English Language Arts
Grades 6–12
The SpringBoard English Language Arts program provides the rigor you want with learning strategies and scaffolding activities that develop your students' critical thinking capabilities. The program includes seven levels, covering middle school through high school, developed to the highly respected College Board college readiness standards.
Each level features:
- Standards-based instruction that reinforces content
- Accessible activities that add rigor to content and to learning expectations
- Defined learning strategies that help students learn "their way" and gain the critical thinking skills needed for academic success
Multiple opportunities for student collaboration, writing, and presentation- Portfolio activities that measure student growth over the school year
- Built-in assessments that allow students to demonstrate their ability to use appropriate learning strategies and apply their skills
- Online assessments developed by professional test writers to measure students' knowledge and skills effectively
- Exceptional professional development support through teacher workshops, on-site training, and ongoing teacher-to-teacher mentoring
Grade levels
Each grade level of the student books follows a thematic approach to developing concepts and academic skills.
Middle school levels
- In Level I, the theme is "change." Students examine how change affects individuals, families, and society and then begin to connect these experiences with the literature and informational texts they read and the video and films they view.
- Level II focuses on "choice" and how choices affect one's life. Students analyze choice both in their own lives and in those of the characters they read about or see in films or video.
- In Level III, students move on to the theme of "challenge" and how the challenges they encounter affect their lives and the lives of the characters and people they study. Through model instructional activities, they apply their learning to broader experiences in the world around them.
High school levels
- Level IV focuses on the concept of "coming of age." This level includes short stories, poetry, drama, film, nonfiction, and novels that present significant milestones in the lives of young people. Emphasis is on specific elements of genre study and writing skills.
- Level V introduces world literature to help students broaden their literary landscape. The units begin with an investigation of culture and work toward an understanding of the commonalities and differences among human cultures as represented in literature, media, and nonfiction from around the world.
- In Level VI, the units of instruction investigate the idea of the "American Dream." Students read and respond to questions about freedom and justice and the pursuit of individual happiness. Through longer works of fiction and nonfiction, students hone their skills of analysis and synthesis.
- Senior English focuses on the roles that personal perception, values, prejudices, and attitudes play in the interpretation of reality. Students learn to use multiple literary theories as filters through which to interpret literature (and their own experiences). Using archetypal, historical, feminist, Marxist, reader response, and cultural criticism theories, students hone their personal literary analysis skills.
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