Teaching Books
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Product Details
- Website
- https://www.teachingbooks.net
- Overview
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TeachingBooks is a curated database of resources connected to children’s and young-adult books. It is intended primarily for K–12 readers, educators, librarians, and families exploring books and authors, with teachers, librarians, students, literacy coaches, and families using it to support book discovery, author context, read-aloud support, vocabulary, and literature-based instruction.
Users find author interviews, book guides, pronunciation recordings, text complexity information, and instructional connections for specific titles. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/reviews/teachingbooksnet
Teaching Books Privacy Policy:
https://school.teachingbooks.net/content/TeachingBooks-Privacy-Policy-Jan2024.pdf
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No - Features
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Audience and instructional role
- Grades / learners: K–12 readers, educators, librarians, and families exploring books and authors
- Primary users: teachers, librarians, students, literacy coaches, and families
- Learning focus: book discovery, author context, read-aloud support, vocabulary, and literature-based instruction — a curated database of resources connected to children’s and young-adult books
How it supports learning- Users find author interviews, book guides, pronunciation recordings, text complexity information, and instructional connections for specific titles.
- Teachers should connect use to explicit learning goals and inspect student work rather than rely on completion, time-on-task, or engagement alone.
Implementation and instructional decisions- This is a literature and library support resource rather than a curriculum; connect resources to locally selected, inclusive texts and instructional purposes.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the continuing role of teacher judgment.
- Interoperabilty
- Support Options
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- Company News
TeachingBooks started in November, 2000 with a simple goal in mind: to let every reader — no matter who they are or where they live — have the opportunity to learn directly from the author of the book they are reading, at that very moment of impact.
I decided to use the World Wide Web as the foundational equalizing tool, and started inviting myself into homes of amazing authors and illustrators to film them so that everyone could have Christopher Paul Curtis, Jack Gantos, Denise Fleming, and others in their classrooms, anytime.
TeachingBooks started in November, 2000 with a simple goal in mind: to let every reader — no matter who they are or where they live — have the opportunity to learn directly from the author of the book they are reading, at that very moment of impact.
I decided to use the World Wide Web as the foundational equalizing tool, and started inviting myself into homes of amazing authors and illustrators to film them so that everyone could have Christopher Paul Curtis, Jack Gantos, Denise Fleming, and others in their classrooms, anytime.
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