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.

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.

Don't let your kindergarten graduate's knowledge dry up over summer break! Prevent summer learning loss in just 15 minutes a day. Perfect for at home or on-the-go, Summer Bridge Activities®: Bridging Grades K-1 keeps kids busy with interesting learning activities all summer long!

Give your soon-to-be first grader a head start on their upcoming school year with Summer Bridge Activities: Bridging Grades K-1. With daily, 15-minute exercises kids can review rhyming and counting and learn new skills like telling time and writing complete sentences. This workbook series prevents summer learning loss and paves the way to a successful new school year.

And this is no average workbook—Summer Bridge Activities keeps the fun and the sun in summer break! Designed to prevent a summer learning gap and keep kids mentally and physically active, the hands-on exercises can be done anywhere. These standards-based activities help kids set goals, develop character, practice fitness, and explore the outdoors. With 12 weeks of creative learning, Summer Bridge Activities keeps skills sharp all summer long!

Features:

• Answer Key

Help students develop foundational reading skills with a high-interest guided reading program for students at various reading levels.

Guided Reading: Analyze for third and fourth grades includes 36 nonfiction readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The readers in this reading comprehension resource book feature informational text about nocturnal animals, movies, Australia, space, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Analyze provides everything you need to complete comprehensive guided reading lesson plans including:

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

Separated into three readability levels, these informational readers capture students' attention with graphic charts, high-interest topics, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and respond to a writing prompt at the end of each reader.

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.

Improve foundational reading skills with a guided reading program that appeals to students at every reading level.

Guided Reading: Summarize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with six sets of readers for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension resource book engages students with colorful images as they learn about topics such as bees, firefighters, weather, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Summarize offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive language arts program for first and second grades. This book includes:

• leveled readers that cover high-interest topics
• graphic organizers
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides

The high-interest readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students' attention. Various call-out boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt.

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.

180 Days of Geography for Fourth Grade provides teachers and parents with 180 days of daily practice to build students' geographical knowledge and skills. Through these weekly units, grade 4 students will improve their geographic background knowledge, critical thinking and reasoning skills, map and spatial skills, and answer photo- and text-dependent questions. This essential social studies resource provides teachers with the tools they need to provide detailed instruction on map skills, key geographical concepts, and the five themes of geography: location, place, human environment/interaction, movement, and region.

With the world becoming more connected, learning about different places through a geographic lens will equip 21st century students with the skills they need to betterunderstand diverse cultures and regions in an increasingly interdependent world. An introductory two-week unit focuses on teaching the map skills that students will use throughout the rest of the book. Subsequent units will introduce students to a new place or a type of map, and will explore the relationship between geography and culture. This book helps teachers meet National Geography Standards and state standards in their classrooms. Digital files are included.

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for kindergarten. 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.

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 kindergarten 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.

Features:

• Answer Key

Young learners will love these super-fun activities they can do all by themselves! Kids read, sort, and write words with short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Along the way, they boost a network of essential literacy skills. These playful reproducible pages are no-prep and perfect for seatwork, centers, or send-home.

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

In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for kindergarten, students will complete hands-on activities about short vowel sounds, sight words, nouns, antonyms, punctuation, parts of a book, 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.