Here's your comprehensive resource for helping students increase their spelling competencies. Each book in the series contains 30 spelling units comprised of a grade-level spelling list and four reproducible pages that cover grade-level spelling skills.
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Appropriate and useful spelling program This book includes spelling lists and practice sheets for a very good spelling program. If you're like me, and your reading series does not address spelling appropriately (or at all),then you'll find this book very useful. The spelling words are very appropriate for first grade. (There's also editions for the other grades.) For example the first spelling unit is the words: a, an, and, am, and at. My class is doing very well with this program, and it's easy for me, too. Everything is provided in reproducibles.
One of five new additions to our popular Read and Understand series, More Read and Understand Stories and Activities-Grade 3 provides teachers with a comprehensive resource of stories and skills pages to supplement any core reading program.
Features 21 stories, each followed by four or five pages of activities for practicing reading skills. Each of the stories is followed by activities for practicing reading skills such as:
- comprehension
- vocabulary development
- phonetic elements
- word attack skills
More Read and Understand, Grade 3 has 21 one-and two-page stories that vary in reading difficulty from mid-second through beginning fourth grade to meet the need of the an average third grade classroom.
The types of stories include: - fairy tales - fables - tall tales - realistic fiction - nonfiction - poetry
Some story titles are "Paddy and the Giant Potato," "Bats," "The Shark Lady," "Pecos Bill," "The Mystery of the Missing Blue Shoe," and "Cactus-a Desert Plant."
Practice activities for every story include: - a comprehension page - a word meaning page - a phonetic element
Other skills practiced include: - sequencing events - parts of speech - possessives - syllables - homophones - recording information
The stories and practice materials can be used for directed lessons with small groups or individual students or as independent practice activities in class or at home. The reading levels in each book span several grades to ensure that appropriate material for most all students is provided. A complete list of skills practiced is given in the table on contents for each book. An answer key is provided. Charming, age-appropriate illustrations throughout. All 144 pages perforated for easy removal. $12.95 each.
ItÆs easy to help students expand their vocabulary with the quick, daily practices in A Word a Day. Using the same structured format on a daily basis will result in increased word power for all students.
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Wow! Kids love it! I teach Resource Reading. My students love doing A Word A Day. They enjoy going through the list of examples of what the word means. When it comes time to share they love to volunteer to show their knowledge of the words!
Here's your comprehensive resource for helping students increase their spelling competencies. Each book in the series contains 30 spelling units comprised of a grade-level spelling list and four reproducible pages that cover grade-level spelling skills.
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Great book,! recommend it highly. Great book! It's been so helpful for my grand daughter.
For hands-on activities involving parts of a plant, trees, flowers, and seeds that connect science with real life, choose Plants. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: a plant is a living thing plants have many parts each part of a plant has a special function the fruit of a flowering plant contains seeds seeds contain new plants seeds travel in many ways plants change as they grow plants need food, water, and light to grow people need plants for food and oxygen not all plants reproduce from seeds made by flowers
Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, structure, function, cycles, diversity, and cause and effect.
Samples of the hands-on learning experiences: conduct experiments and record results to find out what plants need to grow look inside a seed and then make an "Inside a Seed" book plant bean seeds in a growing bag and keep a growth log experiment to prove that plants give off oxygen
Contains many reproducible, ready-to-go resources, such as record sheets, logbook forms, minibooks, and picture cards. Illustrated throughout with fun, yet accurate line art. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.
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Great Homeschooling Resource I bought this for a Plants unit for my homeschooled children (K and 2nd). It really worked well for us, bringing interesting experiments, high-interest information, and easy-to-follow directions (a must for the busy homeschooling mom!) The children get to see first-hand what the inside of a seed looks like, the parts of plants, and many other things.
I was pleasantly surprised with the ease of turning this book into a science unit for our homeschool as well as the interesting activities within. Too many "made-for-school" lesson plans seem to be watered down, boring, or difficult to pull of in your kitchen or living room with multi-aged children. This one, however, meets with my approval, and I am looking forward to using other books in this series.
Committed to the belief that children become good writers by writing -- and that they are more likely to write about things they understand and enjoy -- this book gives students lots of fun, familiar topics to choose from. It is a comprehensive writing resource organized into 12 monthly sections, exploring topics pertinent to each month, and its associated season, holidays, birthdays, and more.
