Build reading skills with this comprehensive kit that offers exciting informational texts in the science, social studies, and mathematics subject areas, highlighting intriguing topics for middle school students. Developed by one of the leading experts in reading research - Timothy Rasinski - this extensive kit offers strategies to teach nonfiction content and boost student reading skills. This kit comes with 18 high-interest texts, purposefully leveled to increase comprehension and engage different types of learners. Each text features complex and rigorous content with different types of readers including: Narrative (biography and memoir), Exposition (high level of text complexity broken into chapters), and Compendium (independent chapters with various genres in one book). Aligned with Common Core State Standards, TIME Nonfiction Readers: Grade 8 Kit connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career. This extensive kit includes:
Each leveled reader motivates students to want to read with high-interest content and engaging illustrations and photographs. The authentic reading experiences help students develop vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills.
Power of Patterns: Cryptography 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 7-8 Item Number: 25714 Cryptography is a mighty tool that has shaped the history of the world. The techniques to encode messages have evolved over time. Learn about the history of cryptography and its modern uses with this high-interest nonfiction book! |
Power of Patterns: Coding 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25715 Imagine creating a useful tool simply by writing words on a page. With computer programming, you can make this happen! This leveled text guides students to increased fluency and comprehension as they read nonfiction text about computer programming. |
Power of Patterns: Fractals 6-PackLevel: $60.99 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25716 Fractals are defined as shapes that exhibit self-similarity and high complexity. This high-interest reader introduces students to fractals, and teaches them new concepts and vocabulary terms, while increasing fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text. |
Safe & Sound: Stop Bullying 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25717 This nonfiction book teaches the various types of bullying, the effects it can have on both victims and instigators, how to recognize bullying, and how to help put a stop to it. Guide students through an important topic with this leveled text. |
Safe & Sound: Social Media 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25718 Explore the history of the Internet and social media while learning how to safely navigate them! This high-interest informational text covers important topics including cyberbullying, phishing, copyright infringement, plagiarism, spam, viruses and more. |
Safe & Sound: Our Health 6-PackLevel: $52.24 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25719 How can you live a happy and healthy life? This book shows you the right foods to eat and why you should be eating them as well as why exercise is good for both your body and your mind. Learn how to manage stress, relationships, and so much more! |
Power of Patterns: Cryptography 6-Pack |
Power of Patterns: Coding 6-Pack |
Power of Patterns: Fractals 6-Pack |
Safe & Sound: Stop Bullying 6-Pack |
Safe & Sound: Social Media 6-Pack |
Safe & Sound: Our Health 6-Pack |
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True Life: Alexander Hamilton 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25723 Hamilton's influence still resonates through America. Learn about the ups and downs of the relationships in Hamilton's personal and political life with this nonfiction reader! This leveled text guides students to increased fluency and comprehension. |
True Life: Frederick Douglass 6-PackLevel: $52.24 Grade: 7-8 Item Number: 25724 This is the true-life story of Frederick Douglass, as seen through his eyes and the eyes of those who influenced and inspired him along the way. This purposefully leveled text guides students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text. |
True Life: Alice Paul 6-PackLevel: $52.24 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25725 Alice Paul dedicated her entire life to women's rights. She was one of the greatest activists, social-justice advocates, and civil rights leaders in history. This leveled reader guides students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text. |
Surprising Things We Do for Beauty 6-PackLevel: $60.99 Grade: 7-8 Item Number: 25726 The perception of beauty varies from person to person and culture to culture. This high-interest text teaches students about other cultures' interpretations of what makes people beautiful and gives meaningful insight into those cultures' ways of life. |
Surprising Things We Eat 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 7-8 Item Number: 25727 Sink your teeth into delicacies from different places and cultures and discover the stories behind the food from around the world that people love to eat. This leveled reader guides students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text. |
