Many Voices Reading the World
These challenging and relevant anthologies fit the curriculum and make literature meaningful and enjoyable for students and teachers alike. 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.
Student Edition Features:
- 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 and Assessment Resources
Each anthology is supported by an invaluable resource that integrates literary and writing skills and offers:
- Assessment opportunities
- Strategies for differentiating instruction
- A skills chart to align instruction with state and district standards
- Pre-, during-, and post-reading activities
- Writing workshops and 6 Trait writing rubrics
- Assessment options for each selection and unit
- And More!
READING THE WORLD
A superb collection of modern world literature reflecting literary, social, and geopolitical traditions. This anthology brings together the voices of modern critically acclaimed writers from all over the world. Five world regions are represented with the help of experts from each area. Updated to focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks. 674 pages.
Special Focus: Research:
An emphasis on research skills encourages students to extend literary and cultural knowledge by researching issues generated by the text.
- Activities develop discrete research skills, including the use of 21st century tools.
- 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 Internet research; blend primary and secondary sources; and judge the validity and worth of sources.
Class Set includes: 10 Texts and 1 Teaching Resource
Online Edition 6 Year license - 25 unit minimum purchase - Requires Internet access
Sampling of Selections
Octavio Paz: Two Bodies
Pablo Neruda: Tonight I Can Write
Dante Aligheri: From the Devine Comedy
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
T.S.Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Chinua Achebe: Marriage is a Private Affair
Dhu'l Nun Ayyoub: From Behind the Veil
Hwang Sun-won: Cranes Peter Carey: American Dreams