Series highlights include:
- Books - 16 titles, 6 copies each, 24-32 pages per book
- Teacher's Guide with lesson plans for each book, activity sheets, multiple-choice quizzes, and document-based assessments
- Primary Sources in digital format to support texts
- Interactiv-eBooks to engage students and extend the reading experience
- Audio Recordings of each book to support fluency and English language learners
Books - 16 titles, 6 copies each, 24-32 pages per book
Build conceptual social studies knowledge with leveled informational text spanning the four strands of social studies content: civics, geography, economics, and history. Each book in Primary Source Readers is designed around primary sources that tell about the subject.
Teacher's Guide
Primary Source Readers offers multiple opportunities to foster curiosity, study relationships, and reflect on new learning. The standards-based lessons serves as a crucial bridge between reading and writing and content-area material. Each pair of readers has one nonfiction reading skill and one writing skill on which the lessons are focused.
Primary Sources
Each book is designed around primary sources that offer key information and support about the subject. Primary sources not only engage students in the social studies content, but prepare them for state and national tests that use document-based assessments. Each lesson provides teachers with background information on the primary source along with an activity.
Interactiv-eBooks
Guide students toward independent reading while exploring core concepts with the 16 Interactiv-eBooks in each kit. Interactiv-eBooks can benefit student learning in a variety of instructional settings, support English language acquisition, and further content and literacy learning.
Interactiv-eBooks include a wide variety of features that build literacy and engage readers, including:
- Text-to-audio highlighting
- Professional audio recordings
- Interactive activities and response to literature prompts
- Whiteboard tools
- Writing activities
Audio Recordings
Professional audio recordings for each book serve as a model of fluent reading.