Resource/Activity Books

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Math for sixth grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about absolute value, ratios, evaluating expressions, one-variable equations and inequalities, surface area, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

Features:

• Reproducible Rights

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to cooperative play and learning
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

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.

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for grade 5 is a fun, standards-based language arts workbook that strengthens reading comprehension skills by increasing children's ability to understand, process, and analyze text.

Strong reading skills are the basis of school success, and Spectrum Reading for grade 5 will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook uses engaging text to support understanding key ideas, details, knowledge integration, summarization, and theme.

Spectrum Reading will help your child improve their reading habits and strengthen their ability to understand and analyze text. This best-selling series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it is carefully designed to be both effective and engaging—the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Features:

• Answer Key

Word Family Stories and Activities, Level A makes it fun and easy to practice predictable patterns within words. The engaging reproducible stories and activities help students make connections with word sounds and spelling patterns.

16 word families practiced:
-ag, -am, -an, -at, -en,
-et, -ig, -in, -ip, -it, -ob,
-op, -ot, -ub, -ug, -un

By learning to recognize familiar parts of words, students rapidly increase their reading vocabulary, leading to a positive reading experience.

The word family words are made meaningful in the context of engaging, often humorous stories. The comprehension and vocabulary pages take students beyond word recognition, providing practice with test-type comprehension questions and word meaning.

Reproducible word-list sliders encourage repeated practice of the word families, leading to increased oral reading fluency.

An easy-to-use answer key of reduced pages is also included.

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

Enhance problem-solving skills and ensure math success with Spectrum® Math for grade 1. This teacher-loved series helps kids stay ahead in math by providing systematic and thought-provoking practice designed to increase in complexity.

Spectrum Math for grade 1 keeps kids at the top of their math game using progressive practice, math in everyday settings, and tests to monitor progress. The math workbook covers addition, subtraction, composing shapes, comparing numbers, and taking measurements.

A best-selling series for well over 15 years, Spectrum still leads the way because it works. It works for parents who want to give their child a leg up in math. It works for teachers who want their students to meet—and surpass—learning goals. And it works to help children build confidence and advance their skills. No matter what subject or grade, Spectrum provides thorough practice and focused instruction to support student success.

Features:

• Answer Key