Educational Research Analysts
What's new? What's next?
The same four major publishers who submitted 1st grade Reading programs for California approval in 2008, submitted 1st grade Reading programs for Texas approval in 2009. We checked how well their new Texas programs use real phonics to teach 1st grade Reading, using much the same rubrics as we did for their California programs. Texas 1st grade campuses statewide received our comparison chart ranking the Texas programs during December 2009 and January 2010, with full, fast, FREE documenta­tion available on request. Our November 2009 newsletter compares these 2010 Texas 1st grade Reading programs with their 2009 California analogs – a first-time-ever at this depth.
Recent Additions:

12.9.2009 – November '09 newsletter
  New Texas and California 1st grade Reading programs

See how these Texas programs compare
  • SRA IMAGINE IT! – SRA/McGraw ©2010
  • TEXAS TREASURES – Macmillan/McGraw ©2011
  • READING STREET – Scott Foresman/Pearson ©2011
  • TEXAS JOURNEYS – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©2011
See how these California programs compare
  • SRA IMAGINE IT! – SRA/McGraw ©2009
  • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN READING – Houghton ©2010
  • PEARSON READING STREET – Pearson ©2010
  • CALIFORNIA TREASURES – Macmillan ©2010
  • HSP CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS – Harcourt ©2010

Look for our July newsletter highlighting the newly adopted Texas Social Studies standards, specifically World History, and discussing how an open textbook adoption process is vital to better textbooks.

Literature
Currently we are analyzing 7th, 8th, and 12th grade Literature books up for 2010 local Texas adoption.

Grade 7 – American
  • LITERATURE: TEXAS TREASURES – Glencoe ©2011
  • LITERATURE – Holt McDougal ©2010
  • Prentice Hall LITERATURE – Pearson ©2011
Grade 8 – American
  • LITERATURE: TEXAS TREASURES – Glencoe ©2011
  • LITERATURE – Holt McDougal ©2010
  • Prentice Hall LITERATURE – Pearson ©2011
Grade 12 – British
  • LITERATURE: TEXAS TREASURES – Glencoe ©2011
  • LITERATURE: BRITISH LITERATURE – Holt McDougal ©2010
  • LITERATURE: THE BRITISH TRADITION, vol. I & II – Prentice Hall ©2011

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