Garden Heights · Getting Started

How It Works — Step by Step

From sign-in to a finished book. Set up in four steps, choose Casual, Standard or Honors each time you open a part, and watch your Report Card grow. Every account starts with Matilda included forever as our gift — no card, nothing to cancel.

Instructions in Korean or Chinese; product names and links stay in English.
Phase 1 · Get set up
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Sign in with Google
One click with your Google / Gmail account — your account is created automatically, with no card and nothing to cancel. Every account includes the complete Matilda workbook (online + Teacher & Student PDFs), yours forever.
Sign in with Google →
Sign in to Garden Heights with Google
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Browse the Library by level
Books are sorted into eight levels, from Growing Readers up to the High School Track. Pick the level that fits your reader — each shows its grade, Lexile, and AR range — then choose a novel.
Open the Library →
Browse the Garden Heights library by level
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Get the matching edition
Each workbook is built on one specific edition of the novel. Check the Publishers & ISBN guide so the chapters, page numbers, and words your reader sees line up exactly with the workbook.
Publishers & ISBN →
Novel Publishers and ISBN guide
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Choose a Part
Every novel study is split into 8 parts, each covering a couple of chapters — about 40 minutes of work. Pick up wherever you left off.
See Matilda’s 8 parts →
Choose a part in the 8-part novel study
Phase 2 · Inside a workbook part
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Choose Casual, Standard or Honors
Every part opens with a choice of three courses. Casual is the gentlest way in: vocabulary and comprehension questions plus one Knowledge Bank question — 20 questions, 5 points each. Standard covers every question in Vocabulary, Comprehension and Literary Elements plus one Think Deeper task — four sections, scored out of 100. Honors keeps only the hardest questions in each, and adds all four Think Deeper tasks and a full SAT® · TOEFL® test section — five sections, also out of 100. A green or gold badge shows which course you are in, and switching courses restarts that part.
Open a part and pick a course →
The Casual, Standard and Honors course chooser that opens with every part
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Read the “What happens” recap
Each part opens with a short recap of the chapters, with key names and terms in bold, so readers are grounded before they answer — and can work even if the book isn’t in hand this minute.
Open Matilda · Part 1 →
Read the What Happens recap for the part
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Study the vocabulary & background
Ten key words per part, plus a Knowledge Bank passage that builds the cultural and historical background behind the story — now with a period image and a sourced caption. This is the CLIL approach that sets Garden Heights apart for English learners.
Try the Vocabulary section →
Study vocabulary and the Knowledge Bank passage
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Answer questions — graded instantly
Vocabulary, Comprehension and Literary Elements each open with a Knowledge Bank question — one that can only be answered from the passage you just read. Every question is graded the moment you answer, with a short explanation, so mistakes turn into learning on the spot. Honors readers see only the hardest questions in each section.
Try the Comprehension questions →
Answer questions and get instant grading with feedback
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Practice the SAT® & TOEFL®-style test
On Honors, each part ends with a full Standardized Test section: a reading passage written around that part’s vocabulary, with words-in-context and central-idea questions in the exact style of the SAT® and TOEFL®. Every question names the SAT® or TOEFL® skill it practices. Standard readers finish at Think Deeper instead.
Try the Standardized Test →
SAT® and TOEFL® style standardized test practice
Phase 3 · Finish & track progress
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See your results the moment you finish
Finish a part and the score appears straight away, auto-graded out of 100 — across two sections on Casual, four on Standard, or five on Honors when the Standardized Test is included — so you can see exactly where you were strong and where to look again. Move on to the next part when you are ready; all eight complete the book.
Finish a part in Matilda →
Part results screen with the score and a section-by-section breakdown
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Watch your Report Card grow
Every score saves to a Report Card that tracks each book, records which course each part was taken in, keeps a reading streak, and shows where to pick up next. Teachers and parents can even export it to CSV.
Open your Report Card →
Report Card with reading streak and continue reading
Tip for students: read each part in your own copy of the novel first, then open the workbook. Keep the book beside you, or close it and take the section as a test — you can retake it as many times as you want, and every answer is graded instantly.
Get started — it’s free
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