Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary!
This practical book is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills!
Words Include: vocation, attorney, electrician, dental assistant, lab technician, cardiologist, retirement plan, and many more.
Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5
Contents Include:
- 9 Lessons
- Activities that cover jobs in health care, construction, education, and much more
- Answer key
- And more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Develop life/survival skills
- Find relevant facts
- Spell correctly
- Understand and use reference sources
- Analyze information
- Write an original sentence
- Classify information
- Determine alphabetical order
- Express/justify an opinion
- Make decisions/choices
Grab your students' attention with these fun, thematic units! Each unit includes 24 activities that use science topics to reinforce other skills in all subjects such as reading, writing, language, math, and much more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Vocabulary
- Cause & Effects
- Critical Thinking
- Cooperative Learning
- Comprehension
- Graphing
- Sequencing
- Following Directions
- Visual Discrimination
- Elapsed Time
- Categorizing
- and more!
The 6 Titles in this Bundle Include:
The Five Senses
Insects
Plants
Sea Life
Space
Weather
Developing observation! Packed into this unit are 22 creatively illustrated lessons. Each boasts a drawing of a real-life situation complete with familiar objects. From “a visit to the ice cream parlor” to “a busy street corner,” students are given time to absorb the visual information from each picture. After putting the image aside, 12 questions are asked about what was depicted and students are asked to draw something they remember. Plenty of observation practice will be had by all as thinking and comprehension skills are given a workout.
Fascinating events in history are presented in addition and subtraction form in this unique book. “The potato chip was invented in 1853. Coca-Cola was invented 33 years later. In what year was Coca-Cola invented?” Addition and subtraction problems are camouflaged with captivating historical events, making this a truly unique approach to math. By answering 200 short word problems, students are led to record specific events and dates on various timelines provided.
Teach your students how to create and interpret charts, graphs, and tables. This unit includes more than 40 hands-on activities that require interpreting and creating visual presentations of facts and information.
As students work the lessons found here, they will become acquainted with a wide variety of tables and charts. They will practice creating graphs and transferring written information to a graph. Finally, students are given situations calling for the gathering of information, the organizing of it, and the creation of tables and graphs using it. Learning comes full circle.
Blank tables and graphs are also provided so that you and your students can tally your own unique data.
Includes:
- tables
- pictographs
- bar graphs
- double bar graphs
- histograms
- bar graphs
- grids
- pie charts
- line graphs
- time lines
Do your students struggle with solving math word problems? This unique step-by-step solution gives students the tools to understand word problems and actually enjoy working them!
With the help of just 6 easy-to-follow steps, students are able to break apart word problems and figure out the solutions. There are four levels of practice for the word problems in this unit. As the levels progress, they challenge students to apply the skills they learned in previous levels while learning new ones. This process will help students master problem solving.
Word Problems Include:
- addition
- subtraction
- multiplication
- division
- money
- time
- distance
- measurement
This lesson unit is packed with 46 exercises designed to expand students’ awareness of a wide variety of learning techniques. Scheduling, outlining, note-taking, memorizing, test-taking (essay and objective), and reference tool use are all covered.
Whether learning to skim, using acronyms to remember, or organizing information into idea-grams, students will hone a number of learning styles sure to improve they study habits.
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
Knowing signs, symbols, and directions is essential for students who are trying to expand their knowledge outside the classroom into the “real world.” These flash cards present words and symbols that students will encounter in their everyday lives. This instant download features 94 full-color flash cards that include bold graphics and simple, easy-to-understand definitions, which makes these ideal for students of all ability levels. A must-have addition for any life skills class.
This 24-page download includes 94 flash cards and activity suggestions. Simply print the file double-sided so that the definitions for each sign are on the back side.
Signs & Symbols Include:
- Bus Stop
- Caution Automatic Door
- Bike Crossing
- Hospital
- Camping Area
- Detour
- Elevator
- Caution
- Do Not Enter
- Fire Department
- Flammable
- Fragile
- No Parking
- No Smoking
- Out of Order
- Poison
- Police
- Restroom
- Recycle
- and Many More!
