Educator’s Resources
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Activities for Dear Dragon
Download printable activities for each Dear Dragon title.
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Astro the Alien Reading Reinforcements
Download printable activities for each Astro title.
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Astro the Alien Learns about Life Skills
Astro the Alien Learns about Civics
Astro the Alien Learns about Extinct Animals
Astro the Alien Learns about Emotions
Astro the Alien Visits Animals Around the World
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CCSI Correlations - Language Arts
Download printable correlations to CCSI by grade level and title.
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Dear Dragon (Grades K-2)
- Dear Dragon’s A is for Apple
- Dear Dragon Eats Out
- Dear Dragon Flies a Kite
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Aquarium
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Bank
- Dear Dragon Goes Camping
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Carnival
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Dentist
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Firehouse
- Dear Dragon Goes to Grandpa’s Farm
- Dear Dragon Goes to Hospital
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Library
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Market
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Police Station
- Dear Dragon Goes to the Zoo
- Dear Dragon Grows a Garden
- Dear Dragon Helps Out
- Dear Dragon’s Colors 1, 2, 3
- Dear Dragon’s Fun with Shapes
- I Did It, Dear Dragon
- It’s Bedtime, Dear Dragon
- It’s Fall, Dear Dragon
- It’s Spring, Dear Dragon
- It’s Summer, Dear Dragon
- It’s Winter, Dear Dragon
- Play, Play, Play, Dear Dragon
- Touchdown! Dear Dragon
- Up, Up, Up, Dear Dragon
- What’s in My Pocket, Dear Dragon?
- What’s in the Pond, Dear Dragon?
- What’s in the Sky, Dear Dragon?
- What’s in the Woods, Dear Dragon?
- Where is Dear Dragon?
Great Debates (Grades 5-8)
A Great Idea (Grades 4-6)
- Becoming Invisible: From Camouflage to Cloaks
- Bionic Hand, The
- Burj Khalifa: The Tallest Tower in the World
- The Chunnel
- The Great Wall of China
- HDTV
- Home Windmills
- The Hoover Dam
- Hybrid Cars
- Jaws of Life, The
- The Large Hadron Collider
- Lego Toys
- Nexi Robot, The
- The Panama Canal
- Pilotless Planes
- The Pyramids of Giza
- The Qinghai-Tibet Railway
- Recycled Tires
- SCRATCHbot
- Seed Vault, The
- Sunscreen for Plants
- Water from Air: Water Harvesting Machines
- YouTube
iScience Level A (Grades 1-2)
- Air and Weather: Where’d My Hat Go?
- Animal Needs: Who’s New at the Zoo?
- Balance and Motion: Toying with Gravity
- Fabric: It’s Got You Covered!
- Insects: Which One Doesn’t Belong?
- New Plants: Seeds in the Soil Patch
- Paper from Wood: Dollhouse Decisions
- Pebbles, Sand, & Silt: The Neighbor’s Garden
- Solids and Liquids: Who Messed Up My Sand?
- Trees: Worlds within Leaves
iScience Level B (Grades 3-4)
- Earth Materials: The Mystery Rocks
- Human Body: Train it Right
- Magnetism and Electricity: The Broken Toy Car
- Matter and Energy: Finding the Power
- Measurement: The Measured Mystery
- Patterns and Textures: Who Took the Pets?
- Sound: Music to our Ears
- Structures of Life: What is this Fossil?
- Sun, Moon, and Stars: A Cosmic Case
- Water: Watch it Change
iScience Level C (Grades 5-6)
- Environments: Beetles in the Garden
- Food and Nutrition: Eating to Win
- Landforms: The Ever-Changing Earth
- Levers and Pulleys: Lift Anything!
- Living Systems: Life’s Inside Story
- Mixtures and Solutions: The Sugar in the Tea
- Models and Designs: It’s a Roller Coaster Ride!
- Solar Energy: Saving the School Budget
- Variables and Experiments: Getting Across the River
- Weather and the Water Cycle: Will it Rain?
Matters of Opinion (Grades 4-6)
MySELF Bookshelf (Grades K-2)
- Brown Bear’s Dream
- Bubbly and Grumpy
- The Chirping Band
- The Drummer Boy
- Friendship Quilt
- Green River
- Handy Mr. Hippo
- Ida’s Present
- Kanga and Anger
- Let’s Be Friends
- Lulu the Shy Piglet
- Mommy and Daddy Love You
- My Best Buddy
- Nicknames
- Oh That Snow!
- Ouch! It Stings!
- Shooting Stars Soccer Team
- The Three Pig Sisters
- Tortoise and Hare
- We Are Brothers
- We Are Proud of You
- Who’s Coming Tonight?
