Practice for Assessment Items
Items in the Independent Practice are presented like those on Common Core assessments. Two-part multiple-choice items require close reading strategies to answer text-dependent questions among multiple passage types.

Student Books
Front of the book:
Part #1, Focus Lessons: Short review and practice that introduces students to each type of informational and literary text type they will encounter in the book

Lessons in the theme-based units that follow:

Each lesson reviews one text type and the skills needed to understand that text.

Part #2, Guided Practice: A sample passage with questions

Part #3, Independent Practice: Passages with Common Core test-type items

Annotated Teacher’s Editions
Annotated teacher’s editions offer comprehensive resources to help make the most of your Common Core instruction. Suggestions for use and teaching strategies are followed by genres; skill focus; answer rationales; listening/speaking, writing, and media/research activities; Common Core correlations; Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary; ELL support; and reproducible graphic organizers.

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