The Teach BIG library of books

Four covers from the Teach BIG library, plus the digital books you can buy today.

Covers of The Writing Matrix, The Evidence Matrix, The Explanation Matrix, and The Athletic Writer.

The Writing Matrix
The anchor book. Every student's cognitive address across the writing process.
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The Evidence Matrix
Find each student's thinking by the evidence they choose, the TRACKS.
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The Explanation Matrix
The DEEP FACTS habits that turn a quote into proof.
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The Athletic Writer
The four voices every writer learns to hear and use.
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Digital books

These ancillary books are digital downloads. Each one has a cover and a set price.

Mastering Morphemes
This ancillary book contains a comprehensive toolkit designed to empower learners to unlock the complexities of language through the study of its smallest parts.
$7.00
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Spelling Sleuth
In this ancillary book, students will identify and correct common spelling errors across three categories: phonetic, orthographic, and morphological. Each word is presented with its typical misspellings and the correct version, helping students learn through hands-on practice.
$7.00
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Out of Sorts
Out of Sorts provides engaging explanations and activities designed to help students master the art of sorting words according to various criteria, enhancing their vocabulary skills and fostering a deeper understanding of language.
$7.00
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TEKS Specific Certificates
Acknowledgment of a newly learned skill is important to the learning process. TEKS Specific Certificates mark each letter level expectation in ELAR strands 6 through 12.
$7.00
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Write for Real!
Write for Real! gives students eleven real world writing missions on half page task cards. Students answer a little learner's question, coach a writer by text, settle a fairness problem, rescue game rules, and more, then revise after a follow up message. Grades 3 to 5, with TEKS on every card.
$7.00
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Reading for Retrieval
Reading for Retrieval is the Reading Comprehension slice of the Full Circle of Language Arts. Twenty chapters build every reading comprehension skill set, with TRACKS evidence, DEEP FACTS strategies, and TEKS correlations for Grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-10.
$20.00
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Memory Tags: Learning Literature for Teachers
By Randi Whitney. A partner Then and Now routine for the classroom plus 60 printable concept cards for Grades 3 to 5. Teachers get the full Memory Tags flow, card masters, and guidance for making progress visible.
$12.00
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Revising 25 Games Student Activity Book
25 classroom revising games students can play with any draft.
$12.00
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Revising 25 Games Answer Key
Answers and explanations for every game in the Revising 25 Games Student Activity Book.
$5.00
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Editing 25 Games Student Activity Book
25 classroom editing games students can play with any draft.
$12.00
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Editing 25 Games Answer Guide
Answers and explanations for every game in the Editing 25 Games Student Activity Book.
$5.00
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Editing Student Workbook, Grade 3
Practice for every Grade 3 editing skill. Find the mistake. Name the trap. Prove the fix.
$12.00
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Editing Student Workbook, Grade 4
Practice for every Grade 4 editing skill. Find the mistake. Name the trap. Prove the fix.
$12.00
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Editing Student Workbook, Grade 5
Practice for every Grade 5 editing skill. Find the mistake. Name the trap. Prove the fix.
$12.00
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Editing Teacher Edition, Grade 3
Complete answer key and explanations for the Grade 3 Editing Student Workbook.
$5.00
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Editing Teacher Edition, Grade 4
Complete answer key and explanations for the Grade 4 Editing Student Workbook.
$5.00
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Editing Teacher Edition, Grade 5
Complete answer key and explanations for the Grade 5 Editing Student Workbook.
$5.00
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Revising Student Workbook
Guided revising practice and models students complete in class.
$12.00
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Revising Teacher Edition
Practice sets, answer keys, and teaching moves for every revising lesson.
$5.00
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Editing Student Workbook, Grades 3 to 5
Student practice that matches the editing lessons, skill by skill.
$12.00
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The Paper Plate Book
This game book contains games that require one or more of the following: 9 inch paper plates and 6 inch paper plates. The games contained within this book address the following needs of a student author. Using paper plates to teach writing concepts, this ancillary book supports the DIRECT and SYSTEMATIC learning approach found within the Teach BIG Full Circle Curriculum.
$7.00
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Arguing with Purpose
This ancillary book presents the argumentative writing approach, with short case scenarios and prompts that give students practice so they can hone their argumentative writing habits. It supports the DIRECT and SYSTEMATIC learning approach of the Teach BIG Full Circle Curriculum and may be used as part of that curriculum or as a supplemental tool to support another curriculum as intervention or enrichment.
$7.00
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Literary Analysis
Students have the opportunity to read literature excepts and then determine how the work affects them. SCR/ECR prompts are included for each literary work. This ancillary book supports the DIRECT and SYSTEMATIC learning approach found within the Teach BIG Full Circle Curriculum and may be used as part of that curriculum or as a supplemental tool to support another curriculum as intervention or enrichment.
