Teaching 12th Grade Reading

Preparation for State Reading Assessments

Teach reading skills that will stick well beyond test day with Preparation for State Reading Assessments. This program contains nonfiction reading selections with multiple-choice and open-ended comprehension questions modeled after those used on standardized tests. As an added bonus, this program provides reading tips and strategies that work not only for taking standardized tests, but also for gleaning important information from any reading material.

Reading Informational Texts

Easily add engaging nonfiction to your 12th-grade curriculum with Reading Informational Texts. This program contains several reading selections from multiple subject areas, including history, science, and politics. Every text includes notes on quantitative and qualitative measures of text difficulty, detailed annotations to clarify text meaning, and short answer questions tied to common standards for reading informational texts.

Reading Literature

Give your students the tools they need to perform in-depth literary analysis with Reading Literature. Every story and poem within this program is annotated with important information: definitions of vocabulary words, interpretations of passages, explanations of allusions, and more. Short-answer questions require students to analyze literary elements like figurative language, structure, and tone and help them explain the effects of these elements on the meaning of the work as a whole.

Reading & Analyzing Nonfiction

Teach your 12th-grade students how to clearly distinguish fact from interpretation and opinion with Reading & Analyzing Nonfiction: Slant, Spin & Bias. Through models, exercises, and writing assignments based on historical and contemporary texts, your students will learn to recognize biased writing and avoid falling for flimsy arguments.

Techniques of Propaganda & Persuasion

With Techniques of Propaganda & Persuasion, your 12th-grade students will develop the single most valuable skill they can have as readers—critical thinking. As students work through this program, they will learn to question and analyze the logic behind the messages in advertisements, news media, film, and even the literature they read in English class.

AP Language and Composition

Prestwick House AP Language and Composition* provides the perfect framework for teaching high school students how to analyze complex nonfiction texts. Each lesson focuses on a specific element of language and includes two nonfiction passages—the first annotated to direct student reading and the second with AP-level questions on that topic. Practice exercises give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they’ve learned.