myPerspectives® English Language Arts for Grades 6–12
myPerspectives® is a powerful, next generation literacy homeschool program that places students at the center of learning and gives homeschool parents and teachers the right tools and resources, research-based guidance, and autonomy to do what they do best to support each unique learner.
- Get Students Going with support and scaffolding for ALL learners
- Keep Students on Track with built-in formative assessments and progress monitoring
- Bring Students In with relevant and engaging content
- Let Students Explore, Share, and Grow with collaborative experiences that hone writing, speaking, and listening skills
Proven Efficacy That Makes a Difference
Empower and inspire lifelong literacy learning with engaging content and purposeful activities that enable students to become 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.
Integrated ELA Skills
Students analyze texts through the eyes of a reader and writer and have academic discussions. They have the option work on group projects if your homeschool environment allows, create their own compositions, and complete rigorous Performance-Based Assessments.
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.
Homeschool Bundle Details
The bundle includes:
- Student Edition
- Teacher’s Edition
- 1-year of student and teacher digital access to Savvas Realize, our online digital platform
Shop Bundle Offerings
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 StudioGroundbreaking 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. Homeschool parents and teachers first model close reading and writing for their homeschool students. Then your homeschool student completes a project. Finally your student applies 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 homeschool parent and teacher role moves from instructor to facilitator, to advisor, and students develop ownership of learning as they set their own goals and have the ability to work in larger groups, smaller teams, and independently depending on your homeschool structure.
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Streamlined Components
myPerspectives includes a digital or print Student Edition that is available. The Teacher’s Edition is available digitally or print that includes instructional support, teaching notes, and the Student Edition pages. myPerspectives Digitalincludes the student and parent/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.
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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 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 ScaffoldingHomeschool parents and 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 WayAll 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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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.
Award-winning Online Learning Management System
Savvas Realize® provides access to all the myPerspective ELA program’s digital resources and downloadable, editable print materials to meet every educational standard.
Frequently Asked Questions about myPerspectives
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What is myPerspectives?
myPerspectives® English Language Arts homeschool curriculum 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 - however you have structured your homeschool environment.
As students read relevant and diverse texts, have thought-provoking discussions 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: Available in digital and print write-in format, 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 homeschool parents and teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Parents and teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments.
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Is the myPerspectives instructional model research based?
The myPerspectives instructional model is based on scientific research that constitutes best practices for delivering the 21st century skills and independent learning habits needed for college and career success.
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Who are the authors of myPerspectives?
The authorship team is made up of respected educational experts and researchers whose experiences working with students and study of instructional best practices have positively influenced education. Program authors include: Jim Cummins, Ph.D.; Kelly Gallagher, M.Ed.; Elfrida “Freddy” Hiebert, Ph.D.; Ernest Morrell, Ph.D. These authors bring new ideas, innovations, and strategies that transform teaching and learning in today’s competitive and interconnected world.
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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. Homeschool parents and teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments.
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How were the texts selected and is there a balance of informational and literary texts?
myPerspectives supports an increasing focus on informational texts as students progress through the grades. Text selections provide a balance of both informational and literary texts. Informational selections focus on vocabulary, syntactical and structural devices, levels of meaning or purpose, and additional content knowledge required to prepare students for the demands of college and career.