Hands-On, Minds-On Curriculum

Houghton Mifflin PRE-K is based on scientific research. Aligned with key Pre-K learning goals, it provides children with the foundational skills they need to succeed as lifelong learners.

The Place Where Everyone Loves to Read

StoryTown provides tremendous opportunities for children to develop early literacy skills through a print-rich environment that focuses on oral-language development, phonological awareness, concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, early stages of writing, and listening comprehension.

Carefully Reviewed by Mathematicians

The HSP Math Pre-K Program offers an assortment of learning materials designed to provide students with meaningful and diverse educational experiences. It also provides teachers with instructional materials that offer easy planning, options, and suggestions for every stage of instruction.

Research-Based Curriculum to Succeed from the Start!

Developed using nationally recognized early childhood curriculum guidelines, including NAEYC guidelines, Saxon Early Learning features:

Supports Whole Group Practice Opportunities

Aligned with the NCTM Standards, Every Day Counts Calendar Math provides lessons and activities to preview, review, practice, and discuss critical math concepts and skills; build math understanding; and raise test scores in just a few minutes each day.

Reading and Writing with Preschool and Primary Children

Literate Days is a curriculum resource that helps you bring coherence and continuity to your Pre-K-Grade 1 programs. Framed by research notes and kidwatching forms, 33 lessons present ideas for enhancing existing teaching practices and for extending the quality of students' literacy experiences in times that are not typically considered "instructional."

A Powerful Pre-K-Grade 3 Multisensory Learning Solution

This powerful early literacy reading intervention solution enables Pre-K-Grade 3 students to achieve success through a multisensory format. Earobics employs a "right tool for the task" approach comprised of a robust print and digital blend that incorporates multimedia materials, books, Teacher's Guides, and other resources.

A Comprehensive Solution for Engaging Early Learners and Special Needs Students

The Pre-K package of the Edmark House Series includes Bailey's Book House, Sammy's Science House, Trudy's Time and Place House, and Millie's Math House, plus a full day of professional development.

The Proven Approach to Get ALL Your Students on Their Way to Academic Success

Your ELL students will soar to new heights with the latest edition of On Our Way to English!

A Research-Based Intensive Intervention Program

With daily routines for effective teaching and learning, Gateways motivates students with an active learning environment and supports teachers with a straightforward instructional design. The program provides struggling readers and English Language Learners with the reading and language arts skills required for success.

Help Struggling Students in Grades 3-8 Achieve Reading Success

Grounded in research and tested in classrooms, Soar to Success features systematic, scaffolded, small group instruction in comprehension and uses proven strategies, including decoding, reciprocal teaching, and graphic organizers. The comprehensive Teacher's Manual includes complete lesson plans plus effective assessment tools. The 18 authentic trade books at each level are sequenced from easy to more challenging to engage and encourage students.

Perfect for RTI or Tier III

Intervention Station provides scaffolded instruction for key technical skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

An Intensive Intervention System

For students in Grades 3-8 who are reading below grade level, Focus Forward is an all-new system that builds foundational reading and writing skills and fosters student motivation every step of the way.

The Simple Answer to a Complex Problem

Intervention by Design focuses on the comprehension strategies critical to grade-level success. The program fills foundational gaps in phonemic awareness and phonics and builds the development of fluency skills.

Discover the Advantage of Academic Intervention!

High-interest print and technology resources open a new world of reading to at-risk readers. Reading Advantage:

Motivating Materials to Reach Struggling Students

Summer Success: Reading is a complete and comprehensive program designed to help struggling learners become fluent readers through the use of current research and time-tested best practices from successful reading teachers.

Build Math Competency and Fluency

Summer Success: Math is a complete and comprehensive summer school math program created to build students' confidence and proficiency in math. Aligned with the NCTM Standards, each kit is packed with everything a teacher needs to implement a full summer school course that introduces, reinforces, and reviews key concepts for students.

Designed for Intermediate and Advanced Middle School English Language Learners

ACCESS English provides a standards-based language arts curriculum that covers academic content while developing students' language and communication skills.

Focus on Foundational Skills and Concepts

Math Intervention helps students in Grades 6-8 rebuild a solid mathematics framework. The program provides clear goals, motivation, visuals, and abundant practice for diverse learners and reinforces concepts in an accessible, student-friendly way.

