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.
Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of good exercise with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to:
- read for details
- make inferences
- find the main idea
- find facts
- summarize data
- build vocabulary
- draw conclusions
- restate information
- make decisions
Contents Include:
- High-Interest/Low Readability Stories
- Pre/Post-Test
- Word Search
- Glossary
- Answer Key
Paying attention! The 30 lessons in this learning unit will teach students to listen, remember what they have been told, and execute the oral directions given. To begin, students listen as an explanation of each exercise is given. “On your worksheets there are three rows of boxes. You will be told what to do in each row.”Next children are given instructions. “Draw a line from the fish to the ball; make it go over the pig.” “Draw a triangle in the middle box.” While having fun with these imaginative activities, students will boost their listening, comprehension, and motor skills.
A strong sense of character and positive self-esteem are key ingredients to a student's success in school and in life. Writing About Me gives your students a real chance to develop and reinforce 38 all-important attributes, while simultaneously improving their writing skills. Each page presents a specific attribute, such as "honesty" or "responsibility," to stimulate group discussion. To help students further understand these characteristics and how they apply to their daily lives, a series of fun and relevant writing activities are included to help students focus on their individual and collective attributes. So let Remedia Publications help your students have fun learning the very important concepts of character, self-esteem, and writing with this easy-to-use, "accentuate-the-positive" book.
Spice up your reading and writing programs with Remedia Publications' Understanding Instructions - In The Kitchen! Twenty-five tasty recipes are the main ingredients of this unique book, guaranteed to improve the comprehension of even the most reluctant readers. Students of all ages are sure to enjoy reading the "real-life" recipes found inside, then completing follow-up writing activities that challenge them to: read for details, locate information, follow directions, find facts, build vocabulary, and more! As an extended activity, students can create these recipes at home, which will improve their ability to follow directions. So let Remedia Publications help your students have fun while they build basic skills with this unique and "hands-on" book.Enhanced
This enhanced PDF gives you the freedom to copy and paste the content of each page into the format that fits your needs. You can also access text for screen reader devices, export individual pages, make student copies, and more.
This unit is packed with 30 low readability stories about fun and unique careers. The included comprehension exercises are designed to teach students to better understand what they read, to follow directions, and to increase their critical thinking.
A variety of jobs are covered in the informative articles that start-off each exercise. The eight comprehension questions that follow each reading exercise work to boost comprehension skills.
Reading Level 2 | Interest Level 4-12
30 Jobs Include:
- Race Car Driver
- Coach
- Farmer
- Scientist
- Dog Groomer
- Banker
- Clown
- Teacher
- and more!
Knowing how to measure time in terms of days, weeks, months and years is an important life skill. Calendars, part of Remedia's Publications' Time Concepts Series, provides abundant practice in this skill. Your students will have a great time as they learn to recognize the names of the months and their association to the seasons of the year. A variety of creative activities help students learn day and month abbreviations, the various ways to write dates, the meaning of decade and century, holiday dates, and more! In addition, word problems are included that require students to calculate time and dates in order to find answers. So help your students acquire important life skills with this fun and essential basic skills book. Enjoy!
Diverse direction exercises! Packed with puzzle, maze, cut-and-paste, tracing, and dot-to-dot activities designed to make following directions fun, this creatively illustrated book is sure to boost basic thinking and direction skills. With 20 lessons in all, exercises range from “tracing a dancing clown” and “getting Chirpy through a maze to his nest,” to “correctly ordering three drawings of a boy brushing his teeth.”
Paying attention! The 30 lessons in this learning unit will teach students to listen, remember what they have been told, and execute the oral directions given. To begin, students listen as an explanation of each exercise is given. “Your worksheet is filled with empty boxes that you will begin to fill.”Next children are given specific instructions. “In the middle box on the bottom row, put an 8.” “In the middle box on the top row put an M.”While having fun with these imaginative activities, students will boost their listening, comprehension, and motor skills.
Retaining what is heard! Short, bright, read-aloud stories about subjects ranging from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to “Helping Baby Birds” are at the core of the 30 lessons in this learning unit. After listening closely to each story, students are given independent activities that focus on drawing conclusions, finding the main idea, and remembering details. By getting youngsters involved in the stories, they will gradually learn more thoughtful listening techniques.
This unit is packed with 30 low readability stories about fun and unique careers. The included comprehension exercises are designed to teach students to better understand what they read, to follow directions, and to increase their critical thinking.
A variety of jobs are covered in the informative articles that start-off each exercise. The eight comprehension questions that follow each reading exercise work to boost comprehension skills.
Reading Level 3 | Interest Level 4-12
30 Jobs Include:
- Editor
- Waiter
- Chef
- Butcher
- Police Officer
- Miner
- Jeweler
- Pilot
- and more!
