What Are Teachers Asking About Collections?

I want to include my favorite pieces of literature in my lesson plans. How does Collections allow me to customize my instruction to include them?

Find Favorites from Your Dashboard

Access additional favorite literary and nonfiction selections conveniently from your Teacher Dashboard. With Collections, you have the flexibility to teach your favorite literary and nonfiction selections, including poems and novels, whenever you choose.

Add Favorite Texts by Collection

With a list organized by collection, you can easily add a text or even choose a favorite selection to use in lieu of one in the Student Edition or Close Reader. You and your students are not bound by sequential activities that are tied to specific selections. In Collections, students may apply the standards instruction in the Student Edition lessons to another favorite selection that you choose from the list organized by collection.

Choose Novels You Want to Teach

Your Dashboard takes you to Novel Resources where you will find a list of full-length works that enhance the study of texts and themes in Collections. The list of middle and high school titles includes summaries and links to support resources such as PowerPoint^® presentations, strategies, and projects on NovelWise, and CliffsNotes^® guides.

How does Collections help me teach, monitor, and communicate with students? Also, how does it allow students to collaborate on writing?

Talk eBook to eBook

• Read and respond to students’ close reading responses in their eBooks.
• Review and comment on students’ plans and drafts as they work to complete their performance task assignments using myWriteSmart, their dynamic digital workspace for drafting, revising, collaborating, and editing.
  

Assign Peer Groups for Collaboration

• Partners or peer groups may work collaboratively on writing and other performance tasks as well as review and evaluate each other’s work.
• Students can submit their work to e-rater^® for immediate feedback and scoring and to Turnitin^® for originality checks.

How can I be sure my students will be ready for the new performance-based assessment?

Build Confidence with Performance Tasks

Both collection and selection performance tasks prepare students to take and support positions and present creative responses to real-world tasks.

Teach and Practice the 3-Step Approach

• Performance Assessment provides a detailed and extensive three-step process with highly engaging materials, student models, and scaffolded practice to prepare students for assessments.
• Student Book and Teacher’s Guide, available in print and online.

How can my students and I use the Collections digital assets if there is no Internet access available?

Collections Offline Availability

Student Resources

• Student Edition
• Close Reader
• Performance Assessment

Teacher Resources as PDF files

• Performance Assessment Teacher Guide
• Digital Collection Lesson Resources including: Teacher Notes for every lesson, Rubrics (editable Word documents), Student Models, and Assessments
• Close Read Screencast Applications
• Post-Reading Graphic Organizers
• NovelWise Worksheets, Graphic Organizers, and Tests
• Nonfiction Connections selections
• Writing and Research in a Digital Age worksheets
• Exemplar lessons
• Publisher provided and Customizable Lesson Plans (through mySmartPlanner)
• Professional Development for Language Arts (worksheets, graphic organizers, and professional articles)

Teacher Resources In Other Formats

• Interactive Whiteboard Lessons (SMART Notebook™ files)
• GrammarNotes (PowerPoint presentations)
• Writing and Research in a Digital Age (PowerPoint/Keynote^® presentations)
• ExamView^® Assessment banks/Downloads and Application (for all selection and collection tests)