Resource/Activity Books

Improve comprehension and foundational reading skills with a leveled reading resource book packed with high-interest text.

Improve your guided reading lesson plans with Guided Reading: Infer for grades five and six. Designed to keep students' attention, this reading comprehension book includes 36 leveled readers—six at each reading level—and features charts, photos, and maps. The readers cover interesting topics such as U.S. presidents, world wonders, animal coloration, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Infer makes it easy for you to create a comprehensive guided reading program by offering everything you need to help students at various reading levels. This book contains:

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

The readers are separated by below-level and above-level comprehension skills and feature call-out boxes to direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction text 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.

• 3 levels of nonfiction reading selections on the same topic
• Text-based comprehension questions (multiple choice and open-ended)
• Words to Know lists with vocabulary for each reading selection
• Visual literacy page to enrich learning and support focused discussions
• Text-based writing prompt and a writing form
• Graphic organizers

• Social Studies: The Code of Hammurabi; The History of Silk; The Parthenon; Queen Hatshepsut
• Science: Alice Ball; Aristotle; Individual Sports; Rachel Carson
• Mathematics: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature; Balancing a Check Register
• Technology: Grace Murray Hopper; The Eiffel Tower; The Very Large Array Observatory; Steve Jobs, Computer Pioneer
• The Arts: A Closer Look at Advertising; Jazz; Frank Lloyd Wright

180 Days of Geography for Second Grade provides teachers and parents with 180 days of daily practice to build students' geographical knowledge and skills. Through these weekly units, grade 2 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.

The Human Body for grades 5 to 8 is designed to aid in the review and practice of life science topics specific to the human body. The Human Body covers topics such as all of the body systems, genetics, and healthful living. The book includes realistic diagrams and engaging activities to support practice about all areas of the human body.

The 100+ Series science books span grades 5 to 12. The activities in each book reinforce essential science skill practice in the areas of life science, physical science, and earth science. The books include engaging, grade-appropriate activities and clear thumbnail answer keys. Each book has 128 pages and 100 pages (or more) of reproducible content to help students review and reinforce essential skills in individual science topics. The series is aligned to current science standards.

Features:

• Answer Key

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!