A Small-Group, Intensive, Supplementary Intervention System

Designed to bring struggling readers and writers to grade level in 14-18 weeks, The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention system can be included in a layered, RTI approach.

A Great Solution for Tier I Intervention!

The Earobics for Targeted Intervention package includes the CD version of the Earobics series, giving you the ability to serve up to 15 students per CD.

The Parallel Spanish-Language Version of the Woodcock-Johnson

The Batería III is an individually administered achievement and cognitive ability test that measures general intellectual ability (including bilingual and low verbal) and specific cognitive abilities, oral language, and academic achievement.

Measure the Overall Verbal Ability of Bilingual Individuals

The Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests:

A Powerful Curriculum Management Solution

Learning Village enhances the teaching and learning experience by connecting educators to the best practices, instructional strategies, lesson plans, and resources that enable measurable student achievement. From one central portal, educators tap into a wealth of Web-based curricula, and collaborate in the broader district-wide learning community.

A Powerful Online Tutoring Tool

SkillsTutor seamlessly integrates into your curriculum and provides targeted instruction for the classroom or extended use at home. Lessons and activities in reading, language arts, writing, math, and science help support teachers while giving students a tool to improve test scores and meet mandated state objectives.

DataDirector is an innovative online data management and assessment solution and a powerful decision-support system that lets you access data, view reports, and better understand students. Unlike simple assessment systems, DataDirector allows you to combine multiple data types over time to maximize reporting, and answer complex questions.

Edusoft is a web-based student assessment platform. We help school districts, teachers and parents track student performance across three kinds of tests: state exams, district benchmarks, and classroom tests.

Sequenced, Prescriptive, Step-by-Step Instruction

Destination Math helps students develop fluency in critical skills, math reasoning, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving skills.

Based on Scientific Research

Destination Reading is a powerful early and adolescent literacy program that correlates to state standards and includes an explicit instructional pathway with frequent assessments to help guide individualized, data-driven instruction.

A Powerful Early Literacy Reading Intervention Solution

Earobics enables students in Pre-K-Grade 3 achieve success. With a multisensory format that employs a "right tool for the task" approach, Earobics is comprised of a robust print and digital blend that incorporates multimedia materials, books, Teacher's Guides, and other resources, in addition to software instruction to support phonemic awareness and to automatically guide readers along the appropriate instructional path.

Designed by Early Literacy and Special Needs Experts

The Edmark House Series introduces early learners to reading, math, science, and useful skills like telling time. Featuring a highly-engaging approach to learning, the program is proven effective in engaging students and individualizing instruction–building skills that last a lifetime.

Helps Teachers Use Technology to Improve Learning

Classroom Connect's high-quality professional development programs and online instructional materials meet the changing needs of K-Grade 12 districts nationwide.

Raising School-Wide Literacy Achievement One Professional Development Session at a Time

Regie Routman in Residence enhances literacy instruction by connecting DVD footage of Regie's inspiring demonstration teaching with opportunities for professional conversation and collaboration. Each DVD-based program provides a year's worth of professional development that is sustainable, replicable, manageable, and affordable.

Teaching K-Grade 3 Readers from the Ground Up

Sharon Taberski's latest thinking on how to use a variety of literacy experiences to help students develop deeper engagement with texts, It's ALL About Comprehension, is a DVD-based professional development resource that gives teachers the confidence, information, and instructional examples they need to envision comprehension instruction in new ways.

Comprehension Strategy Instruction Staff Development Bundle

The Comprehension Strategy Instruction Staff Development Bundle includes What Every Teacher Should Know About Reading Comprehension Instruction (DVD) by P. David Pearson, Stephanie Harvey, and Anne Goudvis and Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction by Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann. These titles work together to provide everything a staff developer needs for thoughtful, practical, research-based instruction in reading comprehension.

Nonfiction Study Staff Development Bundle

The Nonfiction Study Staff Development Bundle includes Linda Hoyt's DVD Navigating Informational Texts and her book Make It Real: Strategies for Success with Informational Texts. These titles are an ideal way to explore strategies for using nonfiction texts in guided reading and writing, read-aloud, and teaching across the subject areas.

