A Cross-Cultural, Cross-Curricular Literacy Resource
Grades 3-6 Reading levels

Interest Level up to Grade 8

Experience the literacy resource that provides extraordinary opportunities to journey across the curriculum and 25 countries. WorldScapes® engages students with high-impact nonfiction and fiction text, while promoting reading with a social conscience. In 2008, a new Global Issues strand joins the groundbreaking WorldScapes series. These twenty-eight additional titles build students’ critical literacy skills through explorations of current challenges facing our world.

• Offers students a global perspective through books that share a common setting and readability at each level
• Provides explicit instruction in fluency, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing and support in navigating informational text
• Presents a forum for instilling global responsibility, discussing cultures, debating issues, and shaping opinions
• Cultivates appreciation and respect for diversity while fostering text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections
• Focuses on universal values aligned to character education

"The WorldScapes series is a great resource for Language Arts…The books serve a dual purpose, providing an enjoyable way to reinforce language skills and to learn about different cultures and ethnicities. My students are more comfortable with themselves and others around them!"
—Lara Negami, Teacher
Aventura, FL