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Advanced Language & Literature

Driven by the expertise of Renee Shea, John Golden, and Lance Balla, Advanced Language & Literature program introduces students to literature and nonfiction, reading and writing, analysis and argument, while providing teachers with robust pedagogical support resources. Click the buttons below the book cover image to view the two-part Advanced Language & Literature video Course Tour:

  • Part I: Outlines how the Teacher’s Edition supports your teaching, as well as how key pedagogical features of the Student Edition help build student mastery and set students up for future AP® Exam success.

  • Part II: Demonstrates additional print and digital resources that are available with Foundations of Language & Literature

Foundations of Language & Literature

Driven by the expertise of Renee Shea, John Golden, and Tracy Scholz, the Foundations of Language & Literature program carefully develops and consistently reinforces skills like reading, writing, and working with sources, while providing teachers with robust pedagogical support resources. The genre and mode-based book investigates nonfiction as well as literature, delves into fascinating argument-driven thematic units, and asks students to write in the genres, to empower them to read like a writer. Click the buttons below the book cover image to view the two-part Foundations of Language & Literature video Course Tour:

  • Part I: Outlines how the Teacher’s Edition supports your teaching, as well as how key pedagogical features of the Student Edition help build student mastery and set students up for future AP® Exam success.

  • Part II: Demonstrates additional print and digital resources that are available with Foundations of Language & Literature

Literature & Composition

The only book designed specifically for the AP® Literature and Composition course and is organized thematically to put meaning first. Literature & Composition offers a wide variety of classic and current literature, plus all of the support students need to analyze and write about it—for assignments and on the AP® Literature Exam. Divided into two parts: instructional chapters that teach students the skills they need for success in an AP® Literature course, and thematic chapters the let students explore amazing literature while honing their reading, writing, and analysis skills.

Click the buttons below the book cover image to view the three-part Literature & Composition video Course Tour:

  • Part I: Provides an overview of the College Board’s support for the Pre-AP® Language course

  • Part II: Outlines how the Teacher’s Edition supports your teaching as well as how key pedagogical features of the Student Edition help build student mastery and lead to success on the AP® Exam

  • Part III: Demonstrates additional print and digital resources that are available with the second edition of Advanced Language & Literature

The Language of Composition

The Language of Composition has been the most successful textbook written for the AP® English Language and Composition course, for more than a decade. With engaging readings and practical instruction designed to train students to read and write at the college level, The Language of Composition gives every students the opportunity for success in AP® English Language.

Click the buttons below the book cover image to view the three-part The Language of Composition video Course Tour:

  • Part I: Provides an overview of the College Board’s support for the AP® English Language course.

  • Part II: Outlines how the Teacher’s Edition supports your teaching of AP® English Language, as well as how key pedagogical features of the Student Edition help build student mastery and lead to success on the AP® Exam.

  • Part III: Demonstrates additional print and digital resources that are available with the third edition of The Language of Composition.

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