Proven Efficacy That Makes a Difference
Empower and inspire lifelong literacy learning with high quality instructional resources, engaging content, cutting-edge technology, and purposeful activities that develop students into confident, effective, and powerful communicators.
Student-Centered Learning
Relevant and diverse texts and media allow students to see themselves reflected in the stories and develop their own voice as they build knowledge and participate in the broader conversation. A built-in gradual release instructional model promotes ownership of learning, collaboration, and student independence.
Geared for Next-Gen Learners
From intriguing thematic units to relevant texts and media, to Hook & Inspire features and current events podcasts, myPerspectives connects with students today and allows them to bring their own ideas and lived experiences to enrich learning.
Interactive Learning on Savvas Realize
myPerspectives on Savvas Realize® lets students use technology to make learning come alive with multimedia resources, personalized learning tools, and interactive lessons and video tutorials.
Why myPerspectives?
Responsive Supports to Differentiate and Deliver Instruction
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High-Quality Content
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Meet Students Where They Are
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Reaching All Learners
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Flexible and Customizable
High-Quality Content
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Media Studio
Groundbreaking units guide students through analyzing and creating media projects as they learn how to be a savvy consumer and producer.
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Grounded in Research
myPerspectives incorporates evidence-approaches and research-based strategies, with field study results that show significant gains in student achievement.
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Promotes Student Ownership of Learning
Each unit is backward designed from the Performance-Based Assessment and provides a gradual release instructional model. In Whole-Class Learning, the teacher models close reading and writing. In Peer-Group Learning, students work in teams to complete a project. In Independent Learning students apply the skills they’ve learned.
At the end of the unit, students pull together everything they’ve done to complete the Performance-Based Assessment. The teacher role moves from instructor to facilitator, to advisor, and students develop ownership of learning as they set their own goals and work in larger groups, smaller teams, and independently.
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Streamlined Components
myPerspectives includes a digital or print Student Edition that is available as a consumable or hardcover. The Teacher’s Edition is available digitally or as a durable hardcover resource that includes instructional support, teaching notes, and the Student Edition pages. myPerspectives Digital includes the student and teacher materials as well as robust tools, interactive resources, and additional content including multimedia, current events, and translation support.
Meet Students Where They Are
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Hook & Inspire
These optional bonus ideas help you easily connect students Into, Through, and Beyond the text with engaging videos, graphics, songs, music, and other sources. Learn more.
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Listenwise Current Events Podcasts
Curated public radio stories help students connect what is happening in the world to literature in the classroom. Listenwise® brings the power of public radio to ELA classrooms with:
- Compelling nonfiction stories that are unit-aligned to the topics as well as access to new podcasts available every day
- Cross-curricular connections in ELA, Social Studies, and Science
- Multimodal learning where students practice and develop critical listening skills
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Sharing Perspectives
These discussion prompts allow students to connect with each other, the texts, and the authors through thought-provoking, open-ended questions. Prompts allow students to think deeper and more critically so they can bring their own voice, cultural background, and insights as they respond to prompts through multiple lenses.
Reaching All Learners
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Robust Scaffolding
Teachers have access to strategies and tools for differentiated instruction throughout myPerspectives, including text complexity rubrics with leveled teaching suggestions, remediation opportunities, and reading support for each text.
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Multilingual Learner Support
Instructional notes in the Teacher’s Edition include support and strategies for multilingual learners aligned to WIDA ®. In addition, students have access to a multilingual glossary, etext translation tool with access to over 100+ languages, Spanish audio summaries, and so much more.
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Formative & Summative Assessments
Readiness Checks in the Teacher’s Edition provide Exit Tickets to help you respond to students’ needs at point of use. Language Support notes provide additional support and scaffolding. Students work on two Performance Tasks in every unit and complete the culminating Performance-Based Assessment. Detailed Savvas Realize reports ensure that you have the data you need to drive instruction and monitor student progress and mastery.
Flexible and Customizable
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Teach Your Way
All resources are available on Savvas Realize. You can reorder the table of contents, upload files and media, add links, and create custom lessons and assessments. A Playlist feature makes it easy for you to create your own units, lessons, and resource folders by pulling in already created content, uploading your own content, or linking to outside resources.
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Intuitive and Easy To Use
Navigating Savvas Realize is easy with a quick search function and featured resources at your fingertips. You can integrate with your district’s learning management system, share content with other teachers, optimize instruction with the new Teacher Assist Panel and presentation mode, assign lesson resources quickly with slide sorter view, and utilize Performance Analysis reports that allow for quick grouping of students.
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Make Learning Come Alive
Digital resources and tools in myPerspectives enhance the teaching and learning experiences with embedded multimedia, interactive prompts, interactive mini lessons, videos, tutorials, a classroom discussion board, interactive assessments, practice activities, a digital notebook, translation tools, multilingual glossary, and more.
Authorship Team With Roots in Education Leadership and Research
Hear from Our Authors
Jim Cummins, Ph.D.
Jim is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on literacy development in multilingual school contexts as well as on the potential roles of technology in promoting language and literacy development. In recent years, he has been working actively with teachers to identify ways of increasing the literacy engagement of learners in multilingual school contexts.
