P.A.U.L. D. is a new textbook for lower secondary education, covering all areas of the German subject. It meets the standards of the new curricula, is consistently committed to competence-oriented teaching, and enables independent learning.

P.A.U.L. D. offers:

• Promotion of methodological competence that goes beyond the German subject: Focus areas include learning how to learn, promotion of reading techniques, and methods for planning, writing, and revising one’s own texts.
• An extensive selection of student-appropriate literary texts organized in chapters oriented around text types and thematic focuses.
• Analytical, creative, and production-oriented approaches to texts.
• A systematic approach to factual texts and discontinuous texts within thematically interesting contexts for students.
• A modular structure: Subchapters can be worked on sequentially or independently, applicable to the competencies taught in each subchapter.
• Learning boxes that provide summaries and consolidation of learned content and methods, allowing students to work independently.
• A task system that promotes independent learning: The varied and motivating assignments give students concrete instructions for independent work.
• Opportunities for self-evaluation: At the end of each chapter, under the heading "All clear? – Review, practice, and check," students can apply what they have learned and assess their own learning progress.
• Offers for internal differentiation: The tasks and the modular design of the chapters allow for differentiation, with "This is how you can continue working" tasks offering various assignments at different levels of difficulty.
• Facilitation of lesson preparation: The presentation of topics and texts through assignments and questions reflects the classroom learning process.
• Systematic practice of spelling and grammar: Selected strategies for correct writing and grammatical phenomena are covered in dedicated chapters. The chapter "German training – practice, review, and more" compresses and practices key spelling and grammar content. Students can check their knowledge and competence acquisition using the "Test yourself" pages at the end of each unit.

The "family" of P.A.U.L. D. includes:

• Workbooks that review and practice central competencies and content for the grade level, containing keyword and model solutions.
• CD and materials booklet for listening comprehension: P.A.U.L. D. offers a double CD with listening texts and a materials booklet with ready-to-use worksheets to systematically build and train students’ listening comprehension.
• Teacher’s commentaries and materials volumes that facilitate lesson preparation with didactic-methodological comments, solutions, and board illustrations, along with extensive differentiation support.