Books published by publisher Instructional Fair

Summarizing, Grades 5-6 contains guided activities that help develop and achieve this skill. Students will progress from selecting main ideas and details to writing their own summaries. As this skill is practiced in reading, students will naturallybegin to use the skill in writing and speaking. Summarization is a concept used throughout the curriculum. Social studies, science, language, and reading all use the skill of summarization in written, read, and oral lessons.This book provides activities that will give students the opportunity to discuss, examine, choose, and write summaries. It will also provide the chance to practice using active verbs, and colorful, interesting nouns in their work.

Algebra II links all the activities to the NCTM Standards and provides students with practice in the skill areas necessary to master the concepts presented in a second-level course in Algebra. Review concepts presented in beginning algebra plus exercises that involve slope, intercepts, graphing linear inequalities, domain and range, graphing exponential functions, matrix operations, quadratic equations, trigonometry, radicals, roots, vectors and more. Within the skill-specific assignments, examples of solution methods are presented at the top of each page and puzzles and riddles gauge the success of concepts learned. The numbers of the related standards for each activity can be found in the table of contents. Answer key provided.

The activities in Main Idea Grade 3-4 include high-interest reading selections with activities that teach and reinforce the concepts of main idea, topic, topic sentence, and supporting details. With a variety of fun and instructional formats,teachers can provide direct instruction, reinforcement, or independent practice throughout the year. When possible, lessons are linked to other curriculum areas such as math, science, social studies, and language arts. With this format, Main Ideaalso offers students the opportunity to learn and practice skills such as critical thinking, comprehension, and writing in an enjoyable and creative format. Review pages are also included to assess and reinforce student learning.

Bring deeper understanding to your science/biology classroom through the use of Life Science. The true-to-life drawings and wide variety of topics including systems, cycles, and kingdoms of living things serve as excellent supplements to your already information-rich curriculum. The well-chosen vocabulary on each page blends well with most all biology texts, making this an ideal resource for all comprehensive life science teachers and students.Life Science is a collection of true-to-life drawings showing a variety of systems, cycles, orders, and more in the five kingdoms of living things. These drawings were designed for use as labeling activities which will familiarize yourstudents with the concepts. These activities will serve as excellent supplements for any comprehensive study of science or biology.

This valuable teacher resource stimulates interest in health and safety through games, problem-solving vignettes, hand-on demonstrations, and creative review activities. Each lesson plan includes objectives, background information, guidelines forpreparations and procedure, plus suggestions for curriculum integration where appropriate. Your students will learn about personal care, body systems, nutrition, substance abuse, disease prevention, and safety.

This book provides hundreds of practice problems and addresses one basic skill on each page. The activities in the book become progressively more difficult, ensuring that your students are always being challenged. This title reviews adding and subtracting up to 8-digit numbers, multiplying and dividing up to 4-digit numbers with a primary focus on decimals and fractions. An introduction to percents, proportions, integers, order of operations, and equations is provided. This book is a great resource to use if you want to give your young students plenty of practice with their math skills. Reproducible. Answer key included.

Through the selections in Main Idea, students will have the opportunity to practice finding the main idea in various types of reading selections found both in and out of the classroom. These formats include advertisements, newspapers, letters, InternetRelay Chat, travel brochures, and more. Students are asked to respond to the readings in a variety of creative ways to demonstrate their ability to make use of their knowledge of topics, details, and main idea. Use these selections for independentpractice or whole group instruction. Or, place the activity sheets in a center and reproduce the answer key for self-checking.

Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 5 journeys from reviewing the compass rose to using a map scale and lines of latitude and longitude. Your students will experience a wide range of adventures using map symbols and keys. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class or with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 3 journeys from reviewing the compass rose to using a map scale and lines of latitude and longitude. Your students will experience a wide range of adventures using map symbols and keys as they visit a mall, help a mail carrier follow her route, track down a mission person, and travel the United States. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class or with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

The skill of inferencing, using information to draw a logical conclusion, is a higher-level thinking skill that is sometimes difficult for young students to master but very important to reading comprehension. The high-interest lessons in this book aresupplemented with a variety of activities to make learning the skill of inferencing fun. The exercises increase in difficulty as the book progresses, so the students practice more advanced skills as they work through the book.With a variety of fun and instructional formats, teachers can provide direct instruction, reinforcement, or independent practice throughout the year.