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Research into Practice Briefs:
Kelly Gallagher, M.Ed.
Kelly is a literacy education author and consultant, specializing in the teaching of English Language Arts for grades 4-12. Informed by a 35-year teaching career, Kelly has developed and shares an ever-evolving body of work that helps teachers engage and empower even the most reluctant readers and writers. Kelly is the former president of the Secondary Reading Group for the International Literacy Association and the author of several professional development books.
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Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert, Ph.D.
Freddy is President and CEO of TextProject, a nonprofit that provides resources to support higher reading levels. She is also a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for 45 years, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher and researcher.
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Ernest Morrell, Ph.D.
Ernest is the Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters; Coyle Professor in Literacy Education; Director, Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education; Director, NCTE James R. Squire Office for Policy Research; and Professor, English and Africana Studies Departments at the University of Notre Dame. He was the Macy Professor of English Education and former Director of Teachers College’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), Columbia University; a class of 2014 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association; and the Past-President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
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Monica Yoo, Ph.D.
Monica is is an associate professor of language and literacy in the Department of Teaching andLearning at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She formerly coordinated the department’s Secondary Education Program and was a university supervisor of student teachers at the secondary level. She previously taught high school English Language Arts and has worked extensively with middle school teachers and students. Her research centers on students’ and teachers’ approaches to language, literacy, and comprehension; disciplinary literacy; and equitable practices for teaching and learning.
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Take a Closer Look at myPerspectives
A Word from Dr. Morrell
Hear directly from one of the authors behind the program and why myPerspectives makes a difference.
Collaborative Discussions and Questioning
See myPerspectives in action as Pamela helps her students use collaborative discussions and questioning to dig deeper into a text.
Digital Tour
Take a guided tour through myPerspectives on Savvas Realize to explore all the resources and see how easy it is to use.
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One-Stop Online Learning Management System for the Modern Teacher
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Savvas Realize® is our award-winning LMS. Access digital content, assessments, productivity tools, and data. 1EdTech certified for easy integrations.
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Part of the Savvas Momentum Assessment Suite, the Savvas Literacy Screener and Diagnostic Assessments (LSDA) is available for Grades 6-8 and leverages multistage adaptive technology to deliver tailored instruction that addresses students’ individual learning needs. Available on Savvas Realize®.
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Hear What Teachers Have to Say About myPerspectives
“I love the plethora of activities that come with each text. I select them based on learning goals and student abilities. The unit topics are popular with my students.… We love myPerpsectives!”
– Vivianna, English 11 Teacher - Clark County School District
“It has been a great help to have all of the online resources throughout the last year. I appreciate the diversity of the reading selections and the flexibility of the … individual assignments.”
- Allison, 9th Grader
“myPerspectives allows students to hear from diverse authors and learn about new cultures. The program’s thematic organization shows connections between a wide array of texts and writers. This shows kids that people…can connect with others despite our differences.”
- Nichole ELA 7th Grade Teacher - Muhlenberg School District
Frequently Asked Questions About myPerspectives
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What is myPerspectives?
myPerspectives® English Language Arts for grades 6–12 is a research-based, comprehensive literacy solution designed to support student learning. Purposeful activities foster student ownership of learning and reflect real-world scenarios with students working in large groups, in smaller teams, and independently.
As students read relevant and diverse texts, have thought-provoking discussions, collaborate with their peers, and hone their communication skills, they will use transferable strategies and develop lifelong learning habits that help them be successful wherever they go.
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What are the program’s components?
The program is made up of:
- Teacher’s Edition: Available in digital and print, it includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students.
- Student Edition (Hard Cover):Available in digital and print (write-in consumable and hardcover formats), it provides multigenre readings; standards-based instruction; and Performance Task practice for each unit, culminating in an end-of-unit Performance-Based Assessment.
- myPerspectives Digital: Courseware on Savvas Realize includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms.
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What’s different about the New Edition of myPerspectives?
This New Edition includes exciting enhancements driven by user feedback and market research and include MORE:
- Contemporary, relevant texts;
- Student-facing reading support;
- Comprehensive, interactive writing instruction;
- Student choice for demonstrating learning;
- Opportunities to build knowledge and develop vocabulary;
- A streamlined digital experience;
- Time-saving tools and resources for flexibility;
- Support for multilingual learners; and
- Easy, on-the-spot progress monitoring.
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How do I sign up for a myPerspectives demo?
myPerspectives digital courseware on Savvas Realize includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Click hereto request a FREE demo account.
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How were the texts selected and is there a balance of informational and literary texts?
myPerspectives provides a variety of reading opportunities for students to build content knowledge. Texts have been carefully selected to enable students to encounter a wide range of literary and informational texts that include narrative fiction, graphic novel excerpts, speeches, articles, poetry, drama, functional and foundational texts, media, and more.
The Table of Contents identifies the genres of each text included in the program. Texts were chosen based on criteria such as literary merit, author’s craft, themes, gender and cultural representations and experiences, insights, readability, and diversity.
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