Improve reading comprehension scores with this personalized approach. Adding the Standards-Based Connections: Reading book to your curriculum will help you identify learning gaps so that you can redirect focus as needed. Complete with skill assessments, practice pages, and self-assessing "I Can" statements, this book is sure to help your students stay on track.

Standards-Based Connections Reading for kindergarten offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about baby foxes, getting ready for school, bugs, jungle animals, and more.

Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!

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Chemistry for grades 9 to 12 is designed to aid in the review and practice of chemistry topics. Chemistry covers topics such as metrics and measurements, matter, atomic structure, bonds, compounds, chemical equations, molarity, and acids and bases. The book includes realistic diagrams and engaging activities to support practice in all areas of chemistry.

The 100+ Series science books span grades 5 to 12. The activities in each book reinforce essential science skill practice in the areas of life science, physical science, and earth science. The books include engaging, grade-appropriate activities and clear thumbnail answer keys. Each book has 128 pages and 100 pages (or more) of reproducible content to help students review and reinforce essential skills in individual science topics. The series will be aligned to current science standards.

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• 3 levels of nonfiction reading selections on the same topic
• Text-based comprehension questions (multiple choice and open-ended)
• Words to Know lists with vocabulary for each reading selection
• Visual literacy page to enrich learning and support focused discussions
• Text-based writing prompt and a writing form
• Graphic organizers

• Social Studies: Unbreakable Code; Taxes and Spending; Floating Continents; Labor Unions; Spanish Conquistador
• Science/Health: Tsunami; Electrical Energy and Sound; Natural Resources; Dr. Virginia Apgar; Hunting for Fossils
• Mathematics: Structural Engineers; Symmetry
• Technology: Elijah McCoy, Inventor; The Space Race: 1960s
• The Arts: Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Ludwig van Beethoven; Agnes de Mille

• Includes complete assembly instructions and photos
• Works with your existing curriculum
• Truly interactive, dynamic templates

Help children spell their way to success! Strong spelling is the blueprint children need to become masters of communication. Spectrum Spelling® for grade 1 engages learners with fun, full-color puzzles and riddles to keep them entertained while they build an essential skill that lasts a lifetime.

Give your first grader a fun-filled way to build and reinforce spelling skills. Spectrum Spelling for grade 1 provides progressive lessons in letter recognition, short vowels, long vowels, sight words, and dictionary skills. This exciting language arts workbook encourages children to explore spelling with brainteasers, puzzles, and more!

Don't let your child's spelling skills depend on spell-check and autocorrect. Make sure your child has the knowledge and skills to spell words with confidence–and without assistance from digital sources. Complete with a speller's dictionary, a proofreader's guide, and an answer key, Spectrum Spelling offers the perfect way to help children strengthen this important language arts skill.

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Expand your child's vocabulary to improve communication and comprehension. Effective communication starts with proper word choice—and Spectrum® Vocabulary for grade 4 is here to help! This best-selling, standards-based workbook is packed with lessons, strategies, and test-taking practice to help your child choose words with confidence.

Reading comprehension and clear communication are marked by a strong vocabulary. Spectrum Vocabulary for grade 4 is a workbook packed with progressive lessons that help children learn words through strategies related to prefixes, suffixes, word relationships, and context clues.

Strong communication can be applied across disciplines, and is essential for success both in and out of the classroom. Spectrum Vocabulary for grades 3-6 helps children systematically build their vocabulary while improving comprehension skills. This best-selling series teaches strategies for test success and helps children understand that words matter.

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Interactive Notebook: Life Science enhances learning through personalized note-taking.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with Interactive Notebook: Life Science for grades five through eight. This Mark Twain interactive notebook includes 29 lessons in these three units of study:

• structure of life
• classification of living organisms
• ecological communities

This personalized resource helps students review and study for tests.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Math for seventh grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about integers, proportions, expressions and inequalities, angle relationships, probability, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

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Provide second grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities. This 2nd grade spelling workbook features 10 word lists each week and worksheets thatare fun, engaging, and challenging for students. Ideal for after school, intervention, or homework, the word lists and activities are based on 10 years of classroom-tested experience. Activities include:

• Analogies
• Word sorts
• Homophones
• Sentence types
• Sentence completions
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Inflectional endings

Digital resources include assessment analysis tools. With this easy-to-use resource, teachers can easily add daily word study to their literacy block and help students boost their spelling and word study skills in a hurry!