Remove Limitations in English Language Arts

For today’s readers, studying literature takes place in the context of a complex world filled with the noise of social and short-form media. Literature instruction in school has grown far broader than grammar, vocabulary, and reading canonical texts. Educators need a solution to contextualize literary works in both the past and present day. Gale In Context: Literature organizes an expanse of high-quality resources into one easy-to-use, searchable platform to help teach students about both canonical and non-canonical literature.

Connect students to standards-based resources that give context to the literature they're studying. Gale In Context: Literature includes diverse content that supports language arts lessons on everything from classic poetry to graphic novels to novels in verse. Give teachers access to the reading resources they need to connect students to more inclusive multicultural narratives. Encouraging students to explore writing that resonates with them aids comprehension, develops literary analysis skills, and improves ELA learning outcomes.

Provide More Accessible Literary Context

Gale In Context: Literature includes ready-to-use materials designed to engage students and help teachers in the classroom. For easier introductions to literary works, topic pages offer scaffolded, grade-appropriate overviews, reference materials, ties to the present day, and additional contextual information like primary sources from the author’s world. It also includes more than 750 discussion question prompts to help stimulate student curiosity, frame the content, and offer a launching point for close reading.

As part of the Gale In Context suite, Literature offers an enhanced user experience with a modern design to help users successfully navigate the platform. Tools like translation, text size adjustment, and text-to-speech improve accessibility for all students and provide an enjoyable, hands-on experience.

Ease of use is combined with frequent updates to bring students and teachers the most current news and literary context for more relevant language arts research and learning.

Offer Language Arts Content Aligned to Student Achievement

• AP/SAT Prep: Organize your lesson plans around high school-leveled content that covers the rhetorical and literary devices students must be able to identify and analyze to succeed in national assessments and essays.
• Topical Series: Guide teaching with curated series on literary themes, Shakespeare, African American literature, literature of developing nations, and more, all designed to share main ideas and key details with students.
• Infographics: Drive data literacy skills with the visualization of literary topics through the creation of plot, setting, and point of view infographics as well as interactive, literary era timelines.
• Podcasts: Engaging audio content such as author interviews, authors reading their own works, and accessible literary criticism is available from a range of trusted sources including the BBC, WNYC, The Guardian, National Review, and Penguin Random House.
• Gale In Context: For Educators Alignment: Complete coverage of all authors and texts featured in the Gale In Context: For Educators English Language Arts lesson plans support deeper research into topics by students and personalization of lessons by teachers.