Reference Books

<p>Updated atlas contains maps of every U.S. state, and each map is 35% larger than the average atlas version. Plus, it features a 350-plus city-details inset, national park maps and a comprehensive, unabridged index. Road construction projects and updates are located conveniently above each map. Mileage chart shows distances and driving times between 77 North American cities and national parks. Paperback, spiral-bound.</p>

<p>Updated North American atlas contains maps of every U.S. state, every Canadian province, an overview map of Mexico and detailed inset maps of over 350 cities and 20 U.S. national parks. Highlighted road construction projects and updates are located conveniently above each map. Mileage chart shows distances and driving times between 90 North American cities and national parks. Paperback.</p>

<p>Grab your students&#39; attention with full-color photos. This series features word problems with wild, wacky, and wonderful Guinness World Records&trade; such as the tallest chocolate sculpture and the greediest animal. Questions that follow increase in difficulty and can be assigned accordingly to differentiate instruction.</p>

<p>You&#39;ll have no trouble getting students to practice reading comprehension with this full-color photographic series! Records such as the balloon-popping dog and the tallest snowman are lengthened so that they can be used for comprehension and vocabulary practice. After each passage are questions using specific reading comprehension strategies. The questions progress in difficulty and can be assigned accordingly to differentiate instruction. Optional extension activities include creative arts, research and reference skills, as well as critical response.</p>

<p>Meet the learning needs of individual students with these reproducible activity sheets that cover core skills at three different levels&mdash;basic, intermediate and challenging. Increase both motivation and learning when you challenge and support students by offering multiple approaches to content, instruction, and assessment.</p>

<p>Alphabetical list of cities and towns in the U.S. with detailed zip code maps of principal cities. Features updated area code directory with cross reference by city and state. Latest postal rates for domestic and foreign mail, plus UPS information.</p>

<p>The ability to write well is a critical skill for professionals in nearly every field. Good writers provide leadership, influence decisions, and advance their own careers. This book, packed with valuable information obtained from clients in the field, will help you advance your career. Part 1 addresses the basics of all business writing: understanding the reader, drafting, achieving the right tone, creating visual impact, and editing. Part 2 provides more specific advice on brochures, executive summaries, speeches, PowerPoint presentations, Web site content, and much more. Concrete examples illustrate practical strategies such as how to present a message positively instead of negatively, how to sequence information for different kinds of readers, and how to use charts to highlight key points.</p>

<p>Handy reference contains more than 13,000 main entries and over 1,000 full-color photos and drawings. Entries include word histories as well as word detective, vocabulary builder and spelling notes. Appendix features a thesaurus as well as phonics, spelling, measurement and geography sections.</p>

<p>Easy-to-use reference expands children&#39;s vocabularies. Over 4,000 main entries, with more than 36,000 synonyms to help add precision and color to writing. Hundreds of word group and antonym features.</p>

<p>An up-to-date dictionary and thesaurus in one user-friendly volume. Offers a convenient way to examine dictionary entries and research corresponding synonyms at the same time. The dictionary contains 70,000 entries, and the thesaurus contains 150,000 synonyms, all alphabetically arranged to correlate with the dictionary entries on the same page.</p>

<p>More than 6,000 business terms, from investing to marketing to law, real estate and more are definied in clear, understandable language. This dictionary is an invaluable resource for investors, professionals and business students. Also included are `00 key terms enhanced by real-world case studies that bring the concept to life. In addition, scores of tips from experts offer advice on topics from renegotiating mortgages to reducing estate tax.</p>

<p>400,000 entries with 10,000 new words and tenses. Full color with 4,000 photographs and illustrations. Updated guidance on usage from the renowned Usage Panel, and new notes on regionalisms and language variation and change. Revised biographical and geographical entries as well as up-to-date charts and tables for topics such as world currencies and chemical elements. Thousands of updated etymologies, a fully revised Appendix of Indo-European Roots, and a new Appendix of Semitic Roots. Thumb indexed.</p>