These activities will build practical math life skills! After learning how to write a check, students are challenged with real-life finance word problems. First they must solve a math question. Next they are required to write a check for the correct amount, record the transactions, and keep track of the balances.
Everyday math is put to the test with each of the 26 lessons in this learning unit. Also includes extra blank checks and account balance forms.
Interest Level 6-12
Contents Include:
- Writing Checks
- Keeping a Balance
- Making Deposits
- Recording Transactions
- Glossary
- Blank Checks
- Blank Check Registers
- Answer Key
Example Activity:
Carl took his car to Hal’s Service Station and had his car’s engine tuned-up for $29.95, bought a new battery for $39.95, and had the oil changed for $9.95. For what amount did he need to make a check out to Hal’s?
This 30-page unit includes an answer key.
From calculating discounts to calculating parts of a whole to calculating sales tax, percents are a part of everyday life. This unit focuses entirely on the use of percents in real-life situations. As students work through the activities, they will take their knowledge of percents to a new, practical level.
Students use advertisements, menus, and coupons to figure out word problems that involve purchasing items on sale and figuring sales tax. Tax tables help students learn to figure income tax and net pay. Circle graphs help students visualize percents as coming from a whole. Drill pages give students extra practice with percents. Working these practice problems will help students develop the skills necessary for a solid understanding of percents as percents relate to daily life.
Skill Covered:
- Changing Percents to Decimals
- How to Figure Percents – Discounts & Sales Tax
- Figuring Percents & Prices
- Figuring Prices & Sales Tax
- Taxes & the Government
- Coupons & Percents
- Percents & Circle Graphs
- Percent Word Problems
Teach essential sequencing skills the "hands-on" way with this fun and highly effective skill-based book! Exercises begin at a basic level where students manipulate language by cutting and pasting short stories into meaningful sequence. Activities then progress to a level where students are required to copy short stories in proper sequence. Finally, students formulate original sentences and write them in meaningful sequence. Sequencing is a prerequisite skill necessary for accurate comprehension, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes. So give your students a solid foundation on which to build with this delightful and essential book!
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Designed specifically for the student who has been introduced to vowel sounds but still needs further practice to reach mastery levels. This comprehensive book offers over 120 pages of delightfully illustrated activities involving each vowel sound along with rhyming, riddles, letter substitution, sentence writing, word drills, alphabetizing, diphthongs, digraphs, and more! Phonemic awareness is an essential component of reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.
Diverse direction exercises! Packed with puzzle, maze, cut-and-paste, tracing, and dot-to-dot activities designed to make following directions fun, this creatively illustrated book is sure to boost basic thinking and direction skills. With 20 lessons in all, exercises range from “tracing a dancing clown” and “getting Chirpy through a maze to his nest,” to “correctly ordering three drawings of a boy brushing his teeth.”
Improve Reading Comprehension While Learning Interesting Historical Facts!
This book features high-interest, “on this date in history” stories for the month of April. There is an historical nonfiction short story for each day of the month.
Reading and Interest Level
The stories were written at an approximate reading level of grades 3-4.
In some cases, proper names of people, places, and events, as well as other necessary descriptive vocabulary, may drive the reading level up a bit. The interest level is aimed at students in grades 5 and up who may not be reading at grade level.
High-Interest Stories
The topics chosen are not necessarily the most important thing to have happened on a particular date. The variety of people, places, and events highlighted in each story were chosen to appeal to a wide range of interests. Students will learn a variety of historical facts while improving their reading and comprehension skills.
Skill-Specific Lessons
Each story is followed by 8 skill-specific comprehension questions. Question formats include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and writing complete sentences. Skills focus on: main idea, facts, locating the answer, vocabulary, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, fact or opinion, conclusion, and inference.
