Teaching Literacy Using Content-Specific Tools
Each unique combination of materials in theme packs, author studies, and special news features offers teachers a range of leveled or multileveled resources, worksheets, graphic organizers, concept books, maps, graphs and charts, picture cards, or other tools as appropriate to integrate literacy and content-area standards.
Theme Packs
Animals on a Farm
EE-EYE-EE-EYE-OH! And on this farm we have lots of animals!
Native Americans
Open a window into the lives of the first North Americans.
Olympics Sports Stars
Capitalize on multilevel Quick Reads about reaching Olympics dreams.
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games
Engage students with the Summer Olympic Games using worksheets, maps, and picture cards, and a multilevel book.
U.S. Presidency from Election to Inauguration
Learn about the present by peeking into the past.
Winter Olympics
Engage students with February's Vancouver Olympic Games using worksheets, maps, and picture cards, and a multilevel book.
Winter Snapshots
Celebrate science and social studies of season
Special News Features
Floods and Tornadoes
Help students understand two forces of nature.
Haiti Earthquake
Help students understand one of the most intense and unpredictable forces of nature: earthquakes.
Hurricane Sandy
Help students understand the destructive force of hurricanes.
Influenza
Reduce confusion and alarm with resources on flu virus.
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Help students learn about earthquakes and the tsunamis that can sometimes result from them.
Oil: Rewards and Risks
Help students understand more about oil and oil spills.
Special Collections
Environment
Use leveled books and sister-site materials for theme-based instruction.
Personal Financial Literacy
Support student learning of basic financial awareness with books correlated to national standards.
Space
Explore Earth, our Solar System, and beyond with theme-based instruction.
Sports
Exercise your genre muscles with multiple nonfiction and fiction text types.
Travel
Discover stories about amazing places in theme-based leveled books.
Author Studies
Alyse Sweeney
Alyse Sweeney shares her source of inspiration.
Francis Morgan (aka Joe Slade)
Francis Morgan discusses his desire to be a storyteller.
Kira Freed
Author shows love of animals through books.
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