Boost test scores to new heights with this practice-packed book!The fun, easy-to-do lessons will guide your students through important skills, one-by-one, while the appealing illustrations are sure to keep interest soaring. Part of the Score Booster Series, this comprehensive, teacher-designed workbook is loaded with high-interest lessons that focus on many of the essential skills students are required to know on standardized tests. Easy to incorporate into the daily curriculum, these high-interest activities are sure to improve the reading, math, and language skills of even the most reluctant learner. 144-page book includes an answer key.

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.

Hone reading skills!Whether being asked to read a short newspaper article about space machines, a description of the different parts of a spider, or a letter written by Daniel Boone, the 30 illustrated activities included in this book provide an interesting way to boost comprehension skills.By answering questions about information presented on “why the eye’s pupils change size,” a short biography of John James Audubon, the different parts of a dollar bill, and much more, students will fine tune their reading, writing, and spelling skills. This 32-page book includes an answer key.

Making sense of the written word.After reading a story about “directing air traffic” or finishing a description about “horse saddles,” students are asked to use the information they have learned. What part is the girth anyway?Creative illustrations are a part of this learning process. For example, a list of mythical characters including a “centaur” are first defined. Then pupils are asked to identify the corresponding image. Can you figure out which creature is a “griffin?”Without a doubt, the 30 illustrated activities included in this book provide an intriguing way to boost comprehension skills.

Understanding the written word - in all its forms.Whether being asked to read an advertisement, decode a message, or follow a recipe, the 30 illustrated activities included in this book provide an intriguing way to boost comprehension skills.From answering questions about a personal letter, identifying true/false statements after reading a paragraph on cats, or completing a crossword puzzle after finishing a story about “Bottle Messages,” the lessons in this book will make honing reading, writing, and spelling skills an enjoyable exercise.

Reading Made Fun for Young Minds!“Draw a blue line from the animal to its food.” “Make an X on the hat.” “Circle the title that tells about the picture.”Creative illustrations and comprehension-building directions for executing the 30 lessons in this book are sure to keep students on their toes. Whether “writing a word under its heading” or “circling phrases that do not belong,” children cannot help but hone their reading, writing, and spelling skills.

Now you can prepare students for standardized tests easily and thoroughly without disrupting your on-going curriculum! Easily incorporated into your daily routine, E-Z Test Readiness offers 112 small units of practice featuring the concepts, format, and response styles of major standardized tests. These “mini-tests” offer repeated practice of sample items in a standardized testing format. The multiple-choice questions and corresponding bubble sheet are sure to add to the realistic experience. Based on the most widely used national standardized tests, E-Z Test Readiness will: reduce test anxiety, build confidence, improve test scores, increase mastery of content, and more!

Now you can prepare students for standardized tests easily and thoroughly without disrupting your on-going curriculum!Easily incorporated into your daily routine, E-Z Test Readiness offers small units of practice featuring the concepts, format, and response styles of major standardized tests. These "mini-tests" offer repeated practice of sample items in a standardized testing format. The multiple-choice questions and corresponding bubble sheet are sure to add to the realistic experience.Based on the most widely used national standardized tests, E-Z Test Readiness will: reduce test anxiety, build confidence, improve test scores, increase mastery of content, and more!

Now you can prepare students for standardized tests easily and thoroughly without disrupting your on-going curriculum!Easily incorporated into your daily routine, E-Z Test Readiness offers small units of practice featuring the concepts, format, and response styles of major standardized tests. These "mini-tests" offer repeated practice of sample items in a standardized testing format. The multiple-choice questions and corresponding bubble sheet are sure to add to the realistic experience.Based on the most widely used national standardized tests, E-Z Test Readiness will: reduce test anxiety, build confidence, improve test scores, increase mastery of content, and more!

Just knowing the subject matter on a test is not enough to ensure success! The 43 exercises in this learning unit focus on the skills necessary to the test-taking process. In addition to “test taking tips,” the activities focus on listening for directions, following directions, skimming and scanning, test-taking terminology, the process of elimination, using word clues, recognizing question stems, and using a bubble sheet. Several practice tests and timed tests are included as review exercises. The activities in the book are sure to equip students with effective test-taking techniques for added confidence.

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.

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.

Give your students a strong math foundation with Primary Place Value! Beginning with ones and tens and increasing in difficulty to hundreds, 46 imaginatively-illustrated practice activities are sure to provide reinforcement of this essential math concept. The clever activities are repeated in a variety of formats to insure a strong grasp of essential concepts. The groupings are represented in a number of different ways to keep interest high while providing consistent results. The level of difficulty increases gradually as students become more adept in their understanding and ability to deal with abstract problems. This visual approach to learning math is appropriate for students of all ages and can be used in a variety of classroom settings. Upon completing this book, students should be able to: identify the place name of a digit by its position in a numeral, attribute a value to each digit in a numeral, graphically illustrate three-digit numbers, write three-digit numbers correctly, and discriminate greater and less than quantities.

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.

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!

The lions and tiger and bears in this book will help any youngster master special vowel sounds - ew, au-aw, oo-oo, ow-ou, oi-oy, and r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur). Specifically designed for students who have been introduced to special vowels but still need further practice, this 46-page book is packed with interactive exercises. There is a flower-eating ostrich ready to teach "ew" words such as "crew" and "few." The lion's cage is filled with "ow" words like "frown" and "cowboy" that need to be placed into sentences. There are even word-carrying monkeys perched in a tree that screech to be identified as "oy" friendly - oh "joy." Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

The sports theme of this book makes learning long vowels a slam dunk, hole-in-one, and home run experience. Specifically designed for students who have been introduced to long vowels but still need further practice with their ai, ay, ea, ey, ie, oa, oe, ow and magic e's, this 53-page book is packed with interactive exercises. There are boxing gloves waiting to be filled with rhyming long-voweled words, skateboards needing picture/word association, and bowling pins and ice skates requiring long vowel word identification. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

The circus theme of this book makes mastering short vowels a big top adventure filled with clowns juggling rhyming word balls, tightrope walkers boasting short-vowel words on their shirts, and flag-topped tents waiting to be filled with the short-voweled answers to riddles. There is even a lion tamer ready to teach students their short A, E, I, O, U's. Specifically designed for the student who has been introduced to short vowels but still needs further practice, this 46-page book is packed with interactive exercises. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

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.