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.
Promote thinking!Analysis is the ability to break a whole into its component parts and understand how each functions as part of the whole. The ability to reason logically is a major skill at this step of the critical thinking process. The 27 lessons in this unit include a variety of analogies and puzzles. As students work the exercises they learn to examine the whole, make judgments about the pieces, and finally see how these pieces relate to each other.Example:
“Hoot. Clang. Creak. Yelp. Whinny…: A door that needs oiling would ____. A hungryHorse would ____. A frightened puppy would ____.”These sequential activities are sure to improve thinking and logic skills. And, because they seem more like games than work, students will have loads of fun.
Improve attention span! The 23 visual activities in this popular unit are designed to increase students’ concentration and attention to details. One exercise, for example, includes two versions of a picture – each depicting two boys fishing on a riverbank. Students are challenged to find 10 differences between the drawings. The game-like exercises found here range from hidden objects and memory graphics to word pyramids and categorizations. Children are sure to have loads of fun while stimulating their thinking skills.
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!
Reluctant readers of all ages and students reading below grade level are sure to enjoy the high-interest, factual newspaper articles featured in this book. Each article is presented in a realistic and appealing format complete with dateline and picture. Follow-up questions require the reader to respond to the Five W's (who, what, when, where, why) - a great way to boost comprehension skills! Reading levels are achieved through the use of controlled vocabulary, simple sentence structure, and appropriate illustrations. The reading level of stories in this book range from 5.0-5.9.
Reading. Thinking. Writing! Illustrations and corresponding sentences are combined in the 25 lessons featured here to challenge discrimination and comparison abilities. Rather than multiple choice answers or underlined responses, students are asked to write complete sentences. This extra step will reinforce the thinking process as students work through each of the intriguing activities. Difficulty progresses with each exercise.
This life skills unit covers 40 essential survival signs and symbols.
Vocabulary words are introduced in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real life activities improve problem solving, critical thinking, and writing skills.
As students work their way through the exercises, they will gain knowledge that will allow them to become more confident and independent in the real world.
Safety Signs & Symbols
These are signs intended to help keep you safe and out of harm. The 40 signs covered include:
Fire Alarm
Danger
Caution
Fire Escape
Poison
Safe Place
Watch Step
and more!
Improve Comprehension ONE-SKILL–at-a-Time!
You’re going to LOVE these NO PREP - PAPERLESS ACTIVITIES guaranteed to target and improve specific reading skills! These Google Slides are ideal for distance learning, daily homework, remediation, review, literacy circles, and more!
High Interest Topics:
Each slide features a funny and/or intriguing short story that students will WANT to read! Cool topics include amazing facts, unusual creatures, silly laws, strange superstitions and more. Following each passage is a text-dependent reading skill question that targets a specific reading skill- Making Inferences. Fun and colorful artwork is included on each slide, to keep kids motivated.
Story Length: 45-55 words
Reading Level: Gr. 1-3
Interest Level: For students of all ages
Easy-to-Use!
We’ve done the work for you! With this series you won’t have to waste time searching through stories and activities to find one that targets the skills you need to include in your lesson plan or IEP. Simply add these Google Slides to your Google Drive. Then you can assign specific slides to specific students, or the whole class! Watch students work in real-time, or check their progress later.
Easy-to-Read Lessons:
These fun, easy-reading lessons are designed for success. These fun activities are designed to appeal to a broad age-range of students who need to work on essential reading skills, and are perfect for enrichment, review or remediation.
Main Idea
Using Context
Finding Facts
Drawing Conclusions
Making Inferences
Detecting Sequence
Printing Suggestions:
If you prefer, these slides can also be printed.
Print full color cards on white paper.
Laminate the cards for durability.
If you chose to print on color paper, you can use a different color for each skill to help differentiate between each skill.
Suggestions for Use:
Individual Students: Use these Google Slides/task cards with individual students. If a student is struggling with finding the main idea, for example, give that student the “Main Idea” cards or Google Slide to practice with.
Small Groups: Use these Google Slides/cards with small groups. Give each small group a set of cards. Have students take turns reading the stories out loud and answering the questions.
Extended Activities: Have students read a story and then create their own questions. Can students create who, what, where, when, why questions from the story? Can other skill-specific questions be asked? What details are missing from the story?
Writing Prompts: Use these fun stories as writing prompts. Give each student a card to read. Have students elaborate on the story. Have students complete the story, add to the story, or research the facts.
Contents Include:
16 Google Slide
Bring Classic Literature to Life… with “The Time Machine!” These Interactive Google Slides feature 10 easy-to-read short chapters and introduce students to great classic literature, while improving their comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Dramatic and expertly-paced narration draws the listener into the classic story… keeping interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. This high-interest, abridged version of the classic is sure to become a classroom favorite!
