Books with author Sue LaRoy

Budgeting made easy! Help your students make friends with the budgeting process while learning valuable life skills! This book is filled with fun and engaging activities that take the anxiety out of creating and sticking to a budget. After learning the basics of how to create a variety of budgets, students get lots of practice with real-life budget scenarios. High-interest topics like exotic vacation budgets, a wedding budget, anniversary budget, college budget, family budgets, a remodeling budget, various types of party and business budgets, and even a city budget are sure to capture your students' imaginations. Through the use of charming photos, illustrations, and fill-in charts, the activities are presented in a lively, varied, and accessible way that students will find easy to understand. Real-life word problems feature practical consumer math skills. Students decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or divide money to find a solution. Some activities require students to use fractions and figure percentages.

A NEW ONE-OF-A-KIND SERIES! Using daily reading lessons to teach American history. Engaging daily lessons take students on a journey of discovery through 20th Century America! Grab your student s attention with exciting, easy-to-read stories that tell how America prospered during the Industrial Revolution and the Roaring Twenties and then survived two World Wars and the Great Depression. Fourteen important historical topics are presented in eight-page study units. The format of the study units is flexible and user-friendly perfect for differentiated instruction. Students can work at their own pace according to their ability level. The stories are written specifically for students performing below grade level. Daily lessons guide students to carefully read each story, answer questions that test comprehension, and then write about what they have learned. Students will become more literate in American history while improving essential reading and writing skills. 132 pages per book. Learn how America prospered during the Industrial Revolution, the Roaring Twenties, and then survived two World Wars and the Great Depression. Topics include: World War I and II The Great Depression The Space Race The Civil Rights

Interest Level: 4-12Reading Level: 4-5A NEW ONE-OF-A-KIND SERIES! A unique concept using daily reading lessons to teach American history.Grab your reader’s attention with exciting, easy-to-read stories written specifically for students performing below grade level. Daily lessons guide students to carefully read each story, answer questions that test comprehension, and then write about what they’ve learned. Each book contains 14 important historical topics presented in eight-page study units. Each unit contains a three-page, fact-filled story complete with historical images on each page accompanied by five skill-based reading and writing activity pages. The format of the study units is flexible and user-friendly – perfect for differentiated instruction. Students can work at their own pace according to their ability level. Daily practice helps struggling readers become more literate in American history while improving essential reading and writing skills. 128+ pages per book.20th Century American History. Learn about how America prospered during the Industrial Revolution and the Roaring Twenties and then survived two World Wars and the Great Depression.Topics include:• World Wars I and II• The Great Depression• America Loves Television• The Space Race• The Civil Rights Movement