Table of Contents: ACCESS English

THEME 1: NEW BEGINNINGS

• "Immigrants" by Pat Mora
• "Saying Yes" by Diana Chang
• "Ellis Island" by Joseph Bruchac
• The Reading Process
• The Writing Process
• Active Reading
• Understanding Sentences

THEME 2: PEOPLE LIKE US

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Reading Paragraphs
• Ways of Organizing Paragraphs
• Descriptive Paragraphs
• Understanding Nouns

THEME 3: BECOMING WHO WE ARE

• The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida
• Reading an Autobiography
• Reading Graphics and Websites
• Writing an Expository Paragraph
• Understanding Verbs

THEME 4: LIFE JOURNEYS

• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
• Reading Textbooks
• Reading Tests
• Writing Reports
• More About Verbs

THEME 5: OUR PLACE

• "The Circuit" by Francisco Jiménez
• Reading a Story
• Writing a Narrative Paragraph
• Writing a Story
• Understanding Adjectives and Adverbs

THEME 6: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

• "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by César Chávez
• Reading Real-World Writing
• Persuasive Writing
• Writing Letters
• More Parts of Speech