Implement balanced literacy in your grade 1 classroom! This comprehensive set includes everything that teachers need to transition towards a balanced literacy framework in their classrooms. The fifteen titles featured in this set cover a wide range of informational texts covering math, science, and social studies topics. The high-interest content will engage students in learning as they develop their literacy skills. This set includes five copies of each of the fifteen titles, and one copy of Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy. The invaluable classroom resource includes easy-to-implement strategies to nurture reading and writing skills through Shared/Guided/Independent Reading and Writing activities. It also provides in-depth lessons plans that take away the guesswork out of what is needed to implement the Balanced Literacy approach. Titles in this set include: Music Around the World; Shaping Up; A Day in Our Lives; Day at the Zoo; Main Street Animal Shelter; I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag; Respect the Rules!; Getting Around School; Jobs Around Town; Inside a Plant; Raising Babies: What Animal Parents Do; Message Received!; Shadows; Our Sun; Earth and Moon.