Surprising Things We Do for Fun 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25728 From chess boxing to worm charming, our planet is filled with some peculiar pastimes. With this high-interest, leveled nonfiction reader, teach students about the strange and unusual ways that people from around the world choose to pass the time. |
True Life: Alexander Hamilton 6-Pack |
True Life: Frederick Douglass 6-Pack |
True Life: Alice Paul 6-Pack |
Surprising Things We Do for Beauty 6-Pack |
Surprising Things We Eat 6-Pack |
Surprising Things We Do for Fun 6-Pack |
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You Are There! Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 6-PackLevel: $52.24 Grade: 7-8 Item Number: 25933 Experience the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of a 14-year-old soldier serving as a drummer in the Confederate Army. Featuring TIME content, this 6-Pack of nonfiction readers builds critical literacy skills while enriching content-area instruction. |
You Are There! Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25934 Teach students about the historical attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 with this nonfiction reader. Featuring TIME content, this leveled text builds critical literacy skills while engaging students and enriching content-area instruction. |
You Are There! March on Washington, August 28, 1963 6-PackLevel: $52.24 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25935 On August 28, 1963, some 250,000 people marched peacefully from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in the name of equality for African Americans. Teach students about the March on Washington with this 6-Pack of nonfiction readers. |
Game Changers: Lin-Manuel Miranda 6-PackLevel: $61.74 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25936 This biography details the fascinating life of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the award-winning actor, playwright, and composer of Hamilton: An American Musical. Featuring TIME content, this nonfiction reader builds literacy skills and enriches instruction. |
Game Changers: A Biography of J. K. Rowling 6-PackLevel: $60.99 Grade: 7-8 Item Number: 25937 This intriguing biography examines the life of the writer who brought us the magical world of Harry Potter. Featuring TIME content, this nonfiction reader builds critical literacy skills while engaging students and enriching content-area instruction. |
Game Changers: Kwame Alexander 6-PackLevel: $52.24 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25938 This intriguing biography examines the life of the author of The Crossover, which won the Newbery Medal in 2015. Featuring TIME content, this nonfiction reader builds critical literacy skills while engaging students and enriching content-area instruction. |
You Are There! Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 6-Pack |
You Are There! Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 6-Pack |
You Are There! March on Washington, August 28, 1963 6-Pack |
Game Changers: Lin-Manuel Miranda 6-Pack |
Game Changers: A Biography of J. K. Rowling 6-Pack |
Game Changers: Kwame Alexander 6-Pack |
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TIME® Nonfiction Readers: Grade 8 Add-on PackLevel: $151.05 Grade: 8 Item Number: 25593 The TIME Nonfiction Readers, Grade 8 Add-On Pack offers an exciting mix of high-interest readers in the science, social studies, and math subject areas. This Add-On Pack provides a collection of interesting texts to add to your classroom library. |
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Provide teachers with the tools they need to do their jobs more effectively with easy-to-use, standards-based lesson plans. Each lesson is organized in a consistent format for ease of use. Lessons focus on two of the following key nonfiction skills or strategies:
Each trio of readers is accompanied by a variety of texts such as primary sources, articles, poems, and other text types.
The Assessment Guide includes research about assessments, how to use the included assessments, a series Placement Test in digital format, an oral reading record and multiple choice questions for each book, cited references, and an answer key for the lesson
Integrate technology into literacy instruction and prepare students for a more technologically advanced world through Interactiv-eBooks provided in each Nonfiction Readers kit.
Enhance instruction through meaningful tools for interacting with the text. For assessing students' fluency and comprehension, teachers can use the Interactiv-eBooks to prompt questions within the text through digital sticky notes, as well as encourage students to record themselves reading with the record tool to practice fluent reading.
Interactiv-eBooks can be used in a group, paired, or individual setting. Interactiv-eBooks are available as a Single Classroom License in each Nonfiction Readers kit, but can be ordered as School Site Licenses as well.
Professional recordings of books and poems model fluent reading.
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.
Filled with tips to help develop reading skills at home, teachers can easily print and share the document with parents and caregivers to use with their children. In addition to informational texts found at home, digital versions of each book in the kit can also be printed and replicated for students to take home.