Books in Basic ICT Skills series

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 following directions,sequencing events, recognizing events in time, first and next, and more. They are written in a variety of ways to keep your students interested.

Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 4 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.

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 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 are supplemented 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.

Diagramming enables students to gain a better understanding of sentence structure and the different parts of speech. Book 1 offers an introduction to diagramming. The activities begin with simple sentences and then incorporatemore complexities, such as compound subjects and verbs, adjective and adverb prepositional phrases, direct and indirect objects, and more. Each lesson describes the specific structure under study, gives examples,and provides sentences for diagramming practice. Students are then challenges to generate their own sentences to fit the models.

The activities in Main Idea Grade 1-2 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.

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.

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.

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.