HMH Into Literature is a comprehensive print and digital English Language Arts curriculum for grades 6-12. When used together with HMH Into Literature, Writable is a powerful tool that provides:

All of Writable’s 1000+ assignments can be customized, allowing teachers to add readings, prompts, rubrics, and scaffolding to support students. Built in rubrics allow teachers to grade every lesson in Into Literature and provide actionable reporting data to guide next steps. Guide/Grade in Writable allows to monitor all student work on a single screen, and connect with students while they write.

Below is a breakdown of Writable assignments for Into Literature.

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HMH Into Literature (2020) (National, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee)

HMH Into Literature (2022) (National, Florida)

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In order to use Writable with Into Literature assignments, both students and teachers need to login to Writable from Ed to connect their accounts.

Most Into Literature assignments in Writable contain an embedded digital student edition textbook also found on Ed. This allows teachers to easily combine their reading and writing instruction within Writable. Teachers can use the Assign to Me option to model using the digital student edition textbook in class.

Students can highlight and annotate text in the digital student edition and complete work on Ed or in Writable; all work syncs between both platforms. Students can make the digital text full screen, and access their notes and annotations using the notes icon.

Note: The annotation feature in the digital student edition textbook is separate from the Writable’s annotation tools, which are available for pdf or other texts in Writable.

Each curricular unit and lesson from Into Literature (2020) contains writing practice in Writable. Refer to Editable Lesson Plans found on Ed for specific lesson guidance for Writable assignments.

Below is the Into Literature Learning Model and a sample unit of Writable assignments. Each curricular unit can be broken into the following lessons types, with corresponding Writable assignments.

Unit Opener: Students build background knowledge and explore the unit’s essential question through a quick-write prompt related to the unit’s theme.

Lesson Skill Ladder Assignments (Grades 6-12): Writable lesson extensions are intended to provide practice on different skills to scaffold students skills for the End of Unit Writing Task. Lesson prompts and tasks may be an alternate task to writing extensions found in the textbook, and are an excellent opportunity to use Writable rubrics to provide targeted writing practice, especially if working through a unit’s lessons in order. In the sample unit, students begin by analyzing the unit mentor text, which serves as a writing model and matches the genre and purpose of the unit task. Each Writable assignment includes prompts and rubrics that target a different genre skill (introduction/thesis, organization, idea development etc.) that students apply in the final End of Unit Writing Unit Task.

End of Unit Writing Task: Each curriculum unit contains one process writing performance task of varying genres. Assignments are differentiated with two leveled prompts of different scaffolded levels. Assignments include a graphic organizer to scaffold students' writing and teachers can differentiate by providing sentence starters for individual students.

Every lesson and unit in Into Literature (2022) contains writing practice in Writable. Refer to Editable Lesson Plans found on Ed for specific lesson guidance on Writable assignments. Below is the learning model and a sample unit for Into Literature with Writable.

Skill ladder collections are an excellent choice for the following:

Unit Opener: Students build background knowledge, and explore the unit essential question through a quick-write prompt related to the unit’s theme.

Lesson Skill Ladder Assignments: Skill ladder assignments are intended to provide practice on different skills to scaffold students skills for the End of Unit Writing Task. Lesson prompts are an alternate task to writing extensions found in the textbook, and are an excellent opportunity to use Writable rubrics to provide targeted writing practice, especially if working through a unit’s lessons in order. In the sample unit, students begin by analyzing the unit mentor text, which serves as a model and matches the genre and purpose of the unit performance task. Each Writable assignment targets a different genre skill (introduction/thesis, organization, idea development etc.) that students apply in the final End of Unit Writing Unit Task.

Scaffolded Unit Writing Task: Each curriculum unit contains one process writing performance task of varying genres. Writable contains a few options for writing performance to conclude a unit. Scaffolded Unit Writing Tasks align with the performance tasks outlined in the Into Literature textbook. However, Writable provides graphic organizers and assignments are differentiated to optionally provide students sentence starters to help scaffold their drafts. Scaffolded writing tasks are a great option if you’re using lesson skill ladder assignments, plan to spend more time emphasizing the writing process, and if your students are needing additional support with longer writing assignments.

Student edition collections are an excellent choice for:

Student Edition Lesson Writing Tasks: Following each text selection, Into Literature provide three options for responding and demonstrating understanding in the Respond: Choices lesson section. Each lesson’s writing prompt has been recreated in Writable, allowing you to incorporate Writable’s AI student supports and rubrics into your daily lesson. In this example, students can use Writable’s audio/video submission to create their public service announcement.

Unit Writing Tasks: Two unit writing tasks are found in the student edition collections for each unit. One task is adapted from the prompt and rubric used in the Into Literature textbook, and an alternate genre task is given as another option. Unit Writings Tasks in this collection include the prompt and rubric, but additional supports such as graphic organizers and sentence starters are not provided. These tasks are an excellent option for common performance tasks, benchmark assessment after a unit, or for students requiring less support with their writing than the Scaffolded Unit Writing Task.

Analyze the text with Differentiated Instruction lessons are an excellent choice for:

Analyze the Text with Differentiated Support lessons are available for select lessons in Into Literature. Texts which include the Summary/Adapted Text are supported by Writable to help scaffold the student experience as they learn to use text evidence and practice connecting reading and writing skills. Assignments are differentiated with four levels of scaffolded prompts to individually assign to your students. For more information on differentiated assignments in Writable click here. Every Into Literature lesson concludes with Respond: Analyze the Text for students to demonstrate understanding, make inferences, and synthesize information using evidence from the text. Questions from the student textbook are recreated in Writable with varying levels of optional scaffolding and sentence starters.

Level Four assignment prompts can be assigned for students needing the most support with writing skills and demonstrating understanding. These prompts incorporate text summaries or adaptations as an alternate reading task for students. Summaries and adaptations contain modified questions throughout the lesson, and sentence starters for student responding.

Fresh Lit is a collection of engaging short stories by young adult authors available to all Into Literature customers in Writable. Texts are available in English and Spanish. Students begin by building background knowledge, analyzing text elements, and culminate in an extended response writing task.