Resource/Activity Books

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to manners at home, school, and in the community
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 4 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a strong foundation essential for school success.

Spectrum Writing for grade 4 guides students through each step of the writing process as they write sentences, personal stories, descriptions, how-to instructions, reports, opinions, and more. Spectrum Writing workbooks guide students as they write for a variety of purposes, including writing to tell a story, writing to provide information, and writing to state an opinion. Lessons support current state standards. Step-by-step instructions help with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. A Writer's Handbook reinforces grammar and language skills, and a complete Answer Key is included. Engaging, open-ended writing projects combined with standards-based learning make these workbooks an essential resource for school success.

Features:

• Answer Key

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 6 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 6 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about thermodynamics, biological adaptation, and geological disturbances.

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!

Features:

• Answer Key

Guided Reading for third and fourth grades strengthens foundational reading skills with high-interest topics in a leveled reader format.

The Guided Reading: Visualize resource book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with charts and photos, it enhances group lessons with informational text about flight, storms, sports, Egypt, coral, and more.

Guided Reading: Visualize provides you with a comprehensive guided reading resource. This book includes:

• discussion guides
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• leveled readers with intriguing topics
• graphic organizers and an observation sheet

Separated into three readability levels, informational readers capture students' attention with appealing topics, graphic charts, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to reflect on what they learned.

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.

The sound of a child reading is like music to a parent's ears—so get your child started early with Spectrum® Phonics for grade 1! This best-selling language arts workbook uses progressive lessons, strategies, and practice to help children form words with letter sounds, pairs, and blends.

Understanding letter sounds is an essential piece to the reading proficiency puzzle. Spectrum Phonics for grade 1 guides children through consonant pairs, vowel pairs, end sounds, and vowel sounds. Filled with engaging exercises in a progressive format, this series provides an effective way to reinforce early language arts skills.

Mastering language arts is a long process—start with the basics. Spectrum Phonics is here to help children begin a successful journey to reading proficiency. With the help of this best-selling series, your child will improve early language arts skills with practice and activities that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills.

Features:

• Answer Key

Middle-Grade Minutes features 100 "Minutes" to help students build basic skills, increase speed in basic math operations, and integrate a variety of math skills. Each Minute consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding of complex situations and solutions to realistic problems.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance their overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Middle-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of middle-grade math instruction, including:

• basic multiplication and division facts
• money
• graphing
• problem-solving
• math vocabulary
• fractions
• geometric shapes
• probability
• estimation
• decimals
• measurement
• powers of ten
• square roots
• percents
• multiples and factors
• and more!

Middle-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of ten classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening format. The quick, one-minute format combined with instant feedback makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding to complex situations and to the solution of realistic problems in each Minute.

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Using these historical documents, students make observations, generate questions, think analytically, and cite evidence to support their opinions and conclusions. Each pack contains 20 historical source documents including photos, maps, paintings, newspaper clippings, lithographs and letters in a mix of color, black-and-white and sepia finishes. Printed on sturdy 81⁄2" x 11" card stock. Includes free 15-page online Teacher's Guide. Grades 3–6