How Do Leveled Readers Bridge to the Common Core?
The new reading standards are calling for complex texts, and for shorter texts well matched to students’ individual abilities. We want to make it easy for you to find the right resources and meet heightened expectations. HMH® Leveled Readers are ideal for identifying students’ strengths and reading levels, building their comprehension and fluency, and ramping them up to more complex texts.
- Ramp up to more complex texts with leveled readers on the same topic as the more complex texts
- Create a Learning Sandbox—offering texts students can read with confidence—to practice the rigor of the Standards
- Build domain knowledge and vocabulary using Leveled Readers aligned to the standards
- Loop back to Leveled Readers from a complex text so students can make connections and build analytic skills
Common Core Bookrooms
With our new Common Core Bookroom collections—readers from Great Source®, Rigby®, and Steck-Vaughn®—you’ll reach every student with the precisely leveled fiction and nonfiction titles that build confidence for tackling more complex texts. Making minor modifications to your existing guided reading practice, or using the Teaching Notes that come with every Bookroom, you’ll have a simple, cost-effective way to bridge your teaching—and your school’s resources— to the Common Core Reading Standards.
Common Core Grade Level Bookroom
Deliver academic rigor using Leveled Readers aligned to grade-specific Common Core Reading Standards.
Common Core Theme Bookroom
Teach multiple titles on a single Common Core theme as recommended by the Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project to build domain knowledge, vocabulary, and depth of understanding.
Common Core Trade Bookroom
Engage students with the complex texts and multiple genres called for in the Common Core with leveled, authentic fiction and nonfiction titles—written by authors teachers love to teach and students love to read.
Common Core English Language Learner Bookroom
Support English learners with our ELL leveling system, which takes into account both the language and reading demands of texts.
Common Core Performance Packages
Take student performance to new heights with the Common Core Performance Packages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt offers a legacy of the highest quality fiction and nonfiction trade books available. The architects of the Standards selected some of these titles, many of which are award winning, to serve as Exemplar Texts. These Common Core Performance Packages provide a way to build student confidence and bridge the standards with HMH Trade Exemplars, Common Core ELA Exemplar Resources (lessons and performance assessments for every Common Core Exemplar Text), and Leveled Readers aligned in theme or content to the HMH Exemplar Texts.
Common Core Grade Level Bookroom Title List (4.3MB)
Common Core Theme Bookroom Title List (3.6MB)
Common Core Trade Bookroom Title List (4.6MB)
Common Core ELL Bookroom Title List (3.2MB)
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