Secondary Reading
Support all of the readers in your classroom whether they need to improve skills and strategies, read adapted and accessible texts, or prepare for state, ACT, or SAT reading exams.
English Language Arts Companion
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.
Focus on Reading Strategies
Create skilled, strategic, successful readers through instruction aligned to standards
- Direct instruction and practice of essential active reading strategies through text-dependent questions and tasks.
- Practice of reading comprehension skills
- Students practice and master fiction and informational reading skills
- Students apply useful vocabulary strategies as they read
- High-interest fiction and informational selections span a wide range of genres and topics—short stories, folk talked, expository articles, websites, novel excerpts, poems, and more
- A variety of before-, during-, and after-reading strategies address multiple learning styles
- Writing activities and review lessons assess progress
Skill-Based Reading Anthologies
Develop reading skills through high-interest literature
- Each anthology features high-interest selections at reading levels 2-6.
- Build students’ reading power and confidence with skill and strategy exercises after each selection.
- Differentiate instruction with social studies and literature themes or use as independent reading – the choice is yours!
- Prepare for state and national tests using end-of-unit tests, graphic organizers, and writing prompts.
Reading Express
Step-by-step reading intervention with proven results
- Sixty grade-level lessons provide comprehensive coverage of standards—national editions and Texas editions.
- Modular design—select the skills your students need to develop.
- Easy-to-use—step-by-step guidance and scripting for each part of the lesson.
- Flexible planning—teach a focused minilesson in as little as 10 to 20 minutes or use in an intensive skill development block.
- Robust data-driven assessment and monitoring—diagnose skill gaps, track performance, and evaluate progress using either online or pencil and paper assessment tools.
- Research based—proven results using instructional best practices.
- Extensive ELL support—complete ELL lessons for each standard build academic vocabulary, introduce concepts, and practice skills.
The ELL Reading Corner
Classroom book sets and teacher support developed especially for ELLs
- Accelerate proficiency in English language and literacy skills with carefully-selected book collections that provide essential opportunities for new learners of English to engage with accessible, culturally-appropriate English-language texts.
- Perfect for traditional classrooms using a push-out or pull-in ESL instructional model and for ESL-targeted classrooms.
- The books offer varying degrees of challenge for students at different stages of language acquisition and literacy development.
- Each library contains 45 titles (15 at each proficiency level), a Teacher Handbook, and a sturdy plastic tote.
- A Teacher Reference Collection includes vital information sources for both the teacher and students to clarify communication and further enhance language and literacy skills.
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.
Cover-to-Cover Hi-Lo Books
Reading success for struggling readers and English Learners
- Motivate your students' reading through grade-appropriate, highly-engaging chapter books, novels, informational books, and adapted classics for independent reading in social studies, science, and language arts.
- Support reading instruction, assess progress, and target skill gaps using title-specific teaching support.
- Easily integrate into your curriculum to ensure all students have access to curricular-aligned topics at their reading levels.
- Build reading confidence with short, manageable chapters, carefully-chosen vocabulary, and close text/illustration matches.
- Sophisticated covers, trim size, and design make books appealing to upper elementary and middle school readers.
- Available in print or in our easy-to-use digital library!
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.
Fact to Fiction
Nonfiction and fiction in the same book
- Designed for reluctant and striving readers, each book includes a fascinating, fact-filled informational section followed by a fiction section with two versions of an engaging story—a full text version and a graphic novel version—on facing pages.
- The parallel stories in the fiction section, presented at different ability levels, allow access for students reading well below grade level.
- Featuring full-color, high-impact images and illustrations in a range of mature and contemporary styles.
- The books cover topics kids love to read about—extreme sports, dinosaurs, disasters, space, mysteries, magic, UFOs, and more.
Graphic Fiction & Nonfiction Titles
Professionally-selected graphic novels for reluctant and striving readers
- The appealing visuals and mature appearance of graphic novels draw in reluctant and striving readers.
- The approachable format of less text paired with illustrations develops skills in visual literacy and reading comprehension, all while providing the sense of accomplishment of a finished book.
ACT/SAT
Your comprehensive solution for test success!
- The only series designed for either classroom or independent study!
- Thorough subject review, extensive practice, expert test strategies, and multiple practice exams for each part of the ACT or SAT make these an indispensable part of test preparation.
- Each Preparing for the ACT book contains diagnostic tests with corresponding study charts and four complete practice tests with explanations.
- Each Preparing for the SAT book contains a diagnostic test and correlation chart to identify strengths/weaknesses, scaffolded lessons, flexible pacing guides for classroom instruction, and multiple full-length practice exams.
- Digital editions also available!
Review, Practice & Mastery—English Language Arts
Prepare students for state assessments
- Diagnostic Tryout Test—standards-based questions determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and guide individual instruction.
- Comprehensive coverage—all standards are covered in depth.
- Authentic texts—lessons are built on well-regarded fiction and informational excerpts and complete works, many featuring exemplar texts and exemplar authors.
- Close reading—students return to the selections to offer textual evidence to substantiate their answers.
- Writing in response to reading—students demonstrate a deep understanding of selections by using textual evidence to write about what they have read.
- Progress monitoring—unit practice tests assess skills practiced and reviewed.
- Mastery Test—standards-based questions mirror those on CCSS assessments to measure progress and skill mastery.
- Teacher Editions include an answer key for the Tryout Test, all unit problems, and the Mastery Test; skills charts; Common Core State Standards per grade level; and useful tips for the teacher.
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.
Essential Voices Classroom Libraries
Engage all your students in independent reading through these diverse, inclusive collections
- Students will see themselves in what they read, developing an understanding and appreciation of themselves as well as others around them.
- The titles in each grade-level Essential Voices collection feature age-appropriate stories and diverse characters representing a variety of ethnicities, religious affiliations, and gender identities.
Spanish Classroom Libraries
Professionally-selected classroom collections of Spanish titles for your ELLs
- Support your students in becoming active, independent readers regardless of reading ability, grade level, or first and second language proficiency.
- Includes a FREE book crate.
English Language Arts Companion—New York
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.
