Books with author Spectrum

GRADE 7/AGES 12–13: The Spectrum Math for Grade 7 Workbook keeps kids at the top of their math game by enhancing problem-solving skills and ensuring math success. INCLUDES: Progressive practice for a variety of math topics like positive and negative integers, ratios and proportions, algebraic equations and inequalities, probability, and more, as well as an answer key. WHY CHOOSE SPECTRUM: A best-selling series for more than 15 years, Spectrum leads the way because it works. Both parents and teachers have been able to help their young learners build confidence and advance their skills in a variety of subjects. COMPREHENSIVE: This teacher-loved series helps kids stay ahead in math by providing systematic and thought-provoking practice that is designed to increase in complexity. HOMESCHOOL FRIENDLY: With the variety of subject-specific titles available for grades PK–8, Spectrum workbooks are ideal for at-home learning as they provide thorough practice and focused instruction to support student success.

GRADE 8/AGES 13–14: The Spectrum Language Arts for 8th Grade Workbook helps your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Strong communication skills create a solid foundation for success across disciplines. INCLUDES: Engaging, open-ended writing activities and grade-appropriate practice. Features focused practice with answer keys to help your child master sentence types, grammar, parts of speech, vocabulary, and more. WHY CHOOSE SPECTRUM: A best-selling series for more than 15 years, Spectrum leads the way because it works. Both parents and teachers have been able to help their young learners build confidence and advance their skills in a variety of subjects. COMPREHENSIVE: Encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards and includes a supplemental Writer’s Guide to reinforce concepts. HOMESCHOOL FRIENDLY: With the variety of subject-specific titles available for grades PK–8, Spectrum workbooks are ideal for at-home learning as they provide thorough practice and focused instruction to support student success.

The Spectrum® Critical Thinking for Math Workbook for sixth grade features 128 pages of grade-specific activities to help students think critically while building and applying math skills both in and out of the classroom. Aligned with current state standards, this workbook helps extend learning to real-world scenarios and reinforces concepts such as multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals, ratios, rates and percents, expressions and equations, problem-solving in the coordinate plane, probability and statistics, and more. Testing sections throughout help students review and retain knowledge, while an answer key provides insight into different problem-solving methods and strategies. The best-selling Spectrum series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it’s carefully designed to be both effective and engaging––the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Spectrum Word Study and Phonics Workbook is ideal for grade 4 and is designed to strengthen your child's language skills in consonant blends, digraphs, synonyms, antonyms, idioms and dictionary skills. Paperback workbook features progressive lessons that focus on phonics, dictionary skills and structural analysis for skill building. It offers unique exercises with complete answer keys that helps to keep your children engaged and to test their understanding the way words work. Workbook contains decoding as well as vocabulary comprehension, spelling, word relationships, figurative language and even foreign word lessons to enhance learning skills. It has 168 pages and helps students' in learning achievement as well as success.

GRADE 8/AGES 13–14: The Spectrum Math for Grade 8 Workbook keeps kids at the top of their math game by enhancing problem-solving skills and ensuring math success. INCLUDES: Progressive practice for a variety of math topics like rational and irrational numbers, linear equations, Pythagorean Theorem, geometry in the coordinate plane, and more, as well as an answer key. WHY CHOOSE SPECTRUM: A best-selling series for more than 15 years, Spectrum leads the way because it works. Both parents and teachers have been able to help their young learners build confidence and advance their skills in a variety of subjects. COMPREHENSIVE: This teacher-loved series helps kids stay ahead in math by providing systematic and thought-provoking practice that is designed to increase in complexity. HOMESCHOOL FRIENDLY: With the variety of subject-specific titles available for grades PK–8, Spectrum workbooks are ideal for at-home learning as they provide thorough practice and focused instruction to support student success.

The Spectrum® Critical Thinking for Math Workbook for second grade features 128 pages of grade-specific activities to help students think critically while building and applying math skills both in and out of the classroom. Aligned with current state standards, this workbook helps extend learning to real-world scenarios and reinforces concepts such as adding and subtracting through 3-digit numbers, metric and customary measurement, components of 3-D shapes, working with graphs, fractions, and more. Testing sections throughout help students review and retain knowledge, while an answer key provides insight into different problem-solving methods and strategies. The best-selling Spectrum series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it’s carefully designed to be both effective and engaging––the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

GRADE 3/AGES 8–9: The Spectrum Math for Grade 3 Workbook keeps kids at the top of their math game by enhancing problem-solving skills and ensuring math success. INCLUDES: Progressive practice for a variety of math topics like adding and subtracting to four-digit numbers, multiplication and division, fractions, perimeter and area, and more, as well as an answer key. WHY CHOOSE SPECTRUM: A best-selling series for more than 15 years, Spectrum leads the way because it works. Both parents and teachers have been able to help their young learners build confidence and advance their skills in a variety of subjects. COMPREHENSIVE: This teacher-loved series helps kids stay ahead in math by providing systematic and thought-provoking practice that is designed to increase in complexity. HOMESCHOOL FRIENDLY: With the variety of subject-specific titles available for grades PK–8, Spectrum workbooks are ideal for at-home learning as they provide thorough practice and focused instruction to support student success.

The Spectrum® Geography: Communities Workbook for third grade features 128 pages of colorful illustrations and informational text that help strengthen comprehension and explore important aspects of geography. Aligned to current state standards, this workbook is ideal for test preparation as it guides students through concepts such as landforms, oceans and rivers, types of communities, the environment, map skills, and more. A glossary is provided to strengthen important vocabulary and an answer key is included to help parents and teachers accurately monitor students’ skill mastery. The best-selling Spectrum series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it’s carefully designed to be both effective and engaging––the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Spectrum(R) Word Problems for grade 8, includes focused practice for essential math skills. Skills include: *Real world applications *Multi-step word problems *Whole numbers, decimals, and fractions *Ratio and proportion *Percents and interest *Metric and customary measurement *Graphs, probability, and statistics *Geometry *Perimeter, area, and volume *Algebra --Spectrum(R) Word Problems workbooks supplement classroom work and proficiency test preparation. The workbooks provide examples of how the math skills students learn in school apply to everyday life with challenging, multi-step word problems. It features practice with word problems that are an essential part of the Common Core State Standards, making it a perfect supplement at home or school.