<p>For the younger scholars. More than 2,000 entries, including 250 new words, showcase a full-sentence, age-appropriate definition and one or more example sentences to clarify meaning. Includes 700 engaging full-color images and drawings, with nearly 300 new feature notes that expand vocabulary and illustrate opposites, rhyming and word usage. Updated Phonics and Spelling Guide for developing solid reading skills.</p>

<p>A comprehensive dictionary of medical language. Over 45,000 clearly worded, well-researched items with thousands of definitions revised to reflect recent changes in research and practice. Includes more than 90 easy-to-understand, labeled illustrations and tables. More than 1,000 new words have been added, reflecting new tests (immunoblot), treatments (photodynamic therapy), diseases (SARS), procedures and disorders. Commonly prescribed and over-the-counter medications are included. The vocabulary of HMOs and managed care is covered as well.</p>

<p>Handy office dictionary features over 70,000 entries, 3,000 new words and over 400 illustrations.</p>

<p>Designed expressly for speakers and writers in the Americas, this concise dictionary has been revised to include the most current computer, telecommunications and Internet vocabulary in both English and Spanish. Featuring American English and Latin American Spanish, it contains 70,000 entries, with more than 120,000 meanings. It also includes handy guides to irregular verbs, pronunciation, and peoples and places of the world.</p>

<p>Designed expressly for speakers and writers in the Americas, featuring the full range of American English and Latin-American Spanish. English and Spanish speakers are coming into increasing contact throughout the Americas, as businesspeople and tourists, students and neighbors, readers and Web surfers. It&#39;s the perfect resource for everyone who uses, studies, or simply enjoys learning more about these two important languages. Contains over 80,000 entries and 120,000 words and phrases. More than 2,500 contemporary words and phrases have been added from the fields of medicine, sports, ecology, and the culture of the Americas, with a special emphasis on computer technology and the language of the Internet. Thumb-indexed.</p>

<p>This invaluable resource reflects up-to-the-the-minute developments in all areas of vocabulary, from Internet technology to current events. 65,000 age-appropriate definitions are used in sample sentences for context. Full-color design with more than 2,000 photographs, drawings and diagrams. Hundreds of fascinating and informative feature notes. New table lists entries with Usage and Synonym notes.</p>

<p>More than 43,000 entries with 17,000 new definitions plus nearly 3,000 quotations. Alternative spellings or equivalent terms and expressions are provided for more than 5,300 terms and senses. More than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms defined. Newly enhanced with West Key Numbers for research reference. Includes extensive appendix on legal abbreviations.</p>

<p>An engaging picture dictionary specifically designed for children from preschool through first grade. Entertaining and educationally sound, it features charming illustrations and reflects recent research in early childhood literacy. A-Z section contains approximately 600 words illustrated with a full-color drawing. Also includes a short story showing George learning to look up words and a section featuring groups of words related by simple themes. Developed in collaboration with educational consultants.</p>

<p>Whether you work at corporate headquarters, for an Internet startup, or in a home-based business, you&#39;ll find the information you need in this all-new revision of the authoritative handbook for today&#39;s office professional. Features the latest information on the electronic office, including technical information as well as tips on &quot;netiquette&quot;. Provides comprehensive coverage of modern office procedures, practical guidance on career development, including tips on using Internet resources, plus suggestions for how to handle human relationships in the office. Has practical advice on how to plan, arrange, and conduct meetings and conferences. Includes country profiles with up-to-date information; grammar, usage, and punctuation guidance in an accessible format; advice on how to create, edit, proofread, send, and file professional business documents; information on basic accounting procedures and the fundamentals of business law. New and updated illustrations, charts, and tables. Easy-to-use format with a comprehensive index.</p>

<p>This user-friendly thesaurus lists main entry words alphabetically, as in a dictionary, for quick lookup. Each entry is divided into senses, with brief definitions and a full list of synonyms for each sense, to ensure that the selected usage is the most appropriate one. All special usages, such as slang terms, are labeled and grouped together at the end of each synonym list. Following each list is a cross-reference to a related entry in the thesaurus&#39;s unique Category Index. This index leads the reader from the starting word to dozens of others that have related or opposite meanings. 260,000 words. Thumb-indexed.</p>