Includes:
65 Pages
Answer Key
Practical Activities to Teach How to Use a Bank Account
Students practice applying their math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. They also gain valuable, practical knowledge about the important survival skill of handling money and using a bank account, debit card, withdrawing and depositing money, and more. This 64 -page book includes a glossary and an answer key.
Realistic Math Practice Includes:
Practical Math Activities
Realistic Word Problems
High-Interest Lessons
Making Purchases
Writing Checks
Recording Transactions
Making Deposits
Reading Level 6-8
GOOGLE SLIDES:
129 Practical Google Slides Activities & Lessons to Teach How to Use a Bank Account… * Students practice applying their math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. They also gain valuable, practical knowledge about the important survival skill of handling money and using a bank account, debit card, withdrawing and depositing money, and more.
These 129 interactive Google Slides give students plenty of practice with real-world scenario math word problems, and essential life skills practice. Real-life scenarios are also included where students follow a specific person throughout their banking processes- from opening a bank account to writing checks, from online shopping to paying bills and more. Handy glossary and key vocabulary activities are also included.
More About This Book
Prepare students to manage their money successfully!
Understanding how to responsibly use a bank account is a crucial life skill for independent living. Students will find out what’s needed to apply for a bank account. Detailed illustrations and step-by-step instructions show students how to fill out a check and deposit slip, use a debit card, fill out a transaction register, shop online, and much more!
High-interest activities include comparing a transaction register with an account statement, registering for online banking, setting up a PayPal account, and creating an automatic payment using an eCheck.
Consumer math skills are highlighted through lots of practice with real-life word problems. Students are asked to add, subtract, multiply, and/or divide money to find a solution. Some activities require students to use fractions and figure percentages.
Improve your students’ real-life money skills!
Practical Activities to Teach How to Use a Credit Card
This book will give students a practical understanding of credit cards including what they are, how to get one, and how to use them responsibly. Students will practice filling out credit card applications, reading credit card statements, and answering everyday-life math word problems. A glossary and an answer key are included in this 64-page book.
Realistic Math Practice Include:
Practical Math Activities
Realistic Word Problems
High-Interest Lessons
Making Purchases
Shopping Online
Using Credit Cards Responsibly
Google Slides:
153 Ready-to-use Google Slides Lessons & Activities sure to give students a practical understanding of credit cards- what they are, how to get one, and most importantly… how to use them responsibly! Students get hands-on experience filling out credit card application forms then get tons of practice “shopping” online and in stores. Math skills get a workout as students solve everyday math word problems, add, subtract, multiply and divide money, figure percentages, fill in charts & graphs, work with decimals and more! See the product preview to see tons of sample slides!
COLORFUL SEQUENTIAL LESSONS
Everything you ever needed to know about credit cards - all in one step-by-step program! How do I get a credit card? What is a credit score? How do I use a credit card? What is an account statement? Should I pay off my card each month? Answers to these questions and much more are featured in these high-quality, colorful Google Slides. Detailed, colorful illustrations and high-interest comprehension activities keep students motivated and ensure an in-depth understanding of what it means to responsibly use a credit card.
READY TO USE: These interactive, no-prep Google Slides are ready to use! Simply download the Google Slides to your Google Classroom/Drive and assign them to your students! Assign the whole set or just a few slides for today’s lesson.
How do Google Slides Work?
Students read each lesson/activities on a computer or iPad then answer the skill questions right on their copy of the slides. Teachers can see students’ answers in real time, or review them later. Slides can also be printed and used as colorful classroom worksheets.
More About This Book
Everything you ever needed to know about credit cards - all in one book!
How do I get a credit card? What is a credit score? How do I use a credit card? What is an account statement? Answers to these questions and much more are featured in this comprehensive book.
Students get hands-on experience filling out application forms. Step-by-step instructions explain account statements and how to make purchases in stores and online. Detailed illustrations and high-interest comprehension activities ensure an in-depth understanding of what it means to responsibly use a credit card.
