6th Grade PEARL

Student Edition
Pearl harnesses the power of literature for thinking and writing about the difficult issues with which we all grapple: friendship, fairness, loyalty, and personal courage. The curriculum questions teach students to synthesize basic facts and apply them to other situations, to reason inferentially, to speculate, and to compare and contrast. Creating and Writing Exercises enable students to thematically explore each selection using every literary genre.

Teacher’s Annotated Edition
Pearl Teacher’s Edition is replete with information – comprehensive and rigorous. Teachers will find this spiral-bound edition easy to use and an education in critical thinking. Both new and experienced instructors will be able to help students evaluate what they are reading. Moreover, the Pearl Teacher’s Edition is an invaluable aid in teaching students how to write

• Index of Authors & Titles
• Vocabulary Glossary
• Curriculum Focus & Order
• 634+ pages. Published 2003. Spiral bound.

ISBN 0-9742160-0-3
Pearl, Teacher’s Annotated Edition . . . . .  $70.00

Student Companion Workbook
The workbook has extensive vocabulary activities, graphic organizers, in-depth comprehension questions, and creative writing exercises for every prose piece in the textbook. In addition, we have responded to the needs of educators by developing 25 additional creative writing activities that incorporate the language arts components, as well as the style and structure of each literary genre.

• 38 Lessons. 217+ pages. Published 2003

ISBN 0-9671009-8-4
Pearl Companion Workbook . . . . .  $16.00