Secondary Literature
Anthologies of relevant literature fit the curriculum and make reading meaningful and enjoyable while also developing critical reading, writing, and thinking skills.
Connections: Literature
Immerse students in outstanding literature while developing critical reading and writing skills
- Engaging Anthologies—captivate student interest with classic and contemporary texts including world literature, American literature, British literature, and multicultural literature.
- Literary Analysis—each of the six anthologies incorporates a literary analysis feature for every selection. The Literary Lens activities provide the focus for close reading, questions for discussion and collaboration, and prompts for written responses.
- Easy to Use—the streamlined lesson design and focused skill development enables quick lesson planning and easy classroom implementation.
- Flexible—integrate into your curriculum by unit, selection, or learning objective.
- Interactive Editions feature a range of learning tools to improve comprehension (translation, text-to-speech, reading accessibility features), close reading and text analysis (annotation and note-taking tools), discussion and collaboration (real-time Collaboration Walls), and much more.
Literature & Thought
Unit studies for critical thinking, reading, and writing
- Explore literary themes and genres, historical events and eras, and government and current events through 25 unit-based anthologies.
- Each anthology contains a cluster of related readings that explore an Essential Question using critical thinking skills such as comparing, contrasting, analyzing, defining, inferring, and synthesizing.
- Teaching support includes selection questions, activities, vocabulary, project-based assessments, guides to facilitate inclusive discussions, and much more.
- Digital interactive versions feature learning tools such as translation, text-to-speech, and accessibility; sophisticated annotation; note-taking tools; real-time collaboration walls; online assessment; and much more.
Connections: English Language Arts
Develop students' critical reading, analysis, and writing skills
- Literature you love—high-interest themes and thought-provoking essential questions build engagement as students become immersed in outstanding literary and nonfiction selections.
- Easy to use—the step-by-step lesson design focuses students on a key learning objective as they read the selection; annotate the text; apply the targeted skill; and respond through discussion, writing, and collaborative activities.
- Flexible—comprehensive standards coverage and a modular design permits easy integration into your curriculum; select exactly what you need for your students.
- All the support you need—powerful classroom management tools including assessments, differentiation support, performance reports, PowerPoint lessons, extension activities, and integration into your existing LMS.
- Interactive Editions feature a range of learning tools to improve comprehension (translation, text-to-speech, reading accessibility features), close reading and text analysis (annotation and note-taking tools), discussion and collaboration (real-time Collaboration Walls), and much more.
Teacher Resource Digital Library
Unlimited building access for one year
- Get digital access to over 1,300 reproducible literature guides and tests for popular novels and nonfiction.
- Save hours of preparation time with the wide range of activities, projects, and assessments available.
Advanced Placement®—English Language and Composition
Achieve AP® Success with AMSCO® Coursebooks
- Making college-level content accessible to high school students, which is vital to AP® success, is at the heart of this program.
- Get the benefit of decades of AP® expertise with our team of veteran AP® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, and College Board Consultants.
- Engage your students with unit anchor texts that serve as models of excellent rhetorical skills and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.
—Nine anchor reading texts foster rereading and critical analysis.
—Nine anchor student drafts develop skills in evaluating writing. - 25+ sentence frames offer valuable scaffolding for text analysis and argumentative writing.
- Assess skills and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP®-style multiple-choice questions, argumentation essay prompts, rhetorical analysis essay prompts, and synthesis prompts.
- Evaluate final preparation with a complete summative test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP® exam.
The Real World Reader: A Rhetorical Reader for Writers
Prepare students for an introductory college writing course
- A wide collection of both formal and popular writing from everyday life.
- Includes writings from essays, blogs, magazine articles, social media posts, newspaper editorials, public service announcements, advertisements, emails, and more.
- Divides the process of rhetorical analysis into logically sequenced steps that focus on five key concepts—purpose, audience, argument, voice, and credibility.
- Students are encouraged to use this step-by-step process in order to identify, analyze, and master the multiple modes of writing.
So What? The Writer's Argument
Write compelling arguments—essential for learning and communicating with others in school and beyond
- Gives writing a real audience, purpose, and context by teaching authentic styles, organizing structures, and persuasive moves.
- Introduces thought processes, motivations, and strategies scholars use to answer questions, solve problems, and defend ideas.
- Practical exercises focus on helping student writers answer the "So What?" question for themselves and their audience.
- Students practice or investigate what they learn immediately via short exercises.
- Clear guidance, examples, and practice explain how to construct compelling arguments, read and think critically, develop and revise drafts, collaborate, and make smart choices in style and arrangement.
Who Says? The Writer's Research
Give students the tools they need to conduct research in today's digital world
- This brief guide focuses on information literacy, showing students not only how to do research but also why it is important. Develop confident and compelling writing voices by teaching students how to synthesize their own ideas with the ideas of others.