*** The Time Machine- Adapted/Abridged Version
*** Professional Audio Narration
*** Versatile Google Classroom Slides & Printable Pdf Versions
*** 10 Easy-to-Read Chapters
*** 160 Pre-Reading, Vocabulary & Comprehension Activities
EASY-TO-USE:
The Time Machine is an easy way to engage students and bring some excitement to classic literature! Simply download the Google Slides and you’re ready to start using them today! :)
INTERACTIVE GOOGLE SLIDES:
Students answer comprehension questions directly on the slides- so no paper is needed! In addition, the font size is adjustable, making them easy to read even on a small laptop, iPad, or Chromebook. Story and activities can also be printed.
CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS:
Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. Chapters can be read on the Google Slides or printed out as pdfs.
DRAMATIC AUDIO & CLASSIC STORY:Listen to the story come to life… with professionally-recorded narration complete with sound effects, character voices and more. Professional actors read each chapter word-for-word, allowing students to follow along - a proven technique to aid comprehension and improve fluency.
100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Skill-specific activities include drag and drops, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks and more. Activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing.
60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary.
EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS:
Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading.
Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12
Reading Level: Gr. 4.0 - 5.0
Bring Classic Literature to Life… with “David Copperfield!” These Interactive Google Slides feature 10 easy-to-read short chapters and introduce students to great classic literature, while improving their comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Dramatic and expertly-paced narration draws the listener into the classic story… keeping interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. This high-interest, abridged version of the classic is sure to become a classroom favorite!
*** David Copperfield - Adapted/Abridged Version
*** Professional Audio Narration
*** Versatile Google Classroom Slides & Printable Pdf Versions
*** 10 Easy-to-Read Chapters
*** 160 Pre-Reading, Vocabulary & Comprehension Activities
EASY-TO-USE:
David Copperfield is an easy way to engage students and bring some excitement to classic literature! Simply download the Google Slides and you’re ready to start using them today! :)
INTERACTIVE GOOGLE SLIDES:
Students answer comprehension questions directly on the slides- so no paper is needed! In addition, the font size is adjustable, making them easy to read even on a small laptop, iPad, or Chromebook. Story and activities can also be printed.
CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS:
Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. Chapters can be read on the Google Slides or printed out as pdfs.
DRAMATIC AUDIO & CLASSIC STORY:Listen to the story come to life… with professionally-recorded narration complete with sound effects, character voices and more. Professional actors read each chapter word-for-word, allowing students to follow along - a proven technique to aid comprehension and improve fluency.
100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Skill-specific activities include drag and drops, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks and more. Activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing.
60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary.
EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS:
Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading.
Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12
Reading Level: Gr. 4.0 - 5.0
Total Slides: 66
Audio MP3’s for every story
Answer Key
Teaching Duration: 1 Week
Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | Kitchen Fires. | Appliances | Burns | Google Slides. 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.
EASY TO USE!
These Google Slides lessons are ready when you are!
Simply download them and start assigning them to you students in Google Classroom! For added versatility, these lessons can also be printed, saved as pdfs, or downloaded as a Powerpoint presentation.
Includes
46 Google Slides
Answer Key
Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking Safety | Oven, Stovetop & Microwave Safety | Food Prep Safety | Knife Safety | Kitchen Fires | Google Slides Activities. 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 safest way to use an oven, stovetop, or microwave, to handling food safely, and even knife safety… 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. These digital Google lessons can also be downloaded as pdf’s, and Powerpoint presentations.
EASY TO USE!
These Google Slides lessons are ready when you are! Simply download them to your Google Drive and assign them to your students!
Includes:
50 Google Slides
Answer Key
Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | First Aid | Fire Extinguisher | Food Poisoning | Hand Washing | 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 slides).
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Fire-Safe Clothing
Hand Washing Techniques
Burns & Scalding
Knife Safety & Getting Cut
First Aid for Burns, Cuts & more
Chopping Board Safety
Salmonella
Food Poisoning
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Putting Out a Grease Fire
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 NO TYPING… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are Drag & Drop!
EASY TO USE!
These Google Slides lessons are ready when you are!
Simply download them and start assigning them to you students in Google Classroom! For added versatility, these lessons can also be printed, saved as pdfs, or downloaded as a Powerpoint presentation.
Reading Comprehension | Social Studies | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | First Americans
Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing History-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic!
Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, historic explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life.
Reading Skills
Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading.
“First Americans”
The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story with interesting facts about the history of the first people who lived in North America, some more than 40,000 years ago.
They lived here long before Spanish and other European explorers “discovered” America.
“Gathering Firewood”
The fiction story tells about two Native American brothers and their first sighting of the big ships that would forever change their way of life.
Questions & Activities
Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions.
Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference,
Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation.
Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context.
Details:
Each short story is between 320 and 370 words and is written at a 3.8 to 5.1 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 4 and up.
Contents Include:
• 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories
• 10 pages of questions and activities
• Glossary
• Answer Key
• 18 total pages
Life Skills | Reading Menus | Reading Recipes | Visual Lessons | Cooking
Prepare students for the ‘real world’ with these realistic reading opportunities! Whether ordering pizza, sitting in the drive-thru, or making dinner in your kitchen, reading menus and recipes is a part of everyday life.
