Resource/Activity Books

Perfect for students at different levels of understanding, Algebra for middle school and high school students provides teaching strategies as well as skill reinforcement and review.

Topics in this 128-page math resource book include these fundamental algebra skills:

• linear equations
• inequalities and absolute values
• systems of linear equations
• powers
• exponents
• quadratic equations and factoring
• rational expressions

This comprehensive algebra practice book supports NCTM standards and also includes practice pages, assessment tests, reproducible grid paper, and an answer key.

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• Answer Key

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

Interactive Notebooks: Math for seventh 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 integers, proportions, expressions and inequalities, angle relationships, probability, 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.

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• Reproducible Rights

Guided Reading for fifth and sixth grades develops foundational reading skills and improves comprehension as students engage with informational texts.

Add an interesting twist to your language arts lesson plans with Guided Reading: Synthesize for fifth and sixth grades. This resource includes 36 leveled readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The readers engage students with popular topics such as money, hip-hop, ads, language, and more.

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

The readers are separated by below-, on-, and above-level comprehension skills and feature callout boxes to teach students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction reader addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can 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.

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.

Enhance problem-solving skills and ensure math success with Spectrum® Math for grade 5. This teacher-loved series helps kids stay ahead in math by providing systematic and thought-provoking practice designed to increase in complexity.

Spectrum Math for grade 5 keeps kids at the top of their math game using progressive practice, math in everyday settings, and tests to monitor progress. The math workbook covers fractions, decimals, multiplication, division, and preparing for algebra.

A best-selling series for well over 15 years, Spectrum still leads the way because it works. It works for parents who want to give their child a leg up in math. It works for teachers who want their students to meet—and surpass—learning goals. And it works to help children build confidence and advance their skills. No matter what subject or grade, Spectrum provides thorough practice and focused instruction to support student success.

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• Answer Key

Evidence-Based Reading for kindergarten offers 64 pages of reading practice. It is aligned with current state standards and includes a reading comprehension rubric, a standards alignment chart, and pages of reading passages with evidence-based questions to encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful answers. Each question is designed so that students learn to support their answers with evidence from the text. A variety of literature and informational passages are included to engage learners in a range of texts.

The Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Reading series emphasizes close reading by requiring students to answer text-dependent questions in both literary and informational texts. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten to grade 5. Various reading and vocabulary skills are covered, and a culminating reflection question for each passage engages students' higher-level thinking skills. Of particular emphasis throughout the series are current state standards and the teaching of evidence-based reading.

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• Answer Key

Expand your child's vocabulary to improve communication and comprehension. Effective communication starts with proper word choice—and Spectrum® Vocabulary for grade 5 is here to help! This best-selling, standards-based workbook is packed with lessons, strategies, and test-taking practice to help your child choose words with confidence.

Reading comprehension and clear communication are marked by a strong vocabulary. Spectrum Vocabulary for grade 5 is a workbook packed with progressive lessons that help children learn words through strategies related to word relationships, topic-specific vocabulary, and root and base words.

Strong communication can be applied across disciplines, and is essential for success both in and out of the classroom. Spectrum Vocabulary for grades 3-6 helps children systematically build their vocabulary while improving comprehension skills. This best-selling series teaches strategies for test success and helps children understand that words matter.

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• Answer Key