Language Arts

30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills and strategies:
Skills:

• Character and Setting
• Main Idea and Details
• Fact & Opinion
• Visual Information
• Author's Purpose
• Making Predictions
• Drawing Conclusions
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Nonfiction Text Features
• Fantasy vs. Reality
• Sequencing

Strategies:

• Make Connections
• Visualization
• Organization
• Determine Important Information
• Ask Questions
• Monitor Comprehension

You'll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it…

• provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies.
• supports struggling and reluctant readers.
• integrates easily into any language program and any classroom.
• works great for test-prep.
• is correlated to current standards.

Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts with Daily Reading Comprehension!

The sound of a child reading is like music to a parent's ears—so get your child started early with Spectrum® Phonics for kindergarten! 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 kindergarten guides children through letter recognition, consonant sounds, short vowel sounds, and alphabetical order. 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

Young learners will love these super-fun activities they can do all by themselves! Kids read, sort, and write words with short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Along the way, they boost a network of essential literacy skills. These playful reproducible pages are no-prep and perfect for seatwork, centers, or send-home.

• Playful, interactive learning
• Encourages parent-child interaction
• Develops early math skills necessary for school success
• Offers confidence-building feedback
• Provides ample practice time

• 85 First-grade-level lessons in these areas: Phonics, Sight Words, Punctuation & Grammar, Reading Comprehension, PLUS 15 challenge reading lessons for advanced learners
• The set includes two sturdy spiral-bound books and Hot Dots® interactive, electronic pen
• Hot Dots® pen requires 2 AAA batteries (not included)

Teach students how to comprehend fiction with these entertaining reproducible pages. Children read an illustrated, 4-panel story page then respond to questions using words and pictures. Because kids can write a little or a lot, the content is perfect for learners of all styles and strengths. The stories, which correlate with Guided Reading Levels A-E, include a motivating mix of realistic, fantasy, and classic tales.

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for grade 3 is a fun, standards-based language arts workbook that strengthens reading comprehension skills by increasing children's ability to understand, process, and analyze text.

Strong reading skills are the basis of school success, and Spectrum Reading for grade 3 will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook uses engaging text to support understanding key details, knowledge integration, story structure, and main ideas.

Spectrum Reading will help your child improve their reading habits and strengthen their ability to understand and analyze text. This best-selling series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it is carefully designed to be both effective and engaging—the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Features:

• Answer Key

Every player is dealt Word Cards, which each feature a key word used as different parts of speech. Players use the Word Cards, along with the Sentence Card in play, to make the most appropriately inappropriate sentences possible! All players vote and the silliest sentence wins the round. The first player to win three rounds wins the game!

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Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 8 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a strong foundation essential for school success.

Spectrum Writing for grade 8 guides students through each step of the writing process as they write sentences, personal stories, descriptions, how-to instructions, reports, opinions, and more. Spectrum Writing workbooks guide students as they write for a variety of purposes, including writing to tell a story, writing to provide information, and writing to state an opinion. Lessons support current state standards. Step-by-step instructions help with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. A Writer's Handbook reinforces grammar and language skills, and a complete Answer Key is included. Engaging, open-ended writing projects combined with standards-based learning make these workbooks an essential resource for school success.

Features:

• Answer Key

• 80 full-color, 16-page books (5 copies of 16 titles)
• 32-page teaching guide