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Teacher Created Materials offers a rich variety of educational materials designed for Texas!
Developed by teachers for teachers and students, these customized resources are aligned to Texas standards for Writing, English Language Learning, Math, Science and Social Studies.
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ESSERIntervention and Enrichment Programs
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Focused Mathematics Intervention
Reinforce key mathematical concepts and build mathematical fluency with this easy-to-use intervention program.
This versatile program incorporates effective, research-based intervention strategies while emphasizing critical areas of mathematical focus at each grade level.
Focused Reading Intervention
Bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers through focused instruction of key literacy skills and comprehension strategies.
Provide educators with tailored intervention resources that meet struggling readers where they are and bring them up to grade level
Exploring Reading
Guide all students to become strong, independent readers!/
This strategic and comprehensive intervention program engages students to discover the true joy of reading while mastering foundational skills.
Building Vocabulary, 2nd Edition
Build academic vocabulary in as little as 20 minutes a day.
Set students up for academic success across the content areas with this systematic approach to teaching vocabulary.
Language Power
Empower English language learners to build language proficiency through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This flexible solution helps educators tackle the unique challenges that English language learners face.
Road to the Teks
Extended Constructed Response: Text Sets for Texas
Prepare for STAAR Reading Language Arts Success
(Grades 3-5)
Developed by Texas literacy experts, this series features engaging text passages and curated writing prompts aligned with TEKS, offering key practice to boost writing confidence and performance.
Practicing for Success: STAAR
Give today’s students the tools they need to excel on the TEKS Assessments
These books provide strategies for practicing for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to prepare students for the standardized assessment.
Exploring Reading
Guide all students to become strong, independent readers!
Exploring Reading, is a strategic resource that supports a range of reading experiences. Students will learn how to integrate essential reading strategies to successfully comprehend complex fiction and nonfiction text across a wide range of text types and lengths.
Write TIME FOR KIDS ®
Help students master and enjoy writing with this engaging series.
Developed by Teacher Created Materials, this extensive writing program uses diverse texts, guided instruction and purposeful practice to help develop today's young readers and writers. Teacher resources are embedded throughout the series, and provide a sequential, practical way to teach critical writing skills.
Teacher Created Materials Leveled Texts, Texas Edition
Help students develop comprehension and critical thinking skills with purposeful passages!
Take students from skills practice to mastery with hundreds of flexible-use, TEKS-aligned digital text passages curated from Teacher Created Materials’ vault of award-winning resources. Teacher Created Materials Leveled Texts: Passages for Practice and Mastery, Texas Edition is a collection of short, purposeful digital texts that bring engaging, complex texts to the classroom in the most flexible way possible.
Supplemental Curriculum Materials
Smithsonian STEAM Readers
Build literacy skills while challenging students to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems!
Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this dynamic series engages students with high-interest readers that highlight all aspects of STEAM: science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics.
Primary Source Readers
Seamlessly integrate social studies into language arts instruction.
Build literacy and social studies content knowledge with these high-interest, content-rich readers.
Science Readers
Help students explore, collaborate, inquire, and think critically about science!
Integrate science and literacy instruction through meaningful science content.
Mathematics Readers
Efficiently integrate instruction in mathematics and language arts with high-interest math readers that focus on mathematical practices
Help students explore mathematics in meaningful ways with fiction and nonfiction texts that promote problem-solving skills and mathematical reasoning through real-world connections.
TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers
Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics content into language arts instruction with these dynamic nonfiction books.
This series meets students' needs for high-interest informational text by providing nonfiction readers that feature a variety of text structures, domain-specific and academic vocabulary, and complex text aligned to the content areas.
At-Home Learning Materials
Take-Home Backpacks
Prevent summer learning loss, prepare students for the coming school year, and strengthen school-home connections.
Keep students reading over the summer while providing parents with tools to support their child's learning at home.
Kids Learn!
Prevent summer learning loss and prepare students for the upcoming grade level.
This parental-involvement resource features standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics that both reinforce learning from the recently completed school year and prepare students for the next grade level.
Let's Learn!