- Students learn to think critically about ownership and authority and how to find and incorporate credible sources in their writing.
- Addresses research issues in the age of collaborative information sites like Wikipedia that can oversimplify information.
- An overview of academic citation styles features two sample research papers cited in both MLA and APA formats.
- Hands-on activities include visuals, charts, checklists, and exercises to help students improve their writing and research.
Parallel Text
Accessible classic literature
- Featuring the original text and a line-by-line modern translation on facing pages, each text brings classic works to life.
- Ensure comprehension while helping students appreciate the original language of Shakespeare and early British and American authors.
- Critical thinking questions and text-based activities throughout encourage discussion and analysis.
- Introductory material offers historical and cultural context.
Perfection Classics
Your digital literature collection
- Integrate these classic fiction and nonfiction titles into your curriculum or assign for independent reading.
- Available both online and offline, these collections provide convenient access to the canon of classic literature.
- Digital library—all teachers, all students—unlimited building access for one year.
- All titles are also available in print.
Perfection Leveled Classics
Adapted classics and cultural tales
- Enhance accessibility, engage students, and develop reading skills with this digital collection of over 60 titles—all teachers, all students—unlimited building access for one year. Includes online and offline access.
- Retold novels and anthologies are authentic adaptations of many widely-taught works that maintain the voice, style, and meaning of the original text.
- Timeless Classics are abridged adaptations of classic works featuring short selections, carefully-chosen vocabulary, and appealing visuals to aid comprehension. An original play in each anthology builds oral fluency.
- Instructional support includes quizzes, comprehension activities, reading and writing skill development, vocabulary, study skills, and more.
- All titles are also available in print.
Retold Tales® Literature
Adapted cultural tales and classic literature to support your curriculum
- Designed for secondary students reading below grade level, Retold novels and anthologies align with commonly taught American, British, and world literature; novels; and myths and folktales.
- Authentic adaptations maintain the voice, style, and overall meaning of the original text.
- Comprehension support for English learners and striving readers provides the foundation for inclusive discussions of classic works.
Shakespeare-ience
Make your Shakespeare unit a true Shakespeare-ience!
- These unabridged versions of Shakespearean plays will help students master the Bard's language and deepen their understanding of the characters and events in a play.
- Use for a literary study with easy-to-follow side glosses, background notes, page-by-page plot summaries to aid comprehension, and play questions that focus on critical analysis.
- Use for a performance-based study with speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities; personas for each student; pre-scene improvisations; and abundant pre- and during-play suggestions.
- A Teacher Guide features flexible planning guides, a blueprint for student improvement, background information, teaching tips, and extensive blackline masters.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 6
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 6 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry, Russell Freedman, Gary Paulsen, Carl Hiaasen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Sharon Creech, and many more.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 7
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 7 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Gary Paulsen, Ally Condie, Mike Lupica, Sharon M. Draper, Rick Riordan, Avi, Laurence Yep, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Kate DiCamillo, and many more.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 8
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 8 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Jason Reyonds, Walter Dean Myers, Sharon M. Draper, Nic Stone, Veronica Roth, Jodi Picoult, Jack London, Kwame Alexander, Ray Bradbury, Maya Angelou, and many more.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 9
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 9 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, Kurt Vonnegut, Kwame Alexander, Gary Paulsen, Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, Wes Moore, Sue Monk Kidd, and many more.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 10
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 10 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Laurence Yep, R.L. Stine, John Steinbeck, Gary Paulsen, Julia Alvarez, Nic Stone, and many more.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 11
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 11 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Walter Dean Myers, Jason Reynolds, John Green, Toni Morrison, Gary Paulsen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Gary Soto, and many more.
Grade-Level Collections—Grade 12
Discover a classroom library that's perfect for YOUR grade 12 classroom!
- Classroom libraries designed to excite and engage students are the key to independent reading.
- The titles in these collections cover a wide range of reading levels, topics, and genres to encourage all students on the road to becoming successful, life-long readers.
- Authors represented include Gary Soto, Gennifer Choldenko, Walter Dean Myers, Jacqueline Woodson, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Dessen, Mike Lupica, John Green, and many more.
Top 100 American Literature Titles
Top American literature titles chosen by teachers
- The top 100 titles for the American literature classroom chosen by American literature teachers from across the country.
Top 100 World Literature Titles
Top world literature titles chosen by teachers
- The top 100 titles for the world literature classroom chosen by literature teachers from across the country.
Top 75 British Literature Titles
Top British literature titles chosen by teachers
- The top 75 titles for the British literature classroom chosen by literature teachers from across the country.
