Pearson Literature--California--Reading and Language

Meeting California Standards for Reading/Language Arts, set helps teachers build readers through motivating and engaging literature, scientifically research-based instruction, and a wealth of reliable teaching tools. The program takes the guesswork out of differentiating instruction with a strong emphasis on ongoing progress-monitoring and an explicit plan to help with managing small groups of students. Items for middle school help students grasp the power and beauty that lies within the written word, while the program's research-based reading approach ensures that no child is left behind. Starts with concepts such as realism and fantasy, main idea and details, sequence, classify and categorize, draw conclusions, and literary elements and progresses through generalize, graphic sources, compare and contrast, author's viewpoint/bias to forms of literature, such as fiction and non-fiction, poetry and drama and themes in types of literatures