Resource/Activity Books

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.

This resource book helps students strengthen foundational reading skills with leveled reading and interesting topics.

The Guided Reading: Connect book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six each for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. Filled with photos and maps, this book enhances guided reading lesson plans with informational text about topics such as money, recycling, national parks, and more.

Guided Reading: Connect provides you with a comprehensive reading program. The resource book includes:

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

Separated into three readability levels, informational readers capture students' attention with graphic charts, appealing topics, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to prove comprehension.

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.

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.

Perfect for students at different levels of understanding, Algebra for middle school and high school students provides teaching strategies as well as skill reinforcement and review.

Topics in this 128-page math resource book include these fundamental algebra skills:

• linear equations
• inequalities and absolute values
• systems of linear equations
• powers
• exponents
• quadratic equations and factoring
• rational expressions

This comprehensive algebra practice book supports NCTM standards and also includes practice pages, assessment tests, reproducible grid paper, and an answer key.

Features:

• Answer Key

Science taps into a kid's natural curiosity—help your child explore fascinating facts and compelling passages with a workbook that generates interest and teaches key concepts. Spectrum® Science for grade 8 introduces, reviews, and reinforces the skills your child needs to thrive in this subject.

Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children's attention. Spectrum Science for grade 8 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about the nature of light, the detection of distant planets, and internal combustion engines.

When children develop a solid understanding of science, they're preparing for success. Spectrum Science for grades 3-8 improves scientific literacy and inquiry skills with an exciting exploration of natural, earth, life, and applied sciences. With the help of this best-selling series, your little scientist can discover and appreciate our extraordinary world!

Features:

• Answer Key

Improve foundational reading skills with a guided reading program that appeals to students at every reading level.

Guided Reading: Summarize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with six sets of readers for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension resource book engages students with colorful images as they learn about topics such as bees, firefighters, weather, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Summarize offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive language arts program for first and second grades. This book includes:

• leveled readers that cover high-interest topics
• graphic organizers
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides

The high-interest readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students' attention. Various call-out boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt.

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.