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New York, NY, December 8, 2009 — Triumph Learning, a market leader in state-specific, standards-focused learning that supports student instruction, and a Haights Cross Communications company, said today that it has introduced a major new edition of its highly regarded New York State Coach, Empire Edition, for English Language Arts (Grades 1-8). The new Coach series is fully aligned with New York performance indicators and supports the latest New York State English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum and the new New York State ELA test scheduled for April 2010.
“Triumph Learning has been working with New York teachers and curriculum specialists for over 25 years,” according to John Lawler, President of Triumph Learning. “We have maintained a deep commitment to evolving and expanding our well-respected Coach series to support the New York State testing program. We have worked to ensure that our Coach and other product lines are aligned with state standards as well as the style, format, and contents of each new generation of state tests.”
Specific features of the New York State Coach, Empire Edition, English Language Arts series include:
• Two full-length practice tests, modeled after the actual new New York State Test.
• Chapter reviews with questions in the format of the New York State Test.
• Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry reading passages.
• Coached reading sections with corresponding questions.
• "Getting the Idea" sections that introduce important concepts.
• Test-taking tips and strategies.
• Teacher's Guide with answer key; additional mini-lessons, including reproducible sheets for students to practice key skills; Standards Correlation Charts; Test Correlation Charts; and bubble sheets.
“We have heard from New York educators that our NY Coach series not only helps prepare their students for what to expect on testing day, but educators also feel that Coach contains solid instruction that they can depend on to supplement classroom teaching. These programs have been successfully utilized in a variety of settings to assist students to skill mastery. Students feel greater confidence and show improved performance after using our Coach books,” says Marc Keller, Triumph Learning’s Senior Vice President of Sales.
For more information about Coach and other Triumph Learning products, please visit www.triumphlearning.com/NY or contact Marc Keller at 212-652-0228 or mkeller@triumphlearning.com.
About Triumph Learning, LLC:
Triumph Learning is the tenth-largest supplemental educational publisher in the US, and a market leader in state-specific test-preparation materials. Its three imprints (Coach, Buckle Down, and Options) are based in New York City, New York and Littleton, Massachusetts.
About Haights Cross:
Founded in 1997 and based in White Plains, NY, Haights Cross Communications is a premier educational and library publisher dedicated to creating the finest books, audio products, periodicals, software and online services, serving the following markets: K-12 supplemental education, public and school libraries, and consumers. Haights Cross companies include: Triumph Learning, Buckle Down Publishing and Options Publishing, and Recorded Books. For more information, visit www.haightscross.com. Triumph Learning is HCC’s test-preparation and intervention business and is comprised of its Coach, Buckle Down, and Options brands. Recorded Books is a leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks and other audio media for libraries, schools, and consumers, with operations in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
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