Students in special education programs have a wide range of disabilities and needs, and Saddleback's collection for teens in grades 9 to 12 reflects that range. TERL Phonics and TERL, part of the Teen Emergent Reader Libraries®, give striving readers two paths into reading: structured phonics instruction or a sight-words-based approach, both at emergent and beginning reader levels. Leveled Collections offer genre-based paperback books at accessible Lexile levels for independent and targeted reading practice. For life and career skills, the Lifeskills line pairs CTE Journeys Handbooks with the Next Steps: Personal Exploration Guide, Life Skills Handbooks teach independent-living topics like managing money and workplace readiness in a magazine-style format, and Lifeskills In Action delivers five-book sets pairing a nonfiction lesson with a fiction story for students reading at the most basic level. The SEL Teen Literacy Library® rounds out the collection with social-emotional learning content built around looking within yourself and looking beyond yourself. Together, these give teachers products that meet a diverse range of student needs.
Lifeskills In Action delivers five-book sets, each covering a key area of independent living: job skills, living skills, money skills, or soft skills. Developed for students reading at the most basic level, every book is really two books in one, a nonfiction side that teaches the skill and a fiction side that shows teens applying it in a real-world situation.
Life Skills Handbooks read more like magazines than textbooks, combining practical content on topics like managing money, workplace readiness, and everyday household tasks with full-color photos, charts, and graphs. Real-world scenarios help teens see how the information applies to their own lives, and essential vocabulary throughout builds real-world literacy for striving readers in grades 9 to 12.
The SEL Teen Literacy Library® gives striving readers topic-based nonfiction and fiction pairs built around character education. The program covers 12 topics across two strands: looking within yourself (self-awareness, self-management, moods and attitudes, decision-making, physical health, finding purpose) and looking beyond yourself (social awareness, relationship management, communicating effectively, kindness and respect, problem-solving, finding help and resources). Emotion Vocabulary Cards and Emoti-Cards® support in-the-moment discussion of feelings, and the program includes lesson plans, strategies, and assessments for classroom use.
TERL Phonics, Saddleback's phonics-based line within the Teen Emergent Reader Libraries®, was developed specifically for teen readers in grades 9 to 12 who are still developing their decoding skills. The series also works well for newcomers with no prior English instruction. Written at emergent and beginning reader levels, the books are carefully sequenced, starting with CVC words and progressing through long vowels, consonant digraphs, vowel diphthongs, and multisyllabic words, so striving readers build phonics skills step by step. Full-color photos and teen-centric storylines across a range of genres keep the content age-appropriate rather than aimed at younger students.
TERL, the sight-words-based line within the Teen Emergent Reader Libraries®, was developed to motivate the most striving teen readers to pick up a book, start reading, and keep reading. Written at emergent and beginning reader levels, the series uses short, simple sentences with highlighted "emphasis" words and phrases to build confidence, paired with full-color photos that support comprehension.
