Resource/Activity Books

Lead your students toward mastering content-specific knowledge and literacy skills with engaging activities such as creating raps, scripts, and discussion questions. Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: Engaging Content-Area Literacy Strategies uses innovative approaches to teaching content-area material by integrating the arts, rhythm, and rhyme into instruction.

By using rhythm and rhyme to teach specific materials, students will be more likely to retain information, master content, develop literacy skills, and meet standards goals. The strategies in this book will not only motivate teachers to use these innovative educational approaches, but they will help students begin to master content knowledge and literacy skills, thus building a new-found confidence and excitement of literacy learning.

Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. The variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity. 144 pages.

2nd Edition

This new edition of the best-selling resource includes new and updated formative assessment templates, technology connections with easy-to-use digital applications for every assessment, a new section on rubrics and self-assessments, a new focus on scaffolding ELLs, and so much more! These ready-to-go activities—complete with step-by-step lessons, student samples, tiering tips, and reproducible student pages—can be used across the curriculum and provide valuable assessment data for teachers. 128 pages.

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

Each book in this series features 100 “Minutes” to help students build basic skills, increase speed in math operations, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Each Minute consists of 10 problems of varying degrees of difficulty that incorporate a variety of skills. Each ten-problem reproducible can be used as a learning or testing tool.

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! Third-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of third-grade math instruction, including:

• line segments
• angles
• congruency
• rounding
• fractions
• patterns
• addition
• subtraction
• place value
• multiplication
• division
• graphs
• symmetry
• perimeter
• area
• volume
• metric measurement
• and more!

Third-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.

Contains engaging full-color stories followed by activity pages that practice a variety of reading skills. Designed to help your child improve his or her reading skills. Each unit contains a cut-and-paste activity that introduces a consonant sound and three activity pages that reinforce reading readiness skills. 144 pages.

Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know! has all the information kids will need to survive in the workplace, wherever that may be! Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know!

Are you ready to get a reìalî job what kinds of skills are employers looking for when they hire someone? Why do some employees get promoted what will be expected from you in the workplace? Think you don't need to know these things in high school? Think again! These are the essentials today's kids will use in the real world, whether at an after-school job or as a high-flying professional.

Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know! is part of the highly-anticipated Careers Curriculum series, a line of educational materials designed to prepare students for the "real world" of work, starting in high school.

Highly encouraging and enlightening!