Expert 21: A New Interactive English Language Arts Curriculum for Grades 6 - 9

READ 180 Community Newsletter - Summer 2009

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What's the next step for a student transitioning out of READ 180?

Until now there hasn't been a very good answer to this question. Too often, READ 180 students find themselves transitioning into a very traditional basal literature program that lacks everything they have come to expect: technology, engaging nonfiction, leveled text, rotations, and Small-Group time that facilitate a relationship with their teacher.

That's why Scholastic is pleased to introduce Expert 21, a new kind of core English language arts program for a new generation of students. Created by the team who brought you READ 180, Expert 21 is designed to keep adolescent readers moving in the right direction. Designed to accelerate students in Grades 6-9 from Basic to Proficient and beyond, Expert 21 teaches reading, writing, and thinking for the 21st Century.

Expert 21 provides educators with everything they need to engage, motivate, and teach a new generation of students.

• Explicit instruction in 21st Century skills and strategies
• Content that students want to read because it's relevant and contemporary
• Expert Space, the first Digital Curriculum and Tools for the 21st Century
• Leveled text that meets kids where they are and enables them to develop fluency
• Inquiry-based learning projects that enable students to apply what they're learning

Exclusive Invitation for READ 180 Educators:

Expert 21 will be officially released in August 2009. As a valued partner, we invite you to order between now and August 31st to take advantage of a special pre-publication offer. To learn more about this special offer, please contact your Scholastic account executive. For a tour of Expert 21, please visit www.scholastic.com/expert21.

 

Expert Space: Digital Curriculum and Toolkit for 21st Century Learners

Expert Space is also available as the revolutionary new way to supplement your science and social studies curriculum. This new digital curriculum and toolkit will transform the way students build content-area knowledge and expertise, plan and complete projects and assignments, and develop 21st century information literacy skills.

Completely Web-based, Expert Space features anytime, anywhere access to:

• 100 xSpaces, curriculum aligned content units organized around the most commonly taught, researched, and studied topics in science and social studies.
• Multiple reading scaffolds—anchor videos, text leveled to the Lexile Framework of Reading, Spanish translations, read-aloud, and dictionary—that support the needs of all teachers.
• Interactive, personal learning tools including a digital locker, calendar and assignment planner, note card, outline and bibliography, generator, and more.
• Skill builders, animated tutorials that model best practices in 21st Century Skills including note-taking, evaluating sources, searching, citing sources, setting goals, and outlining
• Hundreds of lesson plans aligned to state standards that support content area and information literacy instruction.

To learn more or sign up for a 30-day free trial, visit www.scholastic.com/expertspace, or call 1-800-387-1427 to learn about our special introductory offer.

READ 180 Community Newsletter - Summer 2009
Nothing Else to Say But Thank You! With summer rapidly approaching, we at Scholastic and READ 180 want to thank you for what you do every day to raise reading achievement and turn around the lives of students. What you accomplish is incredible. Thank you!

A Conversation with Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams and Dr. Ted Hasselbring, Principal Scientists for System 44
A Conversation with Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams and Dr. Ted Hasselbring, Principal Scientists for System 44, appearing in the READ 180 Community Newsletter, Fall 2008.

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