Differentiated Timeless Classics

We've taken our Timeless Classics and Shakespeare and made them even more accessible. Words and phrases that may have stumped emergent readers have been eliminated. We recognize that students in the same classroom may not have equivalent reading skills, which is why the two levels appear virtually identical on the outside. Inside, it's a whole different look, with a larger font and extra white space, making these stories visually appealing and designed to improve reading comprehension, fluency, and confidence. Classic Fiction is 80 pages, and Classic Shakespeare is 110 pages.

How Our Classics Collections Differ

All four collections adapt classic literature for striving readers; the difference is format and reading level. Timeless Classics retells the original novel in full prose, keeping the story's integrity intact. Timeless Shakespeare presents the plays in traditional script format with simplified language. Illustrated Classics tells the story through full-color graphic novel art paired with key phrases and quotations from the original text. Differentiated Timeless Classics takes the same titles from Timeless Classics and Timeless Shakespeare and simplifies the language further for emergent readers, with a larger font and extra white space, while looking identical to the standard edition on the shelf, useful for a classroom where students are reading the same book at different levels. Some titles, including several Shakespeare plays, are available in more than one format, so you can match the book to how a student reads best.

Who Differentiated Timeless Classics Is For 

These titles work best when a classroom has students reading the same book at different levels. Because the cover and format match the standard Timeless Classics and Timeless Shakespeare editions, a student reading the differentiated version isn't visibly reading a "different" book; only the inside (font size, spacing, and word choice) is adjusted to remove barriers for emergent readers.