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Teach Diverse Books

Include diverse cultural experiences in your instruction.

  • Identify exceptional multicultural books
  • Bring culture and race to the forefront of literary conversations
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Teacher and student

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Further your connections to books and authors with:

  • Cross-curricular Standards Connections
  • Literacy Connections
  • Ready-to-use Activities
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Learn Directly From Authors & Illustrators

Have the book creator reveal, anytime, their purpose, writing, illustration, and research processes with these TeachingBooks original primary source materials.

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Meet-the-Author Movies

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FEATURING Jack Gantos

In this five-minute mini-documentary, Jack Gantos reveals his love of writing and passion for journaling.

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Meet-the-Author Recordings

The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale

The Legend of Gravity with Charly Palmer

Fooled

Fooled with Susan Haas and Lexi Haas

I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive

I Am We with Leslie Barnard Booth

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