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The Reader’s Journey is an innovative, novel-based, comprehensive language arts program for Grades 6–8.

Activate Their Learning

Consumable Student Work Textsprovide systematic skills development

by sharpening reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and

communication skills. Perfect for whole class and

individualized instruction.

Motivate Their Reading

Six Anchor Books are thematically linked to each unit in the Student Work Text and work with the Big Questions

found in Prentice Hall Literature. Simply select a recommended novel,

or a novel of your choosing that matches your students’

reading levels.

Innovate Your Teaching

A full array of teaching support—including a classroom Activity Kit,

customizable lesson plans, and the ExamView® Test Generator—gives

you everything you need to support instruction.

Go Deeper with Anchor Books

tied to the Big Question.

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Core skills instruction and practice begins in the Student Work Text. As students interact with the text, they build confidence and proficiency through active reading.

Consumable Student Work Texts—a Pearson exclusive! Make It Clear

As students learn the skill in the Work Text, there is direction to apply the skill in the reading

of the Anchor Book.

Make the Connection

Multiple references to the Anchor Book appear

throughout the Work Text, guiding students through the reading of their novel and allowing opportunities for

discussion with their peers.

Make Your Mark

Active reading strategies encourage students to interact

with the Work Text by underlining phrases, making notes in the

margins, and circling unfamiliar words—proven techniques

from author Harvey “Smokey” Daniels for struggling and

advanced readers.

Feel free to choose titles different from the suggested Anchor Books!

The Reader’s Journey Library Unit 1

Reading Level

ReadingLevel

(Lexile®)Title/Author Context Language Literary

Merit

TwoGradesBelowLevel

760L Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss with Daisy Cubias

• Contemporary fiction• Set in 1980s/1990s

Chicago and El Salvador

• First-person point of view, omniscient, adolescent female

• Realistic language

• Winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award

• An ALA Best Book for Young Adults

OneGradeBelowLevel

750L The Outsidersby S. E. Hinton

• Fiction• Set in 1950s/1960s

Tulsa, Oklahoma

First-person point of view, male teen narrator

Winner of many young adult book awards

800L The Glory Fieldby Walter Dean Myers

• Historical fiction• Set in Africa and the

United States in the 1700s–1900s

Third-person point of view, omniscient

Award-winning author

On Grade Level

920L Guys Write for Guys Readedited by Jon Scieszka

Nonfiction, collection of memoirs by contemporary authors, male

Various points of view Contributors include world-famous writers and editors

970L Rosa Parks—My Storyby Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins

• Nonfiction, autobiography

• Montgomery, Alabama, civil rights setting

First-person point of view, female

• Author was an award-winning activist

• Co-author winner of many awards

Above Grade Level

1070L The Lottery Roseby Irene Hunt

• Fiction• Set in a Florida boys

home

• Third-person point of view

• Contains some slightly graphic violence

Author is a Newbery Award winner

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Anchor Books are thematically tied to each Unit’s “Big Question,” which is explored as the unit unfolds. Each Big Question was developed by noted author Grant Wiggins.

The Teacher’s Guide recommends which Anchor Books are most appropriate for your students. Reading levels from two grades below to above grade level are provided to help you meet the needs of all learners.

Customize your library to motivate and support all your students— from struggling to advanced readers.

Choosing Your Anchor Book

Six different leveled novels are suggested per unit.

However, the program is flexible enough to use with any novel

you wish to use.

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Prentice Hall Discoveries Readers

Anchor Books: Two Grades Below Level

Anchor Books: One Grade Below Level

Anchor Books: On Grade Level

Anchor Books: Above Grade Level

Unit 1 Deciding What Is Real Going Home Nicholasa Mohr Seed FolksRacing the Past

Paul FleischmanSis Deans

Jim Thorpe: Original All-AmericanLeon’s Story

Joseph BruchacLeon Walter Tillage

Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier’s Life in the Civil War

Delia Ray

Unit 2 Trouble Ahead Miracle’s Boys Jacqueline Woodson TangerineBearstone

Edward BloorWill Hobbs

RedwallManiac Magee

Brian JacquesJerry Spinelli

The Clay Marble Minfong Ho

Unit 3 Digging for Answers Amistad: the Story of a Slave Ship Patricia C. McKissack A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson

The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets

Michelle Y. Green Jean Craighead George

You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq

Jean FritzThura Al-Windawi

Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba

Alma Flor Ada

Unit 4 Sharing Meaning Number the Stars Lois Lowry The Westing GameFearless Fernie: Hanging Out With Fernie and Me

Ellen RaskinGary Soto

The Liberation of Gabriel KingThe Hero’s Trail: A Guide for a Heroic Life

K. L. GoingT. A. Barron

Cheaper by the Dozen Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Unit 5 Looking in the Mirror Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children

Joseph Bruchac Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass

Mother Hicks

Ossie Davis

Susan L. Zeder

The Mousetrap and Other PlaysPlay to Win

Agatha ChristieJames de Jongh and Carles Cleveland

I Never Saw Another Butterfly Celeste Raspanti

Unit 6 Finding Connections Hiroshima Laurence Yep SpiesThe Story of Muhammad Ali

Richard PlattLeslie Garrett

The Emperor’s Silent Army: The Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China

Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World

Jane O’Connor

Jane Breskin Zalben

Eyewitness: Mythology Dorling Kindersley

Unit 1 Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction The Outsiders S. E. Hinton Journey of the SparrowsThe Glory Field

Fran Leeper Buss with Daisy Cubias Walter Dean Myers

Guys Write for Guys ReadRosa Parks: My Story

Ed. John ScieszkaRosa Parks with Jim Haskins

The Lottery Rose Irene Hunt

Unit 2 Working it Out A Step from Heaven An Na Let the Circle Be UnbrokenBetween Madison and Palmetto

Mildred D. TaylorJacqueline Woodson

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and StuffHeat

Walter Dean MyersMike Lupica

Hatchet Gary Paulsen

Unit 3 Finding Our Place in the World Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo

Zlata Filipovíc They Led the Way: 14 American Women“Who Moved My Cheese?” For Teens

Johanna JohnstonSpencer Johnson, M. D.

