Instructional Materials

Istation Español by Istation

Istation Español is a comprehensive computer-adaptive Spanish-language and literacy resource that can be fully implemented to support a bilingual or dual-language implementation model. The Istation Español adaptive content provides personalized learning with culturally responsive purposeful lessons exposing students to the rich Spanish speaking world.

System 44 Next Generation by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The System 44 program provides carefully scaled instruction based on reading abilities. Each module offers three core texts that aid student progress in each of the language domains. System 44 teaching modules contain multiple lessons devoted to specific literacy skills in grammar, writing, and speaking. These modules employ unique content, such as interviews and creative projects, from diverse perspectives, to help students develop skills and seek mastery of literacy concepts. 

Escalate English by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Escalate English is an online platform that provides multiple learning approaches to diverse content and literacy skills. Each unit offers numerous texts for students to engage with essential questions and core themes. The program utilizes graphic, written, and audio supports to connect students with effective learning opportunities. The program presents materials that are easily accessible to all individuals along language proficiency scales. Escalate English blends effective learning methods across unique texts, incorporating different learning styles throughout every lesson, activity, and assessment.

English 3D by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The English 3D language program offers effectively tiered materials that help students of diverse proficiencies develop language skills. Throughout the digital program multiple core texts challenge students to interact with contemporary ideas and real-world issues. Each unit scaffolds and progresses students through targeted reading and writing skills using activities, group discussions and formal writing assessments. The program connects students of varying proficiency levels through collaborative and carefully differentiated tasks. 

Do I Have A Right? by iCivics

The lesson was created with all students in mind, including English Language Learners. The game is designed for middle school civics education, but high school teachers may find it appropriate for their students as well. The objectives are for students to identify rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments. Students need to recall the amendments that guarantee particular rights and recognize complaints that are protected under them. The support materials help teachers instruct students on constitutional law and present Tier 3 vocabulary terms. iCivics provides built-in supports in the game as well as additional scaffolds in the ELL Extension Pack to make the lesson accessible to a wide array of learners.

iLit 90

iLit is a digital comprehensive reading intervention with a proven instructional model for students in Grades 4-10. It includes every resource needed to support all students: curriculum, assessment, data, and professional development. The iLit name was created from ILiteracy. The iLit program helps all learners participate in activities in which they work with skills and concepts, vocabulary, language, and content in meaningful real-world situations and develop functional language skills. The lessons in the Teacher App provide explicit direct instruction to guide all teachers in teaching reading, writing, and the other language arts -- in leading students toward mastery and accelerated reading, listening and speaking, and writing growth.

Read 180 Universal, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Read 180 Universal is a blended reading intervention program that helps students improve fluency, comprehension, academic vocabulary, and writing skills. The digital platform allows students to read content-focused stories and articles with varying levels of scaffolding and supportive tools. The program guides students through unique age-appropriate content while utilizing curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development to improve reading achievement for struggling students in grades 4-12.

ESL ReadingSmart Program, Edmentum

ESL ReadingSmart is a web-based program that supports English-language acquisition and academic success for 4th grade through adult English language learners through diagnostic capabilities, standards-aligned activities, and supplemental teacher resources.

Ready Classroom Mathematics, Common Core, Grades 6-8, Curriculum Associates

Our mission is to help students become strong, independent mathematical thinkers. Ready Classroom Mathematics takes a unique, yet proven approach that builds upon research-based practices that get results. Through a blend of purposeful print and digital components, this intentional design makes mathematics accessible, increases student engagement, and builds confidence. Everything works together to support teachers and help students connect to mathematics in new ways.

Grammar in Use: Intermediate  by Cambridge University Press

Grammar in Use-Intermediate (Fourth Edition) is a self-study book with simple explanations and lots of practice exercises. It is also trusted by teachers and used as supplementary text in classrooms. This current edition is available in both printed and digital formats. The eBook includes audio and an easy-to-use answer key.

English Language Development (ELD) Level 1 by Language Tree Online

Language Tree Online ELD Level 1 is a new digital curriculum for Entering/Beginning level English learners in grades 6-12.  The program is aligned with the latest ELD standards and is composed of five modules that can be used together or standalone.  It includes in-depth assessments and reporting to help ELA/ELD educators pinpoint literacy areas - such as sentence construction - that need additional support.  Based on results from an initial “entry” assessment, teachers can assign appropriate online lessons as well as lead classroom activities (activity sheets included in the program) that target specific literacy skills.  There is also an “exit” assessment to measure growth and improvement after the lessons are completed.  The three lesson modules: (1) Foundational Literacy Skills, (2) Collaborative Listening and Speaking and (3) Language Function and Construction, cover all four domains of language acquisition.  Every lesson includes video input and an interactive exercise output so students can learn and practice. An engaging combination of video, audio, text, and images provide equity of access for all levels of learners. The final component is a unique acculturation support module that presents practical insights into American school life and norms so Newcomer students can feel more comfortable in (and better maneuver around) their new school environment.

