McDougal Littell Literature invites students to explore the world of art, literature, and life’s big questions. The unique organization around clusters of standards allows for the teaching of major literary concepts across genre. Standards that belong together are taught together. Students analyze fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and media across clusters of standards. Special features support visual and media literacy, along with research strategies.
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McDougal Littell Literature invites students to explore the world of art, literature, and life’s big questions. The unique organization around clusters of standards allows for the teaching of major literary concepts across genre. Standards that belong together are taught together. Students analyze fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and media across clusters of standards. Special features support visual and media literacy, along with research strategies.
Intended for elementary school teachers, researchers, and materials
developers, this book presents a cluster approach to vocabulary
instruction, in which words are taught in semantically related groups.
Over 7,000 words from elementary school textbooks have been organized
into 61 instructional clusters, each containing two levels of
subclusters which are grouped according to closeness of semantic
relationship. For each word, the authors have provided a recommended
grade level, its part of speech, and a note on whether it is a basic,
fundamental building block word. The list of clusters is presented in
the appendix. The four chapters that precede the appendix describe
vocabulary theory, procedures for forming the clusters, instructional
uses of the clusters, and additional vocabulary activities not directly
tied to cluster approach. Also included in separate appendixes are (1)
an alphabetized, referenced list of the words; and (2) definitions of
commonly confused words such as "infer" and "imply."
Even to the unaided eye, the sky displays a richness of sights. Stars of different brightnesses and colors spangle the blackness of night. Here and there are pairs and clusters. If the right time of year, a band of white encircles the heavens, the Milky Way, bejewelled with bright stars and stamped with mysterious voids. Binoculars and small telescopes reveal more: the Milky Way is made of countless faint stars, while double stars, clusters, and clouds of swirling gas abound.