Resource/Activity Books

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for kindergarten is a fun, standards-based language arts workbook that strengthens reading comprehension skills by increasing children's ability to understand, process, and analyze text.

Strong reading skills are the basis of school success, and Spectrum Reading for kindergarten will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook promotes reading proficiency and improves the understanding of sounds, letters, word recognition, and idea integration.

Spectrum Reading workbooks will help your child improve their reading habits and strengthen their ability to understand and analyze text. This best-selling series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it is carefully designed to be both effective and engaging—the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

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• Answer Key

This Mark Twain Physical Science book encourages your students to collaborate while solving real-world science problems.

Filled with 26 hands-on activities, the STEM Labs for Physical Science book challenges students to apply content knowledge, technological design, and scientific inquiry to solve problems. Topics covered include:

• matter
• motion
• energy

This physical science book correlates to current state standards.

Cultivate an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math by encouraging students to collaborate and communicate for STEM success. STEM Labs for Physical Science includes lab activities to motivate students to work together, and it also provides you with materials for instruction and assessment. Labs incorporate the following components:

• critical thinking
• teamwork
• creativity
• communication

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company creates products to support success in science, math, language arts, fine arts, history, social studies, government, and character. Designed by educators for educators, the Mark Twain Publishing product line specializes in providing excellent supplemental books and content-rich décor for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms.

Help students develop foundational reading skills with a high-interest guided reading resource book.

Guided Reading: Infer for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six each for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension book improves your language arts lesson plan with informational text about topics such as volcanoes, glaciers, and voting.

Ready to Go: Guided Reading: Infer provides everything you need to complete a comprehensive guided reading program. The resource book includes:

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

Separated into three readability levels, informational readers capture students' attention with graphic charts, high-interest topics, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and complete each reader 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.

Perfect for use in centers or for individual practice, these fun and engaging file folder games are aligned with Common Core State Standards for curriculum reinforcement. Features include 16 full color game boards with coordinating game pieces and a 24 page resource guide.

Features:

• Answer Key
• Resource Guide

Strengthen foundational reading skills with leveled reading and high-interest topics!

Guided Reading: Summarize for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six each for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. Filled with charts and photos, this resource book enhances language arts lesson plans with informational text about topics such as renewable energy, cockroaches, and more.

Guided Reading: Summarize provides you with a comprehensive guided reading program. The book includes:

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

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 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.

Help middle-grade students master essential math skills with the motivating, classroom-tested Math Minutes format featured in this new book. It provides 100 “Minutes” of 10 problems each for students to complete within a one- to two-minute period. Providing daily practice in every key area of math instruction, Math Minutes is a fun way to improve students' problem-solving speed (crucial for testing situations) and an instant assessment tool.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Seventh-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of seventh-grade math instruction, including:

• multiplication
• division
• problem solving
• probability
• graphing
• place value
• algebra and functions
• geometry
• square roots
• percents, decimals, and fractions
• number sense
• measurement
• spatial connections
• math vocabulary
• and more!

Seventh-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty for students to complete within a one-to two-minute period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own math fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, timed drills, combined with instant feedback, make this a challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to using each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships, apply acquired understanding to complex situations, and find solutions to the realistic problems in each Minute.