<p>Stedman&#39;s is the most reliable, must-have resource available for healthcare professionals. Contains more than 107,000 total terms with over 5,000 new to this edition. Reviewed and updated by consultants from all medical specialties including Endocrinology, Gastronenterology, Geriatrics and Rheumatology. Contains more than 1500 images and illustrations (most in full color), including an enhanced 40-page Anatomy atlas in full color! Includes more than 15 quick-reference appendices covering such areas as cancer classification systems, body mass and body surface calculations, and common abbreviations to use and not use in medication orders. Plus, it&#39;s the first full-scale medical dictionary published in English to contain an extensive system of notes alerting readers to common errors of sense, spelling, and pronunciation, including confusion between words of similar form and meaning. Includes CD-ROM featuring a medical spell checker and medical clip art. Thumb-indexed.</p>

<p>Updated edition based on Webster&#39;s New College dictionary. Contains over 60,000 entries with clear, concise definitions and more than 1,200 new words and senses. Updated biographical and geographical entries. Includes fascinating word histories and regional expressions. Synonym, abbreviation and acronym lists.</p>

<p>The complete reference library for home, school or office. Features three handy reference books including a dictionary with 60,000 definitions, a thesaurus with 35,000 synonyms and New Essential Writer&#39;s Companion, a 298-page style guide to assist you with any written communication. Includes slipcase to keep books organized.</p>

<p>Organized alphabetically for easy look-up. Synonyms and antonyms. Examples of usage given for all 35,000 synonyms.</p>

<p>Family-friendly volume features more than 200,000 clear, concise definitions with over over 5,000 new words and tenses from all areas of vocabulary, with special emphasis on high technology, science, medicine and social change. Biographical and geographical entries have been completely updated, reflecting current events and the latest census. Includes over 400 updated line drawings. Includes detailed illustrations, synonym list, revised style guide and redesigned tables for world alphabets, the Bible, calendar, currency, elements, geologic time and measurement. Thumb indexed.</p>

<p>New and fully updated edition. Provides a quick check of the spellings and definitions for people on the go. Features over 35,000 definitions. Includes pronunciations, syllable divisions and inflected forms for all headwords. Detailed punctuation guide lists basic rules with example sentences. Reference section contains tables for weights and measures, metric prefixes, metric conversions and the states of the U.S.</p>

<p>The most extensive set of graphic organizers available as blackline masters. A great way to help students visualize concepts, organize their thoughts, and improve comprehension&mdash;an incredible educational resource! They also help prepare students for extended-response questions on standardized tests. Tabs separate books into five sections. Also includes index. Spiral-bound for easy photocopying.</p>

<p>This handy dictionary is three-hole punched to fit into a binder for easy access and portability at home or at school. Features clear, concise definitions of the words students need to know&mdash;more than 20,000 entries. Easy-to-read page design. Includes special sections on basic English grammar, abbreviations, 10 general spelling rules and 10 rules for forming plurals.</p>

<p>Smart notebook style is three-hole punched to fit into a binder for easy portability and access. Authoritative and up-to-date, it features 50,000 synonyms and antonyms. Easy-to-read page design and simple-to-use alphabetical organization for quick look-ups. Also includes a brief history of the English language.</p>

<p>Features more than 225,000 definitions and over 42,000 usage examples. Includes newly added words and meanings across a variety of fields, including technology, entertainment, health, science and society. Special sections include: A Handbook of Style, Foreign Words &amp; Phrases, Biographical Names and Geographical Names. Includes an electronic version of the dictionary and a free one-year online subscription.</p>

<p>This innovative volume is the ultimate language resource. The features of a dictionary&mdash;meanings, pronunciations and usage guidance&mdash;are combined with the synonym and antonym features of a thesaurus in a fully integrated whole. Thesaurus entries, which are printed in blue and appear just below the dictionary entries, provided synonyms for every defined meaning, making it easier than ever to find the &quot;right&quot; words to express your ideas. 67,000 clearly written dictionary definitions. 140,000 synonyms and antonyms.</p>

