“Jed likes to jog.” “Curt likes to climb.” Two drawings are featured. Which sentence goes with which picture? This is but one of the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the two imaginative drawings.

This 20-lesson unit is designed to help teachers evaluate students’ ability to understand and appropriately respond to verbal information. The exercises may also be used to assist in the development of listening and following direction skills. “How would you feel if a bull was chasing you?” “Is a potato a fruit?” “Wink your eye!”For those students who find verbal response difficult, or to add an element of fun, picture response cards have been included.

“A kangaroo has strong legs.” “A moose is a large animal with antlers.” “Mother made waffles for breakfast.” Several drawings are featured. Which picture goes with which sentence?This is one the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the imaginative drawings.

The better their vocabulary, the more fun reading will be! Each of the 24 lessons in this book features a creatively illustrated scene: a day at the beach, camping in the woods, dinner at a restaurant, a hot air balloon ride, and more. Young readers are challenged to use each of the six words highlighted in each exercise to complete the sentences provided. From “sandbox” to “hopscotch” and “potatoes” to “pumpkins” the words and activities in this book are sure to boost reading comprehension and spelling skills. Of course, coloring the large, single-item drawings is all part of the fun.

Constructing a foundation vocabulary! This creatively illustrated 24-lesson book helps young readers match words with images. While they practice writing the four words featured in each exercise, they begin to build their vocabulary from the ground up. From “plate” to “pot” and “swimming” to “skating,” the words and activities in this book are sure to boost reading comprehension and spelling skills. Of course, coloring the large, single-item drawings is all part of the fun.

Students will gain important lifetime skills and confidence as they learn how to compose all kinds of written correspondence including simple notes, postcards, friendly letters, social notes, and business letters. Examples of each type include typical content relating to specific situations that will help beginning letter-writers formulate ideas for their own correspondence. Clear explanations of letter parts and plentiful practice ensure understanding of the proper forms for friendly and business letters as well as addressing envelopes. While practicing the basics of letter-writing, students will enhance their skills in capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, sentence and paragraph writing, handwriting, composition, and comprehension.

The delightful activities in this book provide the perfect approach to introducing students to the special kind of writing used to create poetry. They will gain an appreciation for this captivating way of expressing humor, personal feelings, strong emotion, or entire stories. Beginning poets will quickly become caught up in the enjoyment of writing their own simple rhymes. They will learn about and practice the different forms of poetry such as couplets, triplets, quatrains, haikus, and free verse. Inspiring examples, clever illustrations, and plentiful stimulating suggestions help to motivate and encourage the creative development of expressive poetry. Student gain confidence in their writing abilities and will experience pride as they share their poems with their classmates.

Students will write great short reports as they follow the guidelines in this step-by-step book. After reading each one-page story, students answer key questions designed to extract important facts from the written information. The questions are structured in logical sequence and require complete-sentence answers. Then the answers, along with the topic sentence, are written on a blank copy of the report page (included in this book), resulting in a short report on the topic. A terrific step-by-step approach to skillful writing.

Students will write great book reports as they follow the guidelines in this concisely structured book. Outline headings and leading questions prompt students to include essential information and selective portrayals of main characters, settings, or story objectives. Description-enhancement lessons help to stimulate interesting or colorful accounts of the story's characters and content. A vocabulary enrichment page is included on which readers list unusual or difficult words found in the book. Definitions are added to ensure understanding of the terms. Tips for oral book reports and fun activities such as designing a book jacket or drawing sequence cartoons representing story parts round off the lessons in this unique book.

Identifying logical order. With each of the 24 lessons in this unit, students are challenged to cut out four lively drawings and paste them down in their logical sequences. Example: Read the clues about feeding time at the zoo. “The elephant is fed last. The zebras are fed after the hippo. The hippo is fed first.“ Color, cut, and paste the pictures in order.Word/image association, reading, and following directions are all utilized to better develop critical thinking, vocabulary, and reading comprehension skills.

“I can fly. I have feathers.” Which image/word goes with this statement: cardinal, bat, aardvark? The 24 illustrated lessons in this book ask students to match images with sentences or sketches with words. All sorts a creatures are featured from a “tarantula” to a “tick” and a “flamingo” to a “ferret.” Of course, creative coloring is all part of the fun.

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.

Reluctant readers of all ages are sure to have fun while they improve their reading skills with Mini Mysteries. Kids love a good mystery, and they won't be disappointed with the 26 "who-dunits" detective Sam Sherlock encounters in this reading comprehension-listening-thinking skills book. Question pages encourage fact-finding, analyzing, predicting outcomes, and more! 56 pages.Please note: Contains some mysteries that may be more appropriate for mature students. Reading Level 2.6-5.3 | Interest Level Grades 3-12

Reinforce your basic math program with Menu Math for Beginners! This fun and effective book teaches simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication through the use of real-life restaurant situations. Students will have a great time as they refer to the colorful menu (included) to figure costs when spending money on everything from pizza to pancakes! The easy-to-read menu generates hundreds of simple rebus and word problems. Students are sure to improve their math skills as they gain an understanding of the practical reasons for learning math. Enjoy!

Build Basic Skills the hands-on way!Young readers will have a great time as they complete over 60 fun-filled 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!

Spice up your basic math program with Market Math for Beginners! This fun and effective book teaches simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication through the use of real-life shopping situations. Students will have a great time as they refer to the colorful price list (included) that generates hundreds of simple rebus and word problems. From soup to soap, students figure their costs and total sales tickets as they "shop" their way to math success! So help your students understand the practical reasons for learning math while improving their math skills with this motivating and solidly-conceived book. Enjoy!

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!

Understanding and creating maps. This book presents 52 actual and fictional maps to demonstrate that there is more to mapping than fold-up road maps and spinning globes. Park maps, property maps, street maps, regional maps, state maps, country maps, world maps, and more are presented. By the time students complete the exercises found here, they will know how to use accurate directional words and indicators, and will be adept at interpreting the information given on different types of maps. They will be able to recognize picture symbols used on maps, identify routes from place to place, and effectively use a map grid. Students will have fun while learning a practical life skill.

From Australia to Zambia and beyond - your students will love discovering fascinating facts about faraway places while they improve their reading comprehension and geography skills. Students zero in on specific areas of the world as they use the colorful, 11x17" map (included) and a variety of other maps to learn about other lands. Skills emphasized in this book include: recognizing that a map is a symbolic representation of all or part of the earth, using a legend or key, using symbols and patterns to interpret features, using terms of direction (far, near, above, below, etc.), using cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), and much more!