Books in Total Basic Skills series

Continue your seventh graders' grammar education with the enjoyable activities included in this great book. They'll learn about adjectives and adverbs, different kinds of pronouns, introductory phrases and clauses, and more. Each page begins with a definition of a grammar rule, followed by clear examples and challenging exercises for the students to complete.

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 first 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 intended to 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.

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 fourth graders also will learn etymology, idioms, connotations, and more.

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 second 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.

Continue your third graders' grammar education with the enjoyable activities included in this great book. They'll learn about proper and possessive nouns, helping verbs, simple and compound sentences, subject and object pronouns, and more. Each page begins with a definition of a grammar rule, followed by clear examples and challenging exercises for the students to complete.

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 activities in Compare and Contrast, Grades 1-2 are designed to improve students' reading comprehension skills and to give them the skills necessary for finding similarities and differences in text. With a variety of fun and instructional formats,teachers can provide an introduction, reinforcement, or independent practice for this cornerstone skill. Lessons are linked to other areas of the curriculum such as math, science, social studies, and language arts. Use these selections forindependent practice or whole-group instruction, Have students work with partners or teams to complete the more challenging activities. Another idea is to place the activity sheets in a center and reproduce the answer key for self-checking.

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 second graders also will learn science terms, palindromes, dictionary skills, and more. Each page is filled with fun illustrations sure to hold your students' interest and get them revved up to learn new vocabulary words.

Communication is essential in daily life, and writing is an important aspect of communication. Give your fifth graders a solid writing foundation through Basic Writing Skills. The book focuses primarily on teaching studentsto write paragraphs effectively. The activities teach students how to assemble sentences into paragraphs that clearly communicate their thoughts. They will write various kinds of paragraphs: persuasive, descriptive, expository,and more. They will also learn to write a composition, organize a story, and write business letters.