Resource/Activity Books

Set up a successful math workshop with this teacher resource for third grade.

Math Workshop for third grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:

• multiplication
• division
• fractions
• area
• quadrilaterals

Simple and easy-to-use, this teacher resource for third grade math teachers complements any curriculum.

Like reading and writing workshops, math workshop is an instructional model that combines whole-group lessons with leveled guided math groups and independent practice. It allows teachers to give students direct, leveled instruction while providing opportunities for practice and skill review. Math Workshop for third grade simplifies the workshop method with a comprehensive introduction and over 25 step-by-step lessons. This teacher resource for second grade math also includes these helpful features:

• comprehensive lesson plans
• leveled practice pages
• hands-on activities for every lesson

The Math Workshop series for kindergarten through fifth grades gives teachers everything they need to implement the math workshop method. Each book contains 28 complete lessons, a thorough introduction, and reproducible game templates. Each lesson begins with an essential question, a warm-up activity, and a whole-group lesson. It is followed by three leveled small-group lessons and a short assessment. Lessons are rounded out with a practice worksheet for each small group and an activity to practice the skill. Teachers are also provided with math talk questions and a math journal prompt to extend learning. The Math Workshop series gives teachers the flexible tools needed to begin small-group math instruction.

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

Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for sixth 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 making inferences, improving writing, pronouns, active and passive voice, Greek and Latin roots, 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.

Features:

• Reproducible Rights

Evidence-Based Reading for grade 1 offers 64 pages of reading practice. It is aligned with current state standards and includes a reading comprehension rubric, a standards alignment chart, and pages of reading passages with evidence-based questions to encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful answers. Each question is designed so that students learn to support their answers with evidence from the text. A variety of literature and informational passages are included to engage learners in a range of texts.

The Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Reading series emphasizes close reading by requiring students to answer text-dependent questions in both literary and informational texts. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten to grade 5. Various reading and vocabulary skills are covered, and a culminating reflection question for each passage engages students' higher-level thinking skills. Of particular emphasis throughout the series are current state standards and the teaching of evidence-based reading.

Features:

• Answer Key

This language arts tutorial book engages middle school students while they refine important skills.

Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation for fourth–eighth grades helps students master the following concepts:

• parts of speech
• capitalization
• punctuation

This Mark Twain language arts book uses stories, games, and riddles to appeal to students at various learning levels.

Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation focuses on one skill at a time to help students build proficiency and confidence. Each page includes clear definitions and examples to explain the concept being reinforced. Written for teachers, parents, families, and students, you can use this Mark Twain middle school book as a full unit of study or for individual lessons to supplement other books.

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The Mark Twain Life Science book helps students develop communication skills for STEM success.

STEM Labs for Life Science by Mark Twain includes 26 fun, integrated labs that help students understand concepts such as:

• life
• human body systems
• ecosystems

This middle school life science book encourages students to collaborate and communicate to solve real-world problems.

The STEM Labs for Life Science book for sixth–eighth grades features introductory materials to explain STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Correlated to meet current state standards, each lab combines the following essential STEM concepts:

• communication
• creativity
• teamwork
• critical thinking

The Mark Twain Publishing Company provides classroom decorations and supplemental books for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. These products are designed by leading educators and cover science, math, behavior management, history, government, language arts, fine arts, and social studies.

This word study book for fifth grade offers creative ways for students to learn important language arts skills.

Interactive Notebooks: Word Study for fifth grade is filled with hands-on activities to help students learn:

• spelling patterns
• high frequency words
• inflectional endings

Encourage independent thinking and organized note taking with interactive notebooks!

Create a fun learning process with Interactive Notebooks: Word Study for fifth grade. This comprehensive language arts workbook helps you reinforce effective note taking by allowing students to create personalized portfolios that they can reference throughout the school year. With the help of this series, your students will learn about summarizing, color-coding, and organizing as they develop essential language arts skills.

Available for kindergarten to fifth grades, the standards-based Interactive Notebooks: Word Study series focuses on:

• syllabication
• phonics
• word parts

Each 96-page workbook includes lesson plans, a teacher's guide, reproducibles for creating notebook pages on a variety of topics, and generic reproducibles for creating additional notebook pages.

Students read, observe, and analyze primary and secondary sources to answer document-based questions that range from identifying cause and effect, predicting possible outcomes, explaining point-of-view, summarizing main ideas, defining vocabulary from textual clues, and much more. DBQs integrate literacy, standards-based content, and critical thinking!. 64 pages. Grades 4–6