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Finding the Main Idea: Specific Skills Series

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Being able to determine main ideas is crucial to writing book reports, outlining, reading social studies and science materials, and general reading comprehension. That is why the lessons in this unit are so important.The 26 exercises in found here have been designed to help develop a thinking process for finding the main idea. Students begin by finding topics in sentences, then identify the main idea in a sentence. From here they move on to finding the focus of a paragraph, writing the main idea, and finally coming up with summary sentences for books. 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-8

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Pied Piper: Read & Color

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The wonderful, ready-to-color illustrations featured in this popular classic tale is sure to bring the story to life for your students! The story is followed by three skill-based activity pages and 15 comprehension questions to stimulate an "After You Read" discussion. A great way to pair enjoyment with learning! Contents Include: - Classic Tale - Illustrations for Coloring - Skill-Based Activities - Discussion Questions - Answer Key Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 2-5

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Synthesis: Critical Thinking Skills

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“Synthesis” is the ability to combine parts of a whole in new and different ways. It requires students to think flexibly, determine alternatives, and find new ways to accomplish a given task. A more advanced level of abstract thinking is needed for synthesis. The 25 lessons in this unit encourage students to go beyond the obvious to more original thoughts. Example: An illustration of a bulb connected to a battery is presented. “Electricity is stored in a battery.” Look at the accompanying pictures of batteries, wires, and light bulbs. “Which bulbs do you think will light up?”The sequential activities featured here are sure to develop critical thinking skills.

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Critical Thinking Series {Bundle}

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Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving, writing skills and more! The Critical Thinking Skills Series includes over 400 pages of step-by-step activities, that have been carefully structured to give students the thinking and logic skills they need to master every area of learning. The delightful exercises challenge students to think using a variety of methods such as analogies, classification, drawing solutions, and more! Each book is arranged sequentially to help learners develop critical thinking in easy-to-digest steps. A terrific way to give your students the tools they need for success in school as well as in their daily lives!

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Improving Visual Memory 1

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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.

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Specific Skills Series

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You’re sure to find the reading activities in this 9-book set useful for the older student whose skills are below grade level. Topics include locating information, fact and opinion, making inferences, reading for details, finding the main idea, reading to understand, and comparing. High-interest reading passages are followed by comprehension and logic activities designed to strengthen students’ reading skills. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

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Cloze Reading (Grade 5)

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A springboard for comprehension! The 20 cloze procedure lessons in this book will help students not only gain a greater understanding of concepts, but will assist in expanding their vocabulary.Questions follow each cloze paragraph exercise - thus insuring that students have a broad understanding of the story by incorporating thinking skills as well as recall activities. The questions involve inference, prediction, and relationship.Of course, creative content choice keeps it all interesting with subjects ranging from “dolphins” to “lightening” and “magical mold” to “the Loch Ness monster.”

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Listen, Remember, and Do (Grades 4-5)

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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.

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Listen, Remember, and Do (Grades 3-4)

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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.

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Thoughtful Listening (Grades 3-4)

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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.

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Natural Phenomena

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From Dust Storms and Glaciers to Tsunamis and Droughts, this lesson unit explores 13 different natural phenomena. Students are challenged to increase their comprehension skills by reading the information-packed stories, then answer questions and work the crossword puzzles that follow. Students read-and-learn oodles of insightful facts. They will learn, for example, that thousands of tons of dust can be lifted by a storm that boasts 25 miles-an-hour winds. Reading Level 3-4

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Visual Comprehension

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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.

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Skill Centers: Contractions

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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.

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Beginning Reading Set

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Get your young readers off to a great start! Students read kid-friendly stories then answer comprehension questions that challenge them to find facts, read for details, learn new vocabulary words, and improve their writing skills! Fine motor skills get a workout when students color the delightful illustrations. Great for building reading confidence!

Locating Information: Specific Skills Series

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Locating Information: Specific Skills Series

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Reading for comprehension. Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice with the reading skills needed to locate specific information in written text. Each fact-based story is followed by questions that require students to locate the information in the story and give precise answers. Subjects covered range from “The Stars in the Sky” and “Amazons,” to “Komodo Dragons” and “Going Bananas.” 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

Making Inferences: Specific Skills Series

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Making Inferences: Specific Skills Series

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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

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Beginning Dictionary Skills

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What comes next after the letter g? Put these letters in ABC order – pdi. As children move through the 44 lessons in this book, they progress from letter ordering, to word ordering, and on to activities designed to build comfort and use of a dictionary. Once a basic familiarity with locating words is achieved, students are ready to use what they find. Activities follow on parts of speech and use of word meanings. The final exercises touch on multiple meanings - when the same word has two definitions in the dictionary.

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Comprehension Collection (Grade 6)

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Boost Reading Comprehension!Whether being asked to read a newspaper article about an “Ice Man,” a description of the different parts of a castle, or a letter written to Benjamin Franklin, the 30 illustrated activities included in this book provide an interesting way to boost comprehension skills.By answering questions about information presented on Iceland, John Glenn’s boyhood, the different parts of the human ear, and much more, students will fine tune their reading, writing, and spelling skills.

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Score Boosters {Bundle}

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These standards-based books are sure to be a classroom time saver.Each 140-page book covers many of the essential skills students are required to know on standardized tests. The focus here is on reading, math, and language.Grade Level progresses with each book from Grade 3 to Grade 5.

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Skill-Based Reading Strategies w/Nonfiction Stories {Bundle}

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Main idea, word analysis, analogies, cause and effect, inferences, drawing conclusions... when you need to target specific reading skills this bundle is for you! With this bundle 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. This high-interest, low readability stories in this bundle are followed by activities, which are labeled according to the specific skills targeted. There's even a quick reference chart that links specific reading skills to their accompanying stories! A valuable resource and a terrific time saver! Reading Level 2-6 | Interest Level 4-12