Strong Nations Publishing Bundles

This Guided Reading Bundle includes Strong Readers: Sets A & B, 80 titles in all, Levels 1 - 20. You will receive 6 copies of each of the 80 titles (480 books in total).

Strong Readers are embedded with connections to science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings. You will also find throughout our books connections to scaffolded text features and reading comprehension strategies.

Books have been illustrated by Bill Helin, Tsimshian Nation. Beautiful photographs throughout.

Educator Information
This resource is also available in French HERE!

Additional Information
ISBN: 9781771746625

Strong Readers Single Set: Sets A & B includes 1 copy each of all 80 titles (Levels 1 - 20) in the Strong Readers Set A and Set B series (80 books total).

Strong Readers are embedded with connections to science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings.  You will also find throughout our books connections to scaffolded text features and reading comprehension strategies.

Books have been illustrated by Bill Helin, Tsimshian Nation. Beautiful photographs throughout.

Educator Information
This resource is also available in French HERE!

Additional Information
ISBN 9781771746601

This Guided Reading Bundle for the Strong Readers: Set A includes all 40 titles (Levels 1 - 10) in 6 packs. You will receive 240 books total.

Strong Readers are embedded with connections to science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings. You will also find throughout our books connections to scaffolded text features and reading comprehension strategies.

Books have been illustrated by Bill Helin, Tsimshian Nation. Beautiful photographs throughout.

Educator Information
This resource is also available in French HERE!

Additional Information
ISBN 9781771740524

Strong Readers Single Set: Set A includes 1 copy each of all 40 titles (Levels 1 - 10) in Set A of the Strong Readers (40 books total).

Strong Readers are embedded with connections to science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings.  You will also find throughout our books connections to scaffolded text features and reading comprehension strategies.

Books have been illustrated by Bill Helin, Tsimshian Nation. Beautiful photographs throughout.

Educator Information
This resource is also available in French HERE!

Additional Information
ISBN: 9781771740517

This bundle includes all of the resources (books, learning environment, and support resources) from the three separate From the Mountains to the Sea Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 bundles. 

Within this bundle are three separate bundles that can be used together or on their own:

1) From the Mountains to the Sea: We Live Here Kindergarten Bundle, which includes the following resources in three categories:

• Read Aloud: From the Mountains to the Sea: We Live Here
• Learning Environment: Bulletin Board Trimmer: Crests
• Learning Support: Stamp (Rubber): Bill Helin - Bear; Stamp (Rubber): Bill Helin - Eagle; Stamp (Rubber): Bill Helin - Orca; Stamp (Rubber): Bill Helin - Salmon; Stamp (Rubber): Bill Helin - Tree of Life; Talking Circle Feather

2) From the Mountains to the Sea: We Share the Seasons Grade 1 Bundle, which includes the following resources in three categories:

• Read Aloud: From the Mountains to the Sea: We Share the Seasons
• Learning Environment: Bulletin Board Trimmer: Cedar
• Learning Support: Posters: Four Moon Poster Set; Strong Learners Sort and Categorize Cards - Seasons 

3) From the Mountains to the Sea: We Are a Community Grade 2 Bundle, which includes the following resources in three categories:

• Read Aloud: From the Mountains to the Sea: We Are a Community
• Learning Environment: Bulletin Board Trimmer: Salmon
• Learning Support: Strong Learners Memory Matching and Life Cycle Cards - Salmon;  Rock the Salish Sea CD

Educator Information
From the Mountains to the Sea is a series that follows a river eco-system from its source high up in the mountains all the way to the estuary. Along the river's path, we introduce the cedar tree, the salmon which feeds the entire eco-system, the bear, eagle and orca. Each book is written with a science perspective on the lefthand pages and social studies on the righthand pages.

This series supports the following: 

• Aboriginal Learning Standards for both science and social studies for each grade level are captured in this unique book series. Science is always on the left, social studies on the right.
• Each book provides opportunity to extend into place-based learning.
• Each book is 10” x 14” and is meant to be read aloud multiple times.
• Each book captures the journey of a river from its source high up in the mountains and then to the estuary where it meets the sea. Along this journey, we meet the cedar, salmon, bear, eagle and orca.
• Within the K and Grade 1 books there are educator notes to help support the content for both science and social studies. The Grade 2 book is self-explanatory as it is being read aloud.
• Within the K and Grade 1 books the structure for a Talking Circle is embedded along with notes on how to facilitate a circle.
• The importance of the salmon in how it provides food and nutrients within the river eco-system is an inferred focus for each title.

