, or use as a homework resource—the choice is completely yours.
• An ELL Focus feature explains challenging concepts to non-native English speakers.

Integrate grammar and writing

• This grade-level workbook series adds a strong grammatical dimension to the reading and writing curriculum by helping students understand the how and why of their language as they build a practical, working knowledge of grammar and how it applies to writing.
• Effective, student-friendly, and engaging practice of grammar with a wide variety of exercises.
• Writing activities in every lesson put skills to use and reinforce understanding.
• The lessons are structured to provide review and reinforcement.
• A cross-curricular approach weaves science, math, geography, and history into the lessons.
• Pretests and posttests assess knowledge—perfect practice for state or standardized tests.
• Perfect for take-home activities, after-school programs, and summer school.

Models and practice for writing a research paper

• Write in Style: A Guide to the Short Term Paper helps students research, plan, and write a formal term paper in today's digital environment using current citation styles. Documentation is based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition and the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
• Practice in Style: Activities for Writing the Short Term Paper offers hands-on experience in finding a research paper topic, outlining a paper, preparing a final draft, and avoiding plagiarism. A FREE response key is included.
• Concepts and skills are clearly introduced and explained in Write in Style and reinforced in Practice in Style.

Useful instruction for navigating the research paper process

• Practical instruction helps students through the research paper process from start to finish. Models of two complete humanities-style papers and one science-style paper are provided.
• Each chapter includes time management guidelines; checklists for task management; modeling of the process and tips/traps; exercises, including finding primary resources and taking notes; and tech tips and online research support.
• The Teacher Manual includes cooperative and collaborative learning activities, peer editing activities, writing-to-learn assignments, and answers.

Connect grammar and writing for all levels of learners, including ELL students

• Thousands of teachers have benefited from Image Grammar workshops taught by Harry Noden. Now the concept of connecting grammar and writing through an artist's "brush strokes," musical rhythm, and a photographer's "zoom lens" is available in dynamic student workbooks.
• Students enjoy the step-by-step approach because they actually see the connection between grammar and writing. Using grammatical brush strokes, they learn to write with an artist's eye and an editor's perception.
• Abundant practice opportunities let students practice and apply what they have learned. Includes lessons on the most common grammatical errors that account for 91 percent of mistakes in student papers.
• Teacher Guides include explanations, examples, and additional images for every lesson in the workbooks.
• To extend instruction, easy-to-use PowerPoint slides provide additional visual commentary and clarification to share with students.
• The Starter Package includes a print Teacher Guide, 10 Student Activity Books, and digital PowerPoint Lessons.

Word study in context

• Build word power through high-quality contemporary and classic literature, nonfiction, essays, and primary source texts.
• Unlock word meaning through context clues and develop mastery using multiple, research-based vocabulary strategies.
• Each literature-based lesson focuses on ten Master Words with seven exercises of increasing complexity to extract meaning, apply vocabulary skills and strategies, and assess mastery.
• A full year course with 30 lessons and 300 targeted words, Vocabu-Lit^® develops word study skills in less than 15 minutes per day.
• Interactive Editions include a range of digital learning tools to improve comprehension, use context clues, and assess proficiency.

Comprehensive vocabulary development for college and SAT/ACT

• Give students a major boost to their vocabulary with this rigorous vocabulary program designed to build familiarity and usage of over 1,000 words.
• Modular design gives teachers flexibility to address five topical areas
  —learning new words from context
  —building vocabulary through central ideas
  —deriving words from various languages (Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish)
  —expanding vocabulary through derivatives
  —vocabulary from ACT/SAT
• Varied exercises support common learning standards such as concise expression, close reading, and composition skills as well as reinforce students’ command of new vocabulary.

Comprehensive vocabulary development

• Give students a major boost to their vocabulary with this rigorous vocabulary program designed to build familiarity and usage of over 1,000 words.
• Modular design gives teachers flexibility to address five topical areas
  —learning new words from context
  —building vocabulary through central ideas
  —deriving words from various languages (Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon roots and prefixes)
  —expanding vocabulary through derivatives
  —understanding word relationships and analogies
• Varied exercises support common learning standards such as concise expression, close reading, and composition skills.
• Additional practice opportunities include synonyms, antonyms, sentence completion, analogies, and writing exercises to reinforce students’ command of new vocabulary.

A middle school vocabulary program for active learning

• These lively and appealing workbooks, designed for active learning, are a fresh approach to learning new vocabulary. The humor- and fun-filled activities provide a memorable context for new words. Students will remain actively engaged in every lesson.
• A Know-How section at the beginning of each workbook directly teaches important vocabulary strategies, such as using base words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes; context clues; and prior knowledge.
• Multiple exposures to each new word are woven into each seven-step lesson with a definitional and contextual context and six varied activities for each word. A review after every five lessons helps students retain word meanings.
• Teacher Guides include an extensive introduction to the program; word histories, word parts, and usage facts; and fun whole-class activities.

Unlock the meaning of words

• Develop vocabulary power through this organized study of Greek and Latin roots.
• Includes over 1,000 words with classic bases or roots—excellent preparation for the ACT and SAT.
• Using research-based methods, each lesson contains five activities to build confidence and proficiency.
• Also includes eight subject-area vocabulary lessons in math, social studies, science, language arts, and health.
• A Test Booklet contains 30 reproducible tests, one for each lesson, and an end-of-book test. An answer key is included.

Expand vocabulary while improving close reading, writing, revision, and critical thinking skills

• This structured, developmental program enables students to tackle unknown words and enlarge their vocabularies through effective, research-based strategies.
• Lesson Previews open the lessons with selected vocabulary words presented in context.
• Lesson Words are the new vocabulary words, listed in two sections, along with respellings, definitions, synonyms, and context sentences.
• Exercises include sentence completion, synonyms, antonyms, concise writing, and vocabulary and writing skill builders.
• Unit Reviews and Enrichment include close reading, concise writing, analogies, and vocabulary skill builders. Cumulative Reviews with additional exercises follow each unit.
• Assessment includes a diagnostic test and cumulative test, lesson tests, and answer keys.

Students use associations and relationships to determine the meaning of words and concepts

Working with analogies teaches students to recognize and analyze relationships, look for likenesses and differences, draw conclusions, work with multiple word meanings, and have fun with words.

• Book A is an excellent introduction to analogies. Students find and understand relationships in concepts.

• Book B features the basic fundamentals of understanding analogies. Eight more analogy categories are introduced.

• Book C reviews and practices 17 types of analogies and introduces four new types.

Teacher Guides include answer keys and extension activities for individual or small-group learning.

Extensive instruction and practice on the New York ELA Learning Standards

• Addresses all ELA standards essential to mastering the New York State Regents Exam in English Language Arts.
• Reading lessons pair reading passages with guided practice questions and include independent and partner exercises to encourage students to read deeply for meaning.
• Writing workshop lessons provide step-by-step instruction to help students learn the essentials of writing in response to source texts.
• Three full-length comprehensive practice tests closely model the structure and content of the Regents exam.

Close the gaps to ELA success

• New York Next Generation ELA standards-based instruction, practice, and assessment designed to build students’ mastery in English Language Arts.
• Using authentic literature, each lesson develops a standards-based skill through four steps to success—skill/concept introduction, guided instruction, independent practice, and application.
• Three full-length practice tests modeled after New York exams diagnose proficiency, measure progress, and ensure mastery and stamina for state exams.
• Five writing workshops help students analyze prompts, evaluate writing effectiveness, and develop their independent writing skills.