Engage, 1st Edition

Integrated Reading and Writing Skills for College Students

Engage is a comprehensive integrated reading and writing program designed to prepare all learners for college and career success. With purposeful supports for multilingual and native English-speaking students, Engage builds essential skills across a variety of disciplines.

Available August 2026

What Sets this Program Apart?

Engage builds essential skills in vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking, writing, and grammar—empowering students to thrive in college and beyond. Rich literary and informational texts connect learning to real life, sparking curiosity across science, math, and more. Whether students are exploring career pathways or mastering academic language, Engage meets them where they are and helps them grow.

How Engage Makes an Impact

  • Outcomes-focused design: built to drive retention, mastery, and measurable success
  • 21st-century skill development: reading, writing, media, and digital literacy in one cohesive program
  • Support for diverse learners: ESL/ELL, first-generation, and students with foundational skill gaps
  • College and career success integration: time management, metacognition, and career exploration woven into the curriculum
  • Time-saving instructor tools: AI-assisted feedback for open-ended activities, Assess to Learn system, and analytics tools

Practice. Reinforce. Succeed.

  • Builds proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary, and grammar skills, which are vital to success in college and in life
  • Promotes academic language development and scaffolds reading and writing skills
  • Reading and writing across the curriculum that connect to real life and engaging informational texts in science, social studies, math, and other content areas
  • Inspires career pathways for students across a variety of industries and skills
  • New Student Success chapter fosters academic and career readiness through mindset, skill-building, and strategy

 

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Digital at Your Fingertips

Experience the Engage Supersite, an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language learning.

  • Everything you need to plan, teach, and assess
  • Program-specific, theme-based practice activities with auto-grading and immediate feedback
  • Plenty of authentic and cultural media
  • Robust assessment program with ability to customize or create your own

Product details

  • Author
    Dr. Jennifer L. Trujillo | Laurie L. Hazard, Ed.D. | Stephanie Carter | Dr. Lisa Tittle
  • Lessons
    8
  • Published
    ©2027

For Students

  • Student Edition textbook (paperback or loose-leaf)
  • Supersite Plus with vText—the online, interactive student edition
  • WebSAM online student workbook

For Instructors

  • The Instructor Supersite provides a comprehensive suite of digital teaching tools designed to streamline course management and enhance instruction
  • The Supersite instructor features include:
    • Built-in course management system
    • AI-supported grading
    • Robust assessment program with Progress Monitoring Assessments and Proficiency Assessments
    • Assess to Learn system: helps instructors assess their students’ ongoing learning progress, discover skills gaps, and personalize instruction using standards-based lessons and activities
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