Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals: My Place in the World 

This teacher resource is a binder with interactive read-alouds and  mini-lessons integrated with grade-level social studies content. Mentor texts included:

• Fancy Nancy:  My Family History by Jane O'Connor

• Helpers in My Community by Bobbie Kalman

• A House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman

• Me and My Family Tree by Joan Sweeney

• Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney

• Whose Hat Is This?: A Look at Hats Workers Wear - Hard, Tall, and Shiny by Sharon Katz Cooper

Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals: Communities, Families, and Traditions

This teacher resource is a binder with interactive read-alouds and  mini-lessons integrated with grade-level social studies content. Mentor texts included:

• Be My Neighbor by Maya Ajmera and John D. Ivanko

• Duck for Turkey Day by Jacqueline Jules

• Fathers, Mothers Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems by Mary Ann Hoberman

• Follow That Map!: A First Book of Mapping Skills by Scott Ritchie

• Madlenka by Peter Sis

• My Family by Sheila Kincade

Newsela

Short non-fiction texts available at multiple Lexiles.

• Reading Maps and Globes 

• Major Holidays & Celebrations Text Set 

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Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals: Communities: Urban, Suburban, and Rural

This teacher resource is a binder with interactive read-alouds and  mini-lessons integrated with grade-level social studies content. Mentor texts included:

• City Homes by Nicola Barber

• City Green by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

• Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie Kalman

• Farm Community by Peggy Pancella

• Homes Around the World by Bobbie Kalman

• The Journey by Sarah Stewart

Newsela

Short non-fiction texts available at multiple Lexiles.

• How Government Works: State and Local Power 

• Civil Servants Text Set 

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CultureGrams

A database with information about the countries and cultures of the world including their histories, lifestyles, governments and more.
NOTE: Students should be able to access this resource without entering a library card number as long as they are logged in to their district profile. Non-students will need to log in with a library card. 

Access  to CultureGrams is through ClassLink. It is in the FVRL folder.

Newsela Countries of the World Series

Leveled texts including information about the cultures of over 60 countries around the world. 

Newsela Native American Cultures

Leveled texts including information about the various Native American cultures. 

Access the Newsela through ClassLink. Search for "countries of the world" or a specific country.

Toolkit Texts: Westward Expansion

This teacher resource is a spiral-bound set of short nonfiction texts and primary sources that may be reproduced for classroom use aligned to Washington State history including:

• Growing Up Native American

• Mr. Jefferson's Expedition

• Westward Bound

• Going west with Lewis and Clark

• Sacagawea: Intrepid Interpreter and Guide

• York: Brave Explorer

• Women's Voices from the Trail

• Swing Your Partner: Frontier Fun

Newsela

Short non-fiction texts available at multiple Lexiles.

• Native American Cultures by Region: West Coast Cultural Region 

• The Explorers: Meriwether Lewis

• The Explorers: William Clark 

• Women Leaders: Sacagawea 

• Primary Sources: Jefferson's Message on the Lewis & Clark Expedition

• Manifest Destiny

• African-American Pioneers Played a Big Role in Settling the West

• Washington: The Evergreen State 

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Toolkit Texts: The American Revolution and the Constitution

This teacher resource is a spiral-bound set of short nonfiction texts and primary sources that may be reproduced for classroom use aligned to early American history including:

• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

• The Wigmaker's Boy and the Boston Massacre

• Tea Troubles: The Boston Tea Party

• Just Say No!: The Daughters of Liberty

• Loyalists in the American Revolution

• The Wild Colt: Abigail Adams

• Road to a Constitution

Leveled Texts for Social Studies: Early America

This teacher resource is a s a collection of 15 reproducible short nonfiction texts written at three different reading levels including texts addressing:

•  American Indian Tribes of different regions (East, Plains, West)

• Different colonial regions (New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies)

• Slavery in the New World

• Causes of the American Revolution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The American Revolution

• The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights

We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution 

This  student resource is a textbook that provides an understanding of how the Constitution came into existence, why it took the form it did, and how it works. questions it helps to answer include:

• What basic ideas about the government did the founders have?

• How did the framers write our Constitution?

• How does the Constitution organize our government?

• How does the Constitution protect our basic rights?

• What are the responsibilities of citizens?

Two class sets per school

Newsela

Short non-fiction texts available at multiple Lexiles including:

• Puritan Life and Dissent in Colonial New England 

• Colonial America Depended on the Enslavement of Indigenous People

• The American Revolution (1765 - 1787)

• Time Machine (1770): The Boston Massacre

• Time Machine (1773): The Boston Tea Party 

• Conceived of Compromises: Creating the U.S. Constitution 

• Primary Sources: The Bill of Rights 

• The Branches of Government

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