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.

Rigorous Content

• Lessons align to the state social studies standards.

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

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

Reading Support

• Graphically Organized Reading Notes guide students through reading.

• Options for Students' Reading below Grade Level provided for each lesson.

Considerate Text

• "Chunking" of concepts ensures that each new topic is presented in a single, focused section
with a clear heading.

• Consistent structure includes comprehensive introductions and summaries that help students
see the big picture. Important topics are previewed and linked with prior content.

• Vocabulary is grade-level appropriate. New vocabulary is defined at point of use.

• Text-to-audio, main idea viewer and Spanish text offer accessibility in Student Subscriptions.