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Did you know that up to a million children's books are published each year?
It is impossible for you to keep up while teaching full time. These books become popular and we know you want them as staples in your classrooms. How are you to find the time to create a whole unit to teach that text? We do it, so you don't have to. These guides are written by highly qualified teachers from K-12 and across the nation. Get yours!
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- Learn how to keep skill-building and criticality integrated
- Incorporate the narratives of often excluded voices
- Get ideas for how to manage the learning
- Try out experiential and flexible learning through sound strategies
- Explore and use the Textured Teaching framework
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- Finally have a bit more time to yourself
- Have ready made resources to use with students
- Feature a popular book and have lessons ready to go
- Have engaging, interdisciplinary, and skills-based lessons at your fingertips
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Unit Guides
Each guide is full of lesson ideas as well as printable resources.
We created these guides so you can breathe. Each guide contains:Â
- Introductory messages with terms to understand
- Goals & objectives tailored for the appropriate grade level
- A brief explanation of Textured TeachingÂ
- Lesson descriptions for each day or weekÂ
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- Reproducibles to be used with students
- Interdisciplinary assessment ideas
- Experiential lessons with corresponding resources, and more
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1st through 12th Grade Unit Guides
Come and Join Us
Liz Kleinrock's picture book all about various holidays and celebrations is a must have for every elementary classroom. (Grades 2-4)
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Inspire your students with this identity-affirming and gorgeously illustrated text. (Grades 2-4)Â
Milo Imagines the World
Matt de la Peña's book will move your readers to dream, draw, and think! (Grades 1-3)
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
Teach your students about community and family through sweet story book. (Grades 3-5)
I Am Every Good Thing
Powerful and featuring a confident main character, this should be a staple in every elementary classroom. (Grades 1-3)
Your Name Is a Song
Enchanting and exploratory, this book will help you build community and affirm identities. (Grades 1-3)
The Hate U Give
Powerful and conflict-driven, this book is meant for today's classrooms everywhere. (Grade 9)
The Whole Story of a Half Girl
An often excluded voice, she will help your students analyze the connections between identity, conformity, society, and more . (Grades 6-7)
Aniana del Mar Jumps In
Exploring disability, identity, culture, friendship, and trauma, this novel in verse will surely inspire and challenge your readers . (Grades 8-9)
King and the Dragonflies
This tender story will lead your readers to explore friendships, identity, and social expectations. (Grades 9-10)
Internment
It's a plausible dystopian future and Ahmed doesn't let us rest until we see what happens next. (Grade 10)
There There
A powerful story about Native identity and prime for deep & meaningful literary analysis. This novel merits your full attention. (Grade 12)
These guides are for you if...
- You are drowning in work
- You aren’t sure if you can create new lessons for these newer novels
- You don’t have at least 5-7 hours to create new units
- You dream of spending more quality time building relationships with students
- You want to actually build literary analysis skills
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