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.
From burgers to burritos, nearly everything you might order from a fast food restaurant can be found on the colorful menus included in this practical math unit.
Contents Include:
- 58 Activities
- 4 Full Color, Fast-Food Menus
- 4 Black-and-White Versions of the Menus for easy printing
Give students an opportunity to practice using math in real-life situations. Students learn such skills as reading a menu, figuring food costs, making change, finding how much more money is needed to purchase an item, computing how much money is left over after making a purchase, and totaling receipts. Calculating sales tax and discounts are introduced in this book with the help of step-by-step instructions. As students work the activities, their confidence in reading a menu and figuring the costs associated with it will increase.
Math objectives are clearly stated on each page making it easy to focus on the skills your students need most. Activities include computations problems and practical application word problems involving multiplication and division, as well as addition and subtraction. For students who need a refresher on multiplying or dividing money, step-by-step instruction pages are located throughout the unit.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 3-12
Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! The study of phonics helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance.
Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You’ll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last.
Part II offers reproducible worksheets and activities to help students reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition.
Altogether, this information-packed unit will help:
you teach reading more effectively!
raise your students reading levels!
Grade Level K-3 | Interest Level 3-12
Google Slides:
AT LAST… A PHONICS PROGRAM FOR OLDER STUDENTS…AND TEACHERS TOO! * 167 ready-to-use Google Classroom Lessons & Activities designed to help students of all ages conquer reading! Now you can Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! This unique and interactive Google Slides program sets you and your students up for success! It includes a complete ‘phonics refresher’ teacher manual followed by the corresponding student version of the phonics activities & lessons. These colorful lessons are straightforward, and suitable for students of ALL AGES who need additional phonics and decoding practice to reach mastery level. The art is NOT “BABYISH.” Check out the product preview to see tons of sample pages. :)
This unique resource helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance.
Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You’ll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last.
Part II offers student lessons and activities to help learners reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition.
Fun-to-Read & Complete!
Slides feature short, colorful lessons that students will WANT to complete! Every short lesson is followed by specific activities targeting that specific phonics skill. A variety of fun formats keep things interesting as students drag and drop, cross out, circle, write words and more. These lessons are ideal for distance learning, remediation, daily enrichment, homework, and review!
Easy-to-Use! We’ve done the work for you! With this easy-to-use set you won’t have to waste time searching through books and activities to create a program to help your students succeed. Simply add these Interactive Google Slides to your Google Drive Classroom. You can assign specific slides to specific students, or assign to the whole class! Watch students work in real-time, or check their progress later.
These skill-building activities are helpful for:
Older students who have not yet reached mastery levels
Middle school through adult students who have a reading or learning disability
Good students who are laborious readers
Anyone interested in enhancing their pronunciation, spelling, and reading skills
English as a second language students (ESL)
The future looks brighter for students who use these activities to develop valuable life and survival skills! 160 essential survival signs and symbols vocabulary words are introduced in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real life activities improve problem solving 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.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Contents Include:
- Safety Words
- Mobility Words
- Restriction Words
- Information Words
- Review
- Answer Key
The future looks brighter for students who use these activities to develop valuable life and survival skills! 216 grocery store and supermarket vocabulary words are introduced in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real life activities improve problem solving 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 when shopping at the supermarket.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Develop life/survival skills
- Understand consumer information
- Apply math to real-life situations
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Analyze information
- Classify information
- Make decisions/choices
- Develop consumer skills
- Determine alphabetical order
- Use logic to solve problems
This 48-page unit includes an answer key.
Taking instructions while learning directions. Example:
A floorplan is shown. Put a toy box in the southeast corner of the room. Put a red rug in front of the couch.Given specific instructions for placing furniture and objects on various household floor plans, students practice north, south, east, west directions and execute position-in-space concepts like Around, In Front, Between, and Behind. Floor plans include the Living Room, Playroom, Kitchen, Bedroom, and Entire House. With each of the 65 lessons, directions become increasingly more detailed. So, whether students cut-and-paste, draw, or place-and-mark the objects, they address a number of skills including comprehension, thinking, fine motor, eye-hand, visual perception, and creativity.
Taking instructions while learning directions. Example:
A map is presented. Place the bus north of the entrance to the school. Place a bridge across the stream.Each of the 30 maps in this book are accompanied by symbols - and directions for drawing their placement. Exercises begin with eight directions and progress to 15 directions. Through the lessons in this learning unit, students will practice such skills as following directions, logical thinking, sequencing, fine motor, eye-hand coordination, and visual perception. In addition, they will learn north, south, east, west, northwest, southeast, etc. directions and exercise concentration skills.
Spice up your basic math program with Department Store Math!
This fun and effective book teaches the basics of addition and subtraction through the use of real-life shopping situations. From backpacks to blow dryers, nearly everything you might shop for in a department store can be found on the colorful price list (included) that generates hundreds of math word problems. Students will have a great time as they refer to the price list to figure costs, total sales tickets, calculate sales tax, apply coupons, and more! So help your students understand the practical reasons for learning math as they "shop" their way to math success with this motivating and solidly-conceived book.
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.
