Quick Start Guides: Start Here and Go Further

Book Tastings
Teach students how to search for a title. The title page allows them to locate video book trailers, Meet-the-Author Recordings, and ebook previews.

Find the next great read
Now that students know how to search, model using the Discover Like Books feature. This can facilitate conversations about why they enjoyed the book. Do they want to explore more titles by that author, with the same cultural experience, or that are “similar to” the title?

Genre Studies
Use the Browse feature to search by a particular genre. Perhaps they're interested in adventure stories, horror, or humor. Filters allow students to narrow their search.

Author Connections
Hear directly from the authors! Search for an author and explore the books they've written. Listen to or watch interviews from a variety of sources to gain insight into their creative processes.

Practice research skills
As students are learning more about authors, demonstrate how they can use the share arrow to locate APA and MLA citations. Students can add a citation to a presentation or paper.

Puzzles and games
Students love games! Set up two versions of a puzzle on a smart board and have teams see who can solve it first. Create a list of titles by theme, topic, or genre then play the concentration game.

How are you sharing TeachingBooks with your readers?

Increase Access to Nonfiction Titles

• Tap into the breadth of nonfiction titles on TeachingBooks and bring up-to-date content across a plethora of topics to your literary spaces.
• Bring these books to life with author and book resources like this book trailer for They Called Us Enemy by George Takei.
• Spark conversation and inquiry with resources for titles within and beyond your physical collection like this Meet-the-Author Recording with Shane Burcaw on Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability.

Use Nonfiction Titles to Enhance Reading Comprehension

• Build subject matter interest and background knowledge with...
  • Educator guides like this one for I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  • Meet-the-Author resources like this Meet-the-Author Movie with Joseph Medicine Crow on Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond
• Deepen comprehension and draw students into nonfiction texts with nonfiction booklists and awards like...
  • Orbis Pictus Award
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Support Differentiated Engagement with Nonfiction Titles

• Utilize nonfiction titles to support ELLs with reading comprehension and overall engagement. Provide additional support for these readers using...
  • Vocabulary Lists
  • Audio book readings
• Scaffold readers' nonfiction reading by presenting them with a range of reading levels on the same topic. Build a basic foundation with early reader nonfiction texts as an introduction to higher level texts on the same topic.
  • Browse by subject to discover titles across grade levels.
  • Create Multi-Leveled Lessons — found under each title — to scaffold learning and document knowledge growth. For example, use this discussion guide from Candace Fleming and Eric Rohman on their book Giant Squid then complete a set of Multi-Leveled Lessons.