Practical life skills! The car tires at Greg’s Auto Supply are displayed with a sign that reads: Reg. Price $43.50. On sale for $37.50. Carol bought four tires on sale. How much did she spend? How much did she save? The 27 lessons present students with real-life finance situations. In each lesson, students must use the information depicted in an illustration of the given shopping experience to find information as they decide whether to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve the various accompanying math problems. Simple fractions and percent computations are also required. These exercises help students enhance their comprehension and logical thinking abilities as well as making orderly decisions.
Retaining what is heard! Short, bright, read-aloud stories about subjects ranging from “Something to Smile About” to “Making Movies,” are at the core of the 30 lessons in this learning unit. After listening closely to each story, students are given independent activities that focus on drawing conclusions, finding the main idea, and remembering details. By getting youngsters involved in the stories, they will gradually learn more thoughtful listening techniques.
Knowing how to measure time in terms of days, weeks, months and years is an important life skill. Students will have a great time as they learn to recognize the names of the months and their association to the seasons of the year. A variety of creative activities help students learn the days of the week, months of the year, abbreviations, number of days in each month, holiday dates, season, and more! So help your students get off to a good start with this fun and essential basic-skills book. Enjoy!
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: vocation, attorney, electrician, dental assistant, lab technician, cardiologist, retirement plan, and many more.
Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5
Contents Include:
- 9 Lessons
- Activities that cover jobs in health care, construction, education, and much more
- Answer key
- And more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Develop life/survival skills
- Find relevant facts
- Spell correctly
- Understand and use reference sources
- Analyze information
- Write an original sentence
- Classify information
- Determine alphabetical order
- Express/justify an opinion
- Make decisions/choices
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 visit to the ice cream parlor” to “a busy street corner,” 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.
Knowing signs, symbols, and directions is essential for students who are trying to expand their knowledge outside the classroom into the “real world.” These flash cards present words and symbols that students will encounter in their everyday lives. This instant download features 94 full-color flash cards that include bold graphics and simple, easy-to-understand definitions, which makes these ideal for students of all ability levels. A must-have addition for any life skills class.
This 24-page download includes 94 flash cards and activity suggestions. Simply print the file double-sided so that the definitions for each sign are on the back side.
Signs & Symbols Include:
- Bus Stop
- Caution Automatic Door
- Bike Crossing
- Hospital
- Camping Area
- Detour
- Elevator
- Caution
- Do Not Enter
- Fire Department
- Flammable
- Fragile
- No Parking
- No Smoking
- Out of Order
- Poison
- Police
- Restroom
- Recycle
- and Many More!
From calculating discounts to calculating parts of a whole to calculating sales tax, percents are a part of everyday life. This unit focuses entirely on the use of percents in real-life situations. As students work through the activities, they will take their knowledge of percents to a new, practical level.
Students use advertisements, menus, and coupons to figure out word problems that involve purchasing items on sale and figuring sales tax. Tax tables help students learn to figure income tax and net pay. Circle graphs help students visualize percents as coming from a whole. Drill pages give students extra practice with percents. Working these practice problems will help students develop the skills necessary for a solid understanding of percents as percents relate to daily life.
Skill Covered:
- Changing Percents to Decimals
- How to Figure Percents – Discounts & Sales Tax
- Figuring Percents & Prices
- Figuring Prices & Sales Tax
- Taxes & the Government
- Coupons & Percents
- Percents & Circle Graphs
- Percent Word Problems
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: resume, employer, social security, qualified, salary, interview, overtime, supervisor, and many more.
Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5
Contents Include:
- 7 Lessons
- Activities that cover abbreviations, personal data, job applications, paychecks, safety, and much more
- Answer key
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Develop life/survival skills
- Write an original sentence
- Understand consumer information
- Spell correctly
- Apply math to real-life situations
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: driver's manual, detour, pedestrian, tenant, vacancy, lease agreement, merchandise, reimburse, and many more.
Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5
Contents Include:
- 7 Lessons
- Activities that cover learning to drive, filing an accident report, coupons, newspaper, insurance, and more
- Answer key
- And more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Develop consumer skills
- Find relevant facts
- Understand and use reference sources
- Understand consumer information
- Analyze information
- Fill out forms correctly
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: fitness, leisure, nutrition, acne, hygiene, deodorant, shampoo, poisonous, aspirin, and many more.
Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5
Contents Include:
- 9 Lessons
- Activities that cover dental health, hygiene, healthy eating, grooming, first aid, and much more
- Answer key
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Develop life/survival skills
- Find relevant facts
- Analyze information
- Write an original sentence
- Classify information
- Make decisions/choices
- Develop consumer skills
- Understand consumer information
- Evaluate information