HMH Into Literature^®

Today’s students grow into tomorrow’s leaders

Grades 6–12 Literacy Core

Literature has the transformative power to inspire learning.

As students dig into thought-provoking texts and analyze, discuss, and synthesize ideas with their peers, they’re building a foundation of active learning.

HMH Into Literature™ was built to address the needs of today's teachers and equip students with the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills required for success in tomorrow's world.

Develop a culture of self-actualized learning and support every learner in building the foundation of engaged citizenship.

Develop Informed Readers, Writers, and Leaders

HMH Into Literature is more than a program—it’s a vision to develop the active, engaged, and informed citizens that will lead tomorrow’s world. It all starts with you.

HMH Into Literature provides everything you need to empower your students to love reading, hone their unique speaking and writing voices, and confidently communicate with the world.

Engaging and Culturally Relevant

Honor students and strengthen critical thinking skills with culturally diverse texts grounded in high-interest topics and essential questions.

Personalized Support for All Students

Use intuitive and agile teaching tools to provide personalized reading and writing scaffolds to meet students’ individual needs.

Flexible and Connected

Make HMH Into Literature your own by accessing flexible core, supplemental, assessment, and professional learning resources in one place—from anywhere at any time.

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Overview

A Solution Like No Other—Informed by You

Our program was driven by educators! We met with educators across the nation to hear about their unique obstacles and challenges. What we learned informed this next-generation literacy solution—right down to the smallest detail.

This is teaching and learning as you have always envisioned it.

Student Experience

Represent Students with Culturally Responsive Texts

Your classrooms are rich with students representing a wide range of cultures. They need to be able to see themselves and their experiences reflected in the literature they read and content they study.

Learn How Relevance Matters in HMH Into Literature

HMH Into Literature Celebrates Cultural Diversity with:

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HMH Into Literature Celebrates Cultural Diversity with:

A diverse collection of authentic short reads, long reads, and novels honors students' current and future identities.
Expansive Novels and Long Reads Listing includes classic and contemporary titles from diverse authors, many of which can be found in our Digital Text Library.
Meaningful instruction such as Engage Your Brain and Choices activities leverages students' cultural capital and builds cultural competence.
Social and Emotional Learning can be integrated with an all-school read or a class book study of Steve Pemberton’s A Chance in the World.

Differentiation Resources to Meet the Needs of All Learners

HMH Into Literature assessments will allow you to quickly pinpoint the need for differentiation. With resources all in one accessible, connected place at teachers’ fingertips, we make it easier than anyone else to provide differentiated support to your striving readers, advanced students, and multilingual learners.

Resources for Both Striving and Advanced Readers and Writers:

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Resources for Both Striving and Advanced Readers and Writers:

Text visualizations, adaptations, and summaries ensure all students can understand important concepts and participate in class discussion.
Level Up Tutorials and a selection of 180 Leveled Texts allow students to read at the appropriate Lexile^® level and develop skills at their own pace.
HMH Current Event Resources and Higher-Order Thinking Questions prepare students for success in AP^® courses.

Increase Multilingual Learner Proficiency with:

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Increase Multilingual Learner Proficiency with:

Point-of-use teacher and student supports including Selection Summaries in Spanish, English, Haitian Creole, and Brazilian Portuguese
Multilingual Glossaries on literary and informational terms in ten languages
Teacher’s Corner resources such as the Coach’s Playbook which help teachers identify the right support for each learner

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Personalized, Engaging Skill Practice for All Levels

Automate differentiation using Waggle’s dynamic personalization and instructional lessons for Grades K–8. Students are placed into relevant practice based on domain and grade-level readiness using HMH Growth Measure’s reliable benchmark assessments. Extend your core instruction with Waggle’s full alignment to HMH Into Literature and watch learning take flight!

Grow Great Writers with Writable

Writable^® aligns with HMH Into Literature curriculum in two ways, giving teachers flexibility and choice: through Skill Ladder Assignments and the Student Edition Assignments.

Skill Ladder Assignments

Skill Ladder Assignments are extra practice assignments exclusive to Writable that gradually increase in complexity and prepare students for the Unit Writing Task in HMH Into Literature. These are not found in the student edition.

