Literacy Tools

• The Solutions for Effective Instruction toolkit provides a wealth of reading tools and masters
to boost literacy and vocabulary development.

• Each lesson provides both social studies and language arts objectives.

• Preview assignments serve as introductions to reading and tap into students' prior knowledge.

• The Interactive Student Notebook's graphically organized reading notes help students
obtain meaning from what they read.

• Processing assignments challenge students to synthesize what they've learned and provide
authentic writing opportunities.

• The Student Text contains Reading Further sections that extend learning with high
interest information that incorporates a variety of text types. Each Reading Further connects to a
writing activity in the Interactive Student Notebook.

• The multiple intelligence activities give students a non-linguistic representation of concepts
and information that helps them construct meaning when they read the supporting
Student Text.

• Reading Challenges in the Student Subscription combine primary resource analysis with reading
comprehension multiple choice questions to motivate and encourage students to read the text.

Easy to Use Teacher Support Materials

• Lesson procedures, materials, and enrichment resources provide background and content
knowledge for teachers.

• Carefully crafted questions in lesson procedures to help teachers guide higher order
thinking skills.

Robust Instructional Resources

• Classroom Presentations guide students and teachers through lessons.

• Ideas for differentiating instruction make it easy for teachers to address specific student
populations.

• Lesson objectives, content and assessments work toward achieving the same
instructional goal.

• Student Text and its enrichment reading can easily be integrated into reading blocks with its
Reader's Theater, poetry, informational text, and stories.

Rigorous Content

• Lessons align to state social studies standards.

• Lessons are tightly correlated to the Common Core Standards.

• Primary sources give students access to first-hand accounts, images and music of
historical eras.

• Clear objectives are identified for both social studies and language arts.

• An Essential Question guides students and provides a clear sense of purpose for their learning.

Standards-Based Assessments

• Online custom assessment creation gives teachers access to a question bank and the ability
to create their own multiple-choice and open-ended questions.

• Reading Challenges in the Student Subscription allow students to show what they know.

• Internet Projects provide project-based assessment and measure researching skills.