Core Standards-Based Curriculum in Program Planning Guide

Mirrors & Windows comprehensive Program Planning Guide serves as a road map to the entire Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature program. It lists all the components available for each lesson in the textbook and offers options that help you address your own curriculum needs, student requirements, and schedules. This integrated approach makes it easy to incorporate language arts skills such as reading, vocabulary, critical thinking, and media literacy into each lesson.

To help you meet the diverse needs of your students, the Mirrors & Windows program offers a wealth of material—much more than you can teach in one school year. As a result, one challenge you will face is identifying the resources that are best suited to your particular situation. The Program Planning Guide offers several tools to help you meet that challenge.

The guide begins with a Core Standards-Based Selections chart outlining a basic course of study for teaching the common core standards and critical skills covered in formal language arts assessments. If you start your curriculum planning with this chart, you will know that you are teaching the key material your students need for success.