Essential consumer math skills are highlighted through lots of practice with real-life word problems. Students are asked to add, subtract, multiply, and/or divide money; figure percentages; round to the nearest hundredth; fill in graphs and pie charts, and much more!
Reading Level 6-8
Improve your students’ real-life money skills!
What YOU Need to Know about Living on Your Own! Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of living on their own with these essential new life skills lessons! Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Place to Live provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and even rent an apartment. This essential program offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for more sample pages).
ENGAGING LESSONS:
These sequential lessons walk students through key topics and guides them along the path to Independent Living.
The first section, Preparation, begins with creating a housing budget and progresses to helpful tips on finding a good roommate.
The second section, Renting, gives students valuable information about finding the right place to live. They learn how to interpret rental terminology and abbreviations and how to read rental ads. They learn what to expect when meeting a landlord, filling out a rental application, and signing a rental agreement.
The last section, Moving, guides students through the process of transferring utility service, packing, and then renting and loading a moving truck.
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES: READING, WRITING & MATH!
Follow-up activities include practical application math, basic comprehension questions to reinforce understanding, and practical writing exercises. Some questions ask students to think about the information given and express their opinions and ideas.
VOCABULARY:
These essential lessons include a glossary of key words and phrases students may not be familiar with plus activities to test understanding of the new words and phrases. These words and phrases are highlighted in bold throughout the text.
Google Slides:
120 Interactive Google Slides! What YOU Need to Know about Living on Your Own! Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of living on their own with these essential new life skills Google Slides lessons!
Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Place to Live provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and even rent an apartment. This essential program offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos and illustrations, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for TONS of sample pages).READY-TO-USE:
These ready-to-use lessons are sure to save you time! Simply download and start assigning them to your students. Assign the entire set or just a few for today’s lesson.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
SECTION ONE: Preparation…1-22 Housing Budget Location Search
Types of Housing Choosing a Roommate
Creating an Ad & Interviewing
Qualities of a Good Roommate Andrew’s Housing Budget
Online advertising Brittney and Amy Roommate Rules Review
SECTION TWO:
Renting … 23-45 Rental Words to Know
Sample Rental Ads
Finding the Right Place
Meeting the Landlord
Sample Rental Application
Rental Agreement Rental Advice
SECTION THREE:
Moving … 46-53 Planning Your Move Packing Renting a Moving Vehicle
Loading and Unloading the Truck
SECTION FOUR:
Glossary & VOCABULARY…54-59 Glossary Match-Up Glossary Fill-in-the-Blank
Practical Activities to Teach How to Shop Bargains
Early knowledge of the wisdom of shopping wisely helps to establish valuable, lifelong consumer habits. Introduce students to the many ways they can judge a purchase to determine if it is the best possible choice. The math word problems will help reinforce the lessons presented and promote awareness of the advantages to smart shopping. 64 pages.
Realistic Math Practice Include:
Practical Math Activities
Realistic Word Problems
High-Interest Lessons
Making Purchases
Reading Level 6-8
More About This Book
Everybody loves a bargain!
Teach students to become successful bargain hunters with the engaging, real-life activities featured throughout this book.
Consumer math skills are sharpened by offering students lots of practice recognizing bargains and computing savings. Activities using realistic newspaper ads, various types of coupons, unit pricing, multiple item pricing, package pricing, and bulk pricing provide valuable experience in comparing prices and making wise shopping decisions.
Students will use what they have learned to get the best deal on buying a car, taking a trip, and renting an apartment.
High-interest word problems ask students to decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or divide money to find a solution. Some activities require students to figure percentages.
Improve your students’ real-life money skills!