Literacy Minilessons Staff Development Bundle

With Snapshots the DVD and Snapshots: Literacy Minilessons Up Close, both by Linda Hoyt, teachers can see and hear exactly how a master teacher conducts minilessons, and get 170 lessons to try in their own classroom.

Early Writing Instruction Staff Development Bundle

The Early Writing Instruction Staff Development Bundle includes The Teaching Behind About the Authors (DVD) and About the Authors, where Katie Wood Ray and Lisa Cleaveland show that little kids are ready to write and reveal how to implement writing workshops with the youngest students and teach units of study.

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Great Source and Rigby Professional Development is committed to providing the very best in powerful, research-based training for educators. Each course, workshop, and seminar incorporates current research in adult learning principles as well as the work of the national Staff Development Council. Schools and districts can choose from workshops that support specific programs, workshops that focus on best practices, year-long courses, and custom workshops.

Courses, Seminars and Workshops include:

Use Technology to Improve Learning

Whether you want to increase the level of technology integration in your district or develop a custom professional development program for your teachers, Classroom Connect has the perfect solution for you, from simple applications to integrating the iPod® into your instruction.

Make Assessment Meaningful

In addition to the flagship products noted below, Riverside Publishing also offers scientifically research-based programs to meet the unique needs of states and school districts across the nation. Riverside's vision is to make assessment meaningful for educators, students, and parents with unparalleled service and support for innovative solutions that measurably impact student growth and achievement.

Help Determine Students' Strengths and Weaknesses Across the Core Curriculum

The Iowa Tests measure the skills, academic growth, and achievement of students in K-Grade 12 in reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science.

A Comprehensive Formative Assessment Development and Management System

Edusoft enables educators to develop, administer, and score assessments, and quickly receive results to inform instruction and improve student achievement.

An Innovative Online Data and Assessment Management System

DataDirector puts a fast, powerful decision-support system at your fingertips. The program is designed to help educators meet the needs of students in Pre-K–Grade 12 and improve performance.

A Grades 2-11 Item Bank of Math, Reading, Science, and Social Studies Content

Assess2Know items are high quality and aligned to state standards to help educators create interim benchmark assessments that measure how students are progressing toward meeting state standards.

A Software Program for Interpreting Test Results

The Woodcock Interpretation & Instructional Interventions Program provides an expert system for interpreting test results and offers a direct link between assessment data and evidence-based instructional interventions.

Reliable, High-Quality, Comprehensive Reading Assessment

The Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System provides one-on-one, comprehensive assessments that determine independent and instructional reading levels for placing students on the Fountas & Pinnell A-Z Text Gradient.

Robust Vocabulary, Engaging Narrative and Nonfiction, Clear Instructional Paths, and State-of-the-Art Technology

In StoryTown, program authors Dr. Isabel Beck and Dr. Margaret McKeown create a rich verbal environment through carefully selected words, student-friendly explanations, and meaningful learning environments.

Compels Students to Look into Literature

McDougal Littell Literature is crafted to give your students a fresh and inviting perspective on the questions and insights that only literature can provide.

Engage and Instruct Students with Diverse Needs and Interests

Traditional literature programs are difficult for many students because they lack appropriate reading skills. Elements of Literature offers the best in contemporary and traditional literature and includes literary, reading, and writing instruction designed to meet the needs of students today.

Pairs Research-Based Instruction with Classroom Practices That Work

By consulting educators around the country, leading literacy specialists designed a truly innovative program that addresses the AYP challenges educators face every day. Literacy by Design is designed for:

Supports NCLB Requirements for Adequate Yearly Progress

Elements of Reading: Vocabulary and R.E.V. It Up! embed academic vocabulary in engaging texts and prompt the use of vocabulary in writing and discussion. Repeated, systematic exposure to each word in different contexts leads to deep lexical understanding.

Information Your Students Can Depend On!

Ideal for the middle school writer in school and at home, Write Source provides an accessible and comprehensive approach to writing, thinking, and learning.

Based on Scientific Research

Destination Reading is a powerful early and adolescent literacy program that correlates to state standards and includes an explicit instructional pathway with frequent assessments to help guide individualized, data-driven instruction.

A Powerful Diagnostic Tool

The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests are reading survey tests for pre-reading through adult levels that evaluate students' achievement in reading comprehension and vocabulary. The tests are primarily used for placement into reading programs and as a pretest/posttest for program evaluation.

By Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

This intensive course of study is designed to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text. With the teaching and learning focused on comprehension strategies, The Comprehension Toolkit provides a foundation for developing independent readers and learners.

By Lucy Calkins & Colleagues from Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

Units of Study for Teaching Writing is a spiraling elementary writing curriculum organized around sequential units of study. Each unit of study lays out four to six weeks of instruction and provides the teaching points, minilessons, strategies, and tools teachers need to teach writing in powerful lasting ways.

Phonics & Word Study Lessons

Written by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, this curricular resource helps developing readers by providing essential information about the intricate relationships between letters and sounds as well as the ways they work. The 100 minilessons for each of the four grade levels are organized around the nine scientific categories of learning.

Make the Most of Read-Aloud Time

Written by Linda Hoyt, Interactive Read-Alouds is a curricular resource that helps teachers make the most of read-aloud time by showing creative ways to use popular children's literature to teach specific standards and build fluency and comprehension. Combining guided conversations with reflective thinking, these read-aloud lessons engage children in strategic listening, speaking, reading, and writing about text

Mathematics Instruction for K-Grade 4 Students

In Saxon Math, all new concepts are developed through hands-on activities and rich mathematical conversations that actively engage students in the learning process. Concepts are developed, reviewed, and practiced over time.

A Comprehensive, Standards-Based K-Grade 5 Math Curriculum That Offers New Ways to Teach and Learn Mathematics

Combining the most powerful elements of reform mathematics with the best of traditional approaches, Math Expressions uses objects, drawings, conceptual language, and real-world situations to help students build mathematical ideas that make sense to them.

The Newest Basal K-Grade 6 Math Program from HMH

HSP Math, carefully reviewed by mathematicians, offers an assortment of learning materials designed to provide students with meaningful and diverse educational experiences. It also provides teachers with instructional materials that offer easy planning, options, and suggestions for every stage of instruction.

Developed from Years of Research and Extensive Field Testing

MathSteps is an alternative workbook-based program the delivers focused intervention to students struggling to master math skills.

Singapore's Top-Ranking Approach to Teaching Mathematics in K-Grade 5

Discover for yourself Singapore's method to attain outstanding math achievement. Math in Focus uses a content-rich, problem-based approach that thoughtfully builds on a concrete-to-pictorial-to-abstract progression for greater depth of instruction and greater mastery of basic math concepts.

Math for Middle School

Holt McDougal Mathematics features a clear instructional design that provides a multitude of instructional assessment options that help you point every middle school student in the right direction.

A Solid Foundation in the Fundamentals

The Concepts and Skills program is committed to meeting the needs of all learning levels by providing an accessible approach that helps prepare students for success in algebra and geometry.

Improve SAT Scores

A study conducted by the Educational Research Institute of America (ERIA) showed that students using the Holt Middle School Mathematics program consecutively for two years showed significant improvement in performance on the Stanford Achievement Test Mathematics, 10th Edition (SAT 10).

Comprehensive Instruction, Assessment and Intervention, and Integrated Technology

Holt Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 offer a wide variety of options for managing a diverse classroom where students may range from those lacking opportunity or motivation, to those needing advanced instruction.

It's Easier Than Ever to Teach Your Way Every Day

McDougal Littell Math features everything from dynamic learning activities and flexible lesson planning to constructive, ongoing assessment. The program supports your great math lessons and helps you lead your students to success.

Your Time Is Limited

That's why McDougal Littell Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 give you the time and freedom to teach great lessons your way.

Featuring Sequenced, Prescriptive, Step-by-Step Instruction

Destination Math helps students develop fluency in critical skills, math reasoning, conceptual understanding, and problem solving.

By Catherine Fosnot and Colleagues from Mathematics in the City and the Freudenthal Institute

Contexts for Learning Mathematics uses carefully crafted math situations to foster a deep conceptual understanding of essential mathematical ideas, strategies, and models. Building on the ideals of a math workshop, each unit provides a two-week sequence of investigations, minilessons, games, and other contexts for learning. The series' 18 classroom-tested units are organized into three age-appropriate packages. For more information, visit www.contextsforlearning.com.

A Complete Series of Elementary Science Modules

Experience Science is designed to cover major content areas in life, earth, and physical science. This research-based program, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, provides classroom-tested, hands-on activities and is designed to require minimal implementation support.

