Resource/Activity Books

Strengthen foundational reading skills with a reading comprehension book tailored to help students at various reading levels.

Guided Reading: Analyze for first and second grades makes lesson planning easier with six sets each of six nonfiction readers. There are 36 readers—two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. This teacher resource book helps engage students as they learn about Japan, zoos, pets, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Analyze offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive guided reading program for first and second grades. This book includes:

• leveled readers that cover high-interest topics
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides
• graphic organizers and an observation sheet

The readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students' attention. Various callout boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.

Science taps into a kid's natural curiosity. Help your child explore fascinating facts and compelling passages with a workbook that generates interest and teaches key concepts. Spectrum® Science for grade 3 introduces, reviews, and reinforces the skills your child needs to thrive in this subject.

Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children's attention. Spectrum Science for grade 3 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about elements, compounds, irrigation, animal habitats, and the invention of radio.

When children develop a solid understanding of science, they're preparing for success. Spectrum Science for grades 3-8 improves scientific literacy and inquiry skills with an exciting exploration of natural, Earth, life, and applied sciences. With the help of this best-selling series, your little scientist can discover and appreciate our extraordinary world!

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Expand your child's vocabulary to improve communication and comprehension. Effective communication starts with proper word choice—and Spectrum® Vocabulary for grade 6 is here to help! This best-selling, standards-based workbook is packed with lessons, strategies, and test-taking practice to help your child choose words with confidence.

Reading comprehension and clear communication are marked by a strong vocabulary. Spectrum Vocabulary for grade 6 is a workbook packed with progressive lessons that help children learn words through strategies related to context clues, analogy formation, and dictionary skills.

Strong communication can be applied across disciplines, and is essential for success both in and out of the classroom. Spectrum Vocabulary for grades 3-6 helps children systematically build their vocabulary while improving comprehension skills. This best-selling series teaches strategies for test success and helps children understand that words matter.

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Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences

Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Dialogue
• Simile and Metaphor

Science taps into a kid's natural curiosity—help your child explore fascinating facts and compelling passages with a workbook that generates interest and teaches key concepts. Spectrum® Science for grade 5 introduces, reviews, and reinforces the skills your child needs to thrive in this subject.

Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children's attention. Spectrum Science for grade 5 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about galaxies, subatomic particles, identical twins, and the first airplane.

When children develop a solid understanding of science, they're preparing for success. Spectrum Science for grades 3-8 improves scientific literacy and inquiry skills with an exciting exploration of natural, earth, life, and applied sciences. With the help of this best-selling series, your little scientist can discover and appreciate our extraordinary world!

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• Answer Key