$7.00
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How to Write a Novel
This ancillary book gives students the opportunity to write their own novel. It helps them bring all of their ideas together and then write them down, planning a story of at least five chapters. Students also prepare a jacket cover, an author page, a summary, and a table of contents, so they finish with a complete, published book.
$7.00
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How to Write a Research Paper
This ancillary book teaches students how to write a research paper. It walks novices through the official writing process of brainstorming, prewriting, rough draft, revising, final draft, and rubric, and it can be used at various levels. The book supports the direct and systematic learning approach of the Teach BIG Full Circle Curriculum and may be used as part of that curriculum or as a supplemental intervention or enrichment tool.
$7.00
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Jasper's Jambalaya
This ancillary book provides all of the pieces you need to create a daily interactive bulletin board in your classroom, covering word choice, fluency, and grammar. It supports the direct and systematic learning approach of the Teach BIG Full Circle Curriculum and may be used as part of that curriculum or as a supplemental tool for intervention or enrichment.
$7.00
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Elaboration Station
Elaboration Station is the art of adding literary devices to our writing. It gives students guidelines, directions, and examples of how to elaborate a composition effectively using tools such as adjectives, adverbs, similes, metaphors, and personification. This ancillary book supports the DIRECT and SYSTEMATIC learning approach found within the Teach BIG Full Circle Curriculum and may be used as part of that curriculum or as a supplemental tool to support another curriculum as intervention or enrichment.
$7.00
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Comma Drama
Don't get caught up in the drama of not knowing where to use a comma! This ancillary book provides rules, examples, and activities so that using commas becomes natural.
$7.00
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Reading Games That Beat the Traps: Grades 3 to 5
25 interactive games for Grades 3, 4, and 5 that show how wrong answers are built, why they are wrong, and the most tested reading skills. 274 pages with teacher instructions, printable cards and boards, recording sheets, and a complete answer key.
$12.00
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Reading Games That Beat the Traps: Grades 6 to 8
25 interactive games for Grades 6, 7, and 8 that show how wrong answers are built, why they are wrong, and the most tested reading skills. 266 pages with teacher instructions, printable cards and boards, recording sheets, and a complete answer key.
$12.00
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Reading Games That Beat the Traps: Grades 9 to 10
25 interactive games for English I and English II that show how wrong answers are built, why they are wrong, and the most tested reading skills. 239 pages with teacher instructions, printable cards and boards, recording sheets, and a complete answer key.
$12.00
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Coloring with Purpose: Grade 3
Close reading through coloring, drawing, and text evidence for Grade 3. Students study an illustration, decide what belongs in the picture, and use words from the passage to prove their choices. Organized by TEKS, with answer keys and 20 page types.
$12.00
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Coloring with Purpose: Grade 4
Close reading through coloring, drawing, and text evidence for Grade 4. Students study an illustration, decide what belongs in the picture, and use words from the passage to prove their choices. Organized by TEKS, with answer keys and 20 page types.
$12.00
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Coloring with Purpose: Grade 5
Close reading through coloring, drawing, and text evidence for Grade 5. Students study an illustration, decide what belongs in the picture, and use words from the passage to prove their choices. Organized by TEKS, with answer keys and 20 page types.
$12.00
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Reading Passages: Grade 3
Twenty passages for Grade 3, most at four reading levels, with every paragraph numbered and each passage starting on a fresh page. Includes a table of contents and page numbers.
$39.00
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Reading Passages: Grade 4
Twenty passages for Grade 4, most at four reading levels, with every paragraph numbered and each passage starting on a fresh page. Includes a table of contents and page numbers.
$39.00
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Reading Passages: Grade 5
Twenty passages for Grade 5, most at four reading levels, with every paragraph numbered and each passage starting on a fresh page. Includes a table of contents and page numbers.
$39.00
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Editing Workbook, Grade 3, Student
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process.
$15.00
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Editing Workbook, Grade 3, Teacher Edition
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process. Teacher editions include the answer keys.
$15.00
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Revising Workbook, Grade 3, Student
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process.
$15.00
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Revising Workbook, Grade 3, Teacher Edition
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process. Teacher editions include the answer keys.
$15.00
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Editing Workbook, Grade 4, Student
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process.
$15.00
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Editing Workbook, Grade 4, Teacher Edition
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process. Teacher editions include the answer keys.
$15.00
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Revising Workbook, Grade 4, Student
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process.
