This outstanding anthology brings together the voices of modern, critically-acclaimed writers from all over the world, including many Nobel laureates. Voices from five world regions—The Americas, Europe, Africa, The Middle East and South Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific Rim—are represented by literature selected with the help of experts from each area. Updated to focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks.
SPECIAL FOCUS: RESEARCH
An emphasis on research skills is integrated throughout, encouraging students to extend literary and cultural knowledge by researching issues generated by the text.
- Activities help students develop discrete research skills, including the use of 21st century tools.
- Hands-on research projects provide opportunities for speaking and listening, creating hands-on projects, and synthesizing key ideas from the unit.
- A Research Handbook helps students find and share information with guidelines on how to choose a topic; avoid plagiarism; conduct research on the Internet; blend primary and secondary sources; and judge the validity and worth of sources, especially from the Internet.
Benefits of Many Voices
- A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
- The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and nonfiction by highly regarded authors.
- The literature selections are both challenging and relevant for students.
- The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
Student Editions
- A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
- The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and informational text by highly-regarded authors.
- The selections and academic vocabulary are both challenging and relevant for students and provide an appropriate mix of text complexity.
- The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
- Writing prompts and suggested research projects encourage deeper analysis of the texts.
- Revised editions align instruction with a focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks. State standards alignment correlations are available for all titles.
Teaching Support
- Teaching and Assessment Resources—active reading strategies; pre-, during-, and post-reading activities; writing workshops; multiple assessment opportunities; and more.
Teaching and Assessment Resources
- Support for teaching each selection
- Direct instruction of reading strategies
- Selection quizzes and unit tests
- nit organizers for differentiating instruction
- Skill-building activities with graphic organizers
- Writing workshops with extended instruction
- Abundant extended project choices
- Writing rubrics for instruction and assessment
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