Aligned with the National Science Education Standards

ScienceSaurus is a comprehensive guide that covers all the major strands of science including life, physical, and earth science, as well as natural resources and the environment. The program is designed to prepare students for success in science class and on state assessments.

An Ideal Companion to the Elementary ScienceSaurus

The new Science Daybooks for Grades 4-5 are high-interest, reader-response resources designed to help students investigate, learn, and apply essential life, earth, and physical science concepts through meaningful activities that connect science to the real world.

An Exciting New Middle School Science Program

Holt Science & Technology combines the content you need with an accessible design, student-friendly narrative, and vivid visuals.

Emphasizes Inquiry, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving

Holt Earth Science is a comprehensive learning resource that provides students with opportunities to observe and apply the scientific processes necessary for earth science mastery.

Relevant and Engaging Content

Holt Biology offers comprehensive coverage of the high school biology curriculum, while helping you provide access and motivation to those students who may need additional intervention.

A Comprehensive Core Program

Harcourt Social Studies takes students on a fascinating journey to explore the people, places, and events that have impacted history. This basal program combines rich content with colorful graphics and interactive text to highlight core concepts and provide a better understanding for students.

Bring the World to Your Classroom

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies features readable, accessible content that meets your state's standards and gives you time to teach social studies. Plus, powerful, built-in reading and vocabulary instruction helps you teach content-area reading and easy-to-use multiple resources meet the needs of all learners in your classroom.

Standards-Based Content and Research-Based Reading Instruction to Teach World History in the Middle Grades

Holt McDougal World History creates a richer understanding of the mysteries of the past and their impact on today with stunning visuals and high-interest scenarios. The program ensures success for all learners and addresses standards by integrating the content and skills necessary to meet them.

Both Engaging and Instructional

The easy-to-navigate design of the middle grade Holt McDougal World Geography program is complemented by an art program that is both engaging and instructional. Online interactive maps, satellite maps, and Map Zone transparencies provide you with colorful options for teaching geography skills and map analysis. Geography's Impact video program, Power Presentations with Video CD-ROM, and MindPoint® Quiz Show keep students actively engaged in their learning.

Modular and Single-Volume Formats for the Middle Grades

Holt McDougal World Regions allows you to organize instruction to match your curriculum. This strong map program, including online interactive maps, fosters an understanding of the world. A clean, navigable design and instructional visuals encourage exploration of geography, culture, and history. Geography's Impact video program, Power Presentations with Video CD-ROM, and MindPoint® Quiz Show keep students actively engaged in their learning.

An Understanding of America's Past and Its Impact Today

The Holt McDougal United States History program for the middle grades provides you with the tools to create an understanding of America's past and its impact today. History Close-Ups and History and Geography features connect high-interest visuals to key content. Reading Like a Historian, Primary Source, and Literature features build critical-thinking skills and provide instruction for analyzing written and visual documents. The Experiencing American History resource promotes collaborative learning with hands-on projects.

Foster Student Civic Responsibility with a Balanced Approach

Civics in Practice: Principles of Government and Economics focuses on the principles of government, active citizenship, and responsible economic participation. Media Investigation, Students Take Action, and Law 101 features promote critical thinking and encourage service learning. The Active Citizenship video program informs students of their civil liberties and the responsibilities and duties of a citizen, and helps them make sound economic choices.

A Vibrant, Visual Approach That Captures Students' Attention

World Geography helps students relate distant places and cultures to their own lives. Each unit addresses physical geography, human geography, and major issues of a specific region of the world.

Engaging Visuals and Interactive Technology Help All Students Make Connections Between Yesterday and Today's World

World History: Patterns of Interaction gives you the freedom and resources to connect your students to the world, teach the way you want to teach, and use assessment as a teaching tool.

Focusing on the Human Face of History

The Americans explores the story of United States history, weaving the reflections of people who experienced history firsthand throughout the narrative. Thought-provoking lessons make history human and relevant to students' everyday lives, helping them realize the richness of our nation's history.

A Concept-Driven and Interactive Approach to Developing Economic Literacy

Economics: Concepts and Choices offers a variety of print and technology resources integrated into one comprehensive program providing teachers and students with the tools needed for success.