Overview
Featuring TIME FOR KIDS® content, this series from Teacher Created Materials provides teachers with everything they need to improve and monitor students' reading skills.
- Develop reading skills gradually with trios of leveled books
- Facilitate instruction and save time with lesson plans that target key nonfiction skills and strategies
- Track progress through placement tests and assessments in the Assessment Guide
- The Parent Tips Booklet strengthens school-home connections and helps students continue building literacy skills at home
- Provide a blended learning experience with Interactiv-eBooks
- Give students a model of fluent reading with audio recordings of each book
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Interactiv-eBooks
- Enhance instruction through meaningful tools to interact with the text, including embedded audio, video, student activities, voice-recording capabilities, digital assessments, and more.
- Include three activities per book (one for word work, one for comprehension and one for writing) for practical application.
- Used in group, paired, or individual setting for flexible and accessible implementation.
- Interactiv-eBooks are perfect for blended learning experiences and to enhance the reading experience.
- Use digital sticky notes to assess students' fluency and comprehension or utilize the recording tool to practice and evaluate fluent reading
Audio Recordings
- Model fluent reading with audio recordings of books and poems.
Teacher's Guide
Provide teachers with the tools they need to do their jobs more effectively with easy-to-use, standards-based lesson plans.
- Facilitate instruction and save time with lesson plans that target key nonfiction skills and strategies.
- Organized in a consistent format for easy-to-implement lessons for each book.
- Lessons focus on two key nonfiction skills or strategies (activating prior knowledge, drawing inferences, questioning, synthesizing information, determining importance, or visualizing and monitoring comprehension) which helps students use those skills and strategies in all classes for deeper analysis, information synthesis, and evaluation of the content.
- Trio of readers is accompanied by texts such as primary sources, articles, poems, and other text types for multiple options to maximize student interest and extend learning.
Assessment Guide
The Assessment Guide provides teachers with numerous opportunities for assessment in print and digital formats.
- Includes research about assessments and how best to use the assessments to drive implementation and instruction.
- Assessments include placement tests and formative and summative assessments Supplies oral reading record, multiple choice questions for each book, cited references, and answer keys for variety of assessment
Home-School Connections
Encourage parents and families to extend their child's reading development and build literacy skills at home with the Parent Tips booklet provided digitally within each Nonfiction Readers kit. Provided tips help develop reading skills at home. Strengthens school-home connections.
- Tips and digital versions of each book can be printed and sent home for additional practice.
Books
- Integrate science, social studies, and math concepts and themes into your reading block with these dynamic and engaging nonfiction readers.
- 15 titles, 6 copies each, 12-64 pages per book in print and digital formats.
- High-interest content to help students develop vocabulary, comprehension and fluency skills.
Student Engagement
- Develop reading skills gradually with trios of leveled books
- Motivates reader to want to read high-interest content with engaging illustrations and photographs.
- Growth as readers as they develop a love for reading.
- Integrates science, social studies, and math concepts and themes for interesting and entertaining texts.
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TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers Sample Pages
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- Table of Contents (1 page)
- How to Use This Product (8 pages)
- Lesson Plan (12 pages)
- Reader (17 pages)
Building Knowledge and Vocabulary: Reading Complex Text Across the Content Areas
Students need to access rich, challenging text to develop knowledge, build vocabulary, and improve comprehension across the content areas.
As students tackle difficult text, a wide breadth of effective strategies are needed to uncover meaning and build students’ skillset.
In this workshop, educators will:
- Discover nuances within text that make it difficult
- Uncover student-centered ways to support knowledge and vocabulary development
- Encounter and practice strategies to empower students to conquer challenging text
Training Options
Workshop
On-Site Coaching
Best Practices Webinar
Get the Picture: Visual Literacy in Content-Area Instruction
Literacy learning is no longer limited to reading, writing, listening, and speaking; we must include visual communication and expand our definition of what it means to be literate.
This professional development workshop will provide teachers with new and engaging strategies to help students learn how to analyze and create through visual communication.
Based on practical research, this workshop offers concrete tools and techniques and a wide range of suggested visual texts to effectively use in the classroom from primary sources, to digital media and the visual-heavy world of 21st century learning.
