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A diverse group of teenagers sitting at a library table discussing a text in front of them.
About Teaching Reading, Content-Area Literacy, Curriculum & Instruction

A Text Set Approach to Teaching Content

Competence may be the reason for engagement. But maybe it’s the other way around. Maybe engagement is the cause of competence. ~ J. Wilhelm and M. W. Smith

 

Two teen girls leaning into one another and smiling.
Curriculum & Instruction

Text Set: Compassion

Compassion is often described as a virtue, but to many tweens and teens, moralistic goals seem lofty and unattainable. By tuning into and building off of students’ empathy, we offer a pathway to developing compassionate teens and better humans. That seems like a goal we can all aspire to!

Group of five teens making silly faces and smiling into the camera
Curriculum & Instruction

Text Set: Friendship

Friendships can change quickly in tween and teen years and are often defining relationships in adolescence. It’s not surprising then that friendship has been an enduring and popular topic in Middle Grade and Young Adult literature. Let your students dive into the songs, texts, novels, and videos we have collected as they read and reflect on their evolving understanding of friendships.

immigrant adults and children walking across land a landscape of the American flag.
Content-Area Literacy

Text Set: Immigration

We hope this text set fosters understanding, empathy, and a high level of engagement for your students as they explore the complexities of the immigrant experience through varying perspectives.

Person standing alone at the top of a mountain with the sun shining behind them.
Content-Area Literacy

Text Set: Unsung Heroes

Unsung heroes have fought injustice, advanced science, and transformed lives through kindness, courage, and ingenuity with little fanfare. They are the best of humanity.

Women marching in 2017 in DC
Advocacy, Gender & Diversity Issues

Text Set: Women Rise Up!

Learn more about the Suffragettes of the late 19th and early 20th century and how the movement for the 19th Amendment was not the end to women’s fight for equality.

Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child
Emma Walton Hamilton

Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Children learn from their mothers and mothers learn from their children. Photographs from the authors’ extended family combine with gentle language to convey universal emotions and universal wisdom.

The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, Book 1
Rick Riordan

The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, Book 1

Genre:
Mystery / Crime
Age Level:
Middle Grade

When Grace Cahill dies, her grandchildren, Amy and Dan, and seven other teams take up the challenge she left behind in her will: to search the globe for the 39 clues that will release the hidden power of the Cahills — a family filled with spies, scientists, artists and explorers — and make the winners the “richest, most important people in history.”