Resource/Activity Books

Sure, you know that children learn best through hands-on explorations. How does that work in a real classroom? With jam-packed days and mounting expectations, you're pressed for time and pushed to follow standards-based curricula. It's no wonder you struggle to incorporate STEAM activites each day.

Provoking Curiosity brings new and easy-to-execute STEAM learning experiences that encourage children to think, explore, and wonder. Each exploration builds on core ideas in the STEAM disciplines, develops higher-level thinking skills, and uses readily available materials in early childhood classrooms.

Learn how to use STEAM provocations throughout your busy day:

• Jump-start the morning
• Decompress and reenergize midday
• Occupy children who complete assigned classroom work early
• Incentivize children to complete a goal
• Transition between the busier times of day and planned classroom work times
• End the day building children's collaboration and communication skills

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to manners at home, school, and in the community
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 7. This standards-based workbook is packed with engaging, open-ended writing activities and grade-appropriate practice to build a stronger understanding of essential language arts concepts.

An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skills—the foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 7 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master parts of speech, vocabulary, sentence types, and grammar.

Features:

• Answer Key

• 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.