What Teachers Are Saying about Mirrors & Windows

“Elma High School adopted the Mirrors and Windows program mainly because we had been so happy with the previous EMC program: Literature and the Language Arts. In fact, we banked our funding for the year of our adoption and waited for the new EMC book to be published.

The selection of literature is excellent, as are the leveled questions at the end of selections. I appreciate that these questions are directly focused on specific thinking skills and are clearly labeled by these skills.

The teacher materials allow so much individualization. I can target reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, specific reading, and career-building skills in every unit. I can use the Mirrors and Windows audio library to have students listen to professional readers if I want them to hear the text aloud.

I can individualize assignments for my special education students, my ESL students and my most gifted students without having to create these lessons myself. There are prepared PowerPoint lessons and other electronic support, including a year-long planner and ExamView test creator.

I have never had so many options, nor so much auxiliary material help, as I have now with the Mirrors and Windows program. Plus, we have received excellent, personalized customer service with EMC.”

Deanne Woita
English Department Chair
Elma High School
Elma, WA

Looking for more grammar practice for your students?

Look no further. Mirrors & Windows Exceeding the Standards: Grammar & Style offers a comprehensive, developmental curriculum, using selections from each unit in the textbook as examples and exercises. This supplement includes explicit instruction and practice for grammar, usage, mechanics, and writing.

Exceeding the Standards: Grammar & Style offers a variety of options to incorporate grammar instruction into the language arts classroom. Sixty-four lessons, developed to be used twice weekly, cover a broad range of topics from the sentence and parts of speech to common usage problems and writing effectively. And best of all, all sixty-four lessons are available on the www.mirrorsandwindows.com website and can be distributed via the Internet to your students.

In these practice exercises, a unique three-step approach gives students the opportunity to:

• Identify grammar concepts in literature models or sample sentences contextually related to the textbook

• Understand the usage of grammar concepts and correct errors in usage

• Use grammar concepts in their own writing

The material in the Grammar & Style supplement extends the instruction presented in the Student Edition. These lessons are organized in a developmental scope and sequence and are illustrated with literature models or examples related to the same unit in the Student Edition. The Grammar & Style workshops in the Student Edition incorporate vocabulary from the preceding selection or selections to teach corresponding grammar concepts.

The integration of these two program components—Grammar & Style supplement lessons and Grammar & Style textbook workshops—allows you two good teaching options. There's no need for a separate grammar book that is not integrated with your literature program!

By using these lessons in conjunction with the Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature textbook, you will help your students become better readers, writers, and communicators!