Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | First Aid | Fire Extinguisher | Food Poisoning | Hand Washing | Print & Go. Is it time to teach KITCHEN SAFETY? These easy-to-use & highly-visual lessons are ready when you are! Short reading passages introduce students to key safety topics, while simple multiple-choice questions challenge students to show what they know. A great way to teach kitchen safety and life skills in a very deliberate and explicit manner! For students of all ages. (See product preview for tons of sample pages). TOPICS INCLUDE: Fire-Safe Clothing Hand Washing Techniques Burns & Scalding Knife Safety & Getting Cut First Aid for Burns, Cuts & more Chopping Board Safety Salmonella Food Poisoning How to Use a Fire Extinguisher Putting Out a Grease Fire SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS: Students read each short passage then answer relevant kitchen safety questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities challenge students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, and more. EVERYDAY SAFETY TOPICS: Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook and prepare meals safely. Whether learning the correct way to use a knife or how to put out a grease fire, your students will get their fill with these explicit life-skills lessons. COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Multiple-choice and cloze reading comprehension questions challenge students after reading each passage. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues and more… Basic kitchen terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way. VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice activities require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple choice. EASY TO USE! These lessons are ready when you are! Just Print & Go!

Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | First Aid | Fire Extinguisher | Food Poisoning | Hand Washing | Is it time to teach KITCHEN SAFETY? These easy-to-use & highly-visual lessons are ready when you are! Short reading passages introduce students to key safety topics, while simple multiple-choice questions challenge students to show what they know. A great way to teach kitchen safety and life skills in a very deliberate and explicit manner! For students of all ages. (See product preview for tons of sample slides). TOPICS INCLUDE: Fire-Safe Clothing Hand Washing Techniques Burns & Scalding Knife Safety & Getting Cut First Aid for Burns, Cuts & more Chopping Board Safety Salmonella Food Poisoning How to Use a Fire Extinguisher Putting Out a Grease Fire SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS: Students read each short passage then answer relevant kitchen safety questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities challenge students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, and more. EVERYDAY SAFETY TOPICS: Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook and prepare meals safely. Whether learning the correct way to use a knife or how to put out a grease fire, your students will get their fill with these explicit life-skills lessons. COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Multiple-choice and cloze reading comprehension questions challenge students after reading each passage. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues and more… Basic kitchen terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way. VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice activities require NO TYPING… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are Drag & Drop! EASY TO USE! These Google Slides lessons are ready when you are! Simply download them and start assigning them to you students in Google Classroom! For added versatility, these lessons can also be printed, saved as pdfs, or downloaded as a Powerpoint presentation.

The future looks brighter for students who use these activities to develop valuable life and survival skills! 160 essential survival signs and symbols vocabulary words are introduced in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real life activities improve problem solving and writing skills. As students work their way through the exercises, they will gain knowledge that will allow them to become more confident and independent in the real world. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12 Contents Include: - Safety Words - Mobility Words - Restriction Words - Information Words - Review - Answer Key

Reading for comprehension. Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice with the reading skills needed to locate specific information in written text. Each fact-based story is followed by questions that require students to locate the information in the story and give precise answers. Subjects covered range from “The Stars in the Sky” and “Amazons,” to “Komodo Dragons” and “Going Bananas.” 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice in the specific reading skill that emphasizes inference comprehension.The stories lack some facts that the reader must infer from the text in order to detect certain details. Questions following each story test student’s ability to recognize information that is implied but not directly given. 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

Spice up your basic math program with Department Store Math! This fun and effective book teaches the basics of addition and subtraction through the use of real-life shopping situations. From backpacks to blow dryers, nearly everything you might shop for in a department store can be found on the colorful price list (included) that generates hundreds of math word problems. Students will have a great time as they refer to the price list to figure costs, total sales tickets, calculate sales tax, apply coupons, and more! So help your students understand the practical reasons for learning math as they "shop" their way to math success with this motivating and solidly-conceived book.

