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.
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
Grab your students' attention with these fun, thematic units! Each unit includes 24 activities that use science topics 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!
The 6 Titles in this Bundle Include:
The Five Senses
Insects
Plants
Sea Life
Space
Weather
This lesson unit is packed with 46 exercises designed to expand students’ awareness of a wide variety of learning techniques. Scheduling, outlining, note-taking, memorizing, test-taking (essay and objective), and reference tool use are all covered.
Whether learning to skim, using acronyms to remember, or organizing information into idea-grams, students will hone a number of learning styles sure to improve they study habits.
Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice in the specific reading skill that emphasizes inference comprehension.The stories lack some facts that the reader must infer from the text in order to detect certain details. Questions following each story test student’s ability to recognize information that is implied but not directly given. 28-page book includes an answer key.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Teach essential sequencing skills the "hands-on" way with this fun and highly effective skill-based book! Exercises begin at a basic level where students manipulate language by cutting and pasting short stories into meaningful sequence. Activities then progress to a level where students are required to copy short stories in proper sequence. Finally, students formulate original sentences and write them in meaningful sequence. Sequencing is a prerequisite skill necessary for accurate comprehension, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes. So give your students a solid foundation on which to build with this delightful and essential book!
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Designed specifically for the student who has been introduced to vowel sounds but still needs further practice to reach mastery levels. This comprehensive book offers over 120 pages of delightfully illustrated activities involving each vowel sound along with rhyming, riddles, letter substitution, sentence writing, word drills, alphabetizing, diphthongs, digraphs, and more! Phonemic awareness is an essential component of reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.
Improve Reading Comprehension While Learning Interesting Historical Facts!
This book features high-interest, “on this date in history” stories for the month of April. There is an historical nonfiction short story for each day of the month.
Reading and Interest Level
The stories were written at an approximate reading level of grades 3-4.
In some cases, proper names of people, places, and events, as well as other necessary descriptive vocabulary, may drive the reading level up a bit. The interest level is aimed at students in grades 5 and up who may not be reading at grade level.
High-Interest Stories
The topics chosen are not necessarily the most important thing to have happened on a particular date. The variety of people, places, and events highlighted in each story were chosen to appeal to a wide range of interests. Students will learn a variety of historical facts while improving their reading and comprehension skills.
Skill-Specific Lessons
Each story is followed by 8 skill-specific comprehension questions. Question formats include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and writing complete sentences. Skills focus on: main idea, facts, locating the answer, vocabulary, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, fact or opinion, conclusion, and inference.
Includes:
65 Pages
Answer Key
What YOU Need to Know about Living on Your Own! Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of living on their own with these essential new life skills lessons! Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Place to Live provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and even rent an apartment. This essential program offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for more sample pages).
ENGAGING LESSONS:
These sequential lessons walk students through key topics and guides them along the path to Independent Living.
The first section, Preparation, begins with creating a housing budget and progresses to helpful tips on finding a good roommate.
The second section, Renting, gives students valuable information about finding the right place to live. They learn how to interpret rental terminology and abbreviations and how to read rental ads. They learn what to expect when meeting a landlord, filling out a rental application, and signing a rental agreement.
The last section, Moving, guides students through the process of transferring utility service, packing, and then renting and loading a moving truck.
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.
Google Slides:
120 Interactive Google Slides! What YOU Need to Know about Living on Your Own! Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of living on their own with these essential new life skills Google Slides lessons!
Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Place to Live provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and even rent an apartment. This essential program 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 TONS of sample pages).READY-TO-USE:
These ready-to-use lessons are sure to save you time! Simply download and start assigning them to your students. Assign the entire set or just a few for today’s lesson.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
SECTION ONE: Preparation…1-22 Housing Budget Location Search
Types of Housing Choosing a Roommate
Creating an Ad & Interviewing
Qualities of a Good Roommate Andrew’s Housing Budget
Online advertising Brittney and Amy Roommate Rules Review
SECTION TWO:
Renting … 23-45 Rental Words to Know
Sample Rental Ads
Finding the Right Place
Meeting the Landlord
Sample Rental Application
Rental Agreement Rental Advice
SECTION THREE:
Moving … 46-53 Planning Your Move Packing Renting a Moving Vehicle
Loading and Unloading the Truck
SECTION FOUR:
Glossary & VOCABULARY…54-59 Glossary Match-Up Glossary Fill-in-the-Blank
As students learn to write their A B C’s, and practice printing such words as “ambulance,” “barrel,” and “clown,” they give their new handwriting skills a good workout. Final activities move on to copying sentences. “The boy went to bed.” “Kim has a blue hat.”In all, there are 35 worksheets included in this book. Imaginative illustrations help to make the learning more fun. Vocabulary and spelling will be enhanced as students progress.
Build basic skills with this 21-lesson unit! Activities introduce children to appropriate capitalization and basic punctuation. Students are taught to upper case the initial letter of names, months, titles, holidays, and more. Punctuation lessons focus on the use of question marks and periods. These step-by-step activities are sure to improve essential language and writing skills. Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice capitalizing words and punctuating sentences.
This fancifully illustrated book is filled with 25 pages of exercises designed to teach beginning consonants. What better way to start learning their B, C, D's than with images of familiar things. From drawings of a Bumblebee, a Cake, and a Door, to a Web, an Egg Yoke, and a Zebra, the highly visual lessons in this book help children put consonant sounds together with words and images. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary. All in all, this book is a great way for children to practice beginning consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association - all skills needed for reading success.
Learning how a word ends is one more step toward successful reading. Utilizing drawings of everything from a craB to a mailboX, this book calls on images of familiar things to teach word closure. This creatively illustrated book is filled with 20 pages of exercises specifically designed to teach ending consonants. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary. Overall, this book is an outstanding way for children to practice ending consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association.
This book makes introducing children to vocabulary's A, E, I, O, U's a snap.Designed specifically for learning the basic beginning skills of vowel sounds, this starter book features 28 pages of fancifully illustrated activities. Visual word games and vowel tracing will instill the familiarity needed to encourage reading success.
Learners get plenty of practice with this fun and practical 3-book set, from identifying, tracing, and writing each letter to looking at pictures of familiar objects and identifying beginning, ending, and similar sounds. These captivating exercises are sure to boost any beginning reading program!
Purposeful listening! This 24-lesson learning unit is packed with hands-on coloring activities designed to improve fine motor skills, visual perception, following directions, and more. Students follow rebus/picture directions that instruct them how to specifically color each segment of the accompanying illustration. Creative visual subjects range from “boxing kangaroos” and “a pig on a picnic” to “a giraffe hanging laundry on a clothesline.”
The building blocks of reading! This 20-lesson unit is brimming with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to verbs and adjectives. Word searches, puzzles, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals. As students progress, they are able to identify and understand that “verbs” describe an action or mode of being, and that “adjectives” offer enlightening and colorful descriptions. Skills reinforced by these activities include recognizing verbs, understanding “present” and “past” tenses, learning about adjectives that “compare,” using adjectives to “tell how things look,” and more. Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.
Reading made fun! This book is packed with 20 fully-illustrated, easy-to-read, comprehension activities for the beginning reader. Students are first challenged to match three sentences with three images: “The tree lost its leaves.” “I like to fly a kite.” “Herb is brushing his teeth.” To practice writing, spelling, and penmanship, pupils are then asked to create their own sentence to describe a fourth image. Coloring all the drawings adds a creative flair to each exercise.
“Jed likes to jog.” “Curt likes to climb.” Two drawings are featured. Which sentence goes with which picture? This is but one of the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the two imaginative drawings.
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.
“A kangaroo has strong legs.” “A moose is a large animal with antlers.” “Mother made waffles for breakfast.” Several drawings are featured. Which picture goes with which sentence?This is one the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the imaginative drawings.
