Books with author Mary Rose

In this follow-up to the best-selling Week-by-Week Homework for Building Reading Comprehension and Fluency, Mary Rose has selected short passages perfect for second and third graders. Kids take these home with the companion comprehension activity and practice reading with the support of a grown-up. Includes easy parent tips. The results are phenomenal! Teachers, parents, and students alike rave about this simple, effective way to boost reading skills. Great for building the home-school connection. For use with Grades 2-3.

American scientist, Matt Miller, has been torn from his own century and dumped into Colonial Virginia with only his backpack and his wits. He has come to terms with where he is and when, and has surrounded himself new friends, but has also made an enemy who has sworn his destruction. Matt now leaves Virginia to make his fortune in Philadelphia, with the hope of returning and claiming the hand of the woman he loves. It seems predestined that he has been dropped into this new century to succeed on a grand scale. He soon finds that a sworn enemy in Colonial America is no small thing.

A must-have resource packed with surefire tips, handy checklists, and dozens of reproducible pages to ensure a successful day when the teacher is out. Helps teachers plan for a short- or long-term absence. Helps substitute teachers manage their day effectively, keeping students on-task and engaged with easy learning games and plenty of activities for every subject! For grades 3-5.

Help students write focused and detailed responses to any prompt! Veteran teacher Mary Rose provides lessons, activities, and tips for weaving writing test preparation into everyday lessons. Students will learn quick strategies for identifying the form of writing a prompt requires and how to use simple graphic organizers to organize their thoughts before writing. Mary also covers how to craft a strong opening, a coherent body with relevant details, and an effective conclusion. Includes dozens of ready-to-use prompts. For use with Grades 3 & Up.

This collection of weekly homework sheets is designed to give students practice in key writing skills and conventions of print. Students review correct usage of commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks, rules of capitalization, spelling tricks, subject-verb agreement, proper word choice, and more. Homework sheets include quick refresher tips on grammar and usage so parents can support their kids as they do their homework. A great way to strengthen the home-school connection! For use with Grades 3–6.

With these lessons, you've got what you need to teach students to write effectively and raise their test scores. Easy, sequential lessons mirror the kind of writing students will be asked to do on the tests. Through fun writing prompts such as memorable haircuts and how to eat an Oreo cookie, students learn to craft a five-paragraph essay, organize a story, write an effective expository piece, add elaborations, master persuasive writing, and more. For use with Grades 3-6.

Help students succeed on state writing assessments with this collection of weekly homework sheets that give them practice with “on demand” writing. Students learn how to respond to a prompt, write an attention-grabbing introduction, spice up their essay with lively verbs, descriptive adjectives, and figurative language, and more. Homework sheets include a note to parents that explains the skill being studied, lists related standards, provides samples of student work, and offers instructions on how to help their child complete the assignment. A great way to strengthen the home-school connection! For use with Grades 3-5.

This story records the life of a young pilot flying in Alaska’s Frontier Arctic. You’ll experience the front seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on Earth, flying in minus 60 temperatures and horrific storms, airborne among the magnificent mountains and glaciers that only Alaska has to offer. Once you've read this one you’ll not be satisfied until you visit Alaska yourself!Opens with an interesting early history of the 49th State, leading to the eventual use and development of a new tool of transport – the single engine airplane but not without extracting a terrible price. The author relates his true life experiences growing up hunting the territory as a youth and later in his flying years. Pilots will gain from the flying experiences related and includes a special training section on Alaska mountain pass/weather flying with a unique diagram that can save your life! Ends with an encounter that will compel every reader to grapple with its final truth. This is a must read for every pilot considering flying in or to Alaska. NEW VERSION with flight safety Appendix! Over 140 pages, fully illustratedFrom the beginning, this book draws you into a great adventure. You easily and vividly imagine you are a part of it, and it’s hard to put it down until you have completed the journey. Part history book, adventure story, and survival manual, Last of the Long Hunters combines real-life experiences whose contents, if gleaned well, could save your life in more ways than one. This is one to read over and over again.—Brent Maule, pilot and president of Maule Air, Inc.Last of the Long Hunters is an excellent read for a short history of Alaska flying and what we often experienced. Mark and I worked together for years on the North Slope and elsewhere in the state. He has covered the adventure of flying and documented the many mistakes that were made and the lessons that were learned. —Bob Wigen, Anchorage, Alaska, Retired Era helicopter chief pilot

A must-have resource packed with surefire tips, handy checklists, and dozens of reproducible pages to ensure a successful day when the teacher is out. Helps teachers plan for a short- or long-term absence. Helps substitute teachers manage their day effectively, keeping students on-task and engaged with easy learning games and plenty of activities for every subject! For grades K-2.

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language.· Pictures support the story clearly· Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the dialogue· "Read and do": integrated activities for every page of reading· Picture Dictionary in each book· Notes for teachers and parents in each book