Build Knowledge, Language, and Literacy​

• Integrates content and language instruction​
• Teaches foundational skills in context​
• Fosters critical thinking and learner agency​
• Scaffolds access to complex text

Enrich and expand instruction with small-group resources that build content knowledge.

• High-interest texts feature ten key content strands.
• Students learn about key topics by reading informational, opinion, fiction, and other texts.

Intervention for Older Newcomers and Other ELs at Preliterate or Primary Reading Levels

• Engaging, age-appropriate resources at a range of levels
• Meets RTI guidelines for Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention
• Flexible scheduling for language arts blocks or extended day

Meet language development standards through content and literacy connections.

• Integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening domains.
• Build social, structural, and academic language.
• Amplify language in context and scaffold to grade-level complex text.
• Use formative assessments to differentiate instruction based on language proficiency and content knowledge.

Make science and social studies accessible while developing literacy and language.

• 192 language-leveled texts scaffold vocabulary development and nonfiction comprehension.
• Theme sets include books at four levels for diverse ELs.
• Outstanding photos engage students and support text.
• Audio CDs and talking eBooks increase fluency.
• Text-dependent comprehension questions for each book help students develop evidence-based answers.