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State Board Adopted Instructional Materials


Current List of Instructional Materials Programs, Grades Kindergarten through Eight in the 2008 RLA/ELD Primary Adoption. Adopted by the State Board of Education on November 5, 2008.
Programs Adopted
Basic Programs
Program Type 1 - Basic
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Glencoe Literature, California Treasures (6-8)
Holt, Rinehart and Winston1 Holt Literature and Language Arts (6-8)
Houghton Mifflin Company HM California Reading (K-6)2
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers CA Excursions (K-6)
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill California Treasures (K-6)
McDougal Littell1 McDougal Littell California Literature (6-8)5
Pearson Prentice Hall3 Pearson Literature CA Reading and Language (6-8)3
Pearson Scott Foresman3 Pearson CA Reading Street (K-5)3
SRA/McGraw-Hill Imagine It! (K-6)
Program Type 2 - Basic with English Language Development
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Glencoe Literature, California Treasures (6-8)
Holt Rinehart & Winston1 Holt Literature and Language Arts (6-8)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers CA Excursions (K-6)
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill California Treasures English Language Development (K-6)
McDougal Littell1 McDougal Littell California Literature (6-8)5
Pearson Prentice Hall4 Pearson CA Language Central (6-8)4
Pearson Scott Foresman4 Pearson CA Language Central (K-5)4
SRA/McGraw-Hill Imagine It! English Language Development (K-6)
Program Type 3 - Primary Language with English Language Development
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Tesoros de lectura (K-6)
Pearson Scott Foresman Pearson Calle de Lectura para California (K-3)
SRA/McGraw-Hill Imaginalo! (K-6)
Intervention Programs
Program Type 4 - Intervention
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Houghton Mifflin Company HM California Portals (4-8)
National Geographic / Hampton Brown Inside Language, Literacy and Content (4-8)
Pearson Longman ELT Longman Keystone (4-8)
Scholastic, Inc. Scholastic READ 180 California Enterprise Edition 4-8)
Sopris West Educational Services Language! The Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum, 4th Edition (4-8)
Steck-Vaughn California Gateways (4-8)
Program Type 5 - Intervention for English Learners
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Heinle/Cengage Learning Milestones (4-8)
Houghton Mifflin Company HM California Portals (4-8)
National Geographic / Hampton Brown Inside Language, Literacy and Content (4-8)
Pearson Longman ELT Longman Keystone (4-8)
Scholastic, Inc. Scholastic READ 180 California Enterprise Edition (4-8)
Sopris West Educational Services Language! Focus on English Learning, 4th Edition (4-8)
Steck-Vaughn California Gateways (4-8)
Programs Not Adopted
Program Type 4 - Intervention
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Pearson Longman ELT Longman Cornerstone (4-8)
Program Type 5 - Intervention For English Learners
Publisher Program Name (Grade-level)
Pearson Longman ELT Longman Cornerstone (4-8)

1 As of December 2008, publisher company name was changed to Holt McDougal, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
2 As of December 2008, publisher identified listing of program as Houghton Mifflin California Reading:Medallion Edition.
3 As of December 2008, publisher identified listing as a combined program, under publisher Pearson Scott Foresman and Prentice Hall, and program name Pearson Literature CA Reading and Language Arts, K-8.
4 As of December 2008, publisher identified listing as a combined program, under publisher Pearson Scott Foresman and Prentice Hall, and program name Pearson CA Language Central, K-8.
5 As of January 2009, publisher identified listing under program name McDougal Littell Literature, California.

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