$15.00
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Revising Workbook, Grade 4, Teacher Edition
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process. Teacher editions include the answer keys.
$15.00
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Editing Workbook, Grade 5, Student
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process.
$15.00
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Editing Workbook, Grade 5, Teacher Edition
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process. Teacher editions include the answer keys.
$15.00
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Revising Workbook, Grade 5, Student
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process.
$15.00
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Revising Workbook, Grade 5, Teacher Edition
These editing and revising workbooks are based on The Writing Academy passages currently in the IMRA process. Teacher editions include the answer keys.
$15.00
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ECR Poster Set
A 17 page set of printable ECR posters that walks students through the T.R.E.E.S. question stems for why and how prompts, from thesis and reasons through evidence, explanation, and significance.
$4.00
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Highlighting TRACKS, Grades 6 to 8
A Grades 6 to 8 guide that teaches students to highlight time, reaction, action, character, key knowledge, and setting with TRACKS, with definitions, four practice passages, and a blank chart for each passage.
$4.00
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Lexical Overlap Teacher Guide
A practical teacher guide for Grades 3 to 10 that connects recurring WHY and HOW prompt vocabulary to the thinking a written response must show, with word banks, five thinking levels, model responses, and a reproducible student page.
$4.00
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Range PLD TEKS Thinking Levels Report
A Grade 3 reading language arts report that describes TEKS 7, 11, 12, and 13 across five thinking levels, with the evidence to look for in student work and an instructional next step for each level.
$4.00
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Practice Passages for ECR Scoring, with Exemplars
Three practice passages (science nonfiction, social studies nonfiction, and fiction) with ECR prompts and scored exemplar responses for practice scoring.
$4.00
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The Sandwich Selection Collection
A themed passage collection about sandwiches across science, social studies, literature, and poetry, written at Lexile levels from 410 to 1400 so you can choose the right level for your students.
$4.00
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Think BIG Tank 365 Teacher Edition
The Think BIG Tank 365 Teacher Edition with daily 5 minute routines that build Noticing Awareness, The Editor's Eye, and Detail Sense. 42 pages.
$5.00
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Think BIG Tank 365 Scope and Sequence
The Think BIG Tank 365 Scope and Sequence that maps the year of daily noticing routines month by month.
$5.00
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The Detective Notebook: Grades 2 and 3
A 48 page printable student notebook that builds Noticing Awareness through four detective lenses: Look Closely, See the Structure, Hear the Language, and Check Like a Reader. Includes a badge tracker and teacher answer key.
$8.00
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Lecturas, Grado 3 (Spanish Reading Passages, Grade 3)
Spanish reading passages for Grade 3, four reading levels for each passage, with every paragraph numbered and each passage starting on a fresh page. Includes a table of contents and page numbers.
$39.00
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Lecturas, Grado 4 (Spanish Reading Passages, Grade 4)
Spanish reading passages for Grade 4, four reading levels for each passage, with every paragraph numbered and each passage starting on a fresh page. Includes a table of contents and page numbers.
$39.00
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Lecturas, Grado 5 (Spanish Reading Passages, Grade 5)
Spanish reading passages for Grade 5, four reading levels for each passage, with every paragraph numbered and each passage starting on a fresh page. Includes a table of contents and page numbers.
$39.00
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Cuaderno de corrección, Grado 3, Estudiante (Spanish Editing Workbook, Grade 3, Student)
A Grade 3 Spanish editing workbook with 36 weeks of short Monday to Friday correction practice, one skill at a time, with a review of the week every Friday.
$15.00
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Cuaderno de corrección, Grado 3, Edición para el maestro (Spanish Editing Workbook, Grade 3, Teacher Edition)
A Grade 3 Spanish editing workbook with 36 weeks of short Monday to Friday correction practice, one skill at a time, with a review of the week every Friday. Teacher editions include the answer keys and short explanations.
$15.00
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Cuaderno de corrección, Grado 4, Estudiante (Spanish Editing Workbook, Grade 4, Student)
A Grade 4 Spanish editing workbook with 36 weeks of short Monday to Friday correction practice, one skill at a time, and a weekly review.
$15.00
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Cuaderno de corrección, Grado 4, Edición para el maestro (Spanish Editing Workbook, Grade 4, Teacher Edition)
A Grade 4 Spanish editing workbook with 36 weeks of short Monday to Friday correction practice, one skill at a time, and a weekly review. The teacher edition includes answer keys and short explanations.
$15.00
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Cuaderno de corrección, Grado 5, Estudiante (Spanish Editing Workbook, Grade 5, Student)
A Grade 5 Spanish editing workbook with 36 weeks of short Monday to Friday correction practice, one skill at a time, and a weekly review.
$15.00
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Cuaderno de corrección, Grado 5, Edición para el maestro (Spanish Editing Workbook, Grade 5, Teacher Edition)
A Grade 5 Spanish editing workbook with 36 weeks of short Monday to Friday correction practice, one skill at a time, and a weekly review. The teacher edition includes answer keys and short explanations.
$15.00
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