Books published by publisher Instructional Fair

In this rapidly changing global world, people are challenged everyday to be culturally literate. More than ever, map-reading skills are a necessity for the informed student. This book contains the tools needed to teach your fifth-graders to read and use a variety of maps and map features. Each topic presented includes a teacher page filled with background information, teaching suggestions, and ideas for related activities. Also included for each topic are several students’ pages that provide challenging practice with map skills of all kinds - map legends, scale, latitude and longitude lines, thematic maps, and so on. A glossary and answer key complete this valuable resource book.

Revisit a variety of basic math concepts each day. Mixed Skills in Math allows students to maintain skills already learned with these brief, engaging exercises. Your third and fourth graders will review many essential math concepts including number comparison, multiplication and division, fractions, geometry, and more with two-digit and three-digit numbers. Each page contains practice of three math skills plus a bonus exercise that builds critical thinking. The skill level advances incrementally throughout the book, ensuring that your students are always being challenged. Answer key included.

Dictionary skills are the building blocks for using all reference materials. However, many students are not confident using dictionaries. Building Dictionary Skills familiarizes students with the information included in dictionaries, as well as tools to help them quickly locate words and find meanings. Practicing dictionary skills will help students effectively use dictionaries to verify spellings, look up new words, and learn new meanings.The enjoyable activities, puzzles, codes, and riddles in Building Dictionary Skills introduce the most essential reference skills supported by the NCTE and IRA standards. The reproducible worksheets provide progressive instruction of topics such as alphabetizing, guide words, and phonetic spellings. Students will learn to look up words, pronounce words, and understand dictionary entries. Dictionary skills are strengthened by specific activities on parts of speech, syllabic divisions, prefixes and suffixes, and multiple definitions. This workbook will help your students learn to successfully use any dictionary, including The McGraw-Hill Children's Dictionary.

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.

Help your students get a jump start on learning German. Guide your class through the basics of the German language with more than 100 reproducible activity pages from which to choose. Begin with letters of the alphabet and numbers, then progress through functional vocabulary. Use the activities to teach your students about colors, weather, food, clothing, animals, the city, and other everyday topics. Activity pages present vocabulary in well-defined categories, and accompanying illustrations assure that your students will learn German in meaningful context. This book is a practical resource filled with fun learning activities. An absolute must for the beginning German classroom.

This book was designed so that your students can independently complete even the most difficult problems in this complex subject. Each lesson provides the sequence necessary to successfully solve a problem. The problem set starts with step-by-step written instructions, followed by a matching example, and then enough practice to allow the students to proceed in precalculus. Use this workbook for group work, review, enrichment, formative assessment, student-led lessons, and so on.

Story Elements, Grades 5-6 reviews the elements necessary to critique and discuss a story. Teachers, parents, and students who read through the pages of this workbook are encouraged to consider such literary elements as genre, character, setting,action, plot, subplot, climax, point of view, and conflict/problem. Pages from this book can be used individually to strengthen the recognition of a specific element, or to introduce it as a topic. Workbook activities can also act asspringboards prior to creative writing sessions. Teachers might want to use certain pages on more difficult concepts-such as point of view-to help review the material after it has been worked on in class.

Here is a sensational resource to teach your students about 19 famous artists and to provide art activities in each of the various styles that made these artists famous. By doing art activities that are related to the artists, your studentspractice the skills of observing, thinking, and creating. Also included in this book are biographies, activities, evaluations, a bibliography, a glossary, and extended activities to enrich your students; understanding of artists and their art.

Story Elements, Grades 3-4 is designed to introduce young readers and writers to the tools that authors use as they create stories. The activities explore the concepts of character, setting, problem (conflict), and plot. The book is divided into sectionsfor each concept, with mixed-skills pages at the end. In each section, activities progress from an introductory page to more challenging exercises. Pages from this book can be used individually to strengthen the recognition of a specific element, or tointroduce it as a topic. Teachers might want to use certain pages on more difficult concepts-such as identifying a story's climax-to help review the material after it has been worked on in class.