These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use 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 12 short stories all about cowboys. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question. 18 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!

These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use 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 12 short stories all about oceans. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question. 18 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!

These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use 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 12 short stories all about deserts and desert animals. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question. 18 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!

These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities will introduce students to police officers, firemen, nurses, doctors, teachers, librarians, and more! 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 12 short stories all about community helpers. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question. 18 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!

A real comprehension builder! Written information, graphics, and learning activities focusing on more than 70 different animals can be found in this 24-lesson unit. Each worksheet features three creatures. Students match a written description with pictures, then answer related questions. Additional research activities are suggested. Example: Partridge - Panda - Pike I am very rare. I live in the bamboo forest of southern China. I have a white, chubby body. My legs, ears, and shoulders are black. I have black patches around each eye. What is my name?” As students learn facts about a wide variety animals, they will enhance their reading and comprehension skills. Two overall review pages are included and can be used as pre/post tests.

This unit of imaginary correspondence between animals will delight your young readers as they build their reading comprehension skills! Example: Howl N. Dog has eight puppies and every time they start to go to sleep, Ted E. Bear begins to growl in the nearby woods. “…My puppies cry all night because they are afraid that you are coming to gobble them up!” writes Ms. Dog to Mr. Bear in a letter. “I carried a bag of walnuts to the edge of the woods as a gift for you,” concludes Ms. Dog. “You may gobble up all the walnuts. Please don’t growl.” In addition to 24 reading and comprehension exercises, students are encouraged to respond to some of the letters, create cards for others, and even draw a comic strip.

Using a variety of teaching tools, each of the 24 lessons found in this book highlights five to six words. After using the words to complete a short paragraph on subjects ranging from “how a ship model gets into a bottle” to “why spinning makes you dizzy,” students are challenged with a second task. Following directions, they wander through mazes, complete crosswords, specifically color illustrations, identify states on a U.S. map, and much more.

Using a variety of teaching tools, each of the 24 lessons found in this book highlights four to six words. After using the words to complete a short paragraph on subjects ranging from “earthworms” to “fingerprints,” students are challenged with a second task. Following directions, they complete crossword puzzles, practice telling time, connect-the-dots, tackle word searches, and much more.

Improve test-taking! The more than 100 illustrated “direction” exercises in this book begin at a basic level of reading and follow one- and two-step instructions using pictures and words. When mastered, the completed exercises are analyzed to determine if the directions were actually followed. This activity promotes higher level thinking skills and increases students’ ability to check and edit their own work. From here, students are challenged to match completed exercises with given directions. In all, this 24-lesson learning unit helps to enhance proofreading abilities.

Practice. Practice! This 24-lesson teaching unit is packed with 600 sequential computation problems and 48 word problems. The exercises provide oodles of practice doing all sorts of subtraction from “54 – 12” to “4000 – 2733.” The two story problems included at the bottom of each worksheets are sure to keep students on their toes. Example: “When the snack stand opened, there were 2,000 candy bars. 637 candy bars were sold. How many candy bars were left?” This book is the second in a series after Math Practice: Addition.

Solving creative math problems! This lesson unit focuses on basic, child-friendly addition and subtraction problems. Example: “391 children watched cartoons early in the morning. 569 children watched afternoon cartoons. How many children watched cartoons?”Each of the 25 lessons in this book features five word problems that surround themes ranging from “Spring Vacation” to “Bird Watching.” While improving practical math solving skills, students are exposed to textbook instructions.

Accuracy is the key to this popular addition and subtraction unit! Students check each math problem for accuracy, then complete specific tasks depending on whether or not the problem was done correctly. Tasks include math riddles, puzzles, word problems and more!

Tackling fractions! This 26-lesson learning unit is packed with hundreds of sequential fraction activities featuring both computation and word problems. From “adding two fractions with common denominators” to “using candy recipes to add fractions,” the exercises in this book progress from learning basic fraction concepts to mastering an understanding of how to add fractions. A Post Test and Answer Key are included.

A deluge of division drills! This 20-lesson learning unit starts with two “Fast Action Division” exercises designed to be timed. From here, students move on to dividing by one-digit, two-digit and eventually 3-digit divisors. Plenty of space has been left for young mathematicians to work the hundreds of math drills included in this book.

Taking on fractions! This 22-lesson learning unit is packed with hundreds of sequential fraction activities featuring both computation and word problems. As the second book in a series - following Adding Fractions – these lessons are designed to build upon what students have already learned. From “subtracting proper fractions with like denominators” to “using a fabric size chart to add and subtract fractions,” the exercises in this book progress from learning basic concepts, to mastering an understanding of how to subtract fractions, to practicing both adding and subtracting fractions. A Post Test and Answer Key are included.

Math in the Mall takes students on a shopping tour of 28 different shopping mall stores, where they practice additions, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percentage discounts to find the cost of items purchased, calculate per-item prices, determine savings, and figure change. These real-life word problems are sure to add relevance and interest to the learning experience and help students become confident consumers. Answer Key included.

Making fractions make sense! This 23-lesson learning unit is packed with hundreds of sequential fraction activities featuring both computation and word problems. As the third book in a series – following Adding Fractions and Subtracting Fractions – these exercises are designed to build upon what students have already learned. From “writing reciprocals of fractions, whole numbers, and mixed numbers,” to “multiplying a proper fraction by a proper fraction,” and on to “using a banana bread recipe to multiply fractions,” the activities in this book progress from learning basic concepts to mastering an understanding of how to multiply fractions. A Post Test and Answer Key are included.

These fun, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more! 23 Activities Cover: - March - April - May - St. Patrick's Day - Weather - Baseball - Easter - Mother's Day - Memorial Day - and more!

Get students listening! Work to improve comprehension skills through the use of the read-aloud, old-world tales and the remember-what-you-heard worksheets found in this learning unit. This unit contains 8 stories along with follow-up questions, pre-reading, vocabulary, and extended activities. Included are intriguing versions of the following classic stories: The Snow Maiden, Why the Sea is Salty, The Sword in the Stone, The Pied Piper in Hamelin, The Ugly Duckling, Talk, The Fisherman and His Wife, The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks. By purposefully listening as the stories are read to them, students will begin to develop an appreciation for literature.