Designed to give students practice reading and writing necessary beginning sight words, this unit incorporates skills of following directions, comprehension, application, logic, and reasoning. Difficulty increases as students move through the 30 activities. Appealing art and multiple skills are combined with the challenge of rebus sentences, picture keys, and a simple vocabulary to encourage meaningful use of color and number words. A Visual Approach to Improve: - Following Directions - Comprehension - Application - Reasoning - Sight Word Vocabulary These activities are intended for use after students have been introduced to the color and number word vocabulary.

Solve and search! With this 26-lesson learning unit, students will solve multiplication and division problems while building on vocabulary and general knowledge. Each worksheet features 12 computations. Answers correspond to a letter in the accompanying code box. Once strung together, these letters form a word for a person, place, or thing. To conclude the lesson, students are charged with finding the topic in an encyclopedia, noting the volume and page number, and then writing several sentences on the subject. An Answer Key is included.

Learning words by sight takes practice, practice, practice. This book provides children a fun way to do just that. Working from the standard Dolch List this book emphasizes 54 popular sight words - from mother to read and oodles of everyday words in between. All totaled, there are 29 different sight word activities in this book, including exercises to finish writing words, to unscramble words from blocks of letters and even completing sentences.

Building basic skills with this 21-lesson unit. These language-building activities introduce children to compound words and contractions. Word searches, puzzles, and color coding exercises are all utilized to teach the fundamentals. Skills reinforced by these activities include recognizing and forming basic compounds (tooth + brush = toothbrush), and understanding and writing contractions (what’s = what is). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

Hot/Cold. Happy/Sad. Open/Close. Many/Few. These are just a few of the 20 opposites explored in this book. With each exercise, students read a vocabulary word, practice tracing it, then color two of the three images that it describes. As students progress, they will improve their vocabulary, reading, handwriting, fine motor, and critical thinking skills.

As the second volume in the series, this book takes Word Association learning up one notch on the difficulty scale. Each of the 24 fully illustrated lessons features four images and eight words. Students are asked to associate two words with each picture. Example: What two words would go with the image of a windmill – uniform, gnaw, dam, badge, turn, stars, blow, and/or space? This book is an effective tool for teaching reading writing, vocabulary, and penmanship. Of course, creatively coloring in the drawings is all part of the fun.

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.

Seeking out more information. From “Wild Felines” to “Prehistoric Creatures,” this book presents over 100 “animal” topics for students to research. Each category presents a word search puzzle from which students choose a specific research topic. (“Reptiles: Crocodile. Box Turtle. Iguana. Gecko….”) A series of statements follow, encouraging students to find specific information. (“Its enemies are ___.” “It protects itself 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.

The card game of facts! This fun game will increase knowledge of general information in the categories of: Math, Language, Science, Social Studies, Geography, & General Knowledge. The task cards may be adapted to other games or activities depending upon the particular needs of your students. Four different ways to play with the task cards is included. Contents Include: - 72 Task Cards (with three to four questions per card) - 1 Board for Game Play - 4 Suggestions for Game Play - Printing Instructions Four ways to play allow you to use the task cards with your whole class, in small groups, or as center activities. The games are easy to set up and implement and do not require additional materials.

The card game of facts! This fun game will increase knowledge of general information in the categories of: Math, Language, Science, Social Studies, Geography, & General Knowledge. The task cards may be adapted to other games or activities depending upon the particular needs of your students. Four different ways to play with the task cards is included. Contents Include: - 72 Task Cards (with three to four questions per card) - Gameboard - Suggestions for Game Play - Printing Instructions Four ways to play allow you to use the task cards with your whole class, in small groups, or as center activities. The games are easy to set up and implement and do not require additional materials.

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!

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.

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.

Time to review! The 24 lessons in this book work to reinforce and review the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. Examples: - Circle each noun that names a person. - Write action verbs to complete the sentences. - Write the noun that the pronoun used stands for. Each worksheet focuses on an important topic including “Sharing,” “Stay Safe,” “Citizenship,” and many more. At the conclusion of the book are four cleverly comprised review exercises.

Puzzle mania! Twenty-four challenging word search puzzles are featured in this book. Designed to improve essential reading skills, each exercise asks students to find words exhibiting a given sound from a maze of letters graphically housed in an imaginative illustration. To further instill the phonics lesson, students must then write the words found and finish a single sentence using one of the words. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

The essential vocabulary associated with weather conditions, instruments, and forecasting are covered in this unit. Students will also learn about these different kinds of clouds: nimbus, cirrus, cumulus. The 24 lessons featured emphasize word definitions and word usage in context. Students become familiar with over 60 “weather” words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, spelling, and writing. Reinforcement activities range from completing sentences from context clues, writing sentences, identifying syllables, vowel sounds and endings, word searches, and puzzles. A separate Weather Vocabulary page is included.

Grammatical usage of words. This 23-lesson book is packed with activities that teach the correct usage for 46 words commonly misused and misspelled by both children and adults. Such words as between/among, less/fewer, beside/besides, and them/those are explored. Activities include identifying correct and incorrect word usage in sentences, finishing sentence using the proper word, and writing original sentences. This learning unit also includes a pre/post test and clever review exercises.

Each of the 23 lessons in this unit boasts three learning activities. First students use a dictionary to help write sentences about three words that have been presented. Each word relates to a yet unknown “core” word. Next, students complete a dot-to-dot picture that reveals an image of the core word. Finally, having identified the core word, students are asked two research questions about it. The answers to are easily found in an encyclopedia or other resource book. In addition to vocabulary building, the dot-to-dot activities give students practice counting - by odd numbers, by 2’s, starting with 35, and so on.

Improve vocabulary and writing. Each of the 24 “word-building” lessons in this book features eight words, a word-search letter grid, and four questions that encourage students to use research books to find the answers. Exercise themes range from “Citrus Fruit” and “Sounds” to “Things with Wheels” and “Animals with Horns.” Students are challenged to find and circle the given words in the letter grid and then answer research questions. Example: “A rhinoceros likes to eat ____?” This lesson unit is a solid way for a child to have fun and expand his/her vocabulary at the same time.