Rediscover the Wonder of Learning
Spark Investigative Minds with The Essentials Kit
Ensure teachers and children have the essential preschool materials they need to seamlessly guide instruction and enhance children’s investigative experiences—all with one bilingual kit.
Open Children’s Imaginations with The Kodo Kit
Encourage children to engage with the interest areas of your classroom with a unique collection of high-quality materials by Kodo that will be used year after year.
Nurture a Love for Reading
Provide children with the opportunity to see themselves and others and the communities to which they belong with our collection of nonfiction and Barefoot Books titles.
Read Aloud Examples
Neighborhood Song | A World of Families
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Classroom Materials
Take Away the Guesswork
Support teachers and children with materials that prioritize shared writing and investigative learning.
Extend Learning Experiences
Kodo includes collections for all interest areas and will open the minds of preschool children.
Expand Your Library
When children are exposed to high-quality literature at home and in the classroom, they develop a love for reading and gain skills for kindergarten.
Invest in Teachers and Children
The time to invest in high-quality early learning programs with classroom materials that meet the needs of all children is now. Our classroom materials qualify for ESSER funding.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Teaching Strategies offers three main classroom materials products: The Essentials Kit, a bilingual set of core preschool and pre-K materials; the Kodo Kit, a collection of high-quality interest-area materials; and a curated collection of children’s books, including nonfiction titles and Barefoot Books. All are designed to connect directly to classroom instruction and investigative learning.
The Essentials Kit covers the everyday, foundational materials a preschool or pre-K classroom needs for daily instruction when using The Creative Curriculum. The Kodo Kit is a separate collection focused on enriching specific interest areas, like block play, art, and dramatic play, with high-quality materials built to last year after year. Many programs use both – Essentials for core daily needs and Kodo to deepen specific interest areas – but each can also be purchased on its own.
The Essentials Kit is a bilingual kit, designed to support both English and Spanish-speaking classrooms. The Kodo Kit’s materials are open-ended and hands-on by design, so they support multilingual learners without depending on a specific language.
Teaching Strategies’ classroom materials – The Essentials Kit, the Kodo Kit, and the associated book collection – are designed primarily for preschool and pre-K classrooms.
Yes. The Kodo Kit, and the children’s book collection can be used in any classroom.
Play that Connects Teaching and Learning
Elevate your preschool classroom with all the materials needed to create a seamless connection between teaching and learning.
