Books published by publisher Continental Press

Reading for Comprehension Readiness, Book 1 fosters reading readiness in the context of nonfiction reading. The book combines engaging factual articles with questions and activities that assess comprehension and build critical thinking skills. It lays the groundwork to build reading-for-information skills students will need in later grades. Vocabulary progresses from sight words and short vowels to long vowels and easily decodable blends. Fun Pages reinforce readiness skills like classifying, distinguishing real from make-believe, and following directions. Ideal for students in grades 1 and 2. Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

Is the roadrunner a real bird? With level E of Reading for Comprehension, your students will learn all about this kid-friendly topic and many more. This book for grade 5 students includes 46 high-interest, nonfiction articles with questions that reinforce key reading and writing skills commonly found on state tests. Multiple-choice questions test these reading skills: vocabulary, main idea and details, sequence, cause and effect, and inferences and conclusions. Students also answer open-ended questions to practice writing narrative text, descriptive text, persuasive text, and expository text. Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

The Chall-Popp Phonics program was created because more than 70 years of research has shown that children who learn phonics achieve better scores on tests of word identification, accuracy of oral reading, silent reading comprehension, and fluency than those who do not learn phonics. The instructional design of Chall-Popp Phonics was guided by research on prerequisites to reading: phonemic awareness and visual discrimination, phonic generalizations and word patterns, syllabication, the study of affixes, and automaticity. Teachers are alerted to the prerequisite skills, outlined by Helen Popp, that may slow down the student's progress in acquiring reading skills. Those explicitly addressed in Level A (kindergarten) include instructional vocabulary; concepts about letters, words, sentences, and stories; the concept that print represents sound in a left to right, top to bottom sequence; and motor skills (letter tracing). Research also guided the creation of the pages in the Chall-Popp Phonics student books. Formats for pages were tested informally with students and teachers in selected Cambridge, Massachusetts, schools; teachers who have used the program also provided feedback and were helpful in making decisions for the latest edition. Research has also shown that a teacher is critical to the success that students achieve in learning to read. John B. Carroll concluded that teachers who understand the fundamentals of the relationship of print to speech will be better equipped to help all their students. The teacher's editions of Chall-Popp Phonics have been designed and written to provide specific background phonics information on every page for teachers who may not have had the advantage of formal study in teaching phonics . The Chall-Popp Phonics student edition takes a systematic approach to direct phonics instruction and has been a teacher favorite for years. A student-friendly book design and a variety of stories and characters keep students in second grade engaged and ready to learn. This book reinforces students understanding of basic phonics and introduces them to concepts such as diphthongs, vowels followed by r, and silent letters. Students apply phonics to both reading stories and writing about them. Word structures to enhance and increase students vocabulary are presented. A two-page Progress Check helps teachers assess children's understanding of the unit concepts. With Discover Nature Take-home Booklets, students read intriguing nonfiction.Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

Finish Line Comprehension Skills: Making Inferences is designed to provide additional practice in basic comprehension skills and strategies. In Part I, each major skill is presented through a variety of approaches. Each approach is addressed separately with a teaching lesson that explains it and walks students through a sample question and answer. Part II refers students to the introductory pages in Part I for help and then gives ample practice in each approach to the skill. Most of the passages have been written on a fifth- or sixth-grade level of difficulty. Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

An elementary introduction to how the Panama Canal works. Interesting photo illustrations and diagrams.Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State Testing

Step by Step Language Skills is designed for use with students who may need a slower pace of instruction or additional practice with language skills. In this level A book, students in grade 1 first review the alphabet and alphabetical order. Instruction proceeds to words and parts of speech, to sentences, and to writing signals such as capitalization and punctuation. Gradually students build their knowledge of sentence structures and begin to write sentences and paragraphs. A review page at the end of each unit can be used for informal assessment. A Check Up Test after Units 5 and 10 help monitor student progress. This book is written at least one level below the grade designation. Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