Not sure what school will look like this year?
Let’s Learn! and Let's Learn More! are designed to provide a combined 36 weeks of learning whether it be virtual or in-person.
Let's Learn! Backpacks
Prepare for the Unknown!
Keep students on track, prevent learning loss, and prepare for unknown learning environments!
Social and Emotional Learning Support
180 Days of Social and Emotional Learning
180 days of daily practice for Social-Emotional Learning.
This best-selling series provides lessons designed to immerse students in Social-Emotional Learning, learn key skills, and form good habits.
SEL At-Home Learning Bundles
Product bundles for Social-Emotional Learning.
These at-home learning bundles provide students with both strong curriculum and the social-emotional support they need to be successful in the classroom and beyond.
At Your Fingertips: Guide for Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
Promote student mindfulness with confidence.
This 6-page guide offers insightful strategies to help you create a positive learning environment focused on students’ emotional health.
Effective Strategies for Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
Embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into everyday instruction.
Learn how to embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into everyday instruction with useful strategies by diving into each of CASEL's core competencies.
Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
Social and emotional learning is a hot topic in education.
If there's one thing teachers should agree on, it's that creating a culture and climate conducive to fostering SEL is something we should all strive toward as educators.
Professional Development Training Options
Workshops
You pick the topic and we provide engaging training for small groups or your entire staff.
Attendees will have multiple opportunities to apply and demonstrate what they learn.
Keynote Presentations
We work with some of the most well-known and in-demand authors and experts presenting the Guided Math topic today.
Let us kick-off your Guided Math Implementation and get you started on the right track.
Best Practices Webinars
Our most cost-effective and flexible option.
Webinars are a great tool to sustain professional learning and to focus on a key topic or strategy.
On-site Coaching
Professional learning choices for educators.
The coaching is designed to support teachers and practitioners with this important work.
Product Training
Welcome to TCM Virtual Product Launches!
Virtual Product Launches are specially designed to quickly train teachers on how to use a particular product so they can be more effective in their teaching.
Summer School/After School Intervention
Texas Student Success
SSI Reading and Mathematics Solutions for Summer School
This turnkey solution is designed for reading and mathematics intervention. Support students and teachers with a flexible summer learning resource that builds key readiness TEKS and prepares students to be confident STAAR test takers.
Focused Intervention
Reach Every Student With Proven Intervention.
Designed with flexibility in mind, our reading and mathematics intervention resources can be used for short-term or year-long instruction in a variety of instructional settings. Literacy and math games are available in both print and digital formats to motivate and engage students and guide them toward independent skills application. These products align to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
Booster Packs
Extend Reading and Mathematics practice with Focused Reading and Focused Mathematics Booster Packs!
These flexible and effective Focused Reading and Mathematics Booster Packs feature engaging, high-interest books and student-friendly activities. The multi-modal activities accommodate different learning styles and can be quickly integrated into instruction with minimal prep time. Teachers can effortlessly customize pacing according to students' needs by assigning specific activities or by allowing students to choose their own activities.
At Home Intervention
Take-Home Backpacks
Prevent summer learning loss, prepare students for the coming school year, and strengthen school-home connections.
Keep students reading over the summer while providing parents with tools to support their child's learning at home.
Kids Learn!
Prevent summer learning loss and prepare students for the upcoming grade level.
This parental-involvement resource features standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics that both reinforce learning from the recently completed school year and prepare students for the next grade level.
In-Class Intervention
Exploring Reading
Guide all students to become strong, independent readers!
Exploring Reading, is a strategic resource that supports a range of reading experiences. Students will learn how to integrate essential reading strategies to successfully comprehend complex fiction and nonfiction text across a wide range of text types and lengths.
Language Power
Empower English language learners to build language proficiency through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This flexible and portable solution from Teacher Created Materials helps educators tackle the unique challenges that English language learners face. This highly differentiated and rich English language development resource is anchored by a dynamic, level-appropriate text set that provides rigorous instruction in the four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
¡Yo aprendo!
Prepare young English language learners for the next school year with this engaging bilingual program!
Available for Grades Pre-K-1.
