Grades 6–8

Summit New Challenges, Achieve New Heights

Reach for the Next Milestone

Seamlessly bridging the gap between elementary and high school, Summit! launches the ascent toward a deeper, more sophisticated understanding of literacy. As teachers guide each learner on a personalized journey, students build their knowledge about the world and themselves along the way. The more they begin to discover their passions, develop their voices, and recognize their capacity to grow, take charge, and navigate challenges, the more empowered they are to take on each new milestone—revealing a landscape of possibilities as they reach the top.

Sample Program

Flexible, Text-Based Instruction

Cultivate Language and Literacy

With Summit!, the student and text are at the heart of instruction. Each lesson cultivates the interrelated skills of reading, writing, and knowledge building with explicit instruction centered around a common theme. When taught in concert with speaking and listening, these critical skills allow students to develop self-efficacy and a deep, holistic understanding of text and topic.

Reading

First Read
Returning to the Text
Working from the Text
Multimedia

Writing

Respond to Reading
Sentence Construction
Direct Writing Instruction
Writing Process
Research

Speaking & Listening

Shared Reading
Collaborative Work
Presentations
Performance

Connect Ideas and Disciplines

Summit! takes a theme-based approach to learning, prompting students to read, write, and think about a central unit topic. These themes help organize learning, spark inquiry, and connect ideas across all areas of literacy.

Grade 6

Grade 6 Unit Themes for Summit
Unit	Themes
Unit 1 & Unit 2	Stories of Change
Unit 3 & Unit 4	The Power of Change
Unit 5 & Unit 6	Changing Perspectives
Unit 7 & Unit 8	A Change of Scene

Grade 7

Grade 7 Unit Themes for Summit
Unit	Themes
Unit 1 & Unit 2	The Choices We Make
Unit 3 & Unit 4	What Influences My Choices?
Unit 5 & Unit 6	Choices and Consequences
Unit 7 & Unit 8	How We Choose to Act

Grade 8

Grade 8 Unit Themes for Summit
Unit	Themes
Unit 1 & Unit 2	The Challenge of Heroism
Unit 3 & Unit 4	The Challenge of Utopia
Unit 5 & Unit 6	The Challenge to Make a Difference
Unit 7 & Unit 8	The Challenge of Comedy

Customize the Learning Journey

Teach your way with the option to customize everything from short activities to whole novels. Our flexible pathways encourage you to personalize the learning journey at both the unit and lesson level.

Robust Novel Study

Designed to significantly elevate students’ reading comprehension and sharpen their critical thinking skills at every grade level.
Disciplinary Literacy Lesson Collections

Can be taught at each grade level as a stand-alone unit or paired with existing units to build in connections to science and humanities.
Flexible Novel Units

Empowers teachers to select alternative texts fully aligned with the prescribed Novel Study, thereby enhancing curricular adaptability while advancing rigor.
Choice Activities

Allows teachers to incorporate contemporary, culturally relevant texts by diverse authors, promoting student belonging and broadening perspectives at the lesson level.

**What Makes Summit! Stand Out**

Powerful Personalized Pathways

Summit! provides a personalized learning journey for every student, drawing on powerful assessment data to create a unique profile that highlights strengths, interests, and areas for growth. This approach enables you to deliver targeted instructional recommendations with confidence.

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Grade-Appropriate Foundational Skills Support

Identify and address lingering gaps from elementary school with consistent, developmentally appropriate support for foundational skills. These supports meet middle schoolers where they are to accelerate learning and lay the groundwork for lifelong literacy.

Rich, Relevant Texts

Our authentic text selections encompass a wide range of genres, time periods, cultures, and perspectives to reflect global voices and historical contexts and support students’ academic growth. Through this diverse literary exposure, every student can find something that resonates with their personal experience while broadening their view of the wider world.

Multilingual Learner (MLL) Support

Empower your multilingual learners to access the same rigorous, grade-level content as their peers with targeted scaffolds and point-of-use supports in every lesson. Aligned to English Language Development (ELD) standards, our MLL resources help students develop linguistically while building academic skills.