New Releases by Joe Rhatigan

Expanding your childu0092s reading horizons is easy with fiction books from Teacher Created Materials! In u0093Big Dreamsu0094 by Joe Rhatigan, Alex has dreams of becoming a basketball star. But as the shortest kid on the team, sheu0092s struggling. She needs to get tall

Batty and Catty are bragging about their special abilities and Battyu0092s feelings get hurt. Catty feels bad and decides to make amends by teaching Batty some new tricks while learning some new ones herself. Written in verse, this picture book introduces soc

Two Antarctic penguins want to travel the world but canu0092t fly. They build a flying machine out of ice to take a trip across America. This entertaining picture book features colorful illustrations and simple text to help early readers follow along on their

Everyone knows that sloths are super slow. So, when Pedro sees a super-speedy sloth in the forest, no one believes him. With a video camera and his friend Alessa, they set out to catch him in action. Advancing readers will enjoy this humorous story about

Explore the Mile High City including the High Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado River that runs through the plateau! This engaging social studies book includes four chapters focusing on Colorado, covering the regions, geography’s effect, movement, and a master mountaineer. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features.Colorado’s Geography covers the regions of Colorado plus the climate, tourism, people, and more. This book combines stunning pictures and illustrations with detailed text to explore Colorado’s most important landscapes and landmarks.

Explore the Mile High City including the High Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado River that runs through the plateau! This engaging social studies book includes four chapters focusing on Colorado, covering the regions, geography’s effect, movement, and a master mountaineer. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features. Colorado’s Geography covers the regions of Colorado plus the climate, tourism, people, and more. This book combines stunning pictures and illustrations with detailed text to explore Colorado’s most important landscapes and landmarks.

Are we alone in the universe? Scientists are searching and it''s possible that one day we will know the answer. Full-color photographs and intriguing text invite the reader to become part of the search.

Humans have not been to the moon since 1972. The Artemis space program is going to change that. Engaging photographs and exciting text bring readers along on our next mission to the moon.

Veterinarians need to have the expert knowledge, skills, and tools to keep the world''s animals healthy. The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they''d need to know, but we''re glad they do.

Farmers need to have the expert knowledge, skills, and tools to keep the world fed. The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they''d need to know, but we''re glad they do.

Build advanced reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, a workbook of engaging and meaningful daily practice activities. This easy-to-use seventh grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Push students to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. This activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The learning activities reinforce the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and fascinating topics that children will love. The daily reading practice is perfect for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.

Who jumped, slithered, and stretched into the bed last night? That''s what Dad wants to know in this wiggly, giggly bedtime book! Written in catchy, sing-song verse, this adorably illustrated book will be a bedtime favorite. Children will love seeing who jumps into the bed next, and parents will appreciate the dad who, after a sleepless night, still gets up and saves the day!

Welcome, welcome to Dizzytown! Where we smile at work and never frown. We believe we’re good at what we do. Come take a look and you’ll think so too! But readers may frown . . . and giggle . . . when they find out that in Dizzytown, the wrong people are doing all the jobs!!! This rhyming picture book with illustrations from the award-winning Patrick Corrigan, follows a young girl on her first trip to Dizzytown. Her friend shows her around, pointing out all the hard workers. Unfortunately for the residents of Dizzytown, it’s the teachers who put out fires, while sanitation workers take sick people to landfills, musicians fly airplanes, and more! Each time, the young girl exclaims, “Wait! What??” and explains who are the right people for the jobs. Children will love pointing out the discrepancies in Dizzytown, where children go to work, trucks are driven by punk rock bands, and houses are built by pumpkin-pie bakers, and delight in the young girl’s frustration that everything in Dizzytown is just very wrong!

Expanding your child’s reading horizons is easy with fiction books from Teacher Created Materials! In “Big Dreams” by Joe Rhatigan, Alex has dreams of becoming a basketball star. But as the shortest kid on the team, she’s struggling. She needs to get tall

Quinn Gray, Private Detective, is known at her school as the person to hire when you need a mystery solved. When her friend Jessica starts receiving mysterious notes at her desk, will Quinn be able to crack the case? This mystery fiction book supports early fluent readers on their journey to independent reading. Engage studentsu0092 natural curiosity with fun and inspiring real-world stories. Perfect for shared or guided reading, this book cultivates lifelong reading success.

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. A first architecture book for little geniuses! Architects are artists and scientists as well. They design the spaces where we shop, learn, visit, and dwell. From drawing houses with crayons to building with Legos and blocks, children are born architects! And Little Genius: Architecture is a child’s first look at the incredible work that architects do. Each spread features one or more amazing buildings or architectural feats, such as the Taj Mahal, the Chrysler Building, the Great Wall of China, the Parthenon, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Mosque of Djenné, and more!!! Also, a few terms such as Gothic and Art Deco are introduced without weighing down the lilting, rhyming text. With dynamic artwork by illustrator and architect Jomike Tejido, children will enjoy reading and re-reading this educational and fun book!

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple explanations about rain, wind, humidity, storms, the seasons, and more, Little Genius: Weather presents just the right amount of information for little learners. Children will love following along as a cute, smiling cloud guides them through simple weather events and explains what causes them using simple, rhyming text. Each spread also features a fun fact for kids who are ready to learn even more! It’s the perfect gift for budding climatologists and meteorologists!

