These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities will grab your reluctant learners' attention! Activities focus entirely on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more! Students will read stories about 6 fictional monsters: loch ness monster, bigfoot, vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's monster, and the abominable snowman. Each short story is followed by comprehension questions. 19 Additional Activities Cover: - counting - context clues - following directions - critical thinking skills - alphabetizing - finding details - vocabulary - math word problems - grammar - comprehension - map reading - graphing - drawing solutions - thinking skills - and more! Use this thematic unit all year long or in October with your Halloween activities.

Compare and Contrast | Find Facts | Research | Analysis This unit features 25 charts packed with facts about animals, history, geography science, famous people, and much more! Each chart is followed by comprehension questions about information found in that chart. Skills Covered Include: - Locate Facts - Interpret Information - Compare & Contrast - Draw Conclusions - Research Each activity page also includes an additional research activity that prompts students to use a print or digital source to find more information on the same topic. Have students use their research to update the original chart, create a new chart, or as writing prompt for an essay.

Grab your students' attention with this fun, thematic unit about weather! This unit includes 24 activities that use weather 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!

What shall I do now, teacher? At last, an answer to the age old question! These innovative, creative, and extremely fun activities give the busy teacher a viable supply of creative activities that will keep students constructively busy and challenged for periods of 5 to 15 minutes. Directions are clear so students may work on their own without assistance. Skills Covered Include: - finding facts - independent thinking - logic - problem solving - perception - decoding - vocabulary - observation - following directions - sequencing - computing - context clues

What shall I do now, teacher? At last, an answer to the age old question! These innovative, creative, and extremely fun activities give the busy teacher a viable supply of creative activities that will keep students constructively busy and challenged for periods of 5 to 15 minutes. Directions are clear so students may work on their own without assistance. Skills Covered Include: - finding facts - independent thinking - logic - problem solving - perception - decoding - vocabulary - observation - following directions - sequencing - computing - context clues

What shall I do now, teacher? At last, an answer to the age old question! These innovative, creative, and extremely fun activities give the busy teacher a viable supply of creative activities that will keep students constructively busy and challenged for periods of 5 to 15 minutes. Directions are clear so students may work on their own without assistance. Skills Covered Include: - finding facts - independent thinking - logic - problem solving - perception - decoding - vocabulary - observation - following directions - sequencing - computing - context clues

Reluctant readers of all ages and students reading below grade level are sure to enjoy the high-interest, factual news articles featured in this unit. Twenty-six newsworthy topics from the 90s ranging from roller coasters to the Spice Girls keep interest soaring and improve reading comprehension. Students get the opportunity to be a reporter as they dig for the five W's (who, what, when, where, why), then complete their "Just the Facts!" template. In addition, an extended writing activity can be found on each page along with specific comprehension activities that focus on the following skills: reading for details, locating information, vocabulary enrichment, finding facts, discerning fact from opinion, and word analysis. Contents Include: - Just the Facts Activity (that can be used with your daily newspaper) - Use the News Activity (that can be used with your daily newspaper) - 26 Low Reading Level News Articles & Comprehension Questions - Answer Key Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 3-12

Teach students how to organize and classify information in easy-to-manage steps! These beginning outlining lessons will prepare students for the writing process by introducing titles, main topics, sub-topics, details, using an outline to write a report, and outlining a story. The 24 lessons will give students plenty of practice with all the basic aspects of outlining. With the skills taught in this unit, students will be better equipped to use an outline to help them write a story or report.

Reluctant readers of all ages and students reading below grade level are sure to enjoy the high-interest, factual news articles featured in this unit. Twenty-six newsworthy topics from the 90s ranging from El Nino to the Titanic keep interest soaring and improve reading comprehension. Students get the opportunity to be a reporter as they dig for the five W's (who, what, when, where, why), then complete their "Just the Facts!" template. In addition, an extended writing activity can be found on each page along with specific comprehension activities that focus on the following skills: reading for details, locating information, vocabulary enrichment, finding facts, discerning fact from opinion, and word analysis. Contents Include: - Just the Facts Activity (that can be used with your daily newspaper) - Use the News Activity (that can be used with your daily newspaper) - 26 Low Reading Level News Articles & Comprehension Questions - Answer Key Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 3-12

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 unit was designed to help students learn, practice, and incorporate this vital skill into their written work.

Improve the speed and accuracy of beginning learners with these subtraction drills! Easy-to-read practice drills with fewer equations per page cover facts 0-9 and feature 36 single-digit equations per drill. Each page features horizontal and vertical versions of the equations. Contents Include: - 36 Drill Pages - Award Certificate - Progress Chart

Improve the speed and accuracy of beginning learners with these multiplication drills! Easy-to-read practice drills with fewer equations per page cover facts 0-9 and feature 36 single-digit equations per drill. Each page features horizontal and vertical versions of the equations. Contents Include: - 36 Drill Pages - Award Certificate - Progress Chart

Improve the speed and accuracy of beginning learners with these addition drills! Easy-to-read practice drills with fewer equations per page cover facts 0-9 and feature 36 single-digit equations per drill. Each page features horizontal and vertical versions of the equations. Contents Include: - 36 Drill Pages - Award Certificate - Progress Chart

From understanding the concept that "a sentence tells one complete thought" to actually writing coherent sentences, students will find the lessons in this unit 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. Activities Include: - Sentence Recognition - Sequencing Words into a Sentence - Writing Original Sentences

These step-by-step activities present information in short, manageable chunks so learners can isolate and master one concept before moving on to the next. Starting with "zero" and ending with "10", the 20 lessons in this book open with tracing, writing, and coloring exercises. Students must trace each number and number-word, write and spell each, and then color the lively illustrations. Activities Include: - Recognizing Numbers 0-10 - Tracing, Writing, Coloring, & Spelling Numbers - Matching Numbers, Number-Words, & Objects

These step-by-step activities present information in short, manageable chunks so learners can isolate and master one concept before moving on to the next. These dynamic addition and subtraction worksheets are perfect for students who are still making the connection between concrete and symbolic number representation. This 20-lesson unit effectively takes a visual approach to basic math using creative illustrations and image words to entice students to tackle addition and subtraction of whole numbers and counting objects. Activities Include: - Adding & Subtracting Whole Numbers - Counting Objects - Connecting Objects with Numbers

These step-by-step activities present information in short, manageable chunks so learners can isolate and master one concept before moving on to the next. A variety of imaginative, hands-on activities to help student learn basic counting skills. The 20 exercises in this book use number sequencing, fun illustrations, number match-ups, and dot-to-dots as a fun, engaging way to teach counting from 1 to 30. Activities Include: - Number Sequencing - Write How Many - Number Match-Up - Number Sets - Dot-to-Dots

Writing complete sentences has never been so much fun! This unit is filled with a variety of activities to encourage students to write unique sentences. Students develop sentences using rhyming words, compose questions about specific pictures, compile answers to intriguing questions, and more! Without a doubt, the "story starters" in this book are sure to get kids thinking and writing. Activities Include: - Picture Clues - Content Ideas - Vocabulary Words - Sample Sentences

Spark the interest of budding writers and watch their writing skills blossom. The lessons in this unit offer simple instructions, fun story starters, writing prompts, easy-to-read vocabulary words, and picture clues. Students progress from writing simple sentences to writing short stories in no time! Features: - Picture Clues - Writing Prompts - Story Starters - Vocabulary Words - Sample Sentences

Watch students' basic writing and critical thinking skills grow by identifying the four types of sentences! With the reading, writing, and color-coding exercises in this unit, students will begin to learn the differences between statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. Activities Include Identifying & Writing: - Statements - Questions - Commands - Exclamations