Take-Home Backpacks

Our Take-Home Backpacks contain fun, standards-based activities and immersive books to keep students engaged in grade-appropriate content during school breaks.

Overview

Teacher Created Materials’ backpacks include a variety of resources to reinforce learning and bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction, including:

The Kids Learn! full-color resource featuring reading, writing, and mathematics worksheets and an introduction section for parents with tips and strategies to strengthen the school-home connection
A curated selection of high-interest, fiction and nonfiction books from across key content areas keep students reading over the summer while strengthening content-area literacy
A Family Engagement Guide that helps facilitate deeper parent involvement and support

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Equip parents with the essential tools needed to support students to prevent summer learning loss, boost student achievement, and prepare for the upcoming year.
Includes Parent Tip Cards to direct parent involvement with resources and strategies
Suggests family activities that provide real-world learning opportunities to expand learning from beyond the page

Kids Learn!

This parental-involvement resource features standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics that both reinforce learning from the recently completed school year and prepare students for the next grade level.

Fiction and Nonfiction Leveled Readers

Grab students attention with high-interest nonfiction and fiction books that will keep students engaged in reading grade-appropriate content and topics that include life cycles, health, community, and world culture.

Student Engagement

Daily reinforcement to support mastery and application in cross-curricular connections.
Helps keep students on track and maintain momentum in their acquisition and application of concepts to bridge achievement gaps.

TCM's Take-Home Backpack Unboxing Video (Short Version)

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TCM's Take-Home Backpacks Unboxing Video (Full Version)

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What's in TCM's Family Engagement Guide

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How To Use Your Take-Home Backpack

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How To Use Your Take-Home Backpack (Spanish Version)

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Take-Home Backpacks Sample Pages

This sample includes the following:

Kids Learn Activity Book

Table of Contents (1 page)
Introduction pages (3 pages)
Student pages (3 pages)

Nonfiction Book Sample

Family Engagement Guide Sample

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