<p>Completely up-to-date dictionary features over 32,000 entries, 600 full-color illustrations and 250 word history paragraphs. Special sections on geography and U.S. presidents.</p>

<p>Revised edition has more than 70,000 entries including thousands of new words and 1,000 illustrations, many revised. Abundant word history paragraphs, synonym paragraphs and example sentences. Updated to reflect groundbreaking Merriam-Webster&#39;s 11th edition Collegiate&reg; Dictionary.</p>

<p>An all-purpose thesaurus at an attractive price. More than 150,000 word choices, including synonyms, antonyms, related words and idiomatic phrases. Abundant usage examples. Alphabetically organized for ease of use. Brief definitions describe shared meanings.</p>

<p>Revised edition has more than 100,000 entries and nearly 1,000 illustrations, many brand new. Includes example sentences&mdash;more than 15,000 usage examples. 200 word history and 530 synonym paragraphs clarify meaning. Updated to reflect Merriam-Webster&#39;s 11th edition Collegiate&reg; Dictionary.</p>

<p>Over 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic phrases and related and contrasted words. Brief definitions describe shared meanings. Abundant usage examples aid word selection. Thumb-notched edition.</p>

<p>Checklists, graphic organizers, rubrics and scoring sheets and more to boost students&#39; writing skills in all seven traits. A collection of essential forms for assessing students, planning instruction, communicating with parents and teaching forms of writing. All the tools to make the most of the Seven Traits model are here, with clear guidlines for using them.</p>

<p>Help students get a better grasp of the content they need to know with this collection of fun and easy-to-use graphic organizers. The book contains 50 classroom-tested reproducible templates that come with easy directions and student samples. Full-color, interactive pdfs of the graphic organizers on CD are great for modeling and can be filled in either by computer or by hand. Perfect for use on your interactive whiteboard.</p>

<p>Oversized, laminated flip chart with easy-to-learn songs set to your favorite tunes for each letter of the alphabet. Use to teach phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and more! Includes instant lesson plans.</p>

<p>Alliterative animal storybooks build phonemic awareness and teach every letter of the alphabet. Each book includes a story, a hide-and-seek picture page and a rhyming poem to ensure kids get lots of practice with every letter, laying the foundation for reading success. Set includes 26 storybooks, one 128-page teaching guide and a sturdy storage box.</p>

<p>Turn to this giant bank of 160 big, thematic images all year to add pizzazz to every subject area&mdash;and meet the standards. Organized by season in a sturdy storage box, each durable card features a bold reproducible pattern on one side and learning-rich companion activities on the other. Copy the templates to create bulletin boards, collaborative books, newsletters and more. Includes hundreds of teaching ideas and a 16-page teaching guide.</p>

<p>Build a caring classroom environment with this big, laminated flip chart featuring 25 songs! Bright, sturdy resource can be displayed all year to enrich circle time with songs about sharing, friendship, special days and more. Includes companion CD for sing-along fun, plus teaching pages with instant activites and strategies.</p>

<p>Kids climb to new heights in reading and writing with these engaging, reproducible word building games. Kids read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they&#39;re boosting decoding and spelling skills, broadening vocabulary, and becoming better, more fluent readers.</p>

<p>This 40-week planner, complete with interior storage pocket, is chockfull of resources to help teachers streamline and focus differentiated instruction. Designed by an award-winning teacher, this sturdy planner includes a large planning grid, a differentiation planning guide and lesson plan template, &bull; quick-tip guides and checklists, at-a-glance calendars and student information pages, weekly tips and a CD with customize-and-print planning grids, lesson templates, and other tools to streamline planning and save time.</p>

<p>Develop leveled materials for literacy centers without being overwhelmed. An invaluable collection of research-based activities enables teachers to match independent practice with students&#39; needs in reading comprehension, fluency, word study and writing. Provides a workable framework that makes setting up the centers and tracking student progress simple. Includes dozens of plannng sheets and record-keeping forms in addition to reproducible student pages. Meets Reading First and NCLB guidelines.</p>

