Language Arts

Vocabulary in Context for the Common Core™ Standards, Grade 3

$14.99

These workbooks provide contextualized vocabulary practice and helps students understand synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, parts of speech, definitions, and context clues. Activities align with Common Core Language Standards for Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Spectrum® Language Arts, Grade 7

$11.99

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 7. This standards-based workbook is packed with engaging, open-ended writing activities and grade-appropriate practice to build a stronger understanding of essential language arts concepts.

An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skills—the foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 7 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master parts of speech, vocabulary, sentence types, and grammar.

This comprehensive workbook doesn't stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum Language Arts for grade 7 includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer's Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. With the help of Spectrum, your child will build the language arts skills necessary for a lifetime of success.

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Answer Key

The Ultimate Read Aloud Resource

$35.99

Award-winning children's author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books. Central to Laminack's message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of “Best Friend Books”- a small, carefully curated collection that you turn to repeatedly for specific teaching purposes. 128 pages.

Smart Start® 1–2 Story Paper: 100 sheets

$9.99

Smart Start Story Paper (8-1/2" x 11") is truly a "Smart Start" for beginning and experienced writers. Bold graphics in blue, green, and red promote the feeling of success as children simply "Start at the Sky and pull down to the Ground" to form letters correctly. 1-2 Story Paper has space for a picture and lines with 5/8" spacing. Package includes 100 sheets.

Word Roots, Beginning

$15.99

Students learn the meaning and spelling of roots, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in English. Learning these word elements dramatically improves spelling and the ability to decode unfamiliar words. The activities focus on using these words in context to help students incorporate each word into their vocabulary. Each book includes a pretest/posttest, lesson reviews, answers, and a dictionary of the prefixes, roots, suffixes, and vocabulary words derived from Latin and/or Greek word elements. 112 pages.

Reading Comprehension Practice, Grade 6

$12.99

This language arts reading book offers help for students at all reading levels.

Reading Comprehension Practice for sixth grade supports differentiated instruction by providing:

supplemental reading for above-level readers
independent reading for on-level readers
instructional reading for below-level readers

Build vocabulary one level at a time!

This middle school reading comprehension workbook helps students read with confidence and clarity by improving their ability to:

recognize and decode words
relate what they're learning to what they already know
monitor progress and take action when needed

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company creates products to support success in science, math, language arts, fine arts, history, social studies, government, and character. Designed by educators for educators, the Mark Twain Publishing product line specializes in providing excellent supplemental books and content-rich décor for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms.

Sight Words Flash Cards

$7.99

Give reading skills a jump start! Learn to recognize these words with familiar flash card games and other activities. Proven effective for building basic skills and reinforcing learning programs. Cards are self-checking, colorful, attractive, durable, and feature rounded corners for quick sorting. 96 cards.

180 Days of Writing, Grade 6

$22.99

Develop enthusiastic and efficient writers through daily practice of the writing process. Activities provide a framework for students to practice prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing skills. Rubrics provide authentic assessments of students' opinion/argument, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing. 216 pages + CD.

Figurative Language Bulletin Board Set

$13.99

These colorful 12" x 17" mini posters illustrate seven types of figurative language: Similie, Metaphor, Idiom, Hyperbole, Aliteration, Onomatopoeia and Personification. Teacher guide and eight mini signs with additional example phrases are also included.

Large Unifix® CVC Magnets

$23.99

With magnets over 2" square, this set includes 90 color-coded consonant and vowel cubes and 10 blank cubes. These large magnets can be seen from the back of the classroom.

Read & Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade K

$21.99

The perfect classroom resource to strengthen comprehension and vocabulary skills! Supplement your core reading program with texts leveled according to guided reading or Lexile® leveling criteria. Each selection is accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills, making it an easy and effective way to provide extra reading practice and test preparation. 160 pages.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 5

$23.99

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 36 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.

Fifth 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
Author's Purpose
Text Structure

Fifth 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
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole

Nonfiction genre studies include expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include historical fiction, realistic fiction, science fiction, and comedy.

Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs.

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