Attendees will:
- Examine ways to incorporate visual texts into instruction, including what visual literacy lessons look like in the primary grades
- Practice instructional strategies and develop sample lessons for teaching students to read visual texts for understanding
- Practice and discover instructional strategies for guiding students to visually illustrate understanding, specifically targeting support for improving reading and writing
Training Options
Keynote Presentations and Webinars
Workshop
On-Site Coaching
Best Practices Webinar
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TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Kit
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this comprehensive kit including leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans, assessment guide, digital and audio resources, and more!
Item Number:24051
ISBN:9781493820511
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Plus Kit
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this comprehensive kit including leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans, assessment guide, digital and audio resources, and more!
Item Number:24483
ISBN:9781493824830
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Kit (Spanish)
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this comprehensive Spanish Version kit that includes leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans, assessment guide, and more.
Item Number:24959
ISBN:9781493829590
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Plus Kit (Spanish)
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this Spanish-translated kit including leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide, lesson plans, assessment guide, and digital and audio resources.
Item Number:24960
ISBN:9781493829606
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Emergent Kit
Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics concepts into your reading block with these engaging books. Colorful photos, direct picture-text match, and high-interest content motivate beginning readers, creating a positive reading experience.
Item Number:15276
ISBN:9781433342769
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Upper Emergent Kit
Offer a natural progression in reading with engaging books that feature content-area themes. Motivate students to read and re-read with familiar concepts, a variety of topics, and high-interest, colorful graphic features.
Item Number:15295
ISBN:9781433342950
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Emergent Kit (Spanish Version)
Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics concepts into your reading block with these Spanish books. Colorful photos, direct picture-text match, and high-interest content motivate beginning readers, creating a positive reading experience.
Item Number:15557
ISBN:9781433345579
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Upper Emergent Kit (Spanish Version)
Offer a natural progression in reading with Spanish-translated books that feature content-area themes. Motivate students to read and re-read with familiar concepts, a variety of topics, and high-interest, colorful graphic features.
Item Number:15560
ISBN:9781433345609
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Kit
Easily correlate to common content-area topics with these engaging books. Familiar themes and vocabulary combined with more complex text and supporting graphics will interest virtually any reader.
Item Number:15314
ISBN:9781433343148
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Plus Kit
Motivate students to read and re-read and prepare them for more challenging text with these nonfiction books. New vocabulary and complex sentence structures combine with science, mathematics, and social studies themes to engage readers.
Item Number:15333
ISBN:9781433343339
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Kit (Spanish Version)
Easily correlate to common content-area topics with these engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction books. Familiar themes and vocabulary combined with more complex text and supporting graphics will interest virtually any reader.
Item Number:15563
ISBN:9781433345630
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Motivate students to read and re-read and prepare them for more challenging text with these Spanish nonfiction books. New vocabulary and complex sentence structures combine with content-area themes to engage readers.
Item Number:15566
ISBN:9781433345661
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Kit
Integrate content-area topics into literacy lessons with vibrant books that appeal to older students needing high-interest, lower-readability text. The features of these books reflect upper-level, subject-specific texts.
Item Number:15352
ISBN:9781433343520
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Plus Kit
Provide a transition to upper level texts while integrating high-interest content-area topics into literacy lessons with these engaging books that include dynamic text and vocabulary supported by high-quality photos and graphics.
Item Number:15371
ISBN:9781433343711
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Kit (Spanish Version)
Integrate content-area topics into literacy lessons with vibrant, Spanish-translated nonfiction books that appeal to older students needing high-interest, lower-readability texts that are subject-specific.
Item Number:15569
ISBN:9781433345692
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Provide a transition to upper level texts while integrating high-interest content-area topics into literacy lessons with these Spanish-translated books that include dynamic text, new vocabulary, and high-quality photos and graphics.
Item Number:15572
ISBN:9781433345722
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Kit
Engage independent readers with high-interest topics that provide opportunities for analyzing complex nonfiction text. Each book features sophisticated graphics, builds vocabulary, and sharpens critical thinking skills.
