Books with author Teacher Created Materials

Introduce your students to economics with this enriching 10-book set! These books help students grasp economics concepts in a fun, practical way. Readers will learn all about money and how it's used, jobs and services that help run a town, trading around the world, and more! Each book features engaging images, clear text, and new vocabulary to give students an engaging learning experience. This set includes: Using Money; All About Money; Jobs Around Town; Good and Services Around Town; Earning Money; Saving and Spending; Money and Trade in Our World; Money and Trade in Our Nation; Capital Resources and the Economy; Our Natural Resources.

What makes bizarre animals strange or mysterious places puzzling? Grab a hold of this wide-ranging and appealing set that covers such nonfiction topics as strange disappearances and health risks associated with smoking. Each book entertains while featuring challenging and engaging text, and captivating layouts with sidebars, questions to think about, facts, graphics, and enticing color photos. This set includes 10 titles: Survival! Ocean; Animal Architects; On the Scene: A CSI's Life; Unsolved! Mysterious Places; Hang Ten! Surfing; Straight Talk: Smoking; Strange But True: Bizarre Animals; Nelson Mandela: Leading the Way; Hand to Paw: Protecting Animals; and Physical: Feats & Failures.

Designed to help build reading skills, these books feature vivid, real-life photographs, simple sentence frames, picture glossary, list of sight words, and suggested activities for teachers and parents. 12 pages per book. This 16-title set includes My Bl Words; My Br Words; My Cl Words; My Cr Words; My Fl Words; My Fr Words; My Gr Words; My Pl Words; My Sl Words; My Sn Words; My Sp Words; My St Words; My Ch Words; My Sh Words; My Th Words; and My Wh Words.

Introduce students to important colonial and Native American historical figures with this 3-book set of biographies. Each book contains easy-to-read text, vivid images, a glossary, and other text features to engage and support young learners as they build literacy skills and social studies content knowledge. This set includes: Pocahontas; Lewis & Clark; Sitting Bull.

Act out engaging literary texts with this set of Reader's Theater scripts! This set of differentiated scripts features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles based on each students' current reading level, allowing all students to participate in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. This 4-book set includes: Building Up the White House; Coming to America; Camping Constitution; Postcards from Bosley the Bear.

Give students insights into the lives and accomplishments of some of the most influential figures in US history during the time of American expansion. Filled with high-interest, nonfiction content and fascinating photos and source materials, this set of biographies is a great resource for developing and improving students' social studies knowledge. Each book contains captivating sidebars and facts, easy-to-read text, a supporting glossary, table of contents, and index. Titles in this set include: Lewis & Clark; James Madison; Laura Ingalls Wilder; Harriet Tubman; Sitting Bull; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; and Ulysses S. Grant.

How does a seed become a plant? What do living things need to grow? How do animal parents raise their babies? Introduce kindergarten and first grade students to life science topics with this colorful 10-book set. These easy-to-read books feature intriguing images, simple sentences, and text features to keep young students engaged in reading as they learn important scientific topics such as plant parts and functions, growth and change, baby animals, living and nonliving things, similar traits of species, and more. Each 24-page book includes a fun science activity that meets Next Generation Science Standards and helps students apply what they've learned. Titles in this set include: All in the Family; Baby Animals, Growing Up; Growth and Change; Inside a Plant; Living!; Raising Babies: What Animal Parents Do; Seeds; What Do Living Things Need?; What Makes a Plant?.

This illustrated version of the traditional poem allows beginning readers to gain confidence in their reading and comprehension skills. Through a shared reading experience, children are encouraged to retell the events and activities that occur during this adorable teddy bear's day. Perfect for beginning readers and for those who cannot yet read, the sweet, lively illustrations act as a useful tool to assist in the understanding of the storyline.

Bring beloved fairy tale stories to life in the classroom with this set of Reader's Theater scripts! Centered around a theme of classic children's stories, these differentiated scripts feature roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles based on each students' current reading level, allowing all students to participate in the same activity and feel successful! Children will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. This 5-book set includes: Goldilocks and the Three Bears; The Three Little Pigs; Little Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Gretel; The Gingerbread Man.

Teach students how to be good members of society with this 10-book collection that describes the skills and qualities needed to be fair and responsible. Designed to build social studies knowledge, the books in this set provide multiple texts around a common theme. Each book features primary source documents and photographs, highlighted content-area vocabulary, and engaging sidebars. This 10-book collection is aligned to the Common Core and other state standards. Titles in this collection include: We Work at School; Be Fair!; I Can Work!; Be a Good Leader!; You Can Count on Me!; We the People: Civic Values in America; Doing Your Part: Serving Your Community; I'll Lead the Way!; I Am a Good Citizen; and I Am a Good Friend

Explore the history of Georgia with these nonfiction books that focus on Georgia state history. Featuring primary sources that include maps, documents, letters, and images, this set will boost literacy skills and strengthen content area knowledge in history, geography, and other social studies subject areas. These full-color books include text features such as headings, captions, a glossary, and an index to increase academic vocabulary and connect students back to the text. Aligned to Georgia state standards, this valuable set helps build college and career readiness skills. Titles in this 8-Book Set include: Georgia: Power, People, and Change; Georgia: Location and Resources; Regions and Rivers of Georgia; Atlanta: The Big Peach; Our Leaders in Government; Savannah: Hostess City of the South; Georgia: Money and Me; Georgia's Goods and Services.

Help beginning readers build phonics and fluency skills with this set of Reader's Theater scripts! Young children will learn to recognize rhymes by acting out these classic rhyming stories. These differentiated scripts feature roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. This 4-book set includes: The Parade: Humpty Dumpty; Little Piggies: This Little Piggy and Pat-a-Cake; The Fiddlers: Old King Cole and Hey Diddle, Diddle; The Stars: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Star Light, Star Bright.