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Building Connections: A Book Collection Curated by Free Spirit Publishing

Grades PreK–3

Improve student comprehension, cooperation, and communication through a carefully curated collection of books focused on essential life skills and the whole child.

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Series Highlights

  • 12 single copies of captivating and beautifully illustrated picture books that activate students’ love of reading through a focus on shared experiences

  • A thoughtfully curated collection of books that explores essential topics and cultivates reading and writing skills with research-based, read-aloud activities

  • Best practices for integrating life skills concepts with collaborative listening and speaking activities to maximize learning time

  • Opportunities to promote critical and creative thinking through easy-to-implement, teacher-led literacy activities

  • More than 80 activities covering literacy standards that help students form meaningful connections to the texts

  • Digital resources that include all student and teacher materials, plus read-along ebooks, audio files, family engagement letters, and fillable student pages to make planning and instruction more flexible

 

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Explore the Series

  • Student Materials

    Student Materials

    More than 80 activities to help students form meaningful connections to the texts, including:

    • activities for the five essential social skills
    • standards-based reading comprehension activities
    • literacy-based student pages to be used with any of the books
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  • Teacher Materials

    Teacher Materials

    A thoughtfully curated collection of books that explores essential topics. Pair the books with our helpful Teacher's Guide which contains research-based approaches to literacy instruction, including best practices for creating interactive and engaging read-aloud experiences, partnering strategies, and meaningful activities to maximize learning time.

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  • Digital Resources

    Digital Resources

    Digital resources include all student and teacher materials, plus read-along ebooks, audio files, family engagement letters, and fillable student pages to make planning and instruction more flexible.

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  • Unboxing Video

    Unboxing Video

    Building Connections Unboxing Video
     

Student Materials

More than 80 activities to help students form meaningful connections to the texts, including:

  • activities for the five essential social skills
  • standards-based reading comprehension activities
  • literacy-based student pages to be used with any of the books
student-materials-busc

Teacher Materials

A thoughtfully curated collection of books that explores essential topics. Pair the books with our helpful Teacher's Guide which contains research-based approaches to literacy instruction, including best practices for creating interactive and engaging read-aloud experiences, partnering strategies, and meaningful activities to maximize learning time.

teacher-materials-busc

Digital Resources

Digital resources include all student and teacher materials, plus read-along ebooks, audio files, family engagement letters, and fillable student pages to make planning and instruction more flexible.

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Unboxing Video

Building Connections Unboxing Video
 

Supporting Resources

  • Correlations

    Correlations

    Quickly and easily find how our products correlate to key Standards.

  • Evidence Base and Research

    Evidence Base and Research for Building Connections

Correlations

Quickly and easily find how our products correlate to key Standards.

Evidence Base and Research for Building Connections