However, some students need specific instruction and practice before they are able to understand, interpret, and use what they have read in these unique and complex formats. These appetizing lessons are a great way to help students master these essential skills.
Contents Include:
10 Full-Color, Realistic Menus or Recipe Cards (measure 8.5"x11").
Print these or display them on your whiteboard or digital device.
10 Black/White, Realistic Menu or Recipe Cards (for easy printing)
100 Follow-Up Comprehension Questions
This visually exciting unit provides the practice students need to build confidence, while increasing reading comprehension and essential life skills. Each of the 10 highly visual “cards” portray a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information.
Great for individual students or small groups!
Reading Level: 3 - 4
Interest Level: 4 - 12
Most of us get the majority of our news online. This book features three common ways to get “Online News:” Online Newspapers, News Alerts, and News Websites. Students will learn the best places to get the type of news that interests them. As well as the best news format.
The Online Newspapers section features realistic pages from a variety of online newspapers. Students will get familiarized with a weather report page, learn how to read their horoscope, get cooking tips from a food column, and personal advice from a teen advice column. They can read articles about sports, the latest technology, movies and movie stars, plus what happened on “This Day in History.”
The News Alerts section shows some of the types of alerts we can get on our phones. Depending on your interests, you can get short, “teaser” bits of information about the latest in sports, weather, business, and national news.
News Websites often feature daily updates on specific kinds of news. Are you interested in national news, sports, fashion, gaming, travel, diet and exercise? There is a website for that!
Follow-up questions ask students to find relevant facts, locate and analyze information, think about that information and then form an opinion.
Engaging Lessons, Tips, & Techniques to help students learn how to find AND get a Job! * Job Search * Applying for a Job * Resume * Cover Letter * Interview * Wages * Salary * Real-life Situations * Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of getting a job with these new life-skills lessons!
The first step towards REAL independence is getting a job… But how do you FIND one… and how do you GET one? These life-skills lessons help students learn the best tips, strategies, and techniques for Getting a Job! These realistic lessons answer many questions such as, “Do I need a resume?” “How do I stand out?” “What should I wear to an interview?” “What should I ask?” “How do I choose between two job offers?” and more…
Google Slides:
136 Ready-to-Use Google Slides! Engaging Lessons, Tips, & Techniques to help students learn how to find AND get a Job! * Finding Jobs * Applying for a Job * Resumes * Cover Letters * Interviews * Wages * Salaries * Real-life Situations * Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of getting a job with these new life-skills Google Slides lessons! (see the product preview to see TONS of sample pages).
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Finding a Job:
Students learn about the various ways to find a job using online companies such as Monster.com, Indeed.com, CareerBuilder.com and Snagajob.com. Lessons also help focus on employment agencies, company websites, networking, want ads, and more.
Applying for a Job:
Students learn about creating memorable cover letters, successful resumes, and completing job applications.
Job Interviews:
Lessons cover what to wear, the importance of being punctual, what to say and questions to ask.
Job Details:
Students are introduced to the world of wages, salaries, commissions, benefits, paid holidays, sick days, health insurance & more.
Real-life Situations:
Students get realistic hands-on practice as they follow five people through their job searches from the beginning of the process all the way to the end.
READY-TO-USE:
These ready-to-use pdf lessons are sure to save you time! Simply download and start assigning them to your students.
THE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERIES:
Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Job provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and get a job. This series offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos and illustrations, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for more sample pages).
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES: READING, WRITING & MATH!
Follow-up activities include practical application math, basic comprehension questions to reinforce understanding, and practical writing exercises. Some questions ask students to think about the information given and express their opinions and ideas.
VOCABULARY:
These essential lessons include a glossary of key words and phrases students may not be familiar with plus activities to test understanding of the new words and phrases. These words and phrases are highlighted in bold throughout the text.
ENGAGING LESSONS: These sequential lessons walk students through key topics and guides them along the path towards Independent Living.
Taking on contractions! This book of five boldly illustrated game board lessons challenges students to create contractions (he will = he’ll) and break them down (they’re = they are).
While playing the challenging word games, students get plenty of practice mastering formation and use of contractions.
A student contract, a pre/post test, and seven practice/review exercises are included.
This 40-page unit includes an answer key.
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.
This 20-lesson unit is designed to help teachers evaluate students’ ability to understand and appropriately respond to verbal information. The exercises may also be used to assist in the development of listening and following direction skills. “How would you feel if a bull was chasing you?” “Is a potato a fruit?” “Wink your eye!”For those students who find verbal response difficult, or to add an element of fun, picture response cards have been included.
Building early comprehension skills!Presented with context clues and a word list, students are challenged to complete brief stories.Example:
Cleared - Good – The - Cooked… “Mrs. Rodrigues ___ dinner. Her family enjoyed the ___ food. Jose ___ the table. Juanita washed ___ dishes. Who cleared the table?”Each of the 43 exercises found in this book features four words and a delightful illustration of the story. Reading and writing skills are enhanced while students get plenty of practice with comprehension, spelling, and thinking. Coloring the accompanying picture is a fun way to hone fine motor skills.
