Resource/Activity Books

The sound of a child reading is like music to a parent's ears—so get your child started early with Spectrum® Phonics for grade 2! This best-selling language arts workbook uses progressive lessons, strategies, and practice to help children form words with letter sounds, pairs, and blends.

Understanding letter sounds is an essential piece to the reading proficiency puzzle. Spectrum Phonics for grade 2 guides children through blends, hard and soft consonants, vowel sounds, and vowel pairs. Filled with engaging exercises in a progressive format, this series provides an effective way to reinforce early language arts skills.

Mastering language arts is a long process—start with the basics. Spectrum Phonics is here to help children begin a successful journey to reading proficiency. With the help of this best-selling series, your child will improve early language arts skills with practice and activities that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills.

Features:

• Answer Key

Evidence-Based Reading for grade 3 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

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.

Set up and maintain hands-on learning in language arts with an interactive word study book for second grade.

Interactive Notebooks: Word Study for second grade offers your students creative ways to take notes on concepts such as:

• contractions
• sight words
• vowel teams
• blends and digraphs

This comprehensive word study workbook aligns with current state standards.

Teach and reinforce effective note taking and organization with Interactive Notebooks: Word Study for second grade. The series encourages students to create a personalized language arts portfolio to fit their own learning needs. Once students complete activities and fill the pages, they can reference their notebooks throughout the year. The series focuses on color-coding, organizing, and summarizing while students learn essential language arts skills.

The Interactive Notebooks series spans kindergarten to fifth grade. Each 96-page book is aligned to current state standards and contains a guide for teachers who are new to interactive note taking. The workbooks also include lesson plans, reproducibles for creating notebook pages on specific topics, and generic reproducibles for creating additional pages. This Word Study series focuses on skills such as:

• phonics
• syllabication
• word parts