Text2Reader is a monthly supplementary resource for middle school English teachers that provides reading selections, activities, and assessments to help students improve their reading comprehension, writing skills, and engagement with texts. It covers a variety of genres and can be used flexibly within the classroom. A yearly school-wide subscription costs $175 and provides teachers access to download past and current issues as PDFs, with the option to print materials.

1. The resource you’ve
been waiting for all
these years!
Best
Professional
Resource
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Text2Reader is a monthly
Language Arts program
for grades 6 to 8.
Easy-to-use, teacher-created
Comprehension exercises High-quality reading
Reading and writing activities selections and engaging
Readers Theater activities help your students
Assessment rubrics make meaning from what
they read.
Opportunities for enrichment
All exercises tied to English Language Arts learning outcomes and Common Core
Text2Reader—A monthly Language Arts program for middle schools
www.text2reader.com • text2reader@orcabook.com

2. What is Text2Reader?
Text2Reader is a monthly stand-alone resource for grades 6 to 8 English Language Arts teachers
and is available by subscription. Text2Reader is teacher-created and addresses middle school
English Language Arts learning outcomes.
As a supplementary resource, Text2Reader supports you in your goals of teaching students to
love reading, to understand a variety of texts, to think critically and personally about the texts they
encounter and to make meaning by listening, speaking and writing about what they’re reading.
It complements your ongoing Language Arts program. And it’s great to know you can lean on
Text2Reader to cover virtually every core outcome!
Each issue of Text2Reader includes an excerpt from a fiction, nonfiction and graphic text with
accompanying activities. It also features a new Readers Theater script plus a “Digital Nation” article
that addresses current issues in the online world.
Text2Reader is for you, the teacher, with the aim of engaging your students deeply in the
works—and words—they read.
How does Text2Reader arrive at my school?
Text2Reader is available to download as a PDF from the T2R website. Each month, you will be able
to access the current issue, all past issues and any additional content developed just for you. Want
a print version? We can do that too for a small additional charge.
How do I use it in my classroom?
Text2Reader arrives ready to be used: you don’t have to consult a gigantic unit guide or plan an
entire unit around reaching a particular set of outcomes. Text2Reader does it for you. Each section
of Text2Reader can stand alone; you can pick and choose parts of the program or use the whole
package in its entirety. Need to cover topic sentences for first block tomorrow morning? You can
pull just the section dealing with that and have it ready to go when students arrive. Need a home-
work assignment on persuasive writing? T2R has that too.
Can I share Text2Reader with another
teacher in my school? How?
Yes you can! Your Text2Reader subscription may be shared throughout your school. Print it.
Photocopy it. Post it on your school’s server for all ELA teachers to use. To share access to the
additional materials and resources found on www.text2reader.com, just provide other teachers with
your username and password. Really!

3. Does Text2Reader make any provisions
for differentiated instruction?
Nearly all of the assignments and activities in Text2Reader can be easily adapted to suit the
levels your students need. Students will apply their reading, writing and speaking skills to real-
world activities: debating current topics that matter to them, writing résumés, setting personal
goals, creating visual media and much more—both independently and in groups. These
authentic learning experiences are the cornerstone for differentiated instruction.
*Visit the FAQ section at www.text2reader.com to find out more about differentiated
instruction and Text2Reader.
Are the Text2Reader excerpts and lessons
suitable for grades 6 through 8?
All of the reading selections in Text2Reader are within the interest level and reading range
of middle school students. The fiction selections come from our popular Orca Soundings and
Orca Currents series, both of which are accessible to developing and advanced readers alike.
Similarly, the nonfiction and graphic novel selections are geared toward readers ages ten and
up, with an interest level that spans late elementary through middle school and beyond.
The assignments are explicitly created to be usable across the three grade ranges. Each
assignment can also be easily modified by the teacher in terms of length and depth.
Ok. I like the idea. How do I get Text2Reader?
And what does it cost?
You can order Text2Reader directly from the www.text2reader.com website or by calling Orca
Book Publishers at 1-800-210-5277 or by emailing us at text2reader@orcabook.com. A full-year,
school-wide subscription, delivered electronically costs just $175.
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4. “I am impressed with Text2Reader, with
the layout on the site and the substantial
presentation and additional resources…
I appreciate the variety of text and
the skill complexities that are explicitly
addressed. It is completely appropriate for
middle school and not intimidating at all.”
Text2Reader is available as a monthly —Kate Schoedinger,
download as part of an annual subscription. Reading Specialist, NH
A single subscription can be used by every
Language Arts teacher in your school. New in 2012!
For $175.00 you’ll receive eight issues of Digital Nation—a feature article with
Text2Reader plus a full year’s access to accompanying activities based on
additional resources at Text2Reader.com! current issues in the online world.
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