Close Use the collection The collection was selected for high-school writing and reading instruction. The argument subset includes essays, op-eds, reviews, letters, and persuasive speeches. Other selections supply literary, narrative, and explanatory models. A work’s inclusion does not endorse its claims.
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How the counts were built Each complete, independently titled work counts once. A separately titled poem or signed anthology essay is a work; its stanzas and paragraphs are not. Multi-part poems and whole diary stories count once. Duplicate editions and reprints do not create extra works. The source count groups journals, projects, and sub-sites under their publishing organization where appropriate, and merges identified departmental predecessors and aliases. Distinct publishing agencies, universities, independent journals, organizations, and author-run publications count separately.
Selection used article-level notices where available, otherwise a publisher policy that covered the item and date. Those differences appear in the license evidence. Readability notes are editorial judgments, not Lexile measurements. Advanced/AP selections and mature material are labeled in the teaching notes.
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Why familiar sites may be absent Free reading is not enough. CommonLit, commercial curriculum sites, noncommercial OER, and ambiguous republication policies were not assumed reusable. Knowable, Undark, The Public Domain Review, The Conversation, and several open journals had restrictions or unresolved conflicts for paid-curriculum reuse. These exclusions are documented separately; this does not mean every work on those sites is unusable.
Research checked October 13, 2026. Links and publisher policies may subsequently change. Retain the attribution and license evidence with any curriculum you publish.