These 50 nonfiction stories and activities are a sure-fire way to improve fluency and comprehension skills! Simple sentences and short, easy-to-read paragraphs are paired with compelling illustrations for a strong picture-text correspondence. Age-appropriate topics and a controlled vocabulary motivate students and help ensure success. Follow-up activities focus on specific reading skills such as finding the main idea, making inferences, reading for details, locating information, using context clues, and more. The activities featured in this book utilize the direct-approach fluency formula: read and re-read decodable words in connected text. Research shows that repeated readings turn slow, choppy readers into faster, smoother, more fluent readers. By doing the five follow-up activities that accompany each short paragraph, students will read the same paragraph a minimum of four times: 1. Read the paragraph when first presented with it. 2. Look back at the paragraph to respond to the follow-up exercises. 3. Complete the cloze reading activity involving the paragraph. 4. Follow the direction to “Re-read your completed paragraph to make sure it makes sense.” Reading Level 2-3

Grade Level: 6-12 This is a teaching guide, not a full version of the book. The Discovering Literature Series is designed to develop a student’s appreciation for good literature and to improve reading comprehension. At the Challenging Level, we focus on a variety of reading strategies that help students construct meaning from their experience with literature as well as make connections between their reading and the rest of their lives. The strategies reflect the demands of each literature selection. In these study guides, we will focus on beginning a book, setting and mood, irony, plot structure, foreshadowing and flashback, characterization, forming hypotheses, evaluating a book, plot conflict, point of view, inferencing, rereading, theme, narration, and the genre of dystopias. Each chapter analysis is organized into three basic elements: Journal and Discussion Topics, Chapter Vocabulary, and Chapter Summary. Other features include Strategy Pages to increase students’ understanding of strategies to enhance their comprehension of literature; Testing at the end of each chapter grouping, and Writer’s Forum for students’ to write in a variety of genres relating to the text. This 75-page teaching guide includes an answer key.

Improve Comprehension ONE-SKILL–at-a-Time! You’re going to LOVE these NO PREP - PAPERLESS ACTIVITIES guaranteed to target and improve specific reading skills! These Google Slides are ideal for distance learning, daily homework, remediation, review, literacy circles, and more! High Interest Topics: Each slide features a funny and/or intriguing short story that students will WANT to read! Cool topics include amazing facts, unusual creatures, silly laws, strange superstitions and more. Following each passage is a text-dependent reading skill question that targets a specific reading skill- MAIN IDEA. Fun and colorful artwork is included on each slide, to keep kids motivated. Story Length: 45-55 words Reading Level: Gr. 1-3 Interest Level: For students of all ages Easy-to-Use! We’ve done the work for you! With this series you won’t have to waste time searching through stories and activities to find one that targets the skills you need to include in your lesson plan or IEP. Simply add these Google Slides to your Google Drive. Then you can assign specific slides to specific students, or the whole class! Watch students work in real-time, or check their progress later. Easy-to-Read Lessons: These fun, easy-reading lessons are designed for success. These fun activities are designed to appeal to a broad age-range of students who need to work on essential reading skills, and are perfect for enrichment, review or remediation. Main Idea Using Context Finding Facts Drawing Conclusions Making Inferences Detecting Sequence Printing Suggestions: If you prefer, these slides can also be printed. Print full color cards on white paper. Laminate the cards for durability. If you chose to print on color paper, you can use a different color for each skill to help differentiate between each skill. Suggestions for Use: Individual Students: Use these Google Slides/task cards with individual students. If a student is struggling with finding the main idea, for example, give that student the “Main Idea” cards or Google Slide to practice with. Small Groups: Use these Google Slides/cards with small groups. Give each small group a set of cards. Have students take turns reading the stories out loud and answering the questions. Extended Activities: Have students read a story and then create their own questions. Can students create who, what, where, when, why questions from the story? Can other skill-specific questions be asked? What details are missing from the story? Writing Prompts: Use these fun stories as writing prompts. Give each student a card to read. Have students elaborate on the story. Have students complete the story, add to the story, or research the facts. Contents Include: 16 Google Slides

Bring Classic Literature to Life… with “Black Beauty!” These Interactive Google Slides feature 10 easy-to-read short chapters and introduce students to great classic literature, while improving their comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Dramatic and expertly-paced narration draws the listener into the classic story… keeping interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. This high-interest, abridged version of the Rudyard Kipling classic is sure to become a classroom favorite! *** Black Beauty- Adapted/Abridged Version *** Professional Audio Narration *** Versatile Google Classroom Slides & Printable Pdf Versions *** 10 Easy-to-Read Chapters *** 160 Pre-Reading, Vocabulary & Comprehension Activities EASY-TO-USE: Black Beauty is an easy way to engage students and bring some excitement to classic literature! Simply download the Google Slides and you’re ready to start using them today! :) INTERACTIVE GOOGLE SLIDES: Students answer comprehension questions directly on the slides- so no paper is needed! In addition, the font size is adjustable, making them easy to read even on a small laptop, iPad, or Chromebook. Story and activities can also be printed. CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS: Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. Chapters can be read on the Google Slides or printed out as pdfs. DRAMATIC AUDIO & CLASSIC STORY: Listen to the story come to life… with professionally-recorded narration complete with sound effects, character voices and more. Professional actors read each chapter word-for-word, allowing students to follow along - a proven technique to aid comprehension and improve fluency. 100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Skill-specific activities include drag and drops, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks and more. Activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing. 60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES: Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary. EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS: Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading. Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12 Reading Level: Gr. 2 Total Slides: 68 Audio MP3’s for every story Answer Key Teaching Duration: 1 Week