- The Wise Boy
- Zippy the Runner
Poetry Builders (Grades 2-4)
Second Nature (Grades 5-8)
Writing Builders (Grades 2-4)
- Ben and Bailey Build a Book
- Bridget and Bo Build a Blog
- Evan and Erin Build an Essay
- Frank and Fiona Build a Fictional Story
- Isabella and Ivan Build an Interview
- Jesse and Jasmine Build a Journal
- Leah and LeShawn Build a Letter
- Neil and Nan Build Narrative Nonfiction
- Olivia and Oscar Build an Opinion Piece
- Rick and Rachel Build a Research Report
- Seth and Savannah Build a Speech
- Will and Wendy Build a Website with Digital Tools
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CCSI Correlations - Math
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iMath (Grades K-2)
- Carnival Coins: How Will We Count Our Money?
- A Day at Mini-Golf: What’s the Length?
- Herding a Hundred: Counting the Sheep
- Look for Them: Where are the Shapes?
- On the Playground: How Do You Build Place Value?
- Picnic Fun: Hot Dog Operations
- Ship Shape: Making Shapes Fly
- Tending the Tide Pool: The Parts Make a Whole
- Time Ticks By: How Do You Read a Clock?
- Toy Tally: How Many Toys Are There?
iMath (Grades 3-4)
- Football Numbers: Graphing Data
- Ivy Sue Needs a House: Building with Equivalent Fractions
- Looking for Blackbeard’s Treasure: Measuring the Distance
- Mummies in the Library: Divide the Pages
- The Mystery Beetle: What’s Multiplying?
- Pools to Ponds: Area, Perimeter, and Capacity
- Seeing Halves: Symmetry in our World
- Space Adventures: Where does the Time Go?
- Start the Game: Geometry in Sports
- A Toy Store Summer: Finding Area
iMath (Grades 5-6)
- Designer Digs: Finding Area and Surface Area
- Field of Play: Measuring the Distance, Rate, and Time
- Finding the Treasure: Coordinate Grids
- The Garden Club: Operations with Fractions
- Hidden Ducks: Describing and Interpreting Data
- Save Now, Buy Later: Finding Unit Prices
- The Science Olympiad: Proportions and Ratios
- Stir it Up: Mixing Decimals
- Winning the Game: Putting Miles in their Place
- A Year at the Fairgrounds: Finding Volume
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Connecting Concepts - Read and Discover
Download printable Connection Concepts PDFs for each title.
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Next Generation Science Standards
Printable PDFs divided by series name and grade range. Learn more at nextgenscience.org.
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These printable and free PDFs are divided by series name (and for A Great Idea, also by grade range). As with all of our Educators’ Resources, these are prepared by industry professionals with a deep understanding of these standards. To learn more about the NGSS, please visit nextgenscience.org.
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Readers Theaters
Download printable Readers Theaters PDFs for each title.
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- Brown Bears Dream
- Bubbly and Grumpy
- Friendship Quilt
- Green River
- Handy Mr. Hippo
- Ida’s Present
- Kanga and Anger
- Let’s Be Friends
- Lulu the Shy Piglet
- Mommy and Daddy
- My Best Buddy
- Nicknames
- Oh That Snow!
- Ouch! It Stings!
- Shooting Stars Soccer Team
- The Chirping Band
- The Drummer Boy
- The Three Pig Sisters
- The Wise Boy
- Tortoise and Hare
- We Are Brothers
- We Are Proud of You!
- Who’s Coming Tonight?
- Zippy the Runner
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Teachers' Notes
Download printable Teachers’ Notes PDFs for many of our series, including A Great Idea, Astro the Alien, Dear Dragon, and more.
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Norwood House Press is excited to announce the availability of our Teachers’ Notes! These free, ready-to-print resources are listed below and correspond with many of our Classroom titles. They include objectives, puzzles, and investigation questions to ask students before, during, and after the reading. Continue checking back for more Teachers’ Notes as we create them!
The Decodables (individual notes for each title can be found in each set)
- Search for Sounds (Set 1) – Features our first wordless books and provides an introduction to letter sounds for kindergarteners.
- Friends and Family Fun (Set 2) – Focuses on consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) patterns and is written for grades K-1.
- Things We Like to Do (Set 3) – Focuses on consonant blends and is written for 1st grade.
- Activities with Friends (Set 4) – Focuses on vowel-consonant-e (VC-e) patterns for 1st grade.
- Discover Plants and Animals (Set 5) – Focuses on vowel patterns for 2nd grade.
- Fables and Folktales (Set 6) – Focuses on advanced vowel patterns for 2nd grade.
