Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Save Valuable Prep Time with Mirrors & Windows

Looking for planning and pacing guides to help plan your daily lessons? Mirrors & Windows makes it easy.
• Visual Planning Guides are located before each unit. Approximate days of teaching the selection are indicated in this section. Lesson-by-Lesson Resources for each selection are indicated visually for additional support.
• Following the Visual Planning Pages, you will find a Scope & Sequence. This breaks down the selection features, indicating the reading support, word count, literary elements, writing options, and extension activities. You can use this page to determine what lessons you will want to incorporate into your instruction for that selection.
• The Lesson Planner CD allows the teacher to populate all the various lessons within each selection. It also automatically incorporates a “pacing guide” indicating what can be taught on day 1 of selection, day 2, and so on. You can then edit, removing lessons you do not want to teach, or add additional resources located outside the M&W program. See below.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Listen to Audio While Reading Ebook Online!

EMC has downloadable audio available for most selections in the Mirrors & Windows Common Core State Standards Editions. To run an audio while reading the book online or with the CD you would
1) Go to the mirrorsandwindows.com site and locate the selection within the Audio tab
2) Download the audio folder to your computer. (You may also run the audio directly from the site but downloading is easier to manipulate once you open your online or CD edition).
3) Open up the Audio and the player window will appear. Push the pause button.
4) Open up the selection you are reading. Once opened, minimize the textbook window, push the play button on the audio player, and then maximize your textbook window.
5) The student now will be able to read the text while listening to the Audio!

Friday, April 1, 2011

Implement CCSS with Mirrors & Windows

Mirrors & Windows will help you meet the ELA Common Core
State Standards with our results oriented CCSS implementation model:
Professional Support:
• EMC's content area experts will provide ongoing professional support to help you implement the Mirrors & Windows Common Core State Standards Edition language arts program.
100 % Aligned Materials:
• CCSS correlations are included in the front of the Teacher's Edition and on the bottoms of the selection and feature pages.
• Common Core Selection Based Curriculum Maps are included in the Planning Guide.
• Lessons plans are correlated to CCSS in the E-Lesson Planner on the Teacher's Resources DVD.
• The student textbook covers 100 % of the Range of Text Types in every level!
Formative Assessments & Intervention:
Meeting the Standards includes a practice test for each unit correlated to common core reading standards.
• Formative Surveys and Remediation Rubrics are provided in the Assessment Guide.
Measureable Results:
• ExamView test bank questions are aligned to CCSS to identify standards that students need to focus on.
Mirrors & Windows is your best source for meeting College and
Career Readiness standards in English Language Arts!

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