Resource/Activity Books

Don't let your first grade graduate's knowledge dry up over summer break! Prevent summer learning loss in just 15 minutes a day. Perfect for at home or on-the-go, Summer Bridge Activities®: Bridging Grades 1-2 keeps kids busy with interesting learning activities all summer long!

Give your soon-to-be second grader a head start on their upcoming school year with Summer Bridge Activities: Bridging Grades 1-2. With daily, 15-minute exercises kids can review two-digit place value and verb tenses and learn new skills like measurement and compound words. This workbook series prevents summer learning loss and paves the way to a successful new school year.

And this is no average workbook—Summer Bridge Activities keeps the fun and the sun in summer break! Designed to prevent a summer learning gap and keep kids mentally and physically active, the hands-on exercises can be done anywhere. These standards-based activities help kids set goals, develop character, practice fitness, and explore the outdoors. With 12 weeks of creative learning, Summer Bridge Activities keeps skills sharp all summer long!

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• Answer Key

• A Math Models reference page that shows students strategies for solving problems. This is helpful for parents and students transitioning to new math.
• Skill practice pages that progress in difficulty.
• A culminating problem-solving task that leads students through the process of solving a real-life problem.

• Use ratios to solve problems
• Divide with fractions
• Compute with decimals and find factors and multiples
• Use positive and negative numbers and absolute value
• Write and evaluate expressions
• Solve equations and inequalities
• Use dependent and independent variables
• Solve area, surface area, and volume problems
• Understand statistical measures
• Use data distributions

180 Days of Geography for Sixth Grade provides teachers and parents with 180 days of daily practice to build students' geographical knowledge and skills. Through these weekly units, grade 6 students will improve their geographic background knowledge, critical thinking and reasoning skills, map and spatial skills, and answer photo- and text-dependent questions. This essential social studies resource provides teachers with the tools they need to provide detailed instruction on map skills, key geographical concepts, and the five themes of geography: location, place, human environment/interaction, movement, and region.

With the world becoming more connected, learning about different places through a geographic lens will equip 21st century students with the skills they need to betterunderstand diverse cultures and regions in an increasingly interdependent world. An introductory two-week unit focuses on teaching the map skills that students will use throughout the rest of the book. Subsequent units will introduce students to a new place or a type of map, and will explore the relationship between geography and culture. This book helps teachers meet National Geography Standards and state standards in their classrooms. Digital files are included.

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 2! 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 2 guides children through blends, hard and soft consonants, vowel sounds, and vowel pairs. 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.

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• Answer Key

Improve classroom data tracking for first grade math with a book that makes it easy to show student progress.

Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Math for first grade transforms the way you monitor student growth with formative and summative math assessments on grade-specific topics including:

• word problems
• addition
• subtraction
• place value
• measurement
• shapes

Create an all-in-one data tracking binder with these ready-to-go math assessments that cover the skills and standards for the entire school year. With the help of this teacher resource book, you can collect accurate data on a student's or class's skill level with:

• formatted tests
• exit tickets
• pretests
• posttests
• prompt cards for one-on-one assessments
• lists for personalized assessments

Proof of progress is essential in today's classroom, and tracking student growth in math is easier than ever with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. This series makes it easy to gather information about students' understanding—one assessment at a time!

Improve reading comprehension at various levels with a guided reading resource book for first and second grades.

A perfect addition to your language arts lesson plan, Guided Reading: Determine Importancefor first and second grades includes six sets of readers, two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The bold images and maps appeal to students as they learn about ants, chimps, sound, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Determine Importance offers the essentials for an effective guided reading program for first and second grades. This reading comprehension book includes:

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

The readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students' attention. 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.

Monitor student growth for second grade math and improve classroom data tracking.

Enhance the way you assess student progress with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Math for second grade. Filled with a variety of math assessments, it covers essential topics such as:

• time
• graphing
• measurement
• place value
• partitioning

Gather information about a student's or class's skill level and create an all-in-one data tracking binder. This book covers grade-specific standards and skills and includes a variety of ready-to-go math assessments for the entire school year such as:

• prompt cards for one-on-one assessments
• lists for personalized assessments
• pretests
• posttests
• formatted tests
• exit tickets

Show proof of progress easily and accurately with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. This series makes it easy to track student growth in math—one assessment at a time!