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Big and Little

In this basic concept nonfiction book, bright photos and simple, informational text encourage beginning readers to compare sizes to find what's big and little in their world!

Colors

Beginning readers are introduced to primary colors with this colorful nonfiction book that encourages them to recognize colors in the world around them.

Shapes

Beginning readers learn to recognize shapes such as circles, squares, and rectangles in this nonfiction reader that features simple text and bright, vivid images.

This Is Me

Engage early readers in identifying the people and places around them with this fun nonfiction book featuring clear, colorful images and simple text.

My Big Family

Introduce beginning readers to basic familiar vocabulary including family, mother, father, sister, brother, grandma, grandpa, and pets through vibrant images and informational text.

On the Go

Featuring basic concepts, this nonfiction book teaches beginning readers different modes of travel--from bikes and cars to sleds and buses--while incorporating informational text with colorful and engaging images that will delight early readers!

Workers

Familiarize beginning readers with the different jobs of community workers. Featuring basic concepts, easy-to-read informational text, and engaging photographs this nonfiction title is sure to create an exciting learning adventure.

Places to Go

From the beach to the store, introduce beginning readers to various locations! Using colorful, clear images, and informational text, children are encouraged to recognize all the places they go.

Land

Every page in this colorful nonfiction reader features bright, vivid images, descriptive vocabulary, and nonfiction informational text to introduce beginning readers to various types of land, including canyons, deserts, mountains, forests, and more.

Weather

Teach beginning readers about the various types of weather, including rain, sunshine, snow, fog, wind, and clouds with pages full of bright, colorful images and simple, informational text. Readers are encouraged to notice the weather around them.

Water

From streams to oceans, tide pools to rivers, water is all around us! Beginning readers explore different bodies of water in this nonfiction reader. Clear, informational text and engaging photos will educate and intrigue readers simultaneously!

How Plants Grow

Beginning readers explore the steps to make plants grow! Readers will learn about various parts of the plant including seeds, roots, and leaves in this engaging nonfiction title.

Animal Eyes

With this title, beginning readers discover animal eyes of all shapes and sizes. Featuring simple, informational text and colorful images even the most reluctant reader will be eager to learn!

Animal Mothers and Babies

From birds to elephants, whales to cats, all animals experience mothering. Beginning readers explore mothers and babies of different animals in this engaging nonfiction title. With interesting and informational text, readers will be fascinated!

A Frog's Life

Take a trip to the pond and learn how a tadpole grows up to become a frog in this nonfiction book for early readers. Featuring vibrant photographs, illustrations and simple, informative text, readers are sure to be delighted!

A Butterfly's Life

In this engaging nonfiction book, early readers are introduced to the life cycle of a butterfly. Readers will be captivated by the vivid photographs of the butterfly's life, and informative text.

A Bee's Life

How does a small egg become a buzzing bee? With a graph of a bee's life cycle, vivid photos, explanatory vocabulary, and informational text, readers are sure to be captivated!

Things with Wings

Early readers learn about wings, wing anatomy, and animal flight in this descriptive nonfiction reader that features informational text, vivid photos, and a glossary to support instruction.

Sea Life

From tide pools to the ocean, the sea is filled with amazing life forms! Early readers will be engaged from beginning to end with informational text, vivid photos, and a picture glossary of marine animals.

Going Buggy!

Early readers learn about insects and spiders in this basic-concept, nonfiction book. With its bright colors, picture glossary, and informative text, readers will be immersed in the world of insects and spiders!

Make Papel Picado

Do you have something to celebrate? You can celebrate by making papel picado! Featuring vibrant step-by-step photo instructions, this nonfiction book helps introduce children to another culture through craft-making and designs.

Make a Chinese New Year Dragon

Early readers can learn how to make their very own Chinese New Year dragon in this step-by-step instructional nonfiction book. Bright, vivid photos and a glossary of required tools help introduce children to a new culture through craft-making.

Make a Gingerbread Man

Early readers can learn how to make their very own gingerbread man in this step-by-step instructional nonfiction book. Bright, vivid photos and a glossary of tools required give children an opportunity to immerse themselves in craft-making.

Staying Healthy

From eating well to getting enough sleep, this nonfiction book introduces early readers to the basics of staying healthy. The vivid photos and informational text encourage even the most reluctant reader to learn about the benefits of being healthy!

Keeping Fit with Sports

From basketball to karate, this nonfiction reader shows ways of staying fit with sports. Featuring bright, vivid photos and simple, informational text, this book will inspire readers to explore different sports that they'll want to stay fit with!

Eating Right

Early readers learn how to make healthy choices in this nonfiction introduction to nutrition and eating right. Featuring colorful photos and simple, informational text, this book teaches children the benefits of making healthy decisions.

Homes Around the World

Learn about the different places that people call home--from apartments to cottages and castles to farmhouses. With bright, vivid photos and easy-to-read informational text, readers are introduced to different cultures definitions of "home."

Kids Around the World

Introduce early readers to children from all over the globe! Featuring bright photos, colorful maps, and simple informational text, readers are familiarized with other geography, countries, and cultures.

Places Around the World

Take a tour around the world with just a few flips of the pages! This engaging nonfiction reader features clear, vivid photos of landmarks from all around the world including the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, and the Grand Canyon.

