Read about contemporary celebrities! Actor Brad Pitt once had a job wearing a chicken suit for the El Pollo Loco fast-food restaurant. The Patriot’s Heath Ledger was named for Heathcliff in the book Wuthering Heights. And, one of Jim Carrey’s teachers got him to behave in class by letting him do 15 minutes of comedy. This is just a taste of the information found in the 14 mini-biographies featured in this Reader. Each spotlights one of Hollywood’s hottest male stars. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Matt Damon are among the actors featured. Since most people enjoy reading about celebrities, even reluctant readers will be eager to take on these interesting one-page articles. A photo accompanies each bio to assist with visual recognition. Learning activities follow each reading to test comprehension, enrich vocabulary, and enhance following-directions skills. Relevant questions, word/definition matching, crossword puzzles, and fill-in-the-blanks are among of the activities featured. Finally, there is a related research project for each story.

Watch reluctant readers become eager readers with this star-studded series! Each high-interest book contains 14 mini-biographies of today's hottest stars along with a variety of fun activities to test comprehension. As an added bonus, an extended research activity is also included with each captivating story. Reading Level 3-4 Sports Stars Include: * Peyton Manning * Apolo Anton Ohno * Tony Hawk * Brett Favre * And More!

Watch reluctant readers become eager readers with this star-studded series! Each high-interest book contains 14 mini-biographies of today's hottest stars along with a variety of fun activities to test comprehension. As an added bonus, an extended research activity is also included with each captivating story. Reading Level 3-4 Actresses Featured Include: * Jennifer Aniston * Drew Barrymore * Halle Berry * Sandra Bullock * Miley Cyrus * America Ferrera * Natalie Portman * And More"

Watch reluctant readers become eager readers with this star-studded series! Each high-interest book contains 14 mini-biographies of today's hottest stars along with a variety of fun activities to test comprehension. As an added bonus, an extended research activity is also included with each captivating story. Reading Level 3-4 Male Musicians Include: * The Beatles * Lenny Kravitz * Justin Timberlake * Sean "Diddy" Combs * Tim McGraw * And More!

Encourage students to become active participants, rather than passive readers! Each of the four stories in this unit breaks at appropriate places so the student can interact and respond through: - predicting outcomes - anticipating events - recording feelings - drawing details - writing dialogue - illustrating scenes - giving opinions As students read each fictional story, they are given opportunities to respond literally, inferentially, creatively, and cognitively. Students will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, creative writing, and more!

Read about contemporary celebrities. Since most people enjoy reading about celebrities, even reluctant readers will be eager to take on these interesting one-page articles. A photo accompanies each bio to assist with visual recognition.Learning activities follow each reading to test comprehension, enrich vocabulary, and enhance following-directions skills. Relevant questions, word/definition matching, crossword puzzles, and fill-in-the-blanks are among the activities featured. Finally, there is a related research project for each story.

Watch reluctant readers become eager readers with this star-studded series! Each high-interest book contains 14 mini-biographies of today's hottest stars along with a variety of fun activities to test comprehension. As an added bonus, an extended research activity is also included with each captivating story. Reading Level 3-4 Female Sports Stars Include: * Venus & Serena Williams * Shannon Miller * Mia Hamm * Kerri Walsh & Misty May-Treanor * And More!

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!

Encourage students to become active participants, rather than passive readers! Each of the four stories in this unit breaks at appropriate places so the student can interact and respond through: - predicting outcomes - anticipating events - recording feelings - drawing details - writing dialogue - illustrating scenes - giving opinions As students read each fictional story, they are given opportunities to respond literally, inferentially, creatively, and cognitively. Students will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, creative writing, and more!

Encourage students to become active participants, rather than passive readers! Each of the four stories in this unit breaks at appropriate places so the student can interact and respond through: - predicting outcomes - anticipating events - recording feelings - drawing details - writing dialogue - illustrating scenes - giving opinions As students read each fictional story, they are given opportunities to respond literally, inferentially, creatively, and cognitively. Students will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, creative writing, 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 3.0-3.9.

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 the stories in this book is 1st Grade.

This 24-lesson learning unit is packed with 600 sequential computation problems and 48 word problems. The exercises provide oodles of practice doing all sorts of addition from “72 + 32” to “2560 + 6346 + 2939.” The two story problems included at the bottom of each worksheets are sure to keep students on their toes. Example: “The phone company installed 369 phones in June, 250 in July, and 502 in August. How many phones were installed in those three months?” This book is the first in a series.

This 24-lesson teaching unit is packed with 600 sequential computation problems and 48 word problems. The exercises provide oodles of practice doing all sorts of subtraction from “54 – 12” to “4000 – 2733.” The two story problems included at the bottom of each worksheets are sure to keep students on their toes. Example: “When the snack stand opened, there were 2,000 candy bars. 637 candy bars were sold. How many candy bars were left?” This book is the second in a series after Math Practice: Addition.

Practice. Practice! This 24-lesson teaching unit is packed with 600 sequential computation problems and 48 word problems. The exercises provide oodles of practice doing all sorts of subtraction from “54 – 12” to “4000 – 2733.” The two story problems included at the bottom of each worksheets are sure to keep students on their toes. Example: “When the snack stand opened, there were 2,000 candy bars. 637 candy bars were sold. How many candy bars were left?” This book is the second in a series after Math Practice: Addition.

Crossword math! Students will get plenty of practice multiplying and dividing by working the 20 crossword-style puzzles and more than 250 computations in this learning unit. Difficulty progresses with each new worksheet from multiplying and dividing by one-digit factors and divisors to multiplying by two-digit factors and dividing by one-digit divisors with remainders. Students enter their computation answers into the puzzles. Only with correct calculations can each activity be completed. The result? Students are motivated to check their work. A final “Super Challenger” exercise tests the math skills practiced throughout the book. An Answer Key is included.

This 26-lesson teaching unit is packed with 520 sequential computation problems and 53 word problems. The exercises provide oodles of practice doing all sorts of addition and subtraction from “92 + 6” and “57 – 5” to more difficult math like “902 – 703.” The two story problems included at the bottom of each worksheet are sure to keep students on their toes. Example: “In six month a car dealer sold 725 cars. He also sold 113 pick-ups. How many sold in all?”This book is the third in a series after Math Practice: Addition and Math Practice: Subtraction.

Crossword math! Students will get plenty of practice adding and subtracting by working the 20 crossword-style puzzles and more than 250 word problems in this learning unit. Students enter their numeric answers into the puzzles. Only with correct calculations can each activity be completed. The result? Students are motivated to check their work. Math difficulty progresses with each worksheet and includes such questions as: “The temperature was 48-degrees on March 31. On April 1st it was 70-degrees. How many degrees warmer was in on April 1st?”Themes for the high-interest word puzzles range from Gone Fishing’ to Family Vacation. An Answer Key is included.

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.