Each section includes: * "Quickwrites" - a writing calendar containing twenty-five topics meant to be used for short, daily writing practice periods - a total of 300 topics * story starters and titles, appropriate to the month, that can be used for longer and more formal writing experiences - 209 in the book * reproducible forms representing a variety of writing experiences - from expanding vocabulary and listening to the sounds of language, to letter writing, list making, and much more - 151 forms in all
Just a few examples of the wealth of suggested writing topics include: I Learned It from My Grandparents, Happy Birthday Jesse Owens, The Witch's Grocery List, October Bumper Sticker, Loy Kathrong (Thai hoiday), Celebrating Cartoon Characters, Peace and Goodwill, the First Day of Winter, Happy Birthday Elvis Presley, If I Were a Snowlake, A Chinese New Year Celebration, A Conversation with Mr. Lincoln, My Kite, The Giant Leprechaun, Hopping Along the Bunny Trail, Chinese Fortune Eggs, Mud, Memorial Day, If I Were a Father, Baseball Basics, To Honor Beatrix Potter, A Sunflower Seed, Popcorn Festival, and Klondike Stampede.
Teacher resource pages (providing information and suggestions) address the writing process, writing folders and conferences, and response groups. Index included. Cute, lively line art illustrations throughout. All 176 pages perforated for easy removal.
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Giant - Write Everyday Excellent resource for any parent, teacher or guardian aiming to effectively guide their children to better writing skills. THat the book has 12 sections - one for each month of the year, is a great way to get kids to practise writing and come to love it.
Writing stories, essays, narratives etc can be a daunting task for many children. This book serves to remove that fear barrier as well as banish that "Do-I-have-to-write-when-I-can-be-playing-somethingelse" attitude. With interesting and many different story starters and ideas, children are allowed free rein of their imagination which will manifest in their writings.
Writing has to be practised frequently to get better. No better way for children to pick up this skill and improve than by using this book.
Isabelle Lim - Singapore
From animal habitats to the human body, matter to machines, rainforests to recycling, it's all here inone easy-to-use volume! Includes 296 reproducible picture cards, diagrams, graphic organizers and student activity sheets that will get kids involved in science.. . This book is organized by science disciplines-life science, physical science, space science, and environmental science-and features a section of 13 forms and graphic organizers.. . This book's text gives students with a well-rounded understanding of each topic. For example, students will learn not only about an animal's anatomy, but its life cycle and place in the food chain as well. A wealth of clean, accurate line art supports the text, making the book as visually stimulating as it is informative.. . Topics covered in depth include:. . Life Science -- Plants, land, invertebrates, ocean invertebrates,. amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, mammals, prehistoric animals, the human body. Physical Science -- Magnets, electricity, day & night, light, sound, matter, energy, simple machines. Earth Science -- Land forms, weather, air, water, rocks. Space Science -- Moon phases, stars, eclipses, solar system. Environmental Science -- Habitats (rainforest, desert, savanna, pond, ocean, polar regions), endangered animals, recycling. . In addition, teachers will appreciate these reproducible graphic organizers: Venn diagrams, writing webs, outline form, note taking forms, report forms and world map.
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Good for supplement This book would be good for supplemental material. However, I would recommend getting the digital addition of this book. Otherwise, you will be doing a lot of copying as there are a lot of cut and paste pages directly on the backside of another page.
Here's your comprehensive resource for helping students increase their spelling competencies. Each book in the series contains 30 spelling units comprised of a grade-level spelling list and four reproducible pages that cover grade-level spelling skills.
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Repetitive but effective The series of exercises to reinforce spelling skills is predictable, but reinforce it does. My child aced practically every test.
For hands-on activities involving snails, insects, squid, and starfish that connect science with real life, choose Animals without Backbones. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: animals without backbones are called invertebrates invertebrates are classified by their body characteristics most kinds of invertebrates live in the ocean invertebrates have developed different ways of acquiring food invertebrates' movements are adapted to the animals' needs invertebrates have developed many forms of self-defense someinvertebrates build homes
Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, structure, function, diversity, and cause and effect.
Samples of the hands-on learning experiences: observe and record information about invertebrates kept in the classroom-spiders, ants, earthworms, snails examine shells and exoskeletons of ocean invertebrates raise mealworms to observe a complete metamorphosis experiment to find out what kind of foods ants prefer design an insect that is camouflaged to "hide" in the classroom
Contains many reproducible, ready-to-go resources, such as record sheets, logbook forms, minibooks, and picture cards. Illustrated throughout with fun, yet accurate animal line art. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.
The 18 self-contained centers in Language Arts Centers, Grades 46 are presented in folders. The skills practiced include: Antonyms, alphabetical order, parts of speech, synonyms, combining sentences, analogies, kinds of sentences, main idea and supporting details, metaphors and similes, multiple-meaning words, persuasive paragraphs, syllogisms, root words, using commas, write a story, homophones, poetry, and idioms.
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Fabulous "Centers"For Independent Work This is a great resource for independent center work or for those students who complete assignments early (GATE students)! Easy to put together and easy for students to understand and complete independently.