Improve attention span! The 25 highly visual activities in this popular unit are designed to increase students’ concentration and attention to details. One exercise, for example, pictures a very messy bedroom. Students are directed to find hidden objects within the illustration. The puzzle-style exercises found here range from hidden word messages and mazes to word scrambles and hidden object graphics. Children are sure to have loads of fun while stimulating their thinking skills.
"Reluctant readers of all ages and those reading below grade level are sure to have fun while they improve their reading skills with Comprehension Quickies! Very short, easy-to-read paragraphs are followed by comprehension activities that require students to pay attention to details, understand the content, know word definitions, draw conclusions, write complete-sentence answers, and more.
These quick, non-threatening reading activities are terrific for: students of all ages, students with short attention spans, students who have difficulty reading longer passages, students reading below grade level, anxious and reluctant readers, ESL students, Inclusion, daily enrichment and review."
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!
In each of the 25 lessons in this learning unit, students are presented with a graphic illustration of a storefront window display. The drawings feature various items and their prices. It’s just like window shopping!
Example:
The ACME camera in the display case shows a selling price of $37.50. The film runs $3.60 a roll. If you buy the camera and two rolls of film, how much would you spend?
The exercises ask a variety of addition, subtraction, and multiplication questions and provide a fun and practical way to improve math skills.
Reinforce Consumer Math Skills with this Beginning Money Skills Game
It’s never too early for students to develop an interest in earning, saving, and spending money! With this game, players get realistic practice handling money. As student play the game, they add and subtract money as they take turns earning and spending money with tasks like giving the dog a bath or buying a movie ticket.
This game is open-ended and may conclude when one player has more than $20 or when one player has moved his or her pawn completely around the board.
Using games to teach and reinforce basic skills is a highly effective way to motivate students to learn! This game is ideal for 2-6 players, and is great for small groups and math centers.
Contents Include:
- Gameboard (Black & white and measures 8.5x11" for easy printing!)
- Instructions
- Spinner & Pawns
- Money (Black & white for easy printing if you don't already have play money.)
- 24 "Take A Chance!" Task Cards
- Blank / Editable Task Cards (So you can create unique instructions that grab your students' attention.)
Interest Level: 3-12
A delicious way to improve functional math skills! Students will travel the board visiting up to six different restaurants, placing orders, sticking to a budget, using money, making change, and much more!
Contents Include:
- Gameboard (Black & white and measures 8.5x11" for easy printing!)
- 6 Menus
- Instructions
- Spinner & Pawns
- Money (Black & white for easy printing if you don't already have play money.)
- 18-Page Extended Activities
Activities:
The included activities are great to use for review of the concepts in the game! Students answer comprehension questions and solve word problems based on the six menus used in the game. Also includes step-by-step instructions for adding and subtracting money. Plus a receipt template and answer key are included.
6 Menus:
- Italian Food
- Breakfast Diner
- Chinese Food
- Mexican Food
- Seafood
- Country Diner
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
This 32-page unit includes an answer key.
Let's go shopping! The 216 shopping mall vocabulary words introduced in this unit will prepare students for the real world.
Words are introduced in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real life activities improve problem solving 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 when out shopping at a mall or department store.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Develop life/survival skills
- Apply math to real-life situations
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Analyze information
- Classify information
- Make decisions/choices
- Determine alphabetical order
- Use logic to solve problems
- Spell correctly
- Understand consumer information
- Develop consumer skills
- Understand long vowel sounds
This 48-page unit includes an answer key.
The future looks brighter for students who use these activities to develop valuable life and survival skills! 216 restaurant vocabulary words are introduced in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real life activities improve problem solving 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 when out to eat a restaurant or fast food diner.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Develop life/survival skills
- Apply math to real-life situations
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Analyze information
- Classify information
- Make decisions/choices
- Determine alphabetical order
- Use logic to solve problems
- Spell correctly
- Express/justify an opinion
This 48-page unit includes an answer key.
The future looks brighter for students who use these activities to develop valuable life skills! These activities introduce 108 computer vocabulary words in context and then reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations and definitions. Interesting stories and real-life activities improve problem solving and writing skills. Glossary pages feature words about computer parts, computer types, computer careers, and the Internet.
As students work their way through the exercises, they will gain knowledge that will allow them to become more confident and independent when using a computer.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Contents Include:
- Computer parts diagram
- Glossary
- Activities that cover computer words, the Internet, and computer careers
- Answer key
- And more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Spell correctly
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Write an original sentence
This 48-page unit includes an answer key.
Develop important survival skills with these easy-to-use activities sure to improve vocabulary, spelling, and writing ability. Key words are introduced in context and then repeatedly reinforced in motivating exercises that emphasize word pronunciations, definitions, spelling, problem solving, and more! These practical and solidly conceived books will help students acquire vital life skills.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Develop life/survival skills
- Understand consumer information
- Apply math to real-life situations
- Use dictionary and glossary skills
- Analyze information
- Classify information
- Make decisions/choices
- Develop consumer skills
- Determine alphabetical order
- Use logic to solve problems
The bundle includes five titles (240 pages) and includes an answer key for each unit.
Snip. Snip! Color, cut, and paste to improve eye-hand coordination. Students will get loads of practice honing their fine motor skills with the 24 creative cutting activities in this book.
Whether using a scissors to divide a picture into pieces before pasting it back together or snipping out images of fish to be pasted into a fishbowl, children are sure to have fun while learning.