OddballsPromises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson

Changed America

William SleatorSharon Robinson

Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Unit 4 Pushing the Boundaries Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island Eve Bunting Touching Spirit BearCrazy Loco

Ben MikaelsenDavid Rice

Within Reach: My Everest StoryRestless Spirit: The Life and Work

of Dorothea Lange

Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin Elizabeth Partridge

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965

Juan Williams

Unit 5 With Our Eyes Wide Open The Yellow Boat David Saar Novio BoyDoors

Gary SotoSuzan L. Zeder

Lost in YonkersFlowers for Algernon

Neil SimonDavid Rogers

Our Town Thornton Wilder

Unit 6 Path to the Present Micromonsters: Life Under the Microscope

Christopher Maynard Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine

The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things

Albert Marrin

Don L. Wulffson

Gandhi: A Photographic Story of a LifePortraits of African-American Heroes

Amy PastanTonya Maynard

Sea Otter Rescue: The Aftermath of an Oil Spill

Roland Smith

Unit 1 Believe it or Not The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton Robot DreamsAn Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio

Isaac AsimovJudith Ortiz Cofer

To Be a Slave Julius Lester Uncommon Champions: Fifteen Athletes Who Battled Back

Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale

Marty Kaminsky

Robert D. San Souci

Unit 2 The Unexpected Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko The Schwa Was HereCode Talker

Neal ShustermanJoseph Bruchac

Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryObasan

Mildred D. TaylorJoy Kogawa

Annie John Jamaica Kincaid

Unit 3 Exploring the Possibilities We Just Want to Live Here Amal Rifa’i and Odelia Ainbinder with Sylke Tempel

Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

Ed. Jill Davis

John Fleischman

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlThey Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle

from Frederick Douglass . . . Malcolm X

Anne FrankJules Archer

Escape from Earth: Voyages through Time Peter Ackroyd

Unit 4 The Lines of Communication A Dime a Dozen Nikki Grimes The Devil’s ArithmeticUnder the Baseball Moon

Jane YolenJohn H. Ritter

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale

Christopher Paul CurtisArt Spiegelman

The Sword and the Circle Rosemary Sutcliff

Unit 5 From a Different Angle Nerdlandia Gary Soto The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Diary of Anne Frank

Paul Zindel

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

MonsterThe Miracle Worker

Walter Dean MyersWilliam Gibson

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry

Unit 6 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Crime Busters Andrew Donkin Amos Fortune: Free ManBaseball’s Biggest Bloopers: The Games That Got Away

Elizabeth YatesDan Gutman

Cool Stuff and How It WorksFamous Hispanic Americans

Chris Woodford et al.Janet Nomura Morey and Wendy Dunn

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All-in-One, Complete ProgramThe Reader’s Journey is a complete, year-long, novel-based literature program broken down into six units. All six units of instruction and all the student work are available in one Teacher Organizer and one Student Work Text.

Six-for-Six, Modular ApproachMaybe you just need a proven way to teach a novel along with your literature program. Or, maybe you want to teach six novels in any order you want. The Reader’s Journey is also available as six flexible, individual unit modules for every grade.

Unit Genres1. Fiction and Nonfiction

2. The Novel

3. Types of Nonfiction

4. Prose and Poetry

5. Drama

6. The Research Process

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You know what your students need from a literature program. Whether it’s a full year of instruction, or just a unit or two of extra literature support, The Reader’s Journey works in any literature classroom.

Anchor BooksA conveniently assembled library of leveled novels and high-interest readers to match students’ reading proficiencies. You can choose the suggested novels, or choose your own!

Student Work Texts*Consumable Work Texts provide comprehensive skills instruction and practice, and promote active learning. Work Texts feature a blend of informational texts, short stories, nonfiction, and drama.

Teacher Organizer/Teacher Guides*Full teaching support includes lesson plans, notes for differentiating instruction, and assistance with choosing the appropriate novel.

Teacher ResourcesThe resources you need to support differentiated instruction for all learners in your classroom. Includes blackline masters of rubrics, graphic organizers, extension and reinforcement worksheets, and assessment support to evaluate learning and guide instruction.

TransparenciesVisual skills support enhances small or large group instruction. Graphic organizers and concept maps help struggling readers and visual learners.

Online Teacher Center Powered by SuccessNetPowerful—yet easy to use—allows you to create and customize lesson plans, track coverage of standards throughout the year, automatically diagnose student mastery of standards and assign activities for remediation, and download anchor book resources, including assessments.

ExamView® Computer Test Bank CD-ROMCreate standards-based tests instantly with just a few clicks of your mouse.

Activity Kit A collection of engaging classroom activities supports vocabulary building, grammar, and writing instruction.

* Also available as individual unit modules.

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The Reader’s Journey Program Components

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