The New York City Theme Pack is what every busy teacher needs. It combines detailed nonfiction reading in the content area with hundreds of teaching resources and activities.
The theme pack features nine back list issues of Cobblestone, Faces, Footsteps, and AppleSeeds magazines, the 218-page book the New York City Reader, and a 24-page teacher's guide. The books and magazines are a great source for student reading and research about New York City and the teacher's guide offers related material to promote classroom discussions, vocabulary, writing and research, art and music, civics, math, and geography of the city.

Each theme pack includes a teacher's guide
The teacher’s guide is organized into six content areas: Early New York City, Building the City, Immigrants and the Golden Door, Famous New Yorkers, Business City--International City, and Entertainment Capital of the World. All components are designed to reduce teacher preparation time and bring high-quality and entertaining reading to students.