Survival Mode ELA Edition Grades 5-12

Survival Mode: ELA Student Edition | Grades 5–12

Take Survival Mode into the classroom—and extend the learning far beyond the story. Designed for students in grades 5–12, the Survival Mode ELA Student Edition transforms Jonathan Edison’s gripping memoir into an engaging literacy experience built around reading, reflection, critical thinking, writing, and real-world connection. The workbook follows the memoir in sequence, with every two chapters of Survival Mode forming a corresponding learning unit, allowing students to pause, examine what they’ve read, analyze the text, and connect its themes of hope, perseverance, resilience, choices, and overcoming adversity to their own lives.

Used with students across seven states, Survival Mode brings something distinctive to ELA instruction: a story students can connect with and meaningful opportunities to extend that connection into learning. Educators can use the Student Edition for whole-class instruction, small groups, independent reading, intervention, enrichment, or book-study experiences across middle and high school grades. More than a companion workbook, it creates a bridge between literacy and life, helping students strengthen essential ELA skills while discovering that the stories they read can challenge how they think about their own. Read the story. Extend the learning. Discover what’s possible.