<p>Master kindergarten teacher Cindy Middendorf shares strategies to help all young learners thrive in a nurturing, choice-based learning environment. Packed with research-based tips, model lessons, samples and more. Learn to engage varied learning styles and multiple intelligences. Also includes expert advice on how to establish an effective classroom management system that supports differentiated learning.</p>

<p>Reading expert Laura Robb invites you into her classroom so you can see how differentiated reading instruction can be a powerful and effective way to help all students be successful. She shows you how to teach and manage whole-class reading in which each student reads a different book plus, provide targeted support while working in small groups. And she explains how you can build comprehension through student-centered journal writing and maximize the learning potential of each student through tier assignments. Includes lessons, strategies, assessment ideas, management tips and samples of student work.</p>

<p>Develop early concepts with this big, laminated flip chart featuring 25 adorable songs set to familiar tunes. Bright, sturdy chart explores simple shapes, concepts of size and every color of the rainbow. Includes companion CD for sing-along fun, plus teaching pages with instant activities and strategies.</p>

<p>Short, simple and engaging, these cloze stories give children the repeated practice they need to master 100 key sight words. Children use a word bank and text and picture clues to fill in missing words that give each story meaning. A word search provides further practice in reading and spelling target words. Great for independent learning or homework.</p>

<p>Each storybook features engaging illustrations that support simple and predictable text designed to build young readers&rsquo; confidence. Audio read-aloud and text highlighting&mdash;plus downloadable PDFs of each mini-book. A companion guide includes teaching strategies, activities, quick assessments, and reproducible versions of the mini-books.</p>

<p>Boost key reading skills and cultural literacy with this big collection of classics that are &ldquo;just right&rdquo; for young learners. Each storybook features lively, easy-to-read text paired with supportive illustrations, making them perfect for independent or guided reading. Includes 75, 16-page books (five copies of 15 titles), standards-based reproducibles, graphic organizers, 112-page teaching guide, mini-book versions of all 15 tales and a sturdy storage box.</p>

<p>Students will love these read-aloud stories that teach parts of speech, the proper use of commas and quotation marks and more. A great way to help every child learn, meet the language arts standards and become a strong, confident writer. Includes ten 16-page storybooks, 120-page teaching guide, reproducibles, mini-book versions of each story and a sturdy storage box.</p>

<p>Help students learn how to read better with the powerful technique that makes the reading process come alive for kids. Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any other kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent readers! Model predicting, inferring, visualizing, summarizing, making connections to real life and more. Finally, students can &quot;see&quot; what good readers do and apply it to there own reading process.</p>

<p>A unique resource, this book is packed with color photos to show you how to make your literacy centers the best they can be. The pictures make it easy to understand how to set up and organize centers for poetry, listening, writing, independent reading, ABCs and more. Plus, you&#39;ll find management tips and activity ideas to help you create centers packed with learning opportunites.</p>

<p>Little Leveled Readers are not too easy or too hard, but just right! That&#39;s because they&#39;ve been carefully evaluated by a reading specialist to correlate with Guided Reading Levels. This step-by-step, book-by-book program guides children through the early stages of reading. Inside each set you&#39;ll find 75 storybooks (five copies of 15 titles) on topics children love, which makes them perfect for group learning. Includes Level A Set, Level B Set, Level C Set and Level D Set. Also includes a mini-teaching guide and storage box for each set.</p>

<p>Teach and reinforce the multiplication facts from 1 to 12 with easy to make, easy to use learning wheels. All types of learners will love this engaging and hands-on way to practice and master key facts--independently! Students turn a wheel to find and solve each multiplication fact. To check themselves, they simply lift a flap along the way to reveal the answers. Also includes wheels for practicing mixed facts, quiz sheets and more.</p>

<p>Popular idea books are filled with reproducible monthly activities. Creative books integrate with any curriculum and are loaded with cute patterns, motivational awards, open-ended games, crafts, bookmarks, activities, bulletin board suggestions and celebrations for every special day.</p>