Bring Classic Literature to Life… with “The Invisible Man!” These Interactive Google Slides feature 10 easy-to-read short chapters and introduce students to great classic literature, while improving their comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Dramatic and expertly-paced narration draws the listener into the classic story… keeping interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. This high-interest, abridged version of the classic is sure to become a classroom favorite! *** The Invisible Man - Adapted/Abridged Version *** Professional Audio Narration *** Versatile Google Classroom Slides & Printable Pdf Versions *** 10 Easy-to-Read Chapters *** 160 Pre-Reading, Vocabulary & Comprehension Activities EASY-TO-USE: The Invisible Man is an easy way to engage students and bring some excitement to classic literature! Simply download the Google Slides and you’re ready to start using them today! :) INTERACTIVE GOOGLE SLIDES: Students answer comprehension questions directly on the slides- so no paper is needed! In addition, the font size is adjustable, making them easy to read even on a small laptop, iPad, or Chromebook. Story and activities can also be printed. CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS: Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. Chapters can be read on the Google Slides or printed out as pdfs. DRAMATIC AUDIO & CLASSIC STORY:Listen to the story come to life… with professionally-recorded narration complete with sound effects, character voices and more. Professional actors read each chapter word-for-word, allowing students to follow along - a proven technique to aid comprehension and improve fluency. 100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Skill-specific activities include drag and drops, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks and more. Activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing. 60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES: Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary. EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS: Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading. Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12 Reading Level: Gr. 3.0 - 4.0

EASY-READING SHAKESPEARE: ABRIDGED NOVEL & LITERATURE GUIDE: Introduce your students to the famous literary accomplishments of William Shakespeare! This easy-to-read, abridged adaptation of “Julius Caesar” is sure to ignite the interest of reluctant readers AND enthusiastic learners! The accompanying skill-specific Novel Study features pre-reading and follow-up activities to ensure students comprehend what they are reading while challenging them to improve their specific reading skills, recall specific details, sequence events, draw inferences, choose the main idea and expand vocabulary. This unique 10-chapter adaptation introduces students to great classic literature that they otherwise might not have the opportunity to experience… Students are going to LOVE this riveting story, that only William Shakespeare could create! This easy-reading Shakespeare classic is sure to become a classroom favorite! INCLUDES: *** The Adapted/Abridged Version of the Novel *** 10 Easy-to-Read Short Chapters *** 60 Pre-Reading & Vocabulary Activities *** 100 Comprehension & Specific Reading Skill Activities *** Chapter Illustrations *** Reproducible for classroom use EASY-TO-USE: These lessons are an easy way to engage students and help them appreciate the excitement of classic literature! Simply download the pdf and you’re ready to start using them today! :) CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS: Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. 100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Skill-specific activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing. 60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES: Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary. EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS: Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading. Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12 Reading Level: Gr. 5 - 6

EASY-READING SHAKESPEARE: ABRIDGED NOVEL & LITERATURE GUIDE: Introduce your students to the famous literary accomplishments of William Shakespeare! This easy-to-read, abridged adaptation of “Othello” is sure to ignite the interest of reluctant readers AND enthusiastic learners! The accompanying skill-specific Novel Study features pre-reading and follow-up activities to ensure students comprehend what they are reading while challenging them to improve their specific reading skills, recall specific details, sequence events, draw inferences, choose the main idea and expand vocabulary. This unique 10-chapter adaptation introduces students to great classic literature that they otherwise might not have the opportunity to experience… Students are going to LOVE this riveting story, that only William Shakespeare could create! This easy-reading Shakespeare classic is sure to become a classroom favorite! INCLUDES: *** The Adapted/Abridged Version of the Novel *** 10 Easy-to-Read Short Chapters *** 60 Pre-Reading & Vocabulary Activities *** 100 Comprehension & Specific Reading Skill Activities *** Chapter Illustrations *** Reproducible for classroom use EASY-TO-USE: These lessons are an easy way to engage students and help them appreciate the excitement of classic literature! Simply download the pdf and you’re ready to start using them today! :) CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS: Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. 100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Skill-specific activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing. 60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES: Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary. EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS: Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading. Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12 Reading Level: Gr. 5 - 6

