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.
Grab your students' attention with this fun, thematic unit about ocean animals and sea life! This unit includes 24 activities that use sea life 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
- Categorizing
- and more!
Get students thinking about sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing with these fun activities!
This unit includes 24 activities that use the five senses to reinforce other skills such as reading, rhyming, graphing, visual discrimination, thinking skills, math, and much more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Vocabulary
- Cause & Effects
- Critical Thinking
- Cooperative Learning
- Comprehension
- Graphing
- Sequencing
- Following Directions
- Math
- Categorizing
- and more!
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!
Grab your students' attention with this fun, thematic unit about outer space and the solar system! This unit includes 24 activities that use space 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
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
From “Armadillos” to “Gliders” and “Amelia Earhart” to “Magnets,” this 26-lesson unit features success-oriented comprehension activities that focus on a controlled vocabulary and utilize high-interest stories.
True to its goal of encouraging students to absorb what they read, the exercises in this book follow up informational reading with effective comprehension questions.
32 Pages includes answer key.
Reading Level 2-3 | Interest Level 3-12
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
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 division 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
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
From using the paper ruler provided to measure inches, to figuring pints, quarts and gallons, students will learn basic measuring through the 19 imaginative lessons in the book.
How long is the funny looking worm? How tall is the double-scoop ice cream cone? Given that 1 gallon = 4 quarts, color the number of quart containers you could fill with two gallons of milk.
Fully illustrated, the activities in this lesson unit will get your students excited about measuring all sorts of things from the “guitar” and “hammer” pictured in the book to the crayons on their desks.
Fundamental thinking skills. As students work through the 20 visual exercises in this book, they learn to classify everything from “ocean creatures” to “things that fly.”
Matching and coloring activities give students further practice grouping similar and dissimilar objects. The creative illustrations featured make the learning fun.
Exploring similar and opposite meanings. This 21-lesson unit is packed with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to synonyms and antonyms. Puzzles, word searches, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals of identifying and understanding words of like meanings (close/shut) and opposing meanings (over/under). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.
Putting things in order! This 21-lesson book is an outstanding introduction to sequential ordering. With each activity, students are challenged to cut out three or four related pictures and paste them in their logical order.
Visual illustrations depict a wide range of activities from “a boy feeding his fish” and “girl diving into a pool” to “a young man flying a kite.” The final two exercises in this book are creative connect-the-dot drawings that test the sequential ordering of letters and numbers. Fun while learning is sure to be had by all.
Improve attention span! The 25 highly visual activities in this popular unit are designed to increase students’ concentration and attention to details. One exercise, for example, pictures a very messy bedroom. Students are directed to find hidden objects within the illustration. The puzzle-style exercises found here range from hidden word messages and mazes to word scrambles and hidden object graphics. Children are sure to have loads of fun while stimulating their thinking skills.
Seeking out more information. From “Bodies of Water” to “Historical Events,” this book presents over 100 “social studies” topics for students to research. Each category presents a word search puzzle from which students choose a specific research topic. (“Transportation: Spirit of St. Louis. Hindenberg. Titanic. Orient Express…”) A series of statements follow, encouraging students to find specific information. (“It was built in the year ___ by ____.”)To put what they have learned to use, guidelines for the structure of a report are included.
Boost language skills to new heights with this step-by-step, practice-packed book! The sequential, easy-to-do activities will guide your students through important concepts, one-by-one, while the illustrations are sure to keep interest soaring. Part of the Skill Booster Series, this flexible book is superb as an introduction or review. Its specific focus allows repeated practice and is a terrific way to help students prepare for standardized tests. In addition, it can be incorporated into both skill-based and whole-language programs. You will find this book an effective teaching tool for many age and ability levels.
Encourage students to become active participants, rather than passive readers!
Each of the four stories in this unit breaks at appropriate places so the student can interact and respond through:
- predicting outcomes
- anticipating events
- recording feelings
- drawing details
- writing dialogue
- illustrating scenes
- giving opinions
As students read each fictional story, they are given opportunities to respond literally, inferentially, creatively, and cognitively. Students will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, creative writing, and more!