These alternative textbooks are designed for students who struggle with reading and language or students with a learning difference.

The students who would benefit from these textbooks are those who: 

• divide their time between regular classrooms and sheltered environments

• read below grade level

• need dedicated support to make lessons understandable

• may move directly to work or transition programs

With the strategies, lessons plans and activities, students learn the relevant reading, writing, math, and vocabulary skills necessary to manage daily life.
 

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Program Features and Components for PCI Education Titles
 

Student Text – Slower pacing and more accessible reading level , but same scope and sequence. Contains lessons as well as reinforcement practice in a format with high-interest, age-appropriate graphics.

Student Activity Journals – Reinforce materials and provide content-area writing practice with graphic organizers and writing prompts.

Teacher's Guides – Includes reproducible activity sheets, teachers demonstrations, tests and answer keys.

Savings with Sets – Many of the PCI Education titles are available in comprehensive classroom sets at significant savings.

Complies with Standards – All PCI Education titles are carefully written to comply with national standards and objectives.

Program Components for AGS and Pacemaker Titles

Student Resources

Student Text – builds students’ knowledge in critical content areas with accessible reading levels and a research-based instructional design.

Digital Student Text – provides a text-to-speech Student Text that includes additional features such as note-taking, highlighting, and tracking.

Student Workbook – extends and reinforces textbook concepts through practice exercises.
Lab Manual – offers a hands-on laboratory program correlated to each chapter that turns abstract theory into concrete action.

Audiocassettes or Audio CD Library – of the Student Text accommodates the auditory learner, assists reluctant readers, and provides reinforcement.
 

Teacher Resources

Teacher’s Edition – includes the complete Student Text with teaching suggestions, lesson overviews, tips on learning styles, and a variety of activities.

Teacher’s Answer Edition – provides accessible answers and teaching suggestions right on the student pages, point-of-use support, and ESL tips.

Teacher’s Planning Guide – contains activities for ESL and different learning styles, vocabulary support, a resource planner, and alternative assessments.

Teacher’s Resource Library – CD-ROM offers hundreds of activities, the Student Workbook, a Self-Study Guide for students who want to work at their own pace, two forms of chapter tests, plus midterm and final tests.

Classroom Resource Binder – supports lessons with reproducible activities that review, reinforce, and enrich key skills and concepts covered in the Student Text.

Interactive Classroom Resources CD-ROM – presents an easy-to-use electronic format of the Classroom Resource Binder.

Skill Track – includes hundreds of multiple choice items relating to the textbook’s content and provides group and individual reports for monitoring student progress.

Teaching Strategies Transparencies – graphic organizers that help explain concepts in a meaningful, visual way; includes instruction book and blackline masters.

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