HMH Into Literature for Florida FAST
Complete mapping of HMH Into Literature texts to Florida B.E.S.T. standards. Browse by grade level to find the right content for your students.
Grade 6
35 textsUnit 1: Discovering Your Voice
7 textsfrom Brown Girl Dreaming
ELA.6.R.1.4, ELA.6.R.2.1
from Selfie: The Changing Face of Self-Portraits
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.2.2
What's So Funny, Mr. Scieszka?
ELA.6.R.3.1, ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.2.2...
A Voice
ELA.6.R.3.1, ELA.6.R.1.4
Words Like Freedom
ELA.6.R.1.4, ELA.6.R.3.1
Better Than Words: Say It with a Selfie
ELA.6.R.2.4, ELA.6.R.2.3, ELA.6.V.1.3
Unit 2: Never Give Up
4 textsA Schoolgirl's Diary from I Am Malala
ELA.6.R.2.2, ELA.6.V.1.2
Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward
ELA.6.R.1.2, ELA.6.R.1.4
The First Day of School
ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.V.1.3
from New Kid
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.1.2, ELA.6.R.3.3
Unit 3: Finding Courage
7 textsfrom The Breadwinner
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.V.1.3
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.R.1.4
Fears and Phobias
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.2.2, ELA.6.V.1.2
Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.3.1, ELA.6.V.1.3
The Ravine
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.2.3, ELA.6.R.3.2...
from Into the Air
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.2.2, ELA.6.V.1.3
Unit 4: Through an Animal's Eyes
7 textsfrom Pax
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.R.3.1...
Zoo
ELA.6.R.1.2, ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.V.1.2
from Animal Snoops: The Wondrous World of Spies
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.3.4, ELA.6.R.2.2...
Animal Wisdom
ELA.6.R.1.4, ELA.6.R.3.1, ELA.6.R.3.2
The Last Wolf
ELA.6.R.1.2
Wild Animals Aren't Pets
ELA.6.R.2.2, ELA.6.R.2.4, ELA.6.R.3.4...
Unit 5: Surviving the Unthinkable
4 textsfrom A Long Walk to Water
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.V.1.3
Into the Lifeboat from Titanic Survivor
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.2.2, ELA.6.R.3.1...
from After the Hurricane
ELA.6.R.1.4, ELA.6.R.3.1
from Ninth Ward
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.R.1.2...
Unit 6: Hidden Truths
6 textsfrom Storytelling
ELA.6.R.2.1, ELA.6.R.2.2, ELA.6.V.1.3
The Prince and the Pauper
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.1.2, ELA.6.V.1.3
Archetype
ELA.6.R.1.4, ELA.6.R.3.1, ELA.6.R.3.2
Fairy-tale Logic
ELA.6.R.1.2, ELA.6.R.1.4
The Boatman's Flute
ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.R.1.3, ELA.6.V.1.1
The Mouse Bride
ELA.6.R.1.2, ELA.6.R.1.1, ELA.6.V.1.3
Grade 7
36 textsUnit 1: Reality Check
7 textsMirror Image
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.2
Not Everything It Seems
ELA.7.R.2.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
Two Legs or One?
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
The Song of Wandering Aengus
ELA.7.R.1.4
Eldorado
ELA.7.R.1.4, ELA.7.R.3.3
from Monster (Screenplay)
ELA.7.R.1.3, ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
Unit 2: Take Control
7 textsHeartbeat
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.2
The Flight of Icarus
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.R.1.2, ELA.7.V.1.2
Icarus's Flight
ELA.7.R.1.4
Rogue Wave
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.2
Women in Aviation
ELA.7.R.2.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
Thank You, M'am
ELA.7.R.1.1
Unit 3: The Terror and Wonder of Space
6 textsDark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.2
Martian Metropolis
ELA.7.R.2.2, ELA.7.R.2.1, ELA.7.V.1.2
Challenges for Space Exploration
ELA.7.R.2.3, ELA.7.R.2.4, ELA.7.R.3.4...
What If We Were Alone?
ELA.7.R.1.4, ELA.7.R.1.2
Humans Need to Explore Outer Space
ELA.7.R.2.4, ELA.7.R.3.4, ELA.7.V.1.3
Let Robots Take to the Stars
ELA.7.R.2.4, ELA.7.R.2.5, ELA.7.R.3.4...
