Use Level Up tutorials to reteach key skills covered in the Collections program or to give students more opportunities for practice. You'll find tutorials on

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These engaging presentations offer thorough coverage of key Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text Common Core skills, such as:

Use the dynamic instruction, interactive practice, and review games to motivate and teach the whole class or small groups.

Xplor is an online magazine featuring high-interest, cross-discipline texts tied to topics and themes in Collections. Texts in Xplor represent three levels of difficulty, matching texts to students’ reading levels. Students build content knowledge and fluency as they read nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and interactive features. Articles include background information, short comprehension quizzes, crosswords, matching games, and other activities, as well as a selection rating tool. Audio is available for each article.

Using context clues, analyzing word structures, understanding denotative and connotative meanings—do your students need more practice with these and other strategies for unlocking word meanings? Tap into the instructional resources within WordSharp, which include

The Common Core ELA Exemplar Resource was developed to provide instruction for the text exemplars listed in Appendix B of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

Use this guide to complement the reading instruction of exemplars within your main reading program, or use it separately to provide students with questions and activities that deepen their comprehension of text exemplars selected for independent reading or group discussion.