Resource/Activity Books

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.

Provide kindergarten students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities. This grade K spelling workbook features worksheets that are fun, engaging, and challenging for students. Ideal for after school, intervention, or homework, the word lists and activities are based on 10 years of classroom-tested experience. Activities include:

• Picture match
• Read, match, write
• Change a letter and letter search
• Rhyming words and tapping sounds
• Color and trace and color and search
• First sound, middle sound, and last sound

Digital resources include assessment analysis tools. With this easy-to-use resource, teachers can easily add daily word study to their literacy block and help students boost their spelling and word study skills in a hurry!

Don't let your seventh grade graduate's knowledge dry up over summer break! Prevent summer learning loss in just 15 minutes a day. Perfect for at home or on-the-go, Summer Bridge Activities®: Bridging Grades 7-8 keeps kids busy with interesting learning activities all summer long!

Give your soon-to-be eighth grader a head start on their upcoming school year with Summer Bridge Activities: Bridging Grades 7-8. With daily, 15-minute exercises kids can review proportions and misplaced modifiers and learn new skills like square roots and writing in the active voice. This workbook series prevents summer learning loss and paves the way to a successful new school year.

And this is no average workbook—Summer Bridge Activities keeps the fun and the sun in summer break! Designed to prevent a summer learning gap and keep kids mentally and physically active, the hands-on exercises can be done anywhere. These standards-based activities help kids set goals, develop character, practice fitness, and explore the outdoors. With 12 weeks of creative learning, Summer Bridge Activities keeps skills sharp all summer long!

Features:

• Answer Key

Personalize the learning process with interactive notebooks for science students.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with Interactive Notebook: Earth and Space Science for grades five through eight. This interactive notebook for science students includes 29 lessons in these four units of study:

• geology
• oceanography
• meteorology
• astronomy

This personalized resource helps students review and study for tests.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

How to Teach Art to Children has it all-background information, literature resources, and concise step-by-step directions for 96 art projects that will help your students learn about the elements of art and then use the elements in the styles of famous artists.

This book is divided into two parts:

• Part one: Learning about the elements of art
• Part two: Using the elements of art

Teacher information pages provide:

• a definition of each art element
• a list of literature references
• fine art examples that demonstrate the element

Each project and concept is supported by:

• easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions
• a complete list of materials needed
• reproducible patterns

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

In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for first grade, students will complete hands-on activities about long vowels, sentence structure, nouns, adjectives, story elements, text features, 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.

Engage students with high-interest text as they develop foundational reading skills and improve comprehension.

Add an interesting twist to your language arts lesson plans with Guided Reading: Question for fifth and sixth grades. This reading comprehension book includes 36 leveled readers—six at each reading level. The readers engage students with appealing topics such as civil rights, Yellowstone, and more.

Create a comprehensive reading program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Question. This resource book offers informational text for students at various reading levels and includes:

• graphic organizers
• leveled readers with intriguing topics
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides

The readers are separated by below-level and above-level comprehension skills and feature call-out boxes so students can apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction reader addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can show what they know.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.