"The Macmillan English Series" is a language arts program designed to present linguistic concepts, develop language usage and promote writing skills. There are 6 textbooks of exercises for grades 3 through 8 and 8 workbooks of practice exercises and activities for grades 1 through 8. The texts stress sentence transformations, discussions skills, vocabulary development, letter writing, poetry, grammar, library and dictionary skills, compositions, capitalization and punctuation, story telling and the history of the English language.