Connections

Extended Text Teaching Guides with Performance Assessment Grades 2–8

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  • Why?
    Connections

    Familiar novels and nonfiction literature that students love to read and teachers love to teach.

    Supportive texts and Teaching Guides are bundled for small-group and classroom use, providing a convenient way to enhance core programs with authentic texts.

    Teaching Guides with in-depth instructional expertise offer unparalleled teaching support.

    Rubrics provide teachers with suggested criteria for scoring students’ work and Connections Performance Tasks prepare students for the rigor and complexity they will encounter in high-stakes assessments.

    Digital options bring together authentic texts and 21st-century learning.

    All supportive texts are available through the interactive Kno™ platform for enhanced learning.

    Unique, combined resource brings high value, affordability, and convenience.

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt continues to meet new standards and education needs with the superior content, solutions, and pedagogy you’ve come to expect.

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      Watch and listen to how Connections can deliver peak performance in your classroom.

    • Available Titles

      Connections pairs popular HMH fiction and informative nonfiction texts with Extended Text Teaching Guides. These supportive texts are available as print or digital (via the interactive Kno™ platform) and the Teaching Guides offer an easy-to-navigate plan for presenting the texts with the appropriate depth and rigor to improve student outcomes in conjunction with today’s standards.

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      Choose the package that fits your needs!

      Select a Small-Group or Whole-Class Package and receive your choice of Supportive Texts packaged with an Extended Text Teaching Guide with Performance Assessment. The Teaching Guides are also available à la carte for your convenience.

      Contact your local Account Executive for assistance.

    • Teaching Guides
      Connections

      Connections pairs Extended Text Teaching Guides with popular supportive texts (available as print or digital) from one esteemed source you know and trust—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt™. The easy-to-navigate Teaching Guides offer expert instruction to help you present your favorite texts with standards-aligned rigor and depth of coverage.

  • Features

    Connections pairs Extended Text Teaching Guides with popular supportive texts (available as print or digital) from one esteemed source you know and trust—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt™.

    Extended Text Teaching Guides

    Expert Instruction

    Teaching Guides feature superior instruction from a trusted education leader. The easy-to-navigate guides offer a convenient way to present your favorite texts with standards-aligned rigor and depth of coverage.

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    Best-Selling Titles

    Best-Selling Titles

    Popular Connections titles from HMH® are expertly matched with Extended Text Teaching Guides in an easy-to-use format that supports your instruction with the expertise you’ve come to expect from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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    • Extended Text Teaching Guides with Performance Assessment

      Authentic texts. Rich instruction. Peak performance.

      Seeking to enhance your students’ reading performance while adding rigor to your instruction? Connections pairs Extended Text Teaching Guides with popular supportive texts (available as print or digital) from one esteemed source you know and trust—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt™. The easy-to-navigate Teaching Guides offer expert instruction to help you present your favorite texts with standards-aligned rigor and depth of coverage.

      Plan

      Plan your instruction using the teaching objectives, reading assignment, and critical vocabulary list.

      Plan

      Focus

      Focus students’ attention with questions that encourage close reading and send them back to the text for discussion or writing.

      Focus

      Text Complexity

      Use Text Complexity notes to help all students unpack meaning.

      Text Complexity

      Teach and Assess

      Teach and Assess with ideas for comprehension support, vocabulary development, and writing practice.

      Teach and Assess

      Text Complexity Rubric

      Consult your Text Complexity Rubric for quantitative and qualitative measures for each text.

      Text Complexity Rubric

      Assess Students’ Performance

      Rubrics provide teachers with suggested criteria for scoring performance assessments and can be shared with students to help focus their work.

      Assess Students' Performance

      Build Confidence for Assessment with Performance Tasks

      Connections Performance Tasks prepare students for the rigor and complexity they will encounter in high-stakes assessments.

      Build Confidence for Assessment with Performance Tasks
    • Best-Selling Titles

      Choose from Connections' growing list of popular and award-winning HMH titles perfectly matched with Extended Text Teaching Guides to help you present your favorite texts with standards-aligned rigor and depth of coverage.

      Grade 2

      Gooney Bird on the Map

      Gooney Bird
      on the Map
       

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      Throw Your Tooth on the Roof

      Throw Your
      Tooth on
      the Roof

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      Grade 3

      Lemonade War

      Lemonade War

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      About Time

      About Time

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      Grade 4

      Number the Stars

      Number
      the Stars

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      Crooked Kind of Perfect

      Crooked Kind
      of Perfect

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      Snake Scientist

      Snake
      Scientist

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      Girls Think of Everything

      Girls Think of
      Everything

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      Grade 5

      Tangerine

      Tangerine
       

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      Lincoln: A Photobiography

      Lincoln: A
      Photobiography

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      Grade 6

      Wednesday Wars

      Wednesday
      Wars

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      Cathedral

      Cathedral
       

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      The Giver

      The Giver
       

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      Grade 7

      A Long Walk to Water

      A Long Walk
      to Water

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      Out of Darkness

      Out of
      Darkness

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      Grade 8

      Peak

      Peak

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      Chew on This

      Chew on This

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