Grade Level: 1-2 From understanding the concept that “a sentence tells one complete thought” to actually writing coherent sentences, students will find the 20 lessons in this book to be both enlightening and entertaining. The exercises begin with the basic sequencing of a few words into short sentences and progress to viewing an imaginative illustration and writing an original sentence to describe it. 24 pages. Activities Include: Sentence Recognition Sequencing Words into a Sentence Writing Original Sentences

Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking Safety | Oven, Stovetop & Microwave Safety | Food Prep Safety | Knife Safety | Kitchen Fires | Google Slides Activities. Is it time to teach KITCHEN SAFETY? These easy-to-use & highly-visual lessons are ready when you are! Short reading passages introduce students to key safety topics, while simple multiple-choice questions challenge students to show what they know. A great way to teach kitchen safety and life skills in a very deliberate and explicit manner! For students of all ages. (See product preview for tons of sample pages). TOPICS INCLUDE: Kitchen Safety Oven Safety Stove Top Safety Microwave Safety Knife Safety Kitchen Fire Safety Food Safety Small Appliance Safety And more! SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS: Students read each short passage then answer relevant kitchen safety questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities challenge students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, and more. EVERYDAY SAFETY TOPICS: Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook and prepare meals safely. From learning the safest way to use an oven, stovetop, or microwave, to handling food safely, and even knife safety… your students will get their fill with these explicit life-skills lessons. COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Multiple-choice and cloze reading comprehension questions challenge students after reading each passage. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues and more… Basic kitchen terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way. VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice activities require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. These digital Google lessons can also be downloaded as pdf’s, and Powerpoint presentations. EASY TO USE! These Google Slides lessons are ready when you are! Simply download them to your Google Drive and assign them to your students! Includes: 50 Google Slides Answer Key

Reading Comprehension | Science | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | Volcanoes Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing Science-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic! Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, scientific explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life. Reading Skills Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading. “Volcanoes” The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story by giving the dramatic facts about what happens when a volcano erupts. “Last Day in Pompeii” The fiction story tells about the day the ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano through the voice of a young slave girl. Questions & Activities Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions. Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference, Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation. Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context. Details: Each short story is between 330 and 375 words and is written at a 2.9 to 4.4 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 3 and up. Contents Include: • 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories • 10 pages of questions and activities • Glossary • Answer Key • 18 total pages

SOCIAL SKILLS LESSONS TO IMPROVE EVERYDAY BEHAVIOR. Are you always late? When is it okay to lie? Help students learn about themselves and challenge them to become the best they can be, with these light-hearted and relevant social skills lessons! Each high-interest reading passage is followed by standards-based reading comprehension and sentence writing activities! Real-life scenarios and sticky social situations challenge students to learn about themselves and the consequences of various behaviors such as: always being late, being unable to forgive, being too nice, and more. They also learn the value of being honest, courageous, easy-going, generous, and optimistic. Teens and ‘Experts’ offer helpful advice through text messages and keep things light-hearted and non-threatening. A great way to improve students’ everyday social skills! STANDARDS-BASED READING & WRITING ACTIVITIES: Each social-skills lesson is followed by specific reading comprehension and writing activities that require complete-sentence answers. Additional activities encourage students to ‘look within’ and relate each scenario to themselves and their own daily actions. Finally, students decide how they might better handle each daily scenario in the future. Questions are clearly labeled with the standard/skill that it meets. STANDARDS: • Locate Information • Summarize • Generalize • Compare & Contrast • Cause & Effect • Form Opinions • Draw Conclusions • Main Idea • Make Inferences • Use Context Clues • Sequence • Determine Author’s Viewpoint • Analyze, Evaluate & Apply TOPICS INCLUDE: • How do I know if I’m being a good person? • How can I be honest with my friends without hurting their feelings? • I never have a good day at school! How can I do better? • How can I stop being jealous? • How can I NOT be late all the time? • I want people to trust me. What can I do? • How can I be kind without being a doormat? • Forgiveness is hard. Should I always forgive people? • Why should I be patient? I hate to wait around! • Can being optimistic make me happy? Reading Level: Gr 3 - 4 Interest Level: Gr 6 - 12

Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for finding the main idea. This unit features 48, short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale. A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to find the main idea about what they’ve read. Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity. Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12 Each segment has 26 pages total. 16 - Skill Reading Cards Teacher’s Guide Pages Answer Sheets Answer Key Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet

Taking on contractions! This book of five boldly illustrated game board lessons challenges students to create contractions (he will = he’ll) and break them down (they’re = they are). While playing the challenging word games, students get plenty of practice mastering formation and use of contractions. A student contract, a pre/post test, and seven practice/review exercises are included. This 40-page unit includes an answer key.