Easy Stories (individual notes for each title)
- Away Go the Boats
- The Baby Bunny
- The Ball Book
- The Birthday Car
- Circus Fun
- City Fun
- Come Play with Me
- The Cow that Got Her Wish
- Fun Days
- The Funny Ride
- A House for Little Red
- I Like Things
- Let’s Have a Play
- The Little Cowboy and the Big Cowboy
- Little Puff
- The Little Runaway
- The Magic Nutcracker
- Play Ball
- The Purple Pussycat
- The Snow Baby
- Take a Walk, Johnny
- Up, Up, and Away
- What am I?
- What Is It?
- Who Goes to School?
- Why We Have Thanksgiving
- The Witch Who Went for a Walk
- The Yellow Boat
Fairy Tales and Folklore (individual notes for each title)
Great Debates (individual notes for each title)
iMath Series - PDF for all 30 books (individual notes for each title)
Level A
- Carnival Coins: How Will We Count Our Money?
- A Day at Mini-Golf: What’s the Length?
- Herding a Hundred: Counting the Sheep
- Look for Them: Where Are the Shapes?
- On the Playground: How Do You Build Place Value?
- Picnic Fun: Hot Dog Operations
- Ship Shape: Making Shapes Fly
- Tending the Tide Pool: The Parts Make a Whole
- Time Ticks By: How Do You Read a Clock?
- Toy Tally: How Many Toys Are There?
Level B
- Football Numbers: Graphing Data
- Ivy Sue Needs A House: Building with Equivalent Fractions
- Looking for Blackbeard’s Treasure: Measuring the Distance
- Mummies in the Library: Divide the Pages
- The Mystery Beetle: What’s Multiplying?
- Pools to Ponds: Area, Perimeter, and Capacity
- Seeing Halves: Symmetry in Our World
- Space Adventures: Where Does the Time Go?
- Start the Game: Geometry in Sport
- A Toy Store Summer: Finding Area
Level C
- Designer Digs: Finding Area and Surface Area
- Field of Play: Measuring Distance, Rate, and Time
- Finding the Treasure: Coordinate Grids
- The Garden Club: Operations with Fractions
- Hidden Ducks: Describing and Interpreting Data
- Save Now, Buy Later: Finding Unit Prices
- The Science Olympiad: Proportions and Ratios
- Stir It Up: Mixing Decimals
- Winning the Game: Putting Miles in Their Place
- A Year at the Fairgrounds: Finding Volume
Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice
iScience Series - PDF for all 30 books (individual notes for each title)
Level A
- Air and Weather: Where’s My Hat Go?
- Animal Needs: Who’s New at the Zoo?
- Balance and Motion: Toying with Gravity
- Fabric: It’s Got You Covered
- Insects: Which One Doesn’t Belong?
- New Plants: Seeds in the Soil Patch
- Paper from Wood: Dollhouse Decisions
- Pebbles, Sand, & Silt: The Neighbor’s Garden
- Solids and Liquids: Who Messed Up My Sand?
- Trees: Worlds within Leaves
Level B
- Earth Materials: The Mystery Rocks
- Levers and Pulleys: Lift Anything!
- Human Body: Train it Right
- Magnetism and Electricity: The Broken Toy Car
- Matter and Energy: Finding the Power
- Measurement: The Measured Mystery
- Patterns and Textures: Who Took the Pets?
- Sound: Music to Our Ears
- Structures of Life: What is this Fossil?
- Sun, Moon, and Stars: A Cosmic Case
- Water: Watch it Change
Level C
- Environments: Beetles in the Garden
- Food and Nutrition: Eating to Win
- Landforms: The Ever-changing Earth
- Levers and Pulleys: Lift Anything!
- Living Systems: Life’s Inside Story
- Mixtures and Solutions: The Sugar in the Tea
- Models and Designs: It’s a Roller Coaster Ride!
- Solar Energy: Saving the School Budget
- Variables and Experiments: Getting Across the River
- Weather and the Water Cycle: Will it Rain?
Language Builders
Nature's Friends
Norwood Discovery Graphics (individual notes for each series)
Pair-It! Twin Text Activity Guides (individual notes for each set)
Poetry Builders
Second Nature (individual notes for each title)
STEM Fairy Tales
Tech Bytes: High-Tech
Voices From Around the World
Writing Builders
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Team Spirit
Explore Team Spirit Extras — fun facts, league leaders, and team history for professional teams.
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Discussion Guide - Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice
Download a printable discussion guide with 12 questions for classroom-size discussions.
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Norwood House Press is excited to announce the availability of our Discussion Guides! These free, ready-to-print resources are listed below for Norwood titles to kick off classroom-size discussions. Continue checking back for more Discussion Guides as we create them!