Collections is proven effective at creating thoughtful, passionate readers in the classroom. Teachers put the learning in their students’ hands. Collections presents materials and activities in a variety of ways, allowing students to interact with different types of content.
Students have the tools they need to think critically, expand their curiosity, and tackle challenging concepts—which helps them learn to close read selections and prepare for high-stakes assessments.
Improve reading and analyzing complex texts.
Hone ability to determine evidence and reason critically.
Learn to communicate more effectively in a variety of ways.
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Collections inspires teachers’ creative instructional choices by providing a plethora of unique resources—fully supported by point-of-use scaffolding—that make teaching exciting.
Collections creates passionate student readers with texts that matter to them, and their engagement with the texts inspires them to become critical readers, writers, and thinkers.
Beginning with reading that draws students in and makes them want to respond, Collections goes on to teach students the skills required to craft those responses—orally and in writing.
Dramatic historical stories, contemporary events, and multi-genre and leveled texts ensure that content is age appropriate and always engaging for students.
Instruction facilitates meaningful conversations about the texts to promote inquiry and active learning, helping students with annotation, analysis, and creative thinking.
Online tools help students revise, evaluate, and incorporate text evidence and foster both peer and teacher feedback.
Performance tasks and mentor texts offer practice and support to hone listening, articulate speaking, and writing skills.
Collections gives teachers a clear teaching path but doesn’t dictate how they teach. It gives teachers multiple ways to work with texts and point-of-use support for fine-tuning them to use with different kinds of students and situations.
Work with a whole class to puzzle out answers to a Close Read and Raised Hand questions.
Tackle challenging Worksheet questions and Performance tasks collaboratively in pairs or small groups.
Encourage individual students to read more and dig deeper using Guided Reading questions and Level Up tutorials.
“The close reading questions alongside the text in my teacher edition are lifesavers.”
Personalization
Teachers have the the option to choose from teacher resources or select personal favorites.
Differentiation
Full support makes instruction adaptable to a variety of proficiency levels, including English learners.
High Interest Texts
Scaffold text analysis with the leveled high-interest texts in Xplor eMagazine for Grades 6-8 to build content knowledge and fluency.
Assessments
Assessments included in Collections work with teachers to check progress, past and present, while helping to inform, monitor, and prepare.
When you combine Writable with Collections, you can strengthen and streamline your writing lessons. Writable includes mentor texts, prompts, rubrics, and stored comments that reinforce the writing process for students while supporting teachers.
Writable's online writing tools meet Collection's world-class literature allowing students to directly access the best mentor texts available during all steps in the writing process. Student friendly-rubrics always guide drafting and revision, including optional anonymous peer reviews. You will have access to grading filters to streamline how you evaluate your students' work. When writing and reading are joined together, growth happens!
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Getting Started
To help teachers with implementation, we offer Getting Started courses to walk through how to use the numerous resources and texts.
Follow-Up Courses
Additional courses go deeper into the program pedagogy and instructional practices, as well as help teachers use and interpret data to drive instruction.
In-Classroom Coaching
Our coaches work side by side teachers to model lessons and tailor instruction to classroom needs.
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For more than three school years, Collections has been rigorously tested, demonstrating that both pre-test high-scoring and low-scoring students improved their language skills—the latter most of all.
Overview of how Collections meets ESSA evidence criteria for “DEMONSTRATES A RATIONALE.”
Grades 7 and 10 during the 2016-2017 academic year
Grades 7 and 9 during the 2014-2015 academic year
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