Item Number:15674
ISBN:9781433346743
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Plus Kit
Encourage students to become passionate readers with interactive books that align with the latest standards. Unforgettable photographs and sophisticated graphics engage students. Fresh, informative, fascinating text keeps students reading.
Item Number:15675
ISBN:9781433346750
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Kit (Spanish Version)
Engage independent readers with high-interest topics that provide opportunities for analyzing complex nonfiction text. Each Spanish-translated book features sophisticated graphics, builds vocabulary, and sharpens critical thinking skills.
Item Number:18050
ISBN:9781433370502
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Encourage students to become passionate readers with interactive, Spanish-translated books that align with the latest standards. Unforgettable photographs and sophisticated graphics work with informative, fascinating text to engage readers.
Item Number:18089
ISBN:9781433370892
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Kit
Help readers transition into longer texts. Infographics and interactive critical-thinking elements keep reading purposeful and connect each book to essential math, science, and social studies standards.
Item Number:15676
ISBN:9781433346767
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Plus Kit
Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest books. Unforgettable topics and sophisticated graphics engage students. Interactive text helps students improve vocabulary, visual literacy, and critical thinking.
Item Number:15677
ISBN:9781433346774
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Kit (Spanish Version)
These Spanish titles help readers transition into longer texts. Infographics and interactive critical-thinking elements keep reading purposeful and connect each book to essential math, science, and social studies standards.
Item Number:18128
ISBN:9781433371288
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest, Spanish-translated books. Unforgettable topics and sophisticated graphics engage students. Interactive text helps students improve vocabulary, visual literacy, and critic
Item Number:18167
ISBN:9781433371677
TIME<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Grade 6 Kit
TIME Nonfiction Readers, Grade 6 offers an exciting mix of high-interest readers in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas. This comprehensive kit provides strategies to teach nonfiction content and boost student reading skills.
Item Number:25588
ISBN:9781493835881
TIME<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Grade 7 Kit
Improve your student's reading skills with TIME Nonfiction Readers, Grade 7. This easy-to-use teacher resource offers strategies to teach nonfiction content texts in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas.
Item Number:25589
ISBN:9781493835898
TIME<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Grade 8 Kit
Build reading skills with this comprehensive kit that offers exciting informational texts in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas.
Item Number:25590
ISBN:9781493835904
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Kit
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this comprehensive kit including leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans, assessment guide, digital and audio resources, and more!
Item Number:24051
ISBN:9781493820511
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Plus Kit
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this comprehensive kit including leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans, assessment guide, digital and audio resources, and more!
Item Number:24483
ISBN:9781493824830
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Emergent Kit
Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics concepts into your reading block with these engaging books. Colorful photos, direct picture-text match, and high-interest content motivate beginning readers, creating a positive reading experience.
Item Number:15276
ISBN:9781433342769
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Upper Emergent Kit
Offer a natural progression in reading with engaging books that feature content-area themes. Motivate students to read and re-read with familiar concepts, a variety of topics, and high-interest, colorful graphic features.
Item Number:15295
ISBN:9781433342950
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Kit
Easily correlate to common content-area topics with these engaging books. Familiar themes and vocabulary combined with more complex text and supporting graphics will interest virtually any reader.
Item Number:15314
ISBN:9781433343148
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Plus Kit
Motivate students to read and re-read and prepare them for more challenging text with these nonfiction books. New vocabulary and complex sentence structures combine with science, mathematics, and social studies themes to engage readers.
Item Number:15333
ISBN:9781433343339
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Kit
Integrate content-area topics into literacy lessons with vibrant books that appeal to older students needing high-interest, lower-readability text. The features of these books reflect upper-level, subject-specific texts.
Item Number:15352
ISBN:9781433343520
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Plus Kit
Provide a transition to upper level texts while integrating high-interest content-area topics into literacy lessons with these engaging books that include dynamic text and vocabulary supported by high-quality photos and graphics.
Item Number:15371
ISBN:9781433343711
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Kit
Engage independent readers with high-interest topics that provide opportunities for analyzing complex nonfiction text. Each book features sophisticated graphics, builds vocabulary, and sharpens critical thinking skills.
Item Number:15674
ISBN:9781433346743
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Plus Kit
Encourage students to become passionate readers with interactive books that align with the latest standards. Unforgettable photographs and sophisticated graphics engage students. Fresh, informative, fascinating text keeps students reading.