Test Preparation
Practicing for Success: STAAR
Give today’s students the tools they need to excel on the TEKS Assessments
These books provide strategies for practicing for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to prepare students for the standardized assessment.
Extended Constructed Response: Text Sets for Texas
Prepare for STAAR Reading Language Arts Success
(Grades 3-5)
Developed by Texas literacy experts, this series features engaging text passages and curated writing prompts aligned with TEKS, offering key practice to boost writing confidence and performance.
Practicing for Success: STAAR
Give today’s students the tools they need to excel on the TEKS Assessments
These books provide strategies for practicing for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to prepare students for the standardized assessment.
Exploring Reading
Guide all students to become strong, independent readers!
Exploring Reading, is a strategic resource that supports a range of reading experiences. Students will learn how to integrate essential reading strategies to successfully comprehend complex fiction and nonfiction text across a wide range of text types and lengths.
Write TIME FOR KIDS ®
Help students master and enjoy writing with this engaging series.
Developed by Teacher Created Materials, this extensive writing program uses diverse texts, guided instruction and purposeful practice to help develop today's young readers and writers. Teacher resources are embedded throughout the series, and provide a sequential, practical way to teach critical writing skills.
Teacher Created Materials Leveled Texts, Texas Edition
Help students develop comprehension and critical thinking skills with purposeful passages!
Take students from skills practice to mastery with hundreds of flexible-use, TEKS-aligned digital text passages curated from Teacher Created Materials’ vault of award-winning resources. Teacher Created Materials Leveled Texts: Passages for Practice and Mastery, Texas Edition is a collection of short, purposeful digital texts that bring engaging, complex texts to the classroom in the most flexible way possible.
Practicing for Success: STAAR
Give today’s students the tools they need to excel on the TEKS Assessments
These books provide strategies for practicing for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to prepare students for the standardized assessment.
Take-Home Backpacks
Prevent summer learning loss, prepare students for the coming school year, and strengthen school-home connections.
Keep students reading over the summer while providing parents with tools to support their child's learning at home.
Kids Learn!
Prevent summer learning loss and prepare students for the upcoming grade level.
This parental-involvement resource features standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics that both reinforce learning from the recently completed school year and prepare students for the next grade level.
Family Engagement Guides
Preparing your child for third grade is easy with our Family Engagement Guides!
Our Family Engagement Guides provide exactly what you need to help your child build key skills in areas like math, reading, writing, science, and social studies using real-world learning alongside family.
Write TIME FOR KIDS ®
Help students master and enjoy writing with this engaging series.
Developed by Teacher Created Materials, this extensive writing program uses diverse texts, guided instruction and purposeful practice to help develop today's young readers and writers. Teacher resources are embedded throughout the series, and provide a sequential, practical way to teach critical writing skills.
Language Power
Empower English language learners to build language proficiency through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This flexible solution helps educators tackle the unique challenges that English language learners face.
¡Yo aprendo!
Prepare young English language learners for the next school year with this engaging bilingual program!
Available for Grades Pre-K-1.
Mathematics Readers, 2nd Edition
Efficiently integrate instruction in mathematics and reading comprehension with a collection of engaging math readers that focus on mathematical practices
Available for Grades K-5.
Focused Mathematics Intervention
Reinforce key mathematical concepts and build mathematical fluency with this engaging, standards-based, easy-to-use intervention program.
Available for Grades K-8.
Focused Mathematics Booster Packs
Extend Mathematics practice with Focused Mathematics Booster Packs!
Each booster pack features engaging books and hours of student-friendly activities that cover a range of topics.
Science Readers: Texas Edition
Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with these rich standards-based kits.
Available for Grades K-5.
Exploring Social Studies Texas
Meet Social Studies and Literacy standards with these comprehensive, ready-to-use kits.
Available for Grades K-5.
Primary Source Readers: Texas History Kit
Cover Texas history topics with leveled, high-interest texts that improve fluency.
Available for Grades 3-4.
Primary Sources Texas Kit
Help students understand the history of Texas with original documents and photographs.
Available for Grades 3-8.