Take-Home Backpack: Getting Ready for High School

Preparation for high school is easy as 1-2-3 with our Take-Home Backpacks! Each backpack contains fun, standards-based activities and immersive books to keep children engaged in grade-appropriate content during school breaks. This ensures children retain what they learned and helps bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction.

Our Take-Home Backpack gives caretakers exactly what they need to help their children build skills in high-risk areas like math, reading, and writing, and strengthen the school-home connection with real-world learning alongside family. Featuring fiction and nonfiction titles, these captivating books keep young readers turning the page to find out what's next!

Designed to be caretaker-friendly and family-focused, this easy-to-use collection of resources covers essential educational concepts and skills needed for high school success.

Take-Home Backpack: Grades 8-9 includes:

• High School Family Engagement Guide to support caretaker involvement in activities using simple tips and strategies
• 4 Fiction and Nonfiction Readers to peak children's curiosity in topics that support STEM education like history (a favorite of future historians) and cryptography (great for future cybersecurity professionals)
• Kids Learn! Getting Ready for High School to help improve critical and creative thinking skills and encourage social-emotional learning (SEL) at home
• Helps reduce first day anxiety by introducing math and ELA concepts before entering high school
• Provides easy-to-follow tips and strategies for caretaker involvement and making social-emotional learning connections
• Offers manageable and entertaining reading, writing, and mathematics activities children will love
• Includes assessment practice piece to test student knowledge and easily evaluate progress