Item Number:15675
ISBN:9781433346750
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Kit
Help readers transition into longer texts. Infographics and interactive critical-thinking elements keep reading purposeful and connect each book to essential math, science, and social studies standards.
Item Number:15676
ISBN:9781433346767
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Plus Kit
Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest books. Unforgettable topics and sophisticated graphics engage students. Interactive text helps students improve vocabulary, visual literacy, and critical thinking.
Item Number:15677
ISBN:9781433346774
TIME<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Grade 6 Kit
TIME Nonfiction Readers, Grade 6 offers an exciting mix of high-interest readers in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas. This comprehensive kit provides strategies to teach nonfiction content and boost student reading skills.
Item Number:25588
ISBN:9781493835881
TIME<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Grade 7 Kit
Improve your student's reading skills with TIME Nonfiction Readers, Grade 7. This easy-to-use teacher resource offers strategies to teach nonfiction content texts in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas.
Item Number:25589
ISBN:9781493835898
TIME<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Grade 8 Kit
Build reading skills with this comprehensive kit that offers exciting informational texts in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas.
Item Number:25590
ISBN:9781493835904
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Kit (Spanish)
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this comprehensive Spanish Version kit that includes leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans, assessment guide, and more.
Item Number:24959
ISBN:9781493829590
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Foundations Plus Kit (Spanish)
Increase students' reading achievement and love for reading across content-areas with this Spanish-translated kit including leveled nonfiction books, a teacher's guide, lesson plans, assessment guide, and digital and audio resources.
Item Number:24960
ISBN:9781493829606
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Emergent Kit (Spanish Version)
Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics concepts into your reading block with these Spanish books. Colorful photos, direct picture-text match, and high-interest content motivate beginning readers, creating a positive reading experience.
Item Number:15557
ISBN:9781433345579
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Upper Emergent Kit (Spanish Version)
Offer a natural progression in reading with Spanish-translated books that feature content-area themes. Motivate students to read and re-read with familiar concepts, a variety of topics, and high-interest, colorful graphic features.
Item Number:15560
ISBN:9781433345609
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Kit (Spanish Version)
Easily correlate to common content-area topics with these engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction books. Familiar themes and vocabulary combined with more complex text and supporting graphics will interest virtually any reader.
Item Number:15563
ISBN:9781433345630
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Early Fluent Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Motivate students to read and re-read and prepare them for more challenging text with these Spanish nonfiction books. New vocabulary and complex sentence structures combine with content-area themes to engage readers.
Item Number:15566
ISBN:9781433345661
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Kit (Spanish Version)
Integrate content-area topics into literacy lessons with vibrant, Spanish-translated nonfiction books that appeal to older students needing high-interest, lower-readability texts that are subject-specific.
Item Number:15569
ISBN:9781433345692
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Fluent Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Provide a transition to upper level texts while integrating high-interest content-area topics into literacy lessons with these Spanish-translated books that include dynamic text, new vocabulary, and high-quality photos and graphics.
Item Number:15572
ISBN:9781433345722
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Kit (Spanish Version)
Engage independent readers with high-interest topics that provide opportunities for analyzing complex nonfiction text. Each Spanish-translated book features sophisticated graphics, builds vocabulary, and sharpens critical thinking skills.
Item Number:18050
ISBN:9781433370502
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Advanced Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Encourage students to become passionate readers with interactive, Spanish-translated books that align with the latest standards. Unforgettable photographs and sophisticated graphics work with informative, fascinating text to engage readers.
Item Number:18089
ISBN:9781433370892
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Kit (Spanish Version)
These Spanish titles help readers transition into longer texts. Infographics and interactive critical-thinking elements keep reading purposeful and connect each book to essential math, science, and social studies standards.
Item Number:18128
ISBN:9781433371288
TIME FOR KIDS<sup>®</sup> Nonfiction Readers: Challenging Plus Kit (Spanish Version)
Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest, Spanish-translated books. Unforgettable topics and sophisticated graphics engage students. Interactive text helps students improve vocabulary, visual literacy, and critic
Item Number:18167
ISBN:9781433371677