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.
These short, high-interest mysteries happening in fascinating locations will grab any struggling reader’s attention! Students follow clues, find facts, make inferences, and solve each caper.
To increase fluency, pre-reading exercises introduce vocabulary and help students establish prior knowledge by providing background information. Each reading passage is full of clues to keep even the most reluctant of readers captivated.
Following each mystery story, comprehension questions target specific reading skills including main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, sequence, reading for details, and much more!
Meet the Detectives
Join teenager Jenna White as she helps her dad, a National Park Ranger, solve perplexing mysteries. Follow them as they travel to different national parks across the U.S. and Canada.
Contents Include:
- 12 Mysteries
- Before You Read Activities (Predicting, Thinking, & Glossary)
- After You Read Skill-Specific, Comprehension Questions
Reading Level 2 | Interest Level 3-12
No Cook Recipes * Life Skills * Reading Comprehension * Menu * Ingredients * Following Directions * Kitchen Activities * Special Education
A ‘No Cook’ Recipe for Success! A delicious way to teach essential life skills AND reading comprehension! These ‘no-cook’ recipes can be made quickly and easily right in your classroom! No stove or oven is needed. Students are sure to LOVE learning all about cooking, and how to prepare these delicious menu items. From No-Bake Creamy Pineapple Pie to Easy Chocolate Pretzel Bars, and Guacamole to Southwest Wraps your students will get their fill with these solidly-conceived life-skills lessons. These Print & Go lessons are ready when you are!
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Multiple-choice comprehension questions (10 per recipe) challenge students to read each recipe carefully. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence recipe steps, calculate cooking times, understand ingredients and their measurements, make inferences, and more… Kitchen and measuring terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way.
EASY REAL RECIPES!
You’re going to love these ready-to-use printable lessons. Just print and go!
VERSATILE FORMAT:
Each recipe includes 10 multiple choice questions making them ideal for assessment, review, task boxes, hands-on learning, quiz cards and more… These easy-to-use lessons do not require writing. All answers are multiple choice. Feel free to upload these pdf’s to EASEL - if you want to create a digital version.
Includes:
30 Printable Pdf Pages
Answer Key
Life Skills | Cooking | Kitchen Equipment | Appliances | Recipe Vocabulary | Functional Skills | Food Terms | Recipes | Independent Living | Special Education | Reading Comprehension | Print & Go Lessons
Help students on the road to independence with these interactive cooking equipment vocabulary lessons! Using realistic photos and easy-to-read definitions, students are introduced to the real-life world of cooking methods, tools, and appliances. From blenders to toaster ovens and colanders to woks, key vocabulary is introduced then reinforced with easy-to-read comprehension and cloze reading activities. These easy-to-use task cards are great for daily instruction, performance monitoring, transition programs, assessment, and review.
HANDS-ON VISUAL LESSONS:
Strong visual cues and realistic photos are sure to captivate students while reinforcing learning.
Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading, Writing, Math |
Improve Everyday Reading, Writing, and Math Skills While Improving Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting activities give students lots of practice with practical application reading, writing, and math as it applies to banking. Bank Account Practice: Credit Cards focuses on everyday-life situations that involve using a credit card.
Students will learn how to understand and apply the information on the front and the back of a credit card. After reading a word problem, they will need to decide whether to add, subtract. multiply and/or or divide to arrive at a solution. Some activities require students to know how to figure percentages.
Skills Include:
• Applying information to real-life situations
• Following directions
• Reading for details
• Finding relevant facts
• Solving word problems using the appropriate operations
Questions:
Question formats vary from multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and writing the answer in an answer box.
This Resource Includes:
• 46 Slide Pages
• Answer key pages
Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading, Writing, Math | Google Slides
Improve Everyday Reading, Writing, and Math Skills While Improving Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting digital Task Cards give students lots of practice with practical application reading, writing, and math as it applies to banking. Bank Account Practice: Credit Cards focuses on everyday-life situations that involve understanding the different types of credit cards, understanding the bank’s credit card terms and what you will find on the cards, and how to fill out online purchase forms.
Students will learn the correct way to use each type of credit card, from bank cards to department store cards. After reading the word problem, students will need to deduce which card can be used in that particular scenario and how much it will cost them to use credit for that purchase.