<p>Make numbers concrete and boost must-know counting skills with this charming collection of 16 illustrated, read-aloud storybooks. Teach the numbers 1 to 10, 30, 100, skip counting, simple addition, and much more. Each tale focuses on a different number or skill, enabling children to explore it in the form of an engaging story, an interactive hide-and-seek page, and a chant-along poem. The teaching guide reinforces essential numeracy skills with whole-group activities, fun practice pages, plus reproducible mini-book versions of every storybook. Content meets the NAEYC and NCTM Standards.</p>

<p>Building phonemic awareness is a joy with this BIG, laminated flip chart featuring 20 well-loved nursery rhymes! Teachers can turn to this sturdy, colorful resource every day to teach rhymes and word families, beginning and ending sounds, early reading skills and more. Includes instant and engaging questions to build key phonemic awareness skills. Nursery rhymes include: Humpty Dumpty; Little Jack Horner; Little Boy Blue; Little Bo Peep; Hey Diddle Diddle, Pat-a-Cake; Old Mother Hubbard; Hickory Dickory Dock; The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Twinkle Twinkle; Mary Had a Little Lamb; Itsy Bitsy Spider; Little Miss Muffet; Hot Cross Buns; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Baa Baa, Black Sheep; The Crooked Man; This Little Piggy; A Song of Sixpence; Old King Cole.</p>

<p>Classic nursery rhymes help young readers build phonemic awareness and early reading skills. Sixty beautifully illustrated nursery rhyme readers (five each of 12 titles) are just right for little learners. Also includes a big teaching guide filled with lessons, activities and reproducibles. A must-have resource!</p>

<p>Updated! Clever pocket folder has a 16-page reproducible booklet and everything you need to get organized for great parent-teacher conferences! Contains wonderful check lists, name badges, and ideas for communicating with parents. Includes ideas to help establish ways to ensure each student&#39;s success. Reproducible pages, supplementary materials.</p>

<p>Unlock the door to reading success with this super set of read-aloud storybooks. Teach key phonics skills like short and long vowels, vowel pairs, blends, diagraphs and more. Each engaging story features ways to get kids involved with a phonics riddle and motivating phonics cheer. Comes with 120 page teaching guide and storage box.</p>

<p>Strategies and scripts for making the most of this highly effective, motivating and research-based approach to oral reading. Builds students&#39; fluency, increases their vocabulary and fuels their desire to read. Features 12 scripts based on children&#39;s books.</p>

<p>Some students may have difficulty grasping math concepts the first time they are taught. When this happens, teachers will need to use different approaches to reteach and reach these struggling learners. This book of mini-lessons, games and activities to review and reinforce essential math concepts and skills can help! Every lesson begins with a problem designed to pique students&#39; interest. Employing an arsenal of various instructional approaches that use manipulatives, games, practice pages, literature connections and more, lessons ensure that students master the material. A surefire way to help every student make the grade!</p>

<p>Boost students&#39; nonfiction skills and vocabularies with super-engaging readers, packed with fascinating facts and photos! Includes six copies of each 16-page title. Each book has short chapters, diagrams, maps, captions, a glossary, comprehension questions and more. Includes 24-page teaching guide and storage unit.</p>

<p>Jumpstart reading success! Introduce and reinforce the sight words with this must-have library. Each tale presents high-frequency words in a predictable format. Includes books and a sturdy storage box. 128-page teaching guide features activites, reproducible practice pages, easy assessment forms and mini-book versions of all tales.</p>

<p>Teach the top 100 sight words. Each of the 25 story books teaches four sight words and has instant activities to help commit words to memory. Box set includes 25 colorful 16-page 8 x 10 books and 144-page teacher&#39;s guide with lessons.</p>

<p>Liven up lessons with this book and CD that take full advantage of the SMART Board&#39;s interactive features. Students can easily draw, move, highlight, and underline text right on the board. Step-by-step mini-lessons in the book correspond to the Notebook files on the CD.</p>

