English Language Arts

An interactive intelligent textbook for US high school English/Language Arts (ELA) aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS-ELA) developed by NGA and CCSSO.

Getting Started

This is an interactive intelligent textbook designed to make learning English Language Arts fun! Use the navigation sidebar on the left to explore the different sections of the book. View the chapters to read and of the 17 chapters of the book. Use the Search form in the upper right corner of every page to find specific parts of the book.

Front Matter

• About — tells you about why we created this book and how to cite this book
• Course Description — gives you an overview of the book, the topics covered (and topics not covered) and the learning objectives.

Chapters

The main body of the book lives under Chapters. Each chapter has its own folder with the chapter content, a review quiz and references.

Learning Graph

The Learning Graph shows how concepts depend on each other. Concepts are introduced in dependency order so prerequisites are always covered before they are used.

MicroSims

Interactive simulations live under MicroSims. Each MicroSim focuses on one concept and is embeddable as an iframe inside chapter content.