Build Basic Skills the hands-on way!Young readers will have a great time as they complete the 43 activities designed to improve reading, handwriting, comprehension, and fine motor skills! Each delightful lesson includes an easy-to-read mini-story followed by simple writing and comprehension activities. As a reward for completing each lesson, students are invited to color the story's lively illustration. Great for building reading confidence!

Building early comprehension skills!Presented with context clues and a word list, students are challenged to complete brief stories. Example: “Horns. Has. Goat… Tim ___ a goat. His goat has ____. The ___ likes corn. Who has a goat?”Each of the 43 exercises found in this book features three or four words and a delightful illustration of the story. Reading and writing skills are enhanced while students get plenty of practice with comprehension, spelling, and thinking. Coloring the accompanying picture is a fun way to hone fine motor skills.

Pump up those language skills! Each of the 40 lessons in this book focuses on the use of adjectives and adverbs. Subjects covered include defining, classifying, recognizing, and using adjectives and adverbs. As students progress through “adjectives after the verb,” “adjectives formed from nouns,” “adverbs formed from adjectives,” and more, students master an understanding of these language-builders. At the conclusion of the book is a comprehensive review exercise.

Pump up those language skills! The 42 lessons and review exercises in this book focus on all aspects of verb usage - from “recognizing action verbs” and “identifying different verb tenses,” to “irregular verbs” and “adding ‘d’ or ‘ed’ to create past tense.” As students work their way through these comprehensive exercises, they will master the use of verbs as language-builders.

Capture the interest of eager learners and reluctant learners alike with these humor-filled workbooks guaranteed to put a grin on students' and teachers' faces. These skill-based activities revolve around a set of comical characters who get involved in silly and absurd situations. Zany illustrations with humorous captions keep kids smiling, while solid practice activities teach important basic skills. The amusing characters have been given wacky and unusual names that are repeated often in all four books, giving lots of practice with certain letter group sounds. Creative Writing: Clever story-starters and comical characters invite students to use their imaginations - and pencil - to add to the humor.

Tackling that blank sheet of paper! To get students over the common trepidation of “Where to begin?” this lesson unit presents 48 stimulating story-starters sure to motivate reluctant writers. Example: “I’m a quarter. I can tell you some good stories about where I’ve been. One day…”Plenty of space has been left for students to weave their tales. Creative writing composition, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and penmanship skills will all get plenty of practice.

Capitalize on capitalization! Each of the 31 lessons and review exercises in this learning unit focuses on a specific use for capital letters. The “why” and “when” of capitalizing is extensively covered. Among the rules taught are “days of the week,” “people and pets,” “titles,” “greetings,” “direct quotations,” “poetry,” and so much more. As students progress, they learn to master the fine art of accurate capitalization.

Creating a written plan that organizes ideas or facts in a logical order. The 44 lessons in this book will give students plenty of practice with all aspects of Outlining. Exercises focus on the parts of an outline, finding main and sub-topics, writing paragraphs from an outline, creating an outline and then a report, and more. With the skills taught in this unit, students will be better equipped to use an outline to write stories and reports.

From Australia to Tanzania and beyond - your students will love discovering fascinating facts about faraway places while they improve their reading comprehension, writing and research skills. Students read a high-interest article about each country or continent then answer specific reading comprehension questions that encourage them to read for details and find facts. In addition, a variety of extended bonus activities are included to insure that your students receive a thorough understanding of each country while building basic skills. Bonus activities include: extended writing activities for each country, extended "Research-the-Facts" activities for each country, "World-Record Facts" and activities, "Write-to-the-Embassy" bonus activities, and more!

Proofreading is the process of carefully going over a written report, story, or letter before the final copy is made. We proofread to be sure there are no mistakes, and when we find a mistake, we correct it… right? Unfortunately, for many students proofreading is a foreign concept. All too often students turn in a "finished" classroom assignment that is full of careless mistakes! This step-by-step book was designed to help students learn, practice, and incorporate this vital skill into their written work.

Each of the stories in this book emphasizes three to six words - all nouns found most commonly in beginning readers. Following each story are seven activities including: Questions relating to the content of the story. Complete-the-sentence exercises. Sequencing. "Yes/No" inquiries and a "Follow Directions" task. Once young students master basic sight words, reading becomes an enjoyable endeavor rather than a dutiful task. 40-page book includes an Answer Key.

Each of the stories in this book emphasizes three to six words - all nouns found most commonly in beginning readers. Following each story are seven activities including: Questions relating to the content of the story. Complete-the-sentence exercises. Sequencing. "Yes/No" inquiries, and a "Follow Directions" task. Once young students master basic sight words, reading becomes an enjoyable endeavor rather than a dutiful task. 48-page book include an Answer key.

Effective reading and comprehension building exercises.After reading about “jumping beans,” “Clara Barton,” “tidal waves,” “yawning,” “neon signs,” and more, students are challenged with a series of True/False statements.All 25 lessons in this illustrated book encourage young readers to absorb what they read so they have the information needed to determine if the follow-up statements ring true or false. 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3 | Interest Level 4-8

Critical reading, thinking, and understanding are required in order to answer the questions that follow each of the short articles in this 25-lesson book.Some of the questions call for factual answers found in the text. Other questions are based on the reader’s ability to apply logic, make inferences, recognize cause and effect, draw conclusions, and use reason to come up with answers. Clever illustrations pertaining to the topics are sometimes part of the comprehension process. 32-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-8

Retaining what is heard! Short, bright, read-aloud stories about subjects ranging from “Something to Smile About” to “Making Movies,” are at the core of the 30 lessons in this learning unit. After listening closely to each story, students are given independent activities that focus on drawing conclusions, finding the main idea, and remembering details. By getting youngsters involved in the stories, they will gradually learn more thoughtful listening techniques.

Help students organize and summarize information with these short, easy-to-read passages, guided activities, and story webs. This 32-page book offers lots of practice identifying the main idea, summarizing stories, writing supporting sentences, and more. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-8

Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice in the specific reading skills needed to distinguish facts from opinions.The lessons begin with “fact” stories, move on to “opinion” stories, and then to tales that contain both facts and opinions. As students progress through the lessons, they learn to differentiate between the two. 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

Critical thinking is promoted by the 24 lessons in this learning unit. Out of the gate, students are asked to read articles on two related subjects: “bees” and “wasps,” the volcanoes “Vesuvius” and “Mount Saint Helens,” the “Nile” and “Mississippi” rivers, and more. Then, on their own, students are given the task of listing all the similarities and all the differences between the two subjects. 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-8

Building vocabulary.With each of the 10 lessons in this book, students are challenged to better understand and actively use five common words. Eight exciting activities are put before the students - from finding the words in sentences and underlining the one sentence that tells about an accompanying picture, to using the words to complete a story and writing their own sentences using lesson words. Of course, fun illustration activities are integrated into each exercise. To test comprehension, two Review Lessons have been included.