<p>Essential for teachers and subs alike, this bright, durable two-pocket folder helps organize ideas and offer new ones. A booklet inside has reproducible pages, forms, reports, and patterns. Also includes tips, suggestions, a reading list and more. A great way to plan for days a teacher is out of the classroom and provide substitute teachers with all of the information they need.</p>

<p>A comprehensive resource for reading instruction, this three-ring binder is packed with classroom-tested lessons and strategies. Help students activate prior knowledge, monitor comprehension, make inferences, write in response to fiction and nonfiction texts and more. Contains rubrics, graphic organizers, assessments, 65 step-by-step strategy lessons, transparencies, reproducible practice pages and much more.</p>

<p>Help students understand the inner workings of the human body with these easy-to-make manipulatives. Reproducible patterns and easy step-by-step instructions help students construct bone and stomach books, a spinal column out of cardboard and string, paper models of the major organs, systems of the human body and more! Includes background information, facts about drugs, nicotine and alcohol, plus resource list.</p>

<p>Oral reading strategies for building word recognition, fluency and comprehension. Read aloud, repeated reading, perfomance reading and other strategies are fun, easy to implement and, most important, effective in helping children read with ease, confidence and understanding.</p>

<p>Teaching writing just got easier and more effective thanks to these ingenius &quot;crates&quot;. Writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books with in-depth lessons to help teach the six traits of writing&mdash;ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Kit includes six picture books, a professional book, six teaching guides, posters, stickers and a sturdy box with six hanging folders to keep it all organized.</p>

<p>Dozens of fun, attention-getting practice pages to help students become more confident writers and readers. Provides repeated practice needed to hone essential grammar, usage and mechanics skills. Topics include parts of speech, punctuation, overused words and more. Flexible and easy to use&mdash;for homework or in school. Also a great way to boost vocabularies!</p>

<p>Good teachers have long recognized the power of using picture books as models of good writing. In this essential resource, the authors have organized by trait more than 150 annotations of new and classic books that will inspire powerful writing. The short, focused, and tightly woven text mirrors the kind of writing the authors want their students to learn. Includes 18 step-by-step, trait-focused lessons based on specific books.</p>

<p>Share the real-life stories of 16 must-know people with these easy 8-page bios written just for young learners. Kids will read about historical and modern figures. Comes with a complete teaching guide filled with graphic organizers and age-perfect reproducibles. A great way to teach early reading and social studies together.</p>

<p>Research shows that students need multiple encounters with a new word before they know it well enough to comprehend it in text. These easy and engaging card games are tailor-made to support students in this process, help them &ldquo;own&rdquo; hundreds of new words, and increase their reading, writing, and oral vocabularies. Games are fully reproducible and perfect for partner, small group, and whole class use. Includes game variations and ideas for differentiated learning.</p>

<p>Expand kids&#39; vocabularies with storybooks that teach 200+ essential words in the context of charming stories. Relies on the latest research, with age-perfect definitions and hands-on activities, to stimulate learning and ensure retetnion. Includes teaching guide filled with easy lessons, fun worksheets and reproducible version of the storybooks. Help every child in your class become a better reader, writer and speaker.</p>

<p>Help kids become better readers, writers, and spellers with these lively tales that teach the top 16 word families! Each book reinforces a different word family via a lively story and fun follow-up activities. Includes 80 books and a big teaching guide filled with lessons, reproducibles, assessment sheets, and more. A must-have collection for every K-2 classroom.</p>

<p>Build important phonics skills by introducing children to 25 different word families! Engaging stories effectively teach students word families and common spelling patterns to help them become confident readers, spellers and writers. Set includes 25 storybooks, a 128-page teaching guide and a sturdy storage box.</p>

<p>Develop fluent, confident readers! Each lesson includes a piece of nonfiction, short fiction, script, song, poem or riddle. Follow-up activities help readers with unfamiliar words and punctuation marks. Students also learn about stressed and enstressed syllables, breathing patterns in reading aloud, suffixes, prefixes, root words, inflection and reading with emotion. Fluency report cards help assess students&#39; rate of reading, accuracy and tone.</p>

