Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance their overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Fifth-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of fifth-grade math instruction, including:

• multiplication
• division
• divisibility
• time
• graphs
• fact families
• solid figures
• ratio/percent
• area
• tables
• geometry
• volume
• mixed numbers
• multiplying fractions
• prime numbers
• standard measurement
• metric measurement
• and more!

Fifth-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of ten classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening format. The quick, one-minute format combined with instant feedback makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding to complex situations and to the solution of realistic problems in each Minute.

Help middle-grade students master essential math skills with the motivating, classroom-tested Math Minutes format featured in this new book. It provides 100 “Minutes” of 10 problems each for students to complete within a one- to two-minute period. Providing daily practice in every key area of math instruction, Math Minutes is a fun way to improve students' problem-solving speed (crucial for testing situations) and an instant assessment tool.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Seventh-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of seventh-grade math instruction, including:

• multiplication
• division
• problem solving
• probability
• graphing
• place value
• algebra and functions
• geometry
• square roots
• percents, decimals, and fractions
• number sense
• measurement
• spatial connections
• math vocabulary
• and more!

Seventh-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty for students to complete within a one-to two-minute period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own math fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, timed drills, combined with instant feedback, make this a challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to using each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships, apply acquired understanding to complex situations, and find solutions to the realistic problems in each Minute.

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Guided reading experts, Jan Richardson and Michéle Dufresne, provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials, and activities to use to help students become proficient word solvers and independent readers.

• Works with the familiar Next Step Forward lesson plan framework from Richardson"s best-selling Next Step Forward in Guided Reading.
• Uses a gradual release of responsibility approach that guides students to independent word solving.
• Introduces readers to not just one approach to phonics and word study-but six.

This language arts book provides fun, challenging daily activities.

The Word Parts Quick Starts workbook helps students to practice recognition and use of root words, prefixes, suffixes, and much more. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false, matching, word searches, and sentence writing practice. Each page features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately. The entire page may also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment.

The Quick Starts Series provides students in grades 4 through 8+ with quick review activities in science, math, language arts, and social studies. The activities provide students with a quick start for the day's lesson and help students build and maintain a powerful domain-specific vocabulary. Each book is correlated to current state, national, and provincial standards.

The sound of a child reading is like music to a parent's ears—so get your child started early with Spectrum® Phonics for grade 2! This best-selling language arts workbook uses progressive lessons, strategies, and practice to help children form words with letter sounds, pairs, and blends.

Understanding letter sounds is an essential piece to the reading proficiency puzzle. Spectrum Phonics for grade 2 guides children through blends, hard and soft consonants, vowel sounds, and vowel pairs. Filled with engaging exercises in a progressive format, this series provides an effective way to reinforce early language arts skills.

Mastering language arts is a long process—start with the basics. Spectrum Phonics is here to help children begin a successful journey to reading proficiency. With the help of this best-selling series, your child will improve early language arts skills with practice and activities that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills.

Features:

• Answer Key

Encourages students to create their own subject-specific resource that can be referenced for review and test prep. Provides an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook. Uses graphic organizers, diagrams, charts, foldables, and manipulatives to reinforce language arts concepts. Includes 28 lessons in nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and more. 64 pages.

Help children spell their way to success! Strong spelling is the blueprint children need to become masters of communication. Spectrum Spelling® for grade 2 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 second grader a fun-filled way to build and reinforce spelling skills. Spectrum Spelling for grade 2 provides progressive lessons in contractions, vowel sounds, compound words, word endings, 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.

Features:

• Answer Key