Books in Basic Skills Series 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.

Supplement the instructional and hands-on activities used in your classroom! This book builds on the understanding of patterns and of "more" and "less" by showing systematic ways of displaying and organizing data. Reproducible activities focus on patterns, relative frequency, probability, predictions, compound events, finding the average, statistics, pictographs, line graphs, bar graphs and more. Spinners, games, and riddles are used to reinforce the concepts. Great for individuals, cooperative groups, or the whole class.

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.

The Book Projects to Send Home series is easy for teachers and fun for students. Inside this book you will find ten comprehensive book projects that add an exciting dimension to your reading program. Notes to send home, introduction tips, and presentation ideas are all included, making it easy for you to include these projects in your curriculum. Simple, clear instructions allow students and their families to work together on each project. Best of all, you can use any project with any book title in a genre. Students can read what interests them most. Send home these hands-on, creative book projects and be ready for eager, energized readers to walk into your classroom.

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.

Strengthen students' writing and creative-thinking skills by integrating guided writing activities into your curriculum. Creative and challenging questions guide the writer to express thoughts and opinions on a variety of topics. Use with your classroom writing process as springboards for paragraphs and watch writing fluency and confidence grow as students take risks and have fun while learning to write. Reproducible. 48 pages.

Strengthen students' writing and creative-thinking skills by integrating guided writing activities into your curriculum. Creative and challenging questions guide the writer to express thoughts and opinions on a variety of topics. Use with your classroom writing process as springboards for paragraphs and watch writing fluency and confidence grow as students take risks and have fun while learning to write. Reproducible. 48 pages.

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.