Language Arts

Your first grade students can learn about the same topic—while reading at their own level! The all-new Nonfiction Reading Practice guides students in reading and understanding nonfiction texts with articles that span the curriculum, helping to boost students' knowledge and comprehension across subject areas.

The leveled reading selections on the same topic and the supporting activities help you accommodate students' varied reading abilities within one class.

Every unit includes:

• 3 levels of nonfiction reading selections on the same topic
• Text-based comprehension questions (multiple choice and open-ended)
• Words to Know lists with vocabulary for each reading selection
• Visual literacy page to enrich learning and support focused discussions
• Text-based writing prompt and a writing form
• Graphic organizers

• Social Studies: A Visit to the Moon; Learn About History; Maps; Festivals
• Science: Matter; Animal Habitats; Thermometers; Science Jobs
• Mathematics: Patterns; Money; Time
• Technology: Inventions; Transportation Technology; E-books
• The Arts: Beatrix Potter; Community Art; Pottery

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.

Improve reading comprehension scores with this personalized approach. Adding the Standards-Based Connections: Reading book to your curriculum will help you identify learning gaps so that you can redirect focus as needed. Complete with skill assessments, practice pages, and self-assessing "I Can" statements, this book is sure to help your students stay on track.

Standards-Based Connections Reading for grade 1 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about puppies, lizards, birds, glaciers, clubhouse detectives, and more.

Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!

Features:

• Answer Key

Help students improve foundational reading skills at every level with Guided Reading for first and second grades.

The Guided Reading: Synthesize resource book for first and second grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with photos and charts, this nonfiction resource features informational text about caves, soccer, Hawaii, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Synthesize is an effective guided reading resource for first and second grades. This reading comprehension resource book includes:

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

The readers are separated into below-, on-, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension resource contains callout boxes to 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 so students can show 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.

60 cards

• Vocabulary words with clear, visual definitions
• Durable, color-coded cards for easy word wall organization
• Perfect for visual and ESL learners
• Reproducible backs for use in journals and for creating games

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 2 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a strong foundation essential for school success.

Spectrum Writing for grade 2 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