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Currents in Literature, World Volume |
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Harold Levine, Norman Levine, Robert T. Levine |
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Purpose of the Currents in Literature Series:
This four-book Integrated English Language Arts series is an up-to-date revision of Vocabulary and Composition Through Pleasurable Reading. It is a complete English Language Arts program that integrates vocabulary, reading, writing, grammar, and spelling. Practice exercises prepare students for standardized tests, but lessons are taught in the context of real literature, so learning is authentic. Carefully chosen classic and contemporary literature selections inspire students to become better readers, writers, and communicators.
Purpose of the World Volume:
The World Volume features classic and contemporary writers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Victor Hugo, Margaret Atwood, Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Anita Desai. Vocabulary, reading, writing, grammar, and spelling are taught in the context of these selections. Students reflect on universal themes such as conformity, power, responsibility, and propaganda, and they learn to think critically about challenging texts.
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- Updated reading selections. The World Volume contains classics but also introduces students to modern authors and a variety of genres. The reader-friendly layout of the selections includes author photos and sidebars. Readings are arranged thematically, to increase engagement and critical thinking. Prereading Journal Freewrites help students make personal connections.
- Reading instruction. Most anthologies just contain literature; Currents combines great literature with real reading instruction. Each passage is followed by multiple-choice and short-answer questions and a Reading Strategy Lesson. Strategies include identifying author’s purpose and point of view, comparing and contrasting ideas in a text, understanding literary devices, making inferences and drawing conclusions, using paraphrasing and thinking aloud to understand difficult texts, and distinguishing fact from opinion and the reliability of a Web site when conducting research.
- Vocabulary in context. Vocabulary is taught in context and students apply the words to new contexts, so they learn how to use the words rather than just memorize them. Each chapter contains a prereading vocabulary chart with words from that chapter’s reading(s), followed by practice exercises, including sentence completions and synonym/antonym matching. The vocabulary words are underlined in the reading selections. Vocabulary charts contain phonetic re-spellings, designed to be more user-friendly than diacritical marks.
- Writing Workshop lessons have students use the writing process to write expository, persuasive, compare/contrast, and cause-and-effect essays, as well as personal narratives and poetry. Students learn how to analyze a prompt, form a position, use supporting evidence, and write thesis and topic sentences.
- Grammar Mini-Lesson and Polish Your Spelling lessons help students review writing and language conventions and avoid common mistakes. Grammar lessons cover sentence structures, eliminating fragments and run-ons, nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, punctuation, and capitalization. Lessons emphasize why grammar matters and how it fits into the writing process. Spelling lessons include plurals and possessives, homonyms, troublesome consonants, and suffix patterns. Students create personalized spelling lists and learn to use mnemonic devices. Lessons emphasize spelling strategies, tricks, and patterns so students aren’t just memorizing spellings but are gaining tools they can apply.
- Standardized test practice. Reading and writing lessons are designed to prepare students for state and national tests. Grammar and vocabulary reviews are modeled after the SATs and ACTs. In particular:
- Reading comprehension. Currents contains fiction and nonfiction, and long and short selections, to mirror standardized tests (the SAT has longer readings, for example.) Currents contains multiple-choice and short answer (constructed- response) questions about the readings. Students are often asked to compare and contrast passages.
- Writing lessons teach students to decode writing prompts, which prepares them for the SAT essay and for all standardized writing tests.
- Grammar. Students practice editing passages, which is important for the SAT and ACT. (See Unit Reviews section below.)
- Vocabulary: Vocabulary is tested in reading comprehension questions and in sentence completions. On volume tests, sentence completions contain one or two blanks, as on the SAT. (See Teacher’s Guides.
- Unit Reviews. At the end of each unit is a review section with exercises in vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and writing. These reviews can be used as extra practice, or as in-class assessments. Currents review sections contain both SAT- and ACT-style grammar exercises. Students identify sentence errors and improve sentences and paragraphs, as on the SAT, and they correct mistakes in a paragraph, as on the ACT.
- Unit Extension Activities. Each unit is followed by a list of creative activities that get students speaking, listening, researching, and making interdisciplinary, cross-curricular connections, on their own or in pairs or groups. The extensions help teachers meet ELA standards for speaking, listening, viewing, research, and exploring other media.
- Complete Teacher’s Guide with Answer Key. The Teacher’s Guide includes a summary of each reading in the volume, and strategies for helping below- and above-level readers with the selections (so teachers can differentiate instruction and use this series in a mixed-abilities classroom). There is also a complete Answer Key and a Volume Test with sections on reading comprehension, grammar and spelling, vocabulary, and writing.
Ancillaries: Teacher’s Guide with Answer Key (includes Volume Test) N 061 T ($7)
ISBN: 978-1-56765-146-1
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