<p>Engaging books give students a glimpse into the animal kingdom. Great for essays, reports, presentations or just for the pure enjoyment of reading about some of the most amazing animals. Each book focuses on an animal and its life cycle, habitat, communication, diet and more. Full-color photos, easy-to-understand text, glossary and index transform the work of research into an intriguing investigation. Set of 18 books, 32 pages each.</p>

<p>Quick, easy and effective activites support national and state reading standards and help students improve the skills that they need for success in testing. The warm-ups include fiction and nonfiction reading passages are followed by questions that are based on Bloom&#39;s Taxonomy to allow for higher-level thinking skills. Topics in this series: animals, biographies, history, science, current events, fairy tales/fables, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, fantasy, mystery/suspense/adventure.</p>

<p>Here&#39;s a way to teach the same grade-level content to students with varying reading skills. The same information is written at three different levels: below grade level, at grade level, and above grade level. All the students in your class can read the passage and have the information they need to respond to the same six questions that evaluate their comprehension of the subject matter. The curriculum topics for science, geography, history, and language arts are correlated to the McREL standards and benchmarks. The reading levels of the passages are calculated according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula.</p>

<p>Here&#39;s a way to teach the same grade-level content to students with varying reading skills. The same information is written at three different levels: below grade level, at grade level, and above grade level. All the students in your class can read the passage and have the information they need to respond to the same six questions that evaluate their comprehension of the subject matter. The curriculum topics for science, geography, history, and language arts are correlated to the McREL standards and benchmarks. The reading levels of the passages are calculated according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula.</p>

<p>Help students become fluent with engaging, exciting books they can read aloud. Each book has over 80 reading passages designed to engage students with humor, compelling plots and exciting new words. Genres include nursery rhymes, poetry, songs, tongue twisters, fairy tales and readers&#39; theater. A great way for students to practice and for teachers to assess fluency. Set includes 3 books, 96 pages and up: Grades 1-2, Grades 2-3 and Grades 4 and up.</p>

<p>Learning about science requires action! Stunning color photographs capture students&#39; attention, making them eager to listen to the books being read and go back and read them again. Fascinating facts, easy-to-read text and an illustrated glossary combine to engourage students to think about comprehension and knowledge. Topics include life cycles, plant life, bugs, sea creatures, volcanoes and more. Supporting notes for parents and teachers suggest activities to reinforce understanding. Set of nine books.</p>

<p>Designed to help kids prepare for the next school year while allowing them to enjoy their summer vacation. Short lessons are presented in a daily schedule for 8 weeks. The Monday&ndash;Thursday lessons cover a variety of grade-appropriate subjects. Friday&#39;s lessons are fun, brain-teasing kinds of activities. All of the lessons can be done in about 30 minutes, leaving children with plenty of time for play. Each book includes over 300 stickers that can be used to track progress and reward good work.</p>

<p>Use exciting adventures to introduce students to the &quot;magic&quot; of science and watch their enthusiasm grow. All activities are based on sound scientific principles that help youngsters develop scientific awareness and appreciation. Complete lessons and objectives are included with each book.</p>

<p>This exceptional teaching tool features ready-to-use activities that support national and state standards for specific math skills. Each book focuses on practice pages that help students achieve bull&#39;s-eye accuracy in math. Teacher-friendly extras include objectives, assessments and extensions. Self-contined units are a great resource for review.</p>

<p>Good writing is a process&mdash;help students learn it! Book includes practical, hands-on lesson plans for each writing trait: ideas and content, word choice, fluency, voice, organization, conventions and presentations. Each section is theme-based and includes student samples, reproducible student pages and identifying elements of each trait. Also included are technology resources and a section describing how each lesson pertains to the writing standards.</p>

<p>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a different country? Find out as you travel through amazing countries and learn about cities, landscapes, people and cultures. Childrens&#39; journal entries and postcards add interest. Activities promote skills in geography, literacy and history. Each set includes six 32-page books.</p>

<p>Dry erase spiral-bound book helps kids learn without permanent marking, so they can be reused again and again. Sturdy and easy to erase.</p>