This is the main student component and is significantly smaller than other literature programs.
What is the student book?
100
This is the online "bookshelf" or one-stop shop for all supplemental teacher materials.
What are the Teacher Resources?
100
This is the online writing portal for students.
What is myWriteSmart?
100
These tests measure comprehension and vocabulary knowledge connected to a specific piece of text.
What are the Selection Tests/Assessments?
100
This is the main landing page when teachers login.
What is the Dashboard?
200
This is a consumable, interactive worktext with different texts than those in the student book.
What is the Close Reader?
200
These are PowerPoint presentations and handouts to reinforce key language and convention skills.
What are the GrammarNotes?
200
When enabled, this completes an originality check when an online writing assignment is submitted.
What is Turnitin?
200
These are provided in the student book at the end of every collection, and they lay out teacher expectations for students on the Collection Performance Tasks.
What are rubrics?
200
These online instructional tools can be used to reteach grade-level skills; they can also review basic skills as needed. They are linked in the student eBook and found on the Teacher Resources page.
What are the Level Up Tutorials?
300
Students answer these after every anchor text, citing evidence along the way.
What are "Analyzing the Text" questions (or text-dependent questions)?
300
This website offers support for integrating novels in the classroom.
What is NovelWise? (I'd also take Novel Resources)
300
These match up with the anchor texts one-to-one (in other words, one anchor text means one _______, while two anchor texts mean two ______).
What are the Collection Performance Tasks?
300
These are longer summative assessments that ask students to apply the skills they have learned in new situations (e.g. cold read passages).
What are the Collection Tests/Assessments?
300
These are modeled discussions that demonstrate how an effective close reader analyzes a piece of text.
What are the Close Read Screencasts?
400
This is only available online in the SE, and it offers great support for struggling readers. It is a different file for every page, and students can pause, rewind, or fast-forward as needed.
What is audio for every selection?
400
These videos provide support for teachers in the secondary ELA classroom.
What are the Professional Development podcasts?
400
These digital resources reinforce key writing concepts and include a variety of technology-enhanced features; they are available to both teachers and students.
What are the Interactive Writing Lessons?
400
This is the section (or widget) of the online environment that you would click on to create an online assignment?
What is "Assignments"?
400
This online tool allows students to save their notes, highlights, and underlines and can be accessed from the online writing portal.
What is myNotebook?
500
Student can complete these after viewing the Close Read Screencasts.
What are the Close Read Applications?
500
This is provided in the TE for every selection and indicates how challenging a text will be for students.
What is the text complexity rubric?
500
These are the three writing genres in the Performance Assessment book
What are argumentative, informational, and narrative?
500
These are the two categories of online assignments that will (likely) be used most frequently.
What are Tests & Quizzes and Performance Tasks?
500
This is the platform for the online student book that allows it to accessed on any type of device (including iPads) without any functionality problems.