Resource/Activity Books

Spectrum® Word Problems for grade 6, includes focused practice for essential math skills. Skills include:

• Real world applications
• Multi-step word problems
• Fractions, decimals, and percents
• Metric and customary measurement
• Graphs, probability, and statistics
• Geometry
• Preparing for algebra

Spectrum® Word Problems workbooks supplement classroom work and proficiency test preparation. The workbooks provide examples of how the math skills students learn in school apply to everyday life with challenging, multi-step word problems. It features practice with word problems that are an essential part of the Common Core State Standards, making it a perfect supplement at home or school.

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 2. This standards-based workbook is packed with engaging, open-ended writing activities and grade-appropriate practice to build a stronger understanding of essential language arts concepts.

An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skills—the foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 2 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master sentences, parts of speech, capitalization, and punctuation.

This comprehensive workbook doesn't stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum Language Arts for grade 2 includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer's Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. With the help of Spectrum, your child will build the language arts skills necessary for a lifetime of success.

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Guided Reading for third and fourth grades strengthens foundational reading skills with high-interest topics in a leveled reader format.

The Guided Reading: Visualize resource book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with charts and photos, it enhances group lessons with informational text about flight, storms, sports, Egypt, coral, and more.

Guided Reading: Visualize provides you with a comprehensive guided reading resource. This book includes:

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

Separated into three readability levels, informational readers capture students' attention with appealing topics, graphic charts, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to reflect on what they learned.

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.

Learning about the human body is fascinating!

This 128-page life science resource book includes these science activities:

• diagrams of each body system and organs for students to label and color
• crossword puzzles
• word searches
• analogies
• experiments

Each lesson teaches new science vocabulary to reinforce students' understanding of key concepts. Each book also supports NSE standards and includes an answer key.

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Support language acquisition using Skills for Success: Spanish for grades 6–12.

Middle school and high school students can use the activities in this 128-page book on their own or in addition to any Spanish program.

The exercises in this resource book are presented in a range of formats that help students acquire basic Spanish vocabulary. The book includes vocabulary lists, reproducible storybooks, a pronunciation key, and an answer key.

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Science taps into a kid's natural curiosity—help your child explore fascinating facts and compelling passages with a workbook that generates interest and teaches key concepts. Spectrum® Science for grade 5 introduces, reviews, and reinforces the skills your child needs to thrive in this subject.

Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children's attention. Spectrum Science for grade 5 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about galaxies, subatomic particles, identical twins, and the first airplane.

When children develop a solid understanding of science, they're preparing for success. Spectrum Science for grades 3-8 improves scientific literacy and inquiry skills with an exciting exploration of natural, earth, life, and applied sciences. With the help of this best-selling series, your little scientist can discover and appreciate our extraordinary world!

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• Answer Key

Science taps into a kid's natural curiosity—help your child explore fascinating facts and compelling passages with a workbook that generates interest and teaches key concepts. Spectrum® Science for grade 6 introduces, reviews, and reinforces the skills your child needs to thrive in this subject.

Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children's attention. Spectrum Science for grade 6 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about thermodynamics, biological adaptation, and geological disturbances.

When children develop a solid understanding of science, they're preparing for success. Spectrum Science for grades 3-8 improves scientific literacy and inquiry skills with an exciting exploration of natural, earth, life, and applied sciences. With the help of this best-selling series, your little scientist can discover and appreciate our extraordinary world!

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• Answer Key

Present basic information about the complex human body without overwhelming students in grades 5 and up with medical jargon!

Understanding the Human Body makes the study of the human body even more fascinating with Far Out Facts, fun tidbits of information that will keep students on their toes.

The 80-page science resource book includes a number of websites that provide students the opportunity to further explore various body systems or concepts identified in the activities.

This book supports National Science Education Standards.