Books in Total Basic Skills series

Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 1 journeys from introducing globes and maps to locating continents and using the compass rose. Your students will enjoy their voyages using map symbols and keys as they tour a wildlife refuge, find Razz the missing rabbit, and discover why a flock of wild geese make a puzzling flight twice each day. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class, with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

This book will improve students' skills in the areas of sequencing, recognizing details, finding the main idea, character analysis, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, recognizing cause and effect, evaluating the text, inferencing, and following dirEach page features stories of children the same ages as your students facing situations that your students might face. Your students will love learning to read effectively with this great book.

Cause and effect relationships can be seen across the curriculum and throughout daily life. The cross-curricular activities and reading selections in this book help students make critical connections between an action and its effect.The activities in Cause & Effect for grades 1-2 allow students to progress from recognizing cause and effect in art and in writing to writing cause and effect statements. Not only are these skills valuable for reading comprehension,but they also help students understand that actions have consequences.

The high-interest stories and illustrations in this book will certainly motivate your students to learn every aspect of sequencing while still having fun. The activities in this book teach sequencing concepts such as first, next, last.They also help students learn to effectively follow directions and properly sequence events. They are written in a variety of ways to keep your students interested.

This book will improve students' skills in the areas of sequencing, recognizing details, finding the main idea, character analysis, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, recognizing cause and effect, evaluating the text, inferencing, and following dirEach page features stories of children the same ages as your students facing situations that your students might face. Your students will love learning to read effectively with this great book.

This book will improve students' skills in the areas of sequencing, recognizing details, finding the main idea, character analysis, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, recognizing cause and effect, evaluating the text, inferencing, and following dirEach page features stories of children the same ages as your students facing situations that your students might face. Your students will love learning to read effectively with this great book.

The high-interest stories and illustrations in this book will certainly motivate your students to learn every aspect of sequencing while still having fun. The activities in this book teach sequencing concepts such as first, next, last.They also help students learn to effectively follow directions and properly sequence events. They are written in a variety of ways to keep your students interested.

Increase your students' vocabularies and foster an appreciation for the English language through this fantastic vocabulary-building workbook. Vocabulary Enrichment emphasizes categorization and classifying, synonyms and antonyms, context clues, analogies, and multi-meaning words. Your fifth graders also will learn etymology, prefixes and suffixes, idioms, and more.

Students with a wide range of abilities will find Cause and Effect, grades 3-4 valuable. Activities are written to guide students carefully, yet challenge them to move forward based on personal ability. Critical thinking skills are fostered forall students through cause and effect activities. Students should come away from the book with a renewed respect for their ability to analyze cause and effect in curriculum areas, as well as in their lives outside the classroom.

This spelling book provides a basis for a fun and exciting spelling curriculum in your classroom. Each Word List has been carefully selected to focus on a specific spelling element that fourth grade students would encounter in their reading and writing.In addition to the Word List and activity on each worksheet, students are encouraged to make a list of "special words" that they would like to learn to spell. Each lesson also suggests a "writing" activity that complements the page and is intendedto encourage student writing. "Extensions" pages provide exercises that require the students to build more words based on the spelling patterns of the previously studied Word Lists.

This book will improve students' skills in the areas of sequencing, recognizing details, finding the main idea, character analysis, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, recognizing cause and effect, evaluating the text, inferencing, and following dirEach page features stories of children the same ages as your students facing situations that your students might face. Your students will love learning to read effectively with this great book.