Unit 4: Inspired by Nature
6 textsAllied With Green
ELA.7.R.1.2, ELA.7.R.3.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
Never Retreat from Eyes Wide Open
ELA.7.R.2.4, ELA.7.R.3.4, ELA.7.R.2.3...
from Mississippi Solo
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.R.3.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
The Drought
ELA.7.R.1.4
Ode to enchanted light
ELA.7.R.1.4, ELA.7.R.3.1
Sleeping in the Forest
ELA.7.R.3.1, ELA.7.R.3.3
Unit 5: Game On!
5 textsBall Hawk
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.C.5.1
Get in the Zone: The Psychology of Video-Game Design
ELA.7.R.2.1, ELA.7.R.2.3, ELA.7.V.1.3
It's Not Just a Game!
ELA.7.R.2.2, ELA.7.R.2.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
from The Crossover
ELA.7.R.1.4, ELA.7.R.3.1
Double Doubles
ELA.7.R.1.4, ELA.7.R.1.2, ELA.7.R.3.3
Unit 6: Change Agents
5 textsSometimes a Dream Needs a Push
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.V.1.3
Craig Kielburger Reflects on Working Toward Peace
ELA.7.R.3.4, ELA.7.V.1.2
A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long
ELA.7.R.1.2, ELA.7.R.1.4
Frances Perkins and the Triangle Factory Fire
ELA.7.R.3.2, ELA.7.R.2.1, ELA.7.V.1.2
from Ashes of Roses
ELA.7.R.1.1, ELA.7.R.3.3, ELA.7.V.1.3
Grade 8
31 textsUnit 1: Gadgets and Glitches
5 textsThe Brave Little Toaster
ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.R.3.2...
Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?
ELA.8.R.2.2, ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
Interflora
ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.1.3
The Automation Paradox
ELA.8.R.2.4, ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
Heads Up, Humans
ELA.8.R.2.4, ELA.8.R.3.4, ELA.8.V.1.2
Unit 2: The Thrill of Horror
5 textsWhat Is the Horror Genre?
ELA.8.R.2.2, ELA.8.R.3.2, ELA.8.V.1.2
The Tell-Tale Heart
ELA.8.R.1.3, ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
The Monkey's Paw
ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.V.1.2
from The Aeneid of Virgil
ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.3.1, ELA.8.R.3.3
from Hades: Lord of the Dead
ELA.8.R.3.3
Unit 3: Places We Call Home
4 textsfrom The Book of the Unknown Americans
ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.V.1.3
My Favorite Chaperone
ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.R.1.3, ELA.8.R.3.2...
Spirit Walking in the Tundra
ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.R.1.4
A Common Bond
ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
Unit 4: The Fight for Freedom
6 textsfrom Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
ELA.8.R.2.3, ELA.8.R.3.1, ELA.8.R.2.1...
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.R.3.1...
O Captain! My Captain!
ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.3.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.V.1.2
Not My Bones
ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.3.1, ELA.8.R.2.1
from Fortune's Bones
ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.R.3.1
Unit 5: Finding Your Path
6 textsfrom Bronx Masquerade
ELA.8.R.1.3, ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
The Debt We Owe to the Adolescent Brain
ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
Hanging Fire
ELA.8.R.1.4
Summer of His Fourteenth Year
ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.3.1
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
ELA.8.R.2.4, ELA.8.V.1.3
Outsmart Your Smartphone
ELA.8.R.2.4, ELA.8.R.3.4, ELA.8.V.1.3
Unit 6: The Legacy of Anne Frank
5 textsThe Diary of Anne Frank
ELA.8.R.1.1, ELA.8.V.1.2
from The Diary of a Young Girl
ELA.8.R.2.1, ELA.8.V.1.3
After Auschwitz
ELA.8.R.2.3, ELA.8.R.2.4
There But for the Grace
ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.3.1
Days
ELA.8.R.1.2, ELA.8.R.1.4, ELA.8.R.3.1
FAST Reporting Category Alignment
Reading Prose and Poetry
Fiction, poetry, and literary analysis
Reading Informational Text
Nonfiction, arguments, and informational analysis
Reading Across Genres
Cross-genre analysis and comparison
Vocabulary
Word meaning, context clues, and word relationships
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