PLANNING

Editorial Calendar

2019-2020 Editorial Calendar

Take a sneak peek at the stories and cross-curriculum topics we plan to cover this year. Click here to view

Planning Guide

2019-2020 Planning Guide

Whether you are using Action as a core product or as an ELA supplement, we've created a guide to help you flexibly plan your year. Click here to view

STANDARDS

Meet Today's Rigorous Standards and Prepare for Testing

Action is designed to support today's challenging ELA standards with authentic texts that help students in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language domains.

Common Core and Similar Standards (CCSS)

See an in-depth breakdown of how Action articles, stories, poems, activity sheets, quizzes, and other features support specific Common Core ELA standards.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Standards

See an in-depth breakdown of how Action articles, stories, poems, activity sheets, quizzes, and other features support specific TEKS ELA standards or grades 6-8. Click here for grades 9-12.

HOW-TO VIDEOS

Stay Tuned! We’re working on quick and easy step-by-step videos to walk you through some of our site’s newest features, including Google Classroom integration. Check back soon!

SUPPORT FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Action provides a rich array of tools to support the ELL students in your classroom. These include:

Vocabulary slideshows with visual support and audio pronunciation

Questions crafted especially for ELLs

Differentiation ideas for ELLs in our Teacher’s Guide

Audio with text-to-speech to boost comprehension and improve fluency

Engaging and informative videos to build background knowledge

Family engagement letters to send home in English or Spanish

Background Builder slideshow to build context, knowledge, and vocabulary before reading

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

To help you build important school-to-home connections using Action, we have created Family Letters in both English and Spanish. These letters give parents specific articles from each issue to read with their children and include questions and activities to complete once they’re done reading. You can find out more about them here.

We’re pleased to offer:

An introductory letter (click here) with tips for exploring any issue at home

An optional second page, if you wish to send home the classroom password for our online Student View.

An issue-specific letter with ideas for talking about stories in the current issue. You’ll find these on the issue pages.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Check out our latest webinar! Executive Editor Kim Tranell walks through Using Action in the classroom.