Books with author Anne Sattler

Practical life skills! The car tires at Greg’s Auto Supply are displayed with a sign that reads: Reg. Price $43.50. On sale for $37.50. Carol bought four tires on sale. How much did she spend? How much did she save? The 27 lessons present students with real-life finance situations. In each lesson, students must use the information depicted in an illustration of the given shopping experience to find information as they decide whether to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve the various accompanying math problems. Simple fractions and percent computations are also required. These exercises help students enhance their comprehension and logical thinking abilities as well as making orderly decisions.

Teach students how to organize and classify information in easy-to-manage steps! Beginning Outlining introduces titles, main topics, subtopics, details, using an outline to write a report, and outlining a story. The second book covers these topics in greater detail, while introducing how to write paragraphs and reports from an outline, writing an outline from paragraphs, plus using outlines to prepare a speech or a book report.

Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, vocabulary, and math skills! Department Store Words is loaded with practical, fun, and easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through motivating exercises emphasizing word pronunciations, definitions, spelling, problem solving and more! Real-life math questions provide practice solving problems related to department store shopping. So help your students acquire vital life skills with this practical, solidly conceived book.

Storytellers will become great storywriters as they practice the step-by-step techniques of the writing process in this highly motivating book. Clearly-stated examples and clever illustrations introduce each essential element of creating writing that gradually leads to the composition of an original, interesting, and properly-developed story. The lessons include: writing descriptive sentences, combining short choppy sentences, avoiding rambling sentences, punctuation, paragraphs and topic sentences, logical order, writing dialog, choosing a topic, selecting a title, organizing ideas, writing the story, proofreading.

Blast off into space! As students work through the 24 comprehension lessons in this book, they will learn about meteors, asteroids, comets, black holes, satellites, space pioneers, galaxies, and more. Combine this lesson unit with Remedia Publications’ The Solar System book and color poster for a complete program of outer space study. (Interest Level: 4-8. Reading Level: 3-4)

Main idea, word analysis, analogies, cause and effect, inferences, drawing conclusions... when you need to target specific reading skills these books are for you!Weâve done the work for you! With this series you won't have to waste time searching through stories and activities to find one that targets the skills you need to include in your lesson plan.Each high-interest book features intriguing stories followed by activities, which are labeled according to the specific skills targeted. There's even a quick reference chart that links specific reading skills to their accompanying stories! A valuable resource and a terrific time saver! 72 pages.

Grade Levels: 4-12Readability Levels: 3-4Early knowledge of the wisdom of shopping wisely helps to establish valuable, lifelong consumer habits. The purpose of Best Buys is to introduce to students the many ways they can judge a purchase to determine if it is the best possible choice. More than a dozen consumer considerations are explained, using examples and graphics to clarify objectives. Students gain an appreciation for the practical application of math as they solve real-life situation story problems that will help reinforce the lessons presented and promote awareness of the advantages to smart shopping.

Grade Levels: 4-12Readability: 3-4The objective of Money Sense is to introduce students to the vital role that money handling plays in all areas of a person’s life, while reinforcing basic math skills through a variety of problem-solving exercises. Comprehension, logical thinking, and sequential decisions are required to find answers to word problems relating to situations regarding money matters.Students practice applying their math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percents, fractions, decimals, and rounding. They also gain valuable, practical knowledge about the important survival skill of handling money.

Grade Level: 4-5These fun, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more!24 Activities Cover:- December- January- February- Hanukkah- Christmas Day- Valentine's Day- Groundhog Day- New Years- and more!

CCSS Level: 2-4Interest Level: 5-12Reading Level: 3-4A lesson a day for the entire school year! This 60-page book offers a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. The high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by hands-on activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activities again!