Teacher Created Materials | www.tcmpub.com | 800-858-7339 233 GLOSSARY OF TERMS HELPFUL PRODUCT DEFINITIONS 6-Pack: For many of the readers included in our products, we offer six copies of one reader accompanied by a lesson plan. These 6-Packs can accompany a product or stand alone. Educators requested this flexibility to make sure they can provide more students with access to content. Teacher’s Guide: Our Teacher’s Guides give classroom educators all the tools they need to use our materials strategically and successfully. Detailed lesson plans and instructional strategies support all learners in the classroom, including multilingual learners and learners who will benefit from special supports. Assessment Guide: Our Assessment Guides are specifically designed to give teachers a range of opportunities to assess students’ progress in mastering skills, content, and knowledge. Typically, our Assessment Guides include diagnostic assessments or pretests, formative checks for progress, and summative assessments. Teachers also value the Assessment Guides’ reporting and analysis tools so they can monitor student progress. Digital Resources: Our collections of digital learning resources enrich and extend learning aligned to the content in our curricular resources. Typically, they include fillable PDFs of student activity pages along with PDFs of all teaching resources, such as graphic organizers and pacing plans. They include professional audio recordings, read-along ebooks, videos, interactive assessments, school-home connection letters, and more. Management Guide: Our Management Guides give an overview of the components included in each resource. They often provide information about organizing whole-class, small- group, and one-on-one instruction. Management Guides may also include easy-to- implement pacing guides, standards alignments, current research, and information on using digital resources. Student Guided Practice Book/Student Handbook: Our Student Guided Practice Books and Handbooks reinforce and extend knowledge through enriching text passages and engaging activities. The books focus on key skills relevant to the content at hand and also give students opportunities to connect reading and writing or to share their knowledge in creative ways. Add-On Pack: Add-On Packs provide one copy of every reader title included in a product. They are another way to make sure all students have access to readers during instruction. Soooo BIG! Little kids like to play the So Big game, making themselves as big as they can be. For many animals, So Big is an adaptation that helps them survive. When faced with a threat, their instincts kick in. They make themselves seem larger than they are. One of the weirdest examples of this is the puffer fish. When it gets scared, it takes in air or water in a special sac in its body. Then, it blows up like a balloon. It only takes a few seconds to do this! It can let out the air and water pretty quickly, too, and go back to its normal size. The frilled lizard and cobra use size as a warning, too. The frilled lizard flares its frill, and the cobra flares its hood. The flare is its way of saying, “I’m warning you. Back off!” puffer fish How to Scare a Bear If you are out in the woods and see a bear, keep your distance. But if you can’t avoid the bear, use what you know about adaptations to help you. 1. Make a lot of noise. 2. Stand with your friends and family to make your group look more threatening. 3. Spread your arms over your head to appear as large as possible. Definitely Not Bambi Deer are cute and sweet, right? Not the tufted deer. It has an unusual adaptation— fangs! The male uses its fangs to fight other males for a mate. If one deer knocks down the other, its fangs will finish the job. A frilled lizard eats its prey. 23 22 22 - 23
