Resource/Activity Books

Engage students at every comprehension level as they develop foundational reading skills.

Enhance lesson plans with Guided Reading: Summarize for fifth and sixth grades. This reading comprehension book includes 36 leveled readers—six at each reading level—and features bold charts and maps. The readers engage students with text about topics such as the transcontinental railroad, echolocation, and more.

Create an effective comprehensive language arts program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Summarize. This resource book offers informational text for students at various reading levels and includes:

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

The readers are separated by below-level, on-level, and above-level comprehension skills and feature call-out boxes so students can apply reading strategies to the texts. Each reader addresses captivating 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.

Don't let your preschool child'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 PreK-K keeps kids busy with interesting learning activities all summer long!

Give your soon-to-be kindergartener a head start on their upcoming school year with Summer Bridge Activities: Bridging Grades PreK-K. With daily, 15-minute exercises kids can review colors, shapes, and letters and learn new skills like addition, subtraction, and vowel sounds. 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!

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What if people could make toys, foods or even body parts using a computer printer? They can! Modern programmers and scientist have figured out a way to make three-dimensional versions of almost anything they can design on a computer. Read about the newest advances in 3D printing, from how it works to how it's used in homes, schools and workplaces.

As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores the latest and greatest in the world of technology. Fascinating text, vivid photos, and real-world examples bring these amazing breakthroughs to life!

Help students in grades 7 and up transition from math to geometry using Helping Students Understand Geometry.

This 128-page math resource book includes:

• step-by-step instructions with examples
• practice problems using the concepts
• real-life applications
• a list of symbols and terms
• tips
• answer keys

The book supports NCTM standards and includes topics such as:

• coordinates
• angles
• patterns and reasoning
• triangles
• polygons and quadrilaterals
• circles

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This language arts tutorial book engages middle school students while they refine important skills.

Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation for fourth–eighth grades helps students master the following concepts:

• parts of speech
• capitalization
• punctuation

This Mark Twain language arts book uses stories, games, and riddles to appeal to students at various learning levels.

Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation focuses on one skill at a time to help students build proficiency and confidence. Each page includes clear definitions and examples to explain the concept being reinforced. Written for teachers, parents, families, and students, you can use this Mark Twain middle school book as a full unit of study or for individual lessons to supplement other books.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects, including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

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

In Interactive Notebooks: Math for fourth grade, students will complete hands-on activities about place value, multiplication and division, fractions, measurement, angles, geometry, 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.

• A Math Models reference page that shows students strategies for solving problems. This is helpful for parents and students transitioning to new math.
• Skill practice pages that progress in difficulty.
• A culminating problem-solving task that leads students through the process of solving a real-life problem.

• Use the four operations to solve problems
• Find factors and multiples
• Generate and analyze patterns
• Use place value in number form and rounding
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide multidigit numbers
• Make equivalent fractions and compare fractions
• Compare and order fractions
• Add, subtract, and multiply fractions
• Use decimal fractions and decimals
• Convert measurements within a system
• Represent and interpret data
• Measure angles
• Classify shapes

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 8 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a strong foundation essential for school success.

Spectrum Writing for grade 8 guides students through each step of the writing process as they write sentences, personal stories, descriptions, how-to instructions, reports, opinions, and more. Spectrum Writing workbooks guide students as they write for a variety of purposes, including writing to tell a story, writing to provide information, and writing to state an opinion. Lessons support current state standards. Step-by-step instructions help with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. A Writer's Handbook reinforces grammar and language skills, and a complete Answer Key is included. Engaging, open-ended writing projects combined with standards-based learning make these workbooks an essential resource for school success.

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