Google Slides:
148 Practical & Interactive Google Slides Lessons & Activities! These colorful, “real-life scenario” Google Slides Activities are sure to sharpen math skills and teach students to become smart consumers! Students get lots of practice “shopping” using realistic ads, clipping various types of coupons, and more. From grocery shopping and using coupons to buying a computer, shopping for airline tickets or buying a car, students learn the various ways to judge a purchase to determine if it is the best possible choice. See the Product Preview to see TONS of sample pages.
“Real-Life” Situation Practice:
Students practice using what they have learned as they determine the best deals when grocery shopping, clothes shopping, buying a car, taking a trip, renting an apartment and more… High-interest math word problems ask students to decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or divide money to find the best bargain. So improve your students’ math skills while giving them the tools they need to establish valuable, lifelong consumer habits, and smart-shopping skills!
Ready-to-use Google Slides:
Simply download them to your Google Drive/Classroom and assign them to your students. You can assign the entire set, or just a few for today’s lesson.
Practical Activities to Teach How to Use a Budget
Introduce students to the vital role that money handling plays in all areas of a personal life while reinforcing basic math skills through a variety of problem-solving exercises. Comprehension, logical thinking, and sequential decisions are required to find answers to word problems relating to situations regarding making and using a budget. 64 pages.
Realistic Math Practice Include:
Practical Math Activities
Realistic Word Problems
High-Interest Lessons
Making Budgets
More About This Book
Budgeting made easy!
Help your students make friends with the budgeting process while learning valuable life skills! This book is filled with fun and engaging activities that take the anxiety out of creating and sticking to a budget.
After learning the basics of how to create a variety of budgets, students get lots of practice with real-life budget scenarios. High-interest topics like exotic vacation budgets, a wedding budget, anniversary budget, college budget, family budgets, a remodeling budget, various types of party and business budgets, and even a city budget are sure to capture your students’ imaginations.
Through the use of charming photos, illustrations, and fill-in charts, the activities are presented in a lively, varied, and accessible way that students will find easy to understand. Real-life word problems feature practical consumer math skills. Students decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or divide money to find a solution. Some activities require students to use fractions and figure percentages.
Reading Level 6-8
Improve your students’ real-life money skills!
Google Slides:
152 Practical & Interactive Google Slides Lessons & Activities. Budgeting made easy! Help your students make friends with the budgeting process while learning valuable life skills! Filled with fun and engaging activities, these interactive and colorful lessons take the anxiety out of creating and sticking to a budget.
Students practice applying their math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. They also gain valuable, practical knowledge about the important survival skill of setting goals and budgeting money. So improve your students’ real-life money skills with this essential series!
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After learning the basics of how to create a variety of budgets, students get lots of practice with real-life budget scenarios. High-interest topics like planning an exotic vacation budget, a wedding budget, anniversary budget, college budget, family budget, a remodeling budget, various types of party and business budgets, and even a city budget are sure to capture your students’ imaginations.
Through the use of charming photos, illustrations, fill-in charts, and drag and drop activities these lessons are presented in a lively, varied, and accessible way that students will find easy to understand. Real-life word problems feature practical consumer math skills. Students decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or divide money to find a solution. Some activities require students to use fractions and figure percentages.
Other Skills Get a Workout Too!
Introduce students to the vital role that handling money plays in all areas of a personal life while reinforcing basic math skills through a variety of problem-solving exercises. Comprehension, logical thinking, and sequential decisions are required to find answers to word problems relating to situations regarding making and using a budget.
Topics Include:
What is a Budget?
Benefits of a Budget
How to use a Budget
Fixed Costs vs Variable Costs
Needs vs Wants
Setting your Goal
Creating a Budget
Following a Budget
Real-life Scenarios / Situations
Vocabulary Activities
Types of Budgets:
Grocery Budget
Household Budget
Vacation Budget
College Budget
Business Budget
Personal Budget
Wedding Budget
Anniversary Budget
Remodeling Budget
Party Budget
Staying on Budget
Charity Budget
Realistic Math Practice Include:
Practical Math Activities
Realistic Word Problems
High-Interest Lessons
