Language Arts

Guided Reading for fifth and sixth grades develops foundational reading skills and improves comprehension as students engage with informational texts.

Add an interesting twist to your language arts lesson plans with Guided Reading: Synthesize for fifth and sixth grades. This resource includes 36 leveled readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The readers engage students with popular topics such as money, hip-hop, ads, language, and more.

Create a comprehensive reading program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Synthesize. This reading comprehension resource book offers informational text for students at various reading levels and 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

The readers are separated by below-, on-, and above-level comprehension skills and feature callout boxes to teach students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction reader addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can 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.

Provide kindergarten students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities. This grade K spelling workbook features worksheets that are fun, engaging, and challenging for students. Ideal for after school, intervention, or homework, the word lists and activities are based on 10 years of classroom-tested experience. Activities include:

• Picture match
• Read, match, write
• Change a letter and letter search
• Rhyming words and tapping sounds
• Color and trace and color and search
• First sound, middle sound, and last sound

Digital resources include assessment analysis tools. With this easy-to-use resource, teachers can easily add daily word study to their literacy block and help students boost their spelling and word study skills in a hurry!

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

In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for third grade, students will complete hands-on activities about main idea, author's purpose, text features, editing, parts of speech, context clues, vocabulary, 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.

Expand your child's vocabulary to improve communication and comprehension. Effective communication starts with proper word choice—and Spectrum® Vocabulary for grade 3 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 3 is a workbook packed with progressive lessons that help children learn words through strategies related to prefixes, suffixes, word classification, and root words.

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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