Resource/Activity Books

History Pockets-Native Americans, Grades 1–3, contains nine memorable discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the tribes in North America that are featured. The other pockets focus on food, clothing, shelter, and family life of eight Native American tribes.

Each of the pockets contains:

• a reproducible pocket label
• three dictionary words and pictures, plus a shelter stamp
• a fact sheet of background information for the teacher
• a reproducible students information booklet complete with illustrations
• arts and crafts projects
• writing activities

Evaluation forms are provided at the end of the book to give students a chance to reflect on all they have learned.

The book includes the following pockets:

• Introduction to Native Americans
• The Inuit of the Arctic
• The Tlingit of the Northwest
• The Nez Perce of the Plateau
• The Maidu of California
• The Sioux of the Plains
• The Navajo of the Southwest
• The Iroquois of the Northeast
• The Seminole of the Southeast

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.

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 6. 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 6 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master vocabulary, parts of speech, sentence types, and grammar.

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 6 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

• Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities provide practice of grade-level language, math, and reading skills, focusing on one skill in each subject area.
• The daily lessons progress in difficulty as students move through Day 1 to Day 5, and the weekly units progress in difficulty throughout the year.

• Language: grammar, mechanics, usage, and syntax
• Math: algebraic expressions, ratios, rational numbers, problem solving, coordinate planes, graphing patterns, and statistics
• Reading: reading: theme/main idea, author's purpose, literary elements, author craft, inference, and analysis

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Improve classroom data tracking for first grade language arts with a book that makes it easy to show student progress.

Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Language Arts for first grade transforms the way you monitor student growth with formative and summative language arts assessments on grade-specific topics including:

• story elements
• reading comprehension
• fluency
• phonics
• parts of speech

Create an all-in-one data tracking binder with these ready-to-go language arts assessments that cover the skills and standards for the entire school year. With the help of this teacher resource book, you can collect accurate data on a student's or class's skill level with:

• prompt cards for one-on-one assessments
• exit tickets
• unit tests
• traditional tests

Proof of progress is essential in today's classroom, and tracking student growth in language arts is easier than ever with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. This series makes it easy to gather information about students' understanding—one assessment at a time!

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.

Transform classroom data tracking for third grade language arts with ready-to-go assessments to monitor progress.

Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Language Arts for third grade improves the way you assess student growth with formative and summative language arts assessments that cover topics such as:

• reading comprehension
• fluency
• commas
• capitalization
• decoding words
• story elements

With a variety of language arts assessments that cover third grade skills and standards for the school year, this teacher resource book will help you create a data tracking binder to gather essential information on a student's or class's skill level. This book includes:

• exit tickets
• unit tests
• traditional tests
• prompt cards for one-on-one assessments

The need to show proof of progress to parents and administrators grows every year—stay ahead with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. With one assessment at a time, this series makes tracking student growth easy!