Collections © 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A primary part of the Collections ELD suite, the Language Workshop provides differentiated instruction to English Language Learners. It is a systematic program that coincides with the core instruction and is designed to be utilized at specific times when developing English language skills is the point of concentration. The Teacher Guide and Workshop Resources are used in tandem to supplement the core materials. Each Language Workshop lesson is segmented into five different daily instructional activities and features instruction targeting three levels of academic proficiency: Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging. These proficiency levels align with multiple systems of proficiency level designation, including WIDA. 

Prism Reading and Writing and Prism Listening and Speaking by Cambridge University Press

Today’s students need to develop a range of academic skills. They need to learn how to analyze information, look at things in new ways, formulate their own opinions, and express themselves clearly. Prism takes a fresh approach to EAP, by focusing strongly on critical thinking, skills for academic life, and teaching the most useful language.

HMH  Into Literature  © 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

HMH Into Literature builds content knowledge through text sets comprised of titles in multiple genres. Each themed unit gives students opportunities to share and build background knowledge, analyze texts of varied genre types, model and practice fluent and shared reading, and extend and synthesize knowledge of language conventions. The Into Literature program, along with the digital Into Literature Studios, helps students develop fundamental listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking skills. HMH Into Literature also allows for educators to maximize student achievement through the use of differentiation and assessments. The program provides English Language Learners of varied proficiency levels targeted instructional support to help them master each lesson’s skills and concepts. The program enables all students to hone skills and meet goals with the support of strong differentiated instruction, focused English language development, and data-driven assessment.

Academic Encounters by Cambridge University Press

The series is an academic preparation series that uses a sustained content approach. There are two books for each of the four levels. Academic Encounters - Listening & Speaking that addresses listening, note-taking, and discussion skills. Academic Encounters - Reading & Writing that concentrates on reading, study skills, and writing. The two books at each level may be used independently, or they may be used together to form a complete integrated-skills course.

Win the White House by iCivics

The lesson was created with all students in mind, including English Language Learners. The game is designed for middle school civics education, but high school teachers may find it appropriate for their students as well. The objectives are for students to explain the electoral process (primary and general elections, electoral college); identify the influence of the media in forming public opinion; describe sources/uses of campaign funding; describe the types & purposes of polling data; and analyze how parts of a whole interact to produce outcomes in complex systems. The support materials help teachers instruct students on the electoral process and running a campaign and present Tiers 2 and 3 vocabulary terms. iCivics provides built-in supports in the game as well as additional scaffolds in the ELL Extension Pack to make the lesson accessible to a wide array of learners.

myPerspectives ELD Companion by Pearson

myPerspectives ELD Companion is a digital program for Grades 6?12 that helps students get to grade level proficiency with English Language Development instruction that combines independent, self-paced, and teacher-led instruction. Differentiated instruction and practice supports all language levels to help students acquire foundational skills, build content knowledge, make meaning, develop language, and use effective expression. Thematically-aligned instruction builds background and content knowledge making learning in the class more accessible. The program includes: explicit academic language instruction; modeled close reading; performance-based assessment practice; many opportunities for classroom conversation; and regular opportunities for independent learning linked to assessment. Instructors can develop ELL students’ vocabulary and language skills with a single computer used as a presentation station and the ELD Companion print components. A central underpinning of all instruction in the ELD Companion is Built-in SIOP framework for sheltering content instruction.

Evolve by Cambridge University Press

Evolve is a six-level, four-skills American English series with a particular focus on Speaking.

Grammar and Beyond Essentials by Cambridge University Press

The series focuses on the most commonly used English grammar structures and practices all four skills in a variety of authentic and communicative contexts. The series practices all four skills in a variety of authentic and communicative contexts. It is designed for use both in the classroom and as a self-study learning tool.

Making Connections by Cambridge University Press

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. The series takes students from a high-beginner to an advanced level of academic reading proficiency. The series contains a strong focus on vocabulary-building, including teaching words from the Academic Word List. It emphasizes critical thinking and increased reading speed. The series has a unique unit structure. At the outset of each unit, students are presented with and practice key reading and vocabulary-building skills. As students read the texts following these sections, they apply these skills by completing exercises in boxes in the margins of the readings, so that students literally have to apply the newly-learned skills ‘while reading.