Batty and Catty are bragging about their special abilities and Battyu0092s feelings get hurt. Catty feels bad and decides to make amends by teaching Batty some new tricks while learning some new ones herself. Written in verse, this picture book introduces social and emotional learning (SEL) topics to upper emergent readers. With pre-reading questions, this book is ideal for guided reading and builds early literacy skills.

Two Antarctic penguins want to travel the world but canu0092t fly. They build a flying machine out of ice to take a trip across America. This entertaining picture book features colorful illustrations and simple text to help early readers follow along on their adventure. With pre-reading questions, this book is ideal for guided reading and builds early literacy skills.

Explore the Mile High City including the High Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado River that runs through the plateau! This engaging social studies book includes four chapters focusing on Colorado, covering the regions, geography’s effect, movement, and a master mountaineer. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features. Colorado’s Geography covers the regions of Colorado plus the climate, tourism, people, and more. This book combines stunning pictures and illustrations with detailed text to explore Colorado’s most important landscapes and landmarks.

From fur traders to miners to wind power inventors, learn how Colorado’s economy has changed through history. This engaging social studies book includes four chapters focusing on Colorado, covering economic incentives, the economy, financial literacy, and Fannie Mae Duncan. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features.Economics in Colorado explains basic economic principles such as incentives and disincentives, supply and demand, opportunity costs, investments, profits, and more. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students’ lives, but it also crafts a fascinating account of Colorado’s diverse economy.

Learn how to react when you see something wrong or dangerous with this relevant nonfiction book. Perfect for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected civics project, a glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explains in an easy-to-understand way that students should talk to a trusted adult about things that make them uncomfortable or scared. It also covers serious subjects such as bullying and “stranger danger”, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore kindness, leadership, and standing up for what is right.

Learn the history of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the meaning behind its famous words with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a related fiction story, glossary, connected project, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book analyzes the national anthem line by line to make sure students fully understand it. It also covers important topics like patriotism and community, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore the national anthem, U.S. symbols, and American history.

Discover the meaning of culture! This nonfiction book examines diverse cultures and encourages students to celebrate their differences. Made for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, an extension activity, discussion questions, and more beneficial features. This 24-page full-color book describes how food, games, holidays, and more vary from culture to culture. It also covers relevant themes such as kindness and being different, and includes an extension activity for Grade 1. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool to learn about multicultural society, world studies, and diversity.

The classic nursery rhyme . . . now the beginning of a hilarious rhyming adventure for toddlers! Everyone loves and remembers nursery rhymes from their childhood. Each book in this series begins with a classic nursery rhyme, and then expands on it with lots of silly fun. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is one of the most recognizable and beloved nursery rhymes of all time. And while there are countless versions available in book form, this magical edition turns the rhyme into an unforgettable story young children will come back to again and again. When four kittens wish to be closer to Twinkle, they devise different contraptions to launch them up, up, up in the sky! When their ideas don’t work, the kittens and Twinkle learn a valuable lesson about what it means to be a friend. At once hilarious and endearing, this book will give children the giggles as they read and re-read this new classic.

With Little Genius books, curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple concepts about the sun, planets, comets, and more, each spread features the wonderful illustrations of Mattia Cerato along with rhyming text that delights while it instructs. With the sun as your guide, meet Mercury, Venus, Earth, and the rest of the planet gang, as you travel further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system. Each planet has one funny identifying feature that will help kids remember a fascinating fact about it. For instance, Earth is wearing goggles. Why? Because it has lots and lots of water! Little Genius: Solar System reads like a fun story, making it the perfect introduction to our night sky.

Discover the exciting and complex economy of Colorado! This engaging book teaches students about economics in their state and in their daily lives. Economics in Colorado Highlights: u0095 Provides easy-to-read text alongside fun and vibrant images u0095 Details Coloradou0092s, human, capital, and natural resources as well as its thriving tourism u0095 Offers four chapters that demonstrate how economic concepts apply to Colorado u0095 Includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features Economics in Colorado explains basic economic principles (such as productive resources and economic incentives) in addition to covering Coloradou0092s economy throughout time, the stateu0092s various goods and services, and more. With this fun reader, Colorado educators can bring personal financial literacy and their stateu0092s economy to life for every student. This book not only provides meaningful connections to studentsu0092 lives, but it also crafts a fascinating account of Coloradou0092s diverse economy.

Imagine students hiking proudly through the Rocky Mountains or meandering along the Colorado Riveru0097during class. That image may sound ridiculous, but this immersive book truly gives students an inside look at Coloradou0092s diverse and beautiful geography. Coloradou0092s Geography Highlights: u0095 Provides colorful, easy-to-follow pages with images from all across Colorado u0095 Details Coloradou0092s beautiful geographical regions and their history u0095 Includes an extension activity, guided reading questions, and other useful features Coloradou0092s Geography covers the regions of Colorado, geographyu0092s effect on the state, the movement of goods, services, and technology, and more. With this exciting reader, Colorado educators can bring their stateu0092s geography to life for each and every student. This book combines stunning pictures and illustrations with detailed text to explore Coloradou0092s most important landscapes and landmarks.

As the new kid at school, Jesse knows making friends will be hard. When he gets accepted by the kids sitting at the cool table at lunch, Jesse feels on top of the world. But that feeling doesn''t last long when his new friends start pulling mean pranks on other students. Fifth grade students will enjoy this realistic fiction story that features full-color illustrations, compelling text, and chapter format to build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. This hi-lo reader is perfect for students who need high-interest, low-readability books.