Bookroom Collections

Provide all the resources teachers need for differentiated, small group reading instruction with comprehensive, school-wide bookroom collections!

Teacher Created Materials' K-5 Bookroom Collections provide an organized school-wide resource for today's busy teachers. These centralized collections of high-interest, leveled nonfiction and fiction books, management materials, and professional development resources allow teachers to effectively support and engage students in literacy instruction.

Available for Grades K-5.

Explor-eBook

Redefine reading for today's classrooms!

Share with your students a world of engaging books and activities that will inspire a love of reading, encrouage collaboration, and improve comprehension and writing skills.

Available for Grades K-8.

Targeted Phonics

Provide opportunities for teaching early reading skills that will facilitate a basic understanding of the core principles of phonics and literacy for young children.

This fresh, current approach to teaching phonics is designed by Teacher Created Materials to help students unlock words and build comprehension in a developmentally-appropriate way. This series of kits for Pre-K through Grade 2 was developed to unleash the world of phonics by engaging students with real-world context. It is intentional, purposeful, and accessible for all teachers and students.

Available for Grades PK-2.

Early Childhood Themes

Support early childhood educators in developing young children's language and academic vocabulary.

Teacher Created Materials' early childhood kits provide a comprehensive curriculum around a theme, crossing key early childhood content areas, including math, phonemic awareness, music, and more. Experienced and beginning teachers alike will benefit from the early childhood lesson plans to create a rich and engaging classroom experience specifically designed for early childhood students' unique needs, abilities, and interests.

Available for Grades PK-2.

TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers

Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics concepts and themes into your reading block with these engaging nonfiction books for kids.

These dynamic and engaging nonfiction readers are the perfect tool for supplementing your reading program or classroom library. Teacher Created Materials designed this series to meet students' needs for high-interest informational text by providing nonfiction readers that feature a variety of text structures, domain-specific and academic vocabulary, and complex text aligned to the content areas.

Available for Grades K-8.

Purposeful Pairs: Connecting Fiction and Nonfiction

Connect paired fiction and nonfiction texts to address similar themes across different genres.

Teacher Created Materials has designed a series that integrates fiction and nonfiction books for kids to explore essential questions, build literacy skills, and promote intertextual connections. Teachers guide students in close reading of carefully selected paired informational and literary texts. The lessons help maximize instructional time by correlating to college and career readiness standards.

Available for Grades 1-3.

Fiction Readers

Encourage beginning readers to develop a love of reading with fiction readers filled with colorful illustrations and engaging stories.

This collection of fiction readers will stimulate students' interest about the world, while broadening their reading experiences, and enriching their academic vocabularies. Students are introduced to a range of genres, including realistic fiction, historical fiction, adventure, poetry, science fiction, humor, diaries, journals, traditional stories, fables, fairy tales, biographies, and autobiographies.

Available for Grades 1-3.

Primary Source Readers

Develop students' curiosity about the past while building content knowledge and reading and writing skills.

Filled with high-interest, nonfiction content and fascinating photos and source materials, these books are perfect for developing and improving students' social studies knowledge. Designed by Teacher Created Materials, this series brings the past to life and fosters content-area literacy through the use of reading and writing activities focused on social studies content.

Available for Grades 1-5.

Primary Source Readers Content and Literacy

Differentiate instruction while spanning the four strands of social studies content to help build conceptual social studies knowledge.

These kits build literacy and social studies content knowledge with the use of high-interest, appropriately leveled nonfiction books for kids. Designed by Teacher Created Materials, each kit features dynamic readers that meet the four strands of social studies: history, civics, geography, and economics. Every lesson offers multiple opportunities to foster curiosity, study relationships, and reflect on new learning.

Available for Grades K-3.

Primary Source Readers Focus On

Take an in-depth look at key Social Studies topics and explore the past while building content knowledge and reading and writing skills.

Filled with content-rich, age-appropriate books that complement social studies and language arts curricula, these books are the perfect tool to develop and improve students' social studies knowledge. Developed by Teacher Created Materials, this series delves into specific social studies topics that help bring the past to life and fosters content-area literacy through the use of reading and writing activities.

Available for Grades 4-8.

Science Readers

Teach content-area knowledge and critical-thinking skills through meaningful science content!

Science, language arts, inquiry, and literacy are combined to create this series of engaging books, each focused on a single strand: physical, earth and space, or life science. The books in this Teacher Created Materials series follow the 5E model of instruction, are written in leveled pairs for differentiation, support inquiry-based learning, and include real-life photos, charts, illustrations, sidebars, and simple science experiments to keep students motivated and engaged while reading and comprehending science content.

Available for Grades K-5.

Science Readers: A Closer Look

Focus on specific science topics while building science content knowledge through motivating and engaging science books!

Developed by Teacher Created Materials, this series features paired, high-interest, low-readability books that focus on key science topics - perfect for pre-teaching science content. The books in this series follow the 5E model of instruction, are written in leveled pairs for differentiation, support inquiry-based learning, and include real-life photos, charts, illustrations, sidebars, and simple science experiments to keep students motivated and engaged while reading and comprehending science content.

Available for Grades 1-3.

Science Readers: Content and Literacy

Improve nonfiction reading comprehension while learning key scientific concepts.

This series from Teacher Created Materials helps students simultaneously build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately leveled informational text featuring hands-on simple science experiments. Each kit provides multiple texts around common strands: life science, physical science, earth and space science, and scientific practices.

Available for Grades K-5.

Mathematics Readers, 2nd Edition

Efficiently integrate instruction in mathematics and reading comprehension with a collection of engaging math readers that focus on mathematical practices.

Teacher Created Materials' Mathematics Readers, 2nd Edition, combines nonfiction and fiction texts with problem solving and mathematical reasoning and real-world connections to help students explore mathematical practices in a meaningful way. Standards-based lessons address the instructional shifts of focus, coherence, and rigor and challenge students to use higher-order thinking skills, while facilitating meaningful mathematical discourse.

Available for Grades K-6.

Building Fluency through Reader's Theater

Develop students' fluency in reading using engaging scripts, poems, and songs!

Teacher Created Materials' research-based reading series is designed to teach reading, listening, and speaking skills through the performance of colorful scripts and focused instruction. Students will improve fluency and comprehension by reading and rereading the engaging scripts, which are based on quality literature and a performance-based learning format. The differentiated scripts ensure that students of all reading levels can fully participate. This is the perfect classroom resource to address the needs of varied readers!

Available for Grades PK-6.

Professional Resources from Shell Education

Easy-to-use classroom and professional resources that provide real solutions for teachers in today's classrooms.

Available for Grades K-12.