A Visit to a Car Factory

Learn the many steps that must be followed to make a car! With vibrant, detailed photos, informational text, and a chart to show steps of the assembly line, even the most reluctant reader will want to learn more about this fascinating factory!

Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments

This resource defines social and emotional learning and digs into the real work of incorporating SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom.

Chuck's Diner

Chuck the groundhog runs a diner in the woods but his customers, the forest animals, don't always behave as they should. Children will be delighted by this fun-filled tale of dining-out disasters as they learn about good table manners.

The Ugly Duckling

Meet a fluffy little fellow who is not like any of the other ducklings! This beautifully illustrated fiction reader introduces children to the classic tale, The Ugly Duckling. Beginning readers will learn why it's important not to judge by appearance.

Puzzled

Gino's friends are excited to help him with a puzzle. But what happens when Gino doesn't want to share? Teach beginning readers about the importance of sharing and getting along with others with this beautifully illustrated fiction reader.

Goldilocks Visits Her Aunts

In this silly sequel to Goldilocks and the Three Beers, readers will discover how much Goldilocks learned about manners from the bears. Readers will be captivated by this beautifully illustrated story that puts a new spin on an old classic.

The Raven: A Modern Retelling

Readers will be "haunted" by this spooky, modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem, The Raven. Appealing to both reluctant and avid readers, students who enjoy suspenseful stories will not be able to put this one down.

Biking for a Cause

Jae is preparing to bike 150 miles in 2 days to raise money for the National MS Society. But after a bike accident, will he be able to conquer his fear and participate in the marathon? This book will appeal to fans of realistic fiction!

Cooking Up a Friendship

When "popular" Tyler is forced to invite "weird" Mackenzie to his party, they're surprised to find how much they have in common. Readers will enjoy this realistic fiction story about an unexpected friendship that explores important social issues.

The Clique

This realistic fiction chapter book explores the theme of bullying. When Jayden becomes friends with a bullied student, he must choose between loyalty to an old friend and doing what's right.

Meeting of the Bad Guys

Timothy is shocked when he is sent to detention. Imagine his surprise when he finds the Big Bad Wolf, Goldilocks, Captain Hook, and the Evil Stepsisters are serving detention with him! Students will be captivated by this imaginative story told in verse.

The Day the Towers Fell

Told from the point of view of a Muslim student, this graphic novel introduces the events of September 11, 2001 to students and explores important social issues.

The Egg Salad Sandwich Incident

In this fiction reader, the new kid at school gets pressured by the popular kids into pulling pranks on other students. This book features full-color illustrations, compelling text, and chapter format to build reading comprehension and fluency.

Under the Bridge

Nina, Maricela, and Alejandro decide to help some homeless people living near their school in Los Angeles in this illustrated, realistic fiction book. The compelling text and chapter format help build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.

The Boy and the Bayonet

This historical fiction book is based on a story by the African-American poet and playwright, Paul Laurence Dunbar. It features full-color illustrations, compelling text, and chapter format to build reading comprehension.

The Story of My Life

Things aren't going well for Lexi. She's stuck in remedial gym class and suffering from writer's block. But when some girls find and read her diary, things get surprisingly better. This realistic fiction book is written in a compelling diary format.

Practice Makes Perfect

Baseball fans will love this illustrated fiction reader about two friends--one who's good at math and one who's good at sports--who must collaborate in order to beat the best team in the league.

Victoria's Victory

Victoria would rather play football than be a cheerleader, and her stepbrother would rather be a cheerleader than play football in this realistic fiction book featuring full-color illustrations, compelling text, and chapter format.

Homemade Time Machine

When Ralph's and Luna's science fair project doesn't work, they travel back in time to see how inventors from the past have dealt with failure. This illustrated fiction reader features compelling text and chapter format to build comprehension.

Acertijo (Puzzled)

Gino's friends are excited to help him with a puzzle. But what happens when Gino doesn't want to share? Teach beginning readers about the importance of sharing and getting along with others with this beautifully illustrated Spanish book.

Effective Strategies for Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom

Learn how to embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into everyday instruction with useful strategies. Includes activities, tips, competency connections, and reflection questions to introduce, discuss, and incorporate SEL in the classroom.

Social-Emotional Learning Starts With Us: Empowering Teachers to Support Students

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for Kindergarten

An effective kindergarten workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for First Grade

An effective first grade workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for Second Grade

An effective second grade workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for Third Grade

An effective third grade workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for Fourth Grade

An effective fourth grade workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for Fifth Grade

An effective fifth grade workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

180 Days of Social-Emotional Learning for Sixth Grade

An effective sixth grade workbook that provides daily social and emotional learning (SEL) activities to help students explore emotions, actions, relationships, and decision making. The daily activities connect to the CASEL competencies and mindfulness.

Este soy yo (This Is Me) (Spanish Version)

Engage early readers in identifying the people and places around them with this fun, Spanish-translated nonfiction book featuring clear, colorful images and simple text.

Yo sé (I Can) (Spanish Version)

Featuring basic concepts, this Spanish-translated book uses vivid images, engaging vocabulary, and informational text to inspire beginning readers to recognize activities such as playing, digging, reading, running, swinging, and writing.