Mirrors & Windows
Connecting with Literature
Welcome to the Mirrors & Windows Sample Center
Welcome, Educators! This is your place to explore samples of print and digital resources from our blended English language arts solution. Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature is the only solution that offers a true hardcover anthology with rich, canonical texts, explicit grammar and vocabulary support, and the largest selection of literature available.
The perfect blend of tradition and innovation
From Shakespeare to Khaled Hosseini, whether print or digital, Mirrors & Windows meets the 21st-century with flexibility. Explore our online environment that gives students an immersive learning experience through collaborative tools and activities, while delivering everything you need to work your magic and teach your way.
Unlock Digital ExperienceFoster student agency and help learners see themselves in texts that mirror their experiences and provide windows into the lives of others with the largest selection of literary, informational, and primary-source texts available.
Develop independence, together. Our digital close reading tools allow students to collaboratively develop the skills they need to be independent readers and thinkers. As they work together to analyze and annotate selections using text, audio, and video and answer SEL-focused essential questions aligned with the CASEL framework, they exercise agency and creativity in their learning.
With full digital access to materials across grades 6-12, it’s easy to meet each student where they are. Differentiated instructional resources include digital tools like the eReader and Flipgrid video tool, English language development and foundational literacy skills support for ELs, reading strategies and skills practice, and enrichment projects and activities.
Give your students authentic reading experiences with novels, while also cutting down on your lesson planning time, with Novel Studies. You bring the novels and we’ll provide the ready-made guides complete with student-centered discussion and writing prompts.
- Flexible Reading Options
- eLibrary
- eReaders
- Customizable assessment
- Close Reading Models and Videos
- Workbooks
- Access Editions
Read selections in print, eReader format, or choose from our vast eLibrary. Plus, we’ve got you covered with an array of useful reading tools!
This large collection of fiction and nonfiction selections for independent reading grows with you over time.
eReaders allow students to collaboratively read and work through selections using social annotations and highlighting.
Be confident in the impact of your instruction by making sure your formative, benchmark, and summative assessments give you the insight you need on your students’ learning. One size does not fit all, so easily customize your assessment to fit your needs. Now available through Edulastic.
Guided Close Reading Models walk students through applying the close reading process to different genres and provide opportunities for students to interact with the models by taking notes, marking the text, and completing graphic organizers. Close Reading Videos accompany these models for further instruction.
Print and digital workbooks aligned to each unit in the student text provide additional resources for students to practice and apply strategies for ELA standards mastery and college and career readiness. Integrated language arts resources include lessons for close reading and text comparisons, writing and grammar, word study, unit study guides, practice tests, cumulative vocabulary lists, and more.
Increase students’ reading stamina by giving them an opportunity to apply what they’ve learned to their independent reading, supported by close reading scaffolds. Access Editions are full-length novels, plays, and nonfiction with built-in study guides that encourage student-driven learning.
“Mirrors & Windows has done a great job to bridge the gap between learning styles and to provide something for all of our kids to be successful.”
Kelly McCoig, Secondary English Supervisor, Newport News Public Schools, VA
We’re ready to support you! Reach out at any point during your review with questions or a request for physical samples.
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