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TCM | Teacher Created Materials

Teacher Created Materials (TCM) has spent over 40 years making learning more fun and effective by capturing students’ attention with innovative and imaginative products. TCM has become known and trusted by educators for providing materials that empower students to become lifelong learners. All TCM books are leveled by Lexile® and Fountas and Pinnell.

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Smithsonian

Grades K-5

TCM ignites students’ desire to solve real-world problems through hands-on STEAM challenges created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. This series features high-interest leveled readers and career advice from Smithsonian staff working in STEAM professions.

This opportunity to design, fail, redesign, and improve helps learners build a set of invaluable life skills. It is so exciting to see students developing and refining these skills over time. These young students will be the people who change the world as we know it. It is our job to provide them with the skills to do so!

— Sally Creel, Ed.D, STEM & Innovation Supervisor, Professional Development Consultant

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  • Making a Mummy STEAM Challenge
  • Designing a Shuttle STEAM Challenge

Time For Kids

Grades K-5 • Available in English and Spanish

Featuring content from TIME FOR KIDS®, these dynamic nonfiction books are designed to keep both gifted and striving readers engaged. Perfect for hi-lo projects and improving reading skills, this series features trios of leveled books.

These leveled [books] entertain while filling a curricular need. Conversational text and absorbing layouts with plenty of sidebars, questions to consider, facts, graphics, and color photos will entice even the most reluctant of readers.

— Booklist

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  • Sample the TIME FOR KIDS Readers Guide - Cell Phone Pros and Cons
  • Sample the TIME FOR KIDS Readers - Stressed Out!

TIME

Informational Text

Grades 6-8

Engage middle school students to develop their higher order thinking skills and vocabulary with relevant, age-appropriate topics featuring TIME content. Each book includes special features, including Think Link, Dig Deeper! and Try It, to prepare students for college and career readiness.

This series of leveled readers is written with the middle school student in mind. These short paperbacks...[provide] resources for students to explore, a problem-solving activity, and a reader’s guide... Fact boxes throughout support the text with interesting information that will engage readers.

— School Library Connection

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  • Sample the TIME Readers Guide - Power of Patterns: Coding
  • Sample the TIME Reader Guide – Struggle for Survival: Fire

Literary Text

Grades K-5 • Available in
English with Select Titles in Spanish

These beautifully illustrated fiction leveled readers are designed to capture students’ attention and build word-recognition skills, reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension through intricate, leveled readers. Kids will enjoy the wide range of engaging fiction genres that include chapter books, graphic novels, and poetry. .

Literary Texts are based on a solid foundation of reading research, recommended instructional practice, and curriculum standards. The ultimate aim of the program is to develop students who are independent and joyful readers, able to read fluently, understand texts deeply, and take delight in stories.

– Dr. Timothy Rasinski, Kent State University

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Themed Fiction and
Nonfiction Sets

Grades K-3 • Available in
English with Select Titles in Spanish

Dive into these fun and engaging leveled compilations of TIME FOR KIDS® and Literary Text in six-book themed sets on animals, health and fitness, space adventures, and the human body. Each set includes three fiction and three nonfiction titles.

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See Me Read! Everyday Words

See Me Read! Everyday Words

Grades PreK-1

Develop confidence in emergent readers while they learn to recognize the most frequently used words in multiple contexts with these fun, colorful books featuring rebus pictures. These books focus on Fry’s First 100 Words, so students can practice reading while developing vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills.

I love that the books are nonfiction and that my students can read them independently. The topics are kid-friendly and cover all content areas.

– Kindergarten Teacher, Texas

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