Find downloadable planning guides for each of the books in this series below:

We Live Here (for Kindergarten)
Click link to download a five-week Kindergarten planning guide: Kindergarten FREE Download for We Live Here

We Share the Seasons (for Grade 1)
Click link to download a five-week Grade 1 planning guide: Grade 1 FREE Download for We Share the Seasons

We Are a Community (for Grade 2)
Click link to download a Grade 2 five-week planning guide: Grade 2 FREE Download for We Are a Community

Download a free stamp book here: Stamp Book English

Scroll below to learn more about the individual items included. If items are marked In Reprint or Out of Print, they will not be included in the bundle.

Bring the ocean into your classroom with this Hideaway Cove bundle.  We have paired up learning environment resources, like finger puppets and a memory game, with Brenda Boreham's picture book Hideaway Cove.

Authenticity Note: To view which items in this bundle are Indigenous, please scroll below for more information.

This bundle includes all six Strong Stories sets.  You will receive one copy of each book in the six sets (48 books total).

Listed below are the Strong Stories sets (and the titles included within each) that you will receive in this bundle:

Coast Salish Stories
Granny and I Get Traditional Names
Mom, How Do You Make Smoked Fish?
Why Ravens and Wolves Hunt Together
Taking Care of Our Mother Earth
The Cedar Tree: The Heart of Our People
The Great Blanket of Moss
The Great Trade
The Sun and the Moon

Dakelh Stories
Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle
Berries of the Dakelh Territory
Berry Picking with ‘Atsoo
Counting in Carrier (delivered in a dual-language format of Carrier and English)
Fall in Saik’uz (delivered in a triple-language format of Carrier, English, and French)
Spring in Saik’uz (delivered in a triple-language format of Carrier, English, and French)
Summer in Saik’uz (delivered in a triple-language format of Carrier, English, and French)
Winter in Saik’uz (delivered in a triple-language format of Carrier, English, and French)

Kanyen'keha:ka Stories
Big Bear
Kanyen’kehà:ka Clans
Creation Story Sky Woman
The Thanksgiving Address
The Game
The Three Sisters
The Woodpecker
Two Row Wampum

Kwakwaka’wakw Stories
A Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch
Button Blankets
Hereditary Chiefs and Matriarchs
Our Traditional Medicines
Planning a Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch
Strength in Our “Ways of Knowing”
The Cedar Tree Our Culture, Our Tree
Traditional Berry Picking 

Métis Stories
How the Moon Came to Be
Métis and Dandelions
Métis Singing Sticks: A Story About Métis Musical Traditions
Pemmican Berries
Poems to Honour Mother Earth
The Helpful Sasquatch
Métis Transport Boxes
The Story of the Tamarack Tree

Tlingit Stories
Gift of the Salmon
Hong Kong Story Totems
Making a Canoe
Making a Drum
Raven Returns the Daylight
Spirit Bear
Tlingit Fishing
Tlingit Storytellers

Educator Information
Books in this set are recommended for primary to intermediate students.

For the books containing Carrier, downloadable pronunciation guides are available:
Spring in Saik'uz Pronunciation Guide
Summer in Saik'uz Pronunciation Guide
Fall in Saik'uz Pronunciation Guide
Winter in Saik'uz Pronunciation Guide
Berries of the Dakelh Territory Pronunciation Guide
Counting in Carrier Pronunciation Guide

This bundle includes one copy of each of:

• the 40 titles in the Strong Readers Set A series
• the 40 titles in the Strong Readers Set B series
• the accompanying Strong Readers Educator Resource Guide.

About the Set A and Set B Strong Readers 
The Strong Readers are a guided/levelled reading series that are chock full of science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings. Our books are rich with scaffolded text features and have beautiful illustrations and photographs. The entire series is interconnected and follows the cultural values of frog, bear, eagle and raven throughout.

The Strong Readers are written by Terri Mack, Brenda Boreham, and Donna Klockars and illustrated by Bill Helin.

Books in both Set A and Set B are 16 pages each | Paperback

About the Strong Readers Educator Resource Guide
The Strong Readers Educator Resource Guide is a supporting guide for the Strong Readers (Levels 1 - 20, Sets A & B).

The Educators Resource Guide is organized in a binder with each section tabbed (373 pages total).

The comprehensive guide provides the following:

• Strong Readers Overview
• Correlation Chart
• Title List
• Titles Supporting Specific Areas
• Introduction to Guided Reading
• Guided Reading Lesson Plan Overview
• Guided Reading Lesson Planning
• Data Sheet and Thinking Sheets, Levels 1 - 20
• Tools to Support Guided Reading Lesson Planning
• Coaching Records/Running Records
• How to Use the Coaching Records

The Strong Readers Educator Resource Guide offers a range of tools and resources designed to assist educators in utilizing the Strong Readers with students. Please note that this resource does not contain lesson plans or coaching records for the Northern Series and the Métis Series and that these additional Strong Readers series are not included in this bundle.

373 Pages | Binder