Mirrors & Windows

Connecting With Literature.
English Language Arts Middle School (6-8) High School (9-12) Core Learning Blended Solution

Mirrors & Windows expands your students’ world of learning beyond the walls of your classroom. It’s the only program that offers a true hardcover anthology with rich, canonical and contemporary texts featuring a diverse selection of literature. In Mirrors & Windows, students will read texts that mirror their experiences and provide windows into the lives of others, opening doors into the diverse world around them.

Powerful Resources for Literacy

We provide high-quality, flexible resources developed by ELA teaching experts so you can focus on what you do best—coaching and supporting your students to build critical thinking, empathy, and a love of literature that will last a lifetime.

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Creating a Context for Students

Mirrors & Windows helps students make connections to the literature through their own knowledge and experience, making learning meaningful and purposeful. Inspired by the evolving mirror and window metaphor used by authors such as Sydney J. Harris, Emily J. Style, and Rudine Sims Bishop, a diverse selection of literary, informational, and primary-source texts challenge students to make comparisons and extend critical thinking beyond themselves and into the world.

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Practicing and Assessing Their Skills

The Mirrors & Windows curriculum provides rigorous and balanced instruction for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills. The Gradual Release of Responsibility model (I do, we do, you do) leads students to independent learning. Close Reading exercises guide students to think deeply about texts, and a range of activities allow for a variety of response types.

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Connecting Reading and Writing

Integrated writing workshops provide students with opportunities to develop their writer's voice. Additionally, each unit contains integrated grammar, vocabulary, and spelling practice.

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Social Learning

Collaborative learning activities, projects, and tools encourage students to build community in the class, and diversity of content provides opportunities to self-reflect and nurture empathy. Mirrors & Windows also offers a correlation to CASEL’s social-emotional learning competencies in the teacher resources.

KEY FEATURES

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Our dynamic digital learning environment lets you access all program resources, assign custom or preloaded activities, evaluate student work, and provide meaningful feedback—all in one easy-to-use platform.
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Students understand even more when they learn from each other. eReaders allow students to experience reading and work through selections collectively using social annotations and highlighting.

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Cover every genre, theme, and skill you want. Our robust collection of diversely authored literature and informational texts supports a truly integrated reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical thinking environment. Integrated literacy and language resources provide instruction and practice for all English language arts strands.

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Set students up to succeed by building on their strengths. Each unit in the Mirrors & Windows program provides a gradual release of responsibility, moving from Guided Reading (I do), to Directed Reading (we do), to Independent Reading (you do). This method enables students to read, understand, and reflect on literature confidently and independently.

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Abundant resources for differentiating instruction are at your fingertips, from Differentiated Instruction workbooks to our eLibrary where students have the agency to choose their own content to build reading stamina. You can also access and assign content from all levels of the program through our online platform.

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Why Students Love Mirrors & Windows

Mirrors & Windows gives students opportunities to make connections between themselves and the world around them through rich, engaging literature and purposeful writing.

What Our Users Say

"Our teachers love Mirrors & Windows – it is resource-rich, and they like the diversity and ability to give students texts based on their interests and reading levels. It’s a breath of fresh air for both our teachers and students."

Kelly McCoig, Secondary English Supervisor, Newport News Public Schools, VA
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