Progress to Success

A comprehensive, integrated curriculum for scaffolded skill instruction
Students practice and apply reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills as an extension of close reading of complex texts.

• Scaffolded instruction—readers advance through increasingly complex texts with guided and scaffolded instruction.
• Close reading—students read complex texts multiple times as they uncover a deeper meaning through strategies for using textual evidence and annotation.
• Writing focus—each unit culminates with a chapter that focuses on an essential writing type—narrative, argumentative, informative, or research reports.
• Language skills instruction—students learn and practice language skills within the context of authentic texts.
• Project-based assessments—each chapter culminates with differentiated projects to extend students’ knowledge through speaking and listening, writing, artwork, technology, and more.

Student Edition

Features

• ELA integration—students practice and apply reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills as an extension of close reading of complex texts.
• Writing focus—each unit culminates with a chapter that focuses on an essential
• writing type—narrative, argumentative, informative, or research reports.
  Language skills instruction—students learn and practice language skills within the context of authentic texts.
• Technology integration—Tech-Connect activities engage students through texting, tweeting, and social networking.
• Practice for standardized tests—special sections, Connect to Testing and Practice Performance Tasks, help students practice chapter skills in a simulated testing format.
• Project-based assessments—each chapter culminates with differentiated projects that require students to extend their knowledge of the text through speaking and listening, writing, artwork, technology, and more.