Suggested Placement of Harcourt Time for Kids Readers
It was a pleasant surprise that Harcourt included the Time for Kids Readers as a part of the
special Baltimore County Schools social studies textbook purchase. Here are some guidelines to
help administrators and teachers place the booklets at the appropriate grade levels.
Time for Kids Reader Title
Recommended Recommended Use of the Booklet
Grade Level
Meet a Weather Forecaster
The Mighty Mississippi
Once There Were Anasazi
Read All About It
Canada’s French Province
The First Voyage Around
the World
On Shirley Plantation
4
4
4
4 or 5
4
4
Science
Unit 1: My Country’s Geography
Unit 2: The Earliest Americans
Resource for Reading Instruction
Unit 2: The Earliest Americans
Unit 3: Exploration
5
Old New Amsterdam
4
The Exile of Roger
Williams
John and Abigail Adams
Victory at Yorktown
Travels of the Declaration
of Independence
Mr. Peal’s Amazing
Museum
Wagons West
The Star-Spangled Banner
Freedom Quilts
4
This will support the revised unit 1 for
grade 5 social studies in 2004.
Units 3 & 4: Exploration and Early
European Settlement
Unit 4: Early European Settlement
5
5
5
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution, New Government
4 or 5
Resource for Reading Instruction
4 or 5
5
5
4 or 5
4 or 5
4 or 5
Resource for Reading Instruction
Liberty: New Government
This will support the revised unit 1 for
grade 5 social studies in 2004.
Resource for Reading Instruction
Resource for Reading Instruction
Resource for Reading Instruction
4 or 5
4 or 5
4 or 5
4 or 5
5
Resource for Reading Instruction
Resource for Reading Instruction
Resource for Reading Instruction
Resource for Reading Instruction
Liberty: New Government
The Golden Spike
The Secrets of the Hunley
The Surprising Mr.
Birdseye
The Berlin Airlift
A Certain Courage
The Pride of Puerto Ricans
Visit Vancouver
Election 2000
Office of Elementary Social Studies
September, 2003