Reading for Comprehension Readiness, Book 3 fosters reading readiness in the context of nonfiction reading. The book combines engaging factual articles with questions and activities that assess comprehension and build critical thinking skills. It lays the groundwork to build reading-for-information skills students will need in later grades. Vocabulary progresses from sight words and short vowels to long vowels and easily decodable blends. Writing Pages reinforce readiness skills like classifying, distinguishing real from make-believe, and following directions. Ideal for students in grades 1 and 2. Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

Journey into Reading helps improve comprehension skills using colorful, kid-friendly lessons that focus on vocabulary development. This book for grade 3 students features a three-stage approach to developing vocabulary: preteaching vocabulary for each reading selection, highlighting more vocabulary words within each selection, and providing word-study activities after each selection. Each lesson emphasizes a specific literal or inferential reading skill.Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

Learn how big ships are loaded with many large containers before they sail off to deliver products all over the world. Photographs.Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State Testing

The Chall-Popp Phonics program was created because more than 70 years of research has shown that children who learn phonics achieve better scores on tests of word identification, accuracy of oral reading, silent reading comprehension, and fluency than those who do not learn phonics. The instructional design of Chall-Popp Phonics was guided by research on prerequisites to reading: phonemic awareness and visual discrimination, phonic generalizations and word patterns, syllabication, the study of affixes, and automaticity. Teachers are alerted to the prerequisite skills, outlined by Helen Popp, that may slow down the student's progress in acquiring reading skills. Those explicitly addressed in Level A (kindergarten) include instructional vocabulary; concepts about letters, words, sentences, and stories; the concept that print represents sound in a left to right, top to bottom sequence; and motor skills (letter tracing). Research also guided the creation of the pages in the Chall-Popp Phonics student books. Formats for pages were tested informally with students and teachers in selected Cambridge, Massachusetts, schools; teachers who have used the program also provided feedback and were helpful in making decisions for the latest edition. Research has also shown that a teacher is critical to the success that students achieve in learning to read. John B. Carroll concluded that teachers who understand the fundamentals of the relationship of print to speech will be better equipped to help all their students. The teacher's editions of Chall-Popp Phonics have been designed and written to provide specific background phonics information on every page for teachers who may not have had the advantage of formal study in teaching phonics . The Chall-Popp Phonics student edition takes a systematic approach to direct phonics instruction and has been a teacher favorite for years. A student-friendly book design and a variety of stories and characters keep students in first grade engaged and ready to learn. The book reviews the alphabet and teaches the sounds and letters for consonants and short vowels in the same sequence as the level A book. Children progress to consonant blends and digraphs and to long vowels in the regular and predictable 'silent e' pattern. Long vowel digraphs are introduced in the last unit. Plurals and verb forms are introduced in this book. A two-page Progress Check helps teachers assess children's understanding of the unit concepts. With the Take-home Booklet in each unit, children can share what the'yve learned and practice reading with the family. Continental Press has expanded its product offerings to support students in key curriculum areas and at many levels of learning. We offer exceptional materials for students, parents, teachers, and administrators at fair and affordable prices. We publish programs in a variety of subject areas, including: -Early Literacy -Phonics -Language Skills -Reading Comprehension -Vocabulary -Content Reading in Geography, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies -Mathematics -State TestingA teachers guide or answer key is sold separately. Visit continentalpress.com for details.

Even an octopus must gather supplies around his cave as he prepares to wave good-bye to Mom on his way to school. A familiar event in an unusual setting. Activities that can extend this book into other areas of the curriculum or into the home are endless. Here are just a few ideas. Have fun!Use geoboards to make octagons. -List equations for the number eight. Use a box of eight crayons or markers as the counters. -Play ''What's Missing?'' with school supplies. Lay several items on a table. Take an item away while the rest of the group is not looking. Players guess which item is missing. -Decorate a lunch bag with pictures of sea life. Place a healthy lunch in the bag and have a picnic on an imaginary beach. -Eat fish crackers while reading. Seedling books help beginning readers grow through engaging stories and kid-friendly photos and artwork. Best for reading at the earliest stages, these books use clear print, ample spacing, limited vocabulary, and simple story lines to help children practice word building, improve fluency, and garner a love for reading. Seedling has an established reputation both in the classroom and at home as one of the best book collections for young readers.