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 the 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.

Reading Support

• Pre-Reading Guide is provided to preview text and text structure.

• Graphically Organized Reading Notes guide students through reading.

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