Skills Include:
• Applying information to real-life situations
• Following directions
• Reading for details
• Finding relevant facts
• Solving word problems using the appropriate operations
• Writing numbers in different forms
VERSATILE & EASY-TO-USE GOOGLE SLIDES:
We’ve done the work for you! Simply download these Google Slides and assign them to your students. Assign them all, or just today’s daily lesson! For additional flexibility, these slides can also be printed for in-class use.
Question formats vary from multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank – which requires students to drag a circle or word to provide the correct answer – and typing the answer into an answer box.
BENEFITS OF GOOGLE SLIDES:
If you’ve been looking for a way to integrate technology into your lessons, this is your answer. And the best part is you don’t have to print, cut, laminate, or replace when you lose pieces…it’s ALL DIGITAL!
HOW DO GOOGLE SLIDES WORK?
Students read each high-interest story on a computer or iPad then answer the comprehension 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. You can assign a set of slides to each student, so that they have their own personal packet.
Now you can prepare students for standardized tests easily and thoroughly without disrupting your on-going curriculum!
Easily incorporated into your daily routine, E-Z Test Readiness offers 112 small units of practice featuring the concepts, format, and response styles of major standardized tests. These “mini-tests” offer repeated practice of sample items in a standardized testing format. The multiple-choice questions and corresponding bubble sheet are sure to add to the realistic experience.
Based on the most widely used national standardized tests, E-Z Test Readiness will: reduce test anxiety, build confidence, improve test scores, increase mastery of content, and more!
Lots of Repeated Practice for Challenged Readers
Struggling readers are sure to benefit from the high-interest / low vocabulary stories and writing practice in this terrific book. Features 30 stories comprised of repetitive words and sentence structure followed by questions, cloze reading, and sentence writing. This book is sure to be a terrific addition to any remedial reading program!
A lesson a day in November! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 30 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in September! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest, low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in August! This reproducible activity book offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in July! This reproducible activity book offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in September! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest, low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 30 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in February! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 29 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in December! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in January! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
A lesson a day in March! This reproducible unit offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date.
These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
Challenged readers of all ages are sure to enjoy these activities as they sharpen their reading and writing skills. Features 30 stories with:
- Controlled vocabulary
- Short sentences
- Simple sentence structures
- Cloze reading
- Repetitive words
You’ll love having these ready-to-use activities on hand for review, remediation, and enrichment! Let Remedia Publications help your students have fun mastering those all-important basic skills.
60 pages includes an answer key.
A lesson a day in June! This reproducible activity book offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by high-interest activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Contents Include:
- 30 Short, Nonfiction Stories
- Follow-Up Activities to Assess Comprehension
- Research Activities
This practice-packed unit will help students master this essential math skill! Activities offer a variety of formats to ensure a strong grasp of place value concepts.
Matching, drills, number searches, number puzzles, riddles, skill challenges, and more provide reinforcement while keeping interest high. Students begin by reviewing the ones place and continue up to the millions place.
Skills Covered Include:
- Identifying place value
- Writing largest & smallest number
- Comma placement
- Problem solving
- Addition & subtraction (by 10, 100, & 1,000)
- Base ten blocks
- and more!
Reinforce Consumer Math Skills with this Beginning Money Skills Game
It’s never too early for students to develop an interest in earning, saving, and spending money! With this game, players get realistic practice handling money. As student play the game, they add and subtract money as they take turns earning and spending money with tasks like giving the dog a bath or buying a movie ticket.
This game is open-ended and may conclude when one player has more than $20 or when one player has moved his or her pawn completely around the board.
Using games to teach and reinforce basic skills is a highly effective way to motivate students to learn! This game is ideal for 2-6 players, and is great for small groups and math centers.
Contents Include:
- Gameboard (Black & white and measures 8.5x11" for easy printing!)
- Instructions
- Spinner & Pawns
- Money (Black & white for easy printing if you don't already have play money.)
- 24 "Take A Chance!" Task Cards
- Blank / Editable Task Cards (So you can create unique instructions that grab your students' attention.)
Interest Level: 3-12