Resource/Activity Books

Engage students with high-interest text as they develop foundational reading skills and improve comprehension.

Add an interesting twist to your language arts lesson plans with Guided Reading: Question for fifth and sixth grades. This reading comprehension book includes 36 leveled readers—six at each reading level. The readers engage students with appealing topics such as civil rights, Yellowstone, and more.

Create a comprehensive reading program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Question. This resource book offers informational text for students at various reading levels and includes:

• graphic organizers
• leveled readers with intriguing topics
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides

The readers are separated by below-level and above-level comprehension skills and feature call-out boxes so students can apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction reader addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can show what they know.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

The sound of a child reading is like music to a parent's ears—so get your child on the right track with Spectrum® Word Study and Phonics for grade 4! This best-selling language arts workbook uses progressive lessons, strategies, and practice to help children understand word formations and meanings.

Understanding letter sounds and word formation is an essential piece to the reading proficiency puzzle. Spectrum Word Study and Phonics for grade 4 guides children through synonyms, antonyms, consonant blends, and more. Filled with engaging exercises in a progressive format, this series provides an effective way to reinforce early language arts skills.

Mastering language arts is a long process—start with the basics. Spectrum Word Study and Phonics is here to help children begin a successful journey to reading proficiency. With the help of this best-selling series, your child will improve language arts skills with practice and activities that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills.

Features:

• Answer Key

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Math for eighth grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about rational numbers, multistep equations, functions, the Pythagorean theorem, scatter plots, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

Features:

• Reproducible Rights

Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know! has all the information kids will need to survive in the workplace, wherever that may be! Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know!

Are you ready to get a reìalî job what kinds of skills are employers looking for when they hire someone? Why do some employees get promoted what will be expected from you in the workplace? Think you don't need to know these things in high school? Think again! These are the essentials today's kids will use in the real world, whether at an after-school job or as a high-flying professional.

Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know! is part of the highly-anticipated Careers Curriculum series, a line of educational materials designed to prepare students for the "real world" of work, starting in high school.

Highly encouraging and enlightening!