Student Edition Assignments

Writable for HMH Into Literature applies Writable's state-of-the-art scaffolding, feedback, and AI revision and grammar tools to HMH Into Literature's unit writing assignments. Student edition texts are customized to provide on-level, light, moderate, or heavy support depending on need.

Scaffolded Writing Prompts

Four levels of scaffolded writing prompts for HMH Into Literature student edition writing assignments with sentence starters and populated graphic organizers meet differentiation needs.

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Teacher Experience

Manageable, Flexible Resources

With engaging literature, relevant themes, intuitive technology to measure growth, and a wealth of high-impact resources, HMH Into Literature is the only solution that’s fully connected for success in teaching and learning—all in one platform, one sign-on, one user experience.

Your Unit, Your Way

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Your Unit, Your Way

Browse the Unit and Lesson Planning Guides for standards coverage, pacing, differentiation, and resources for each text.
Incorporate novels into your units with suggested Long Reads and the accompanying HMH Study Guide.
Review our Program Guide: Surviving and Thriving in the Classroom for tips and tricks on adapting Into Literature.
Use HMH Growth Measure adaptive assessment to provide timely insights into student proficiency.

Family Experience

Family Room—a family-friendly part of the Ed learning platform—supports diverse learning environments and makes at-home learning more manageable for families and caregivers by providing equitable, on-demand resources to help support their children.

With HMH Into Literature, families and caregivers can:

Access their child’s learning via the student’s Ed log in
Find simple, helpful, and equitable at-home learning resources in both English and Spanish
Explore tips and videos personalized to their child’s learning

Research & Results

Leverage the latest research to ensure exceptional results.

Using the latest in literacy research as the foundation of the program, Into Literature places students on a proven path to success.

"All-Green" Rating from EdReports

HMH Into Literature Grades 6-12 have been rated Meets Expectations at Gateways 1, 2, and 3 by EdReports.

Writable for HMH Into Literature is the recipient of the 2020 SIIA CODiE Award for the Best Reading/Writing/Literature Instructional Solution for Grades 9–12 & Higher Education category!

RESEARCH

ESSA Evidence Criteria for Into Literature

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Into Literature: Research Foundations

Demonstrates a Rationale

Literacy

Report Type: Research Foundations
Grade Level: Middle, High

Authors & Advisors

Meet the team of experts that share your vision for growth

The nation’s foremost experts led this effort to design a program that develops learners’ abilities to analyze complex texts, determine evidence, reason critically, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively orally and in writing.

Dr. Kylene Beers

Past President, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Dr. Martha C. Hougen

National consultant, presenter, researcher, and author

Dr. Tyrone C. Howard

Professor, UCLA; Senior Fellow, ICLE; HMH Learning Sciences & Research Advisory Board

Dr. Elena Izquierdo

Author, Escalate English; Author ¡Arriba la Lectura!; Associate Professor, Dual Language Education / Biliteracy / ELL Education, University of Texas, El Paso

Carol Jago

HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

Erik Palmer

Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

Dr. Robert E. Probst

Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University

News & Events

Stay up to date on the latest research and learnings from the nation’s top literacy experts.

Embracing Inclusivity with Culturally Responsive Books for All Students

Teachers should read or assign culturally responsive books with characters of different cultures, races, religions, genders, and other identities to help them understand themselves and each other. Read More

Jaleel R. Howard, MEd

Educator and UCLA Doctoral Student

Sam Blanchard

UCLA Doctoral Student and Former Teacher

February 23, 2021

Teaching Your Students How to Navigate the World of Social Media

An expert offers some simple warnings to share with students so that they thoughtfully—and carefully—engage on these platforms. Read More

Erik Palmer

Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

March 19, 2019

The Role of Creativity in a Standards-Based Writing Curriculum

There must be a way to prepare students for the rigors of rhetorical analysis without abandoning imaginative expression. Read More

Carol Jago

HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

January 24, 2019

WEBINAR

Reading and Writing for Their Lives: An Integrated Approach

By igniting interest in culturally responsive texts and inviting students to respond with powerful prompts, engagement soars. Exercising their literacy muscles, students develop both confidence and competence as readers and… Learn more