Capture the interest of eager learners and reluctant learners alike with this humor-filled workbook 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. Students solve comical comprehension questions. Some stories lead up to a surprise ending adding to the enjoyment! Each funny, one-page story is accompanied by several questions to test comprehension. Some stories lead up to a surprise ending adding to the enjoyment. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

Recognizing and reproducing patterns! Coloring, connecting the dots, and drawing activities are all used to sequence shapes, peg-patterns, geometric designs, and grids. With each of the 46 lessons in this unit, students develop skills in determining position in space, shape discrimination, constancy of form, and pattern repetition. Because the exercises seem more like puzzle games than work, students will have loads of fun while they learn.

Taking instructions while learning directions. Example: A floorplan is shown. Put a toy box in the southeast corner of the room. Put a red rug in front of the couch.Given specific instructions for placing furniture and objects on various household floor plans, students practice north, south, east, west directions and execute position-in-space concepts like Around, In Front, Between, and Behind. Floor plans include the Living Room, Playroom, Kitchen, Bedroom, and Entire House. With each of the 65 lessons, directions become increasingly more detailed. So, whether students cut-and-paste, draw, or place-and-mark the objects, they address a number of skills including comprehension, thinking, fine motor, eye-hand, visual perception, and creativity.

Help your students develop important life skills with these easy-to-use activities sure to strengthen their abilities in reading, comprehension, and writing! The Newspaper is a great way to help students become more confident and independent as they work through activities involving "real-life" situations. Lessons focus on learning about the makeup of a daily paper, the different sections that comprise the news, and understanding actual news articles. Follow-up questions and extended activities invite creativity and test students' reading comprehension. 32 pages includes an answer key.Reading Level 3-4

Give your students a clear understanding of the body systems with this comprehensive and informative unit! From the “stomach” to the “heart” and the “kidneys” to a “fertilized egg,” students will learn about four major systems of the human body in this 29-lesson unit. As students gain a better understanding of the human body, they enhance their reading and comprehension skills. Examples: - Which intestine is about 22 feet long? - How many parts does the heart have? - How does the skin give off waste? - Why is the umbilical cord important? Contents Include: - Glossary - Preview Pages - Vocabulary Lists - Informative Readings - Fact pages - Diagrams - Experiments - Crossword puzzle and word search that can be used as pre/post tests Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12

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: supermarket, coupon, subtotal, method of payment, installation, area code, guarantee, warranty, and many more. Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5 Contents Include: - 7 Lessons - Activities that cover community services, supermarket, mail order, telephone, warranty, paying bills, and electronic services - Answer key Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Spell correctly - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop consumer skills - Develop life/survival skills - Find relevant facts - Understand and use reference sources - Understand consumer information

This wonderful collection of 12 folktales features activities sure to develop critical thinking skills and promote maximum comprehension. Each illustrated story is followed by a crossword puzzle plus questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and labeled according to a targeted skill/thinking level. The many morals and lessons throughout provide opportunities to work on character building. This 48-page book also includes graphic organizers and a skills chart. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 3-8 Contents Include: - 12 Folktales - Comprehension Questions - Cross Word Puzzles - Story Map - Venn Diagram - Story Sequence - Chart of Skills - Suggestions for Use - Answer Key

Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking Safety | Oven, Stovetop & Microwave Safety | Food Prep Safety | Knife Safety | Kitchen Fires | Print & Go Task Cards. 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 correct way to use an oven, stovetop, or microwave to using a knife safely, 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! Includes 50 pages Answer Key

Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | Kitchen Fires. | Appliances | Burns | 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 Grease Fires - (How to put them out) Fire Extinguishers Stove Top & Cooking Safety Fire-Safe Clothing Small Appliance Safety Burns, Scalding & Steam Potholders & Oven Mitts Knife Safety Where to Store Cleaning Supplies Wet & Slippery Floors Trip Hazards & Falling Accidents Step Stools & Ladders 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. 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. Includes 47 Pages Answer Key

Best Buys is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. Students are introduced to real-life scenarios where they must judge a purchase to determine if it is the best possible choice. Students learn to comparison shop, check prices, use coupons, buy in quantities and more! A real, practical application of math!

Watch math skills improve as students work through more than 100 real-life math word problems! Everyday Math is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. Students read each real-life scenario, then must decide whether to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve each word problem. Other exercises involve fractions, decimals, percents, and more! A real, practical application of math!

This action-packed book is sure to capture and hold student interest while building essential reading skills. Each intriguing story is followed by step-by-step activities that improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and more! The truly high-interest topics and low reading levels make this book ideal for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level, and teachers who simply want to spice up their reading curriculum. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 3-12

Fluency is a key component of reading comprehension, and these ready-to-use activities provide plenty of practice in both speed and comprehension. This unit includes 14 short, high-interest stories will capture students' attention while they race the clock to improve their reading speed. After reading students show their comprehension through short-answer questions and cloze sentences. Turn the stories into timed reading exercises to get students to read at a faster pace! Students can read the story then record the amount of time it took them to read, or set a time limit and track how far they got. End-of-line word counts make it quick and easy to figure the number of words read. Contents Include: -14 High-Interest Stories - Words to Know for Each Story - Follow-Up Comprehension Questions - End-of-Line Word Counts - Timed Reading Chart - 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.

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 family’s TV room” to “folks sitting around a campfire,” 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.

This is the perfect way for students to learn about two and three-dimensional shapes. Using creative tracing and writing activities, your students will have a great time as they learn to identify, describe, and create shapes such as the square, circle, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, box, cone, ball, and cylinder. For clarity, each shape is presented separately with varied practice pages for reinforcement. Cumulative pages of all shapes are included periodically for review purposes, and a pre/post test is included for assessment. So, let Remedia Publications help your students have fun learning the very important concepts of basic shapes with this easy-to-use basic skills book.

The circus theme of this book makes mastering short vowels a big top adventure filled with clowns juggling rhyming word balls, tightrope walkers boasting short-vowel words on their shirts, and flag-topped tents waiting to be filled with the short-voweled answers to riddles. There is even a lion tamer ready to teach students their short A, E, I, O, U's. Specifically designed for the student who has been introduced to short vowels but still needs further practice, this 46-page book is packed with interactive exercises. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

Just knowing the subject matter on a test is not enough to ensure success! The 43 exercises in this learning unit focus on the skills necessary to the test-taking process. In addition to “test taking tips,” the activities focus on listening for directions, following directions, skimming and scanning, test-taking terminology, the process of elimination, using word clues, recognizing question stems, and using a bubble sheet. Several practice tests and timed tests are included as review exercises. The activities in the book are sure to equip students with effective test-taking techniques for added confidence.

Information-packed crossword puzzles! From Connecticut to California and New Mexico to New Jersey, each of the country’s 50 states is the focus of a unique crossword puzzle. Using an encyclopedia to discover solutions, students learn valuable information about each state. Examples: - The name Arizona comes from this Indian word. - Nebraska’s state flower. - The name of Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate near Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Historic crossword puzzles!From George Washington (Name his plantation home.) to Ronald Reagan (Name his birthplace.), each of the 44 U.S. presidents is the focus of a unique crossword puzzle. Using an encyclopedia to discover solutions, students learn valuable information about some of our country's most important historical figures. 48-page book.