Language Arts

Every player is dealt Word Cards, which each feature a key word used as different parts of speech. Players use the Word Cards, along with the Sentence Card in play, to make the most appropriately inappropriate sentences possible! All players vote and the silliest sentence wins the round. The first player to win three rounds wins the game!

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With the Language Arts 4 Today book for first grade, learning essential language arts skills only takes 10 minutes a day!

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for first grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these skills and concepts:

• fluency
• sight words
• comprehensions
• phonics

The Language Arts 4 Today book for first grade aligns with current state standards.

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for first grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This language arts workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress.

The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use language arts workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key

Expand your child's vocabulary to improve communication and comprehension. Effective communication starts with proper word choice—and Spectrum® Vocabulary for grade 5 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 5 is a workbook packed with progressive lessons that help children learn words through strategies related to word relationships, topic-specific vocabulary, and root and base 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.

Features:

• Answer Key

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for grade 1 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 1 will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook promotes reading proficiency and improves the understanding of word recognition, letters, sounds, details, and key ideas.

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

Help children spell their way to success! Strong spelling is the blueprint children need to become masters of communication. Spectrum Spelling® for grade 1 engages learners with fun, full-color puzzles and riddles to keep them entertained while they build an essential skill that lasts a lifetime.

Give your first grader a fun-filled way to build and reinforce spelling skills. Spectrum Spelling for grade 1 provides progressive lessons in letter recognition, short vowels, long vowels, sight words, and dictionary skills. This exciting language arts workbook encourages children to explore spelling with brainteasers, puzzles, and more!

Don't let your child's spelling skills depend on spell-check and autocorrect. Make sure your child has the knowledge and skills to spell words with confidence–and without assistance from digital sources. Complete with a speller's dictionary, a proofreader's guide, and an answer key, Spectrum Spelling offers the perfect way to help children strengthen this important language arts skill.

Features:

• Answer Key

• Includes complete assembly instructions and photos
• Works with your existing curriculum
• Truly interactive, dynamic templates

30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills and strategies:
Skills:

• Character and Setting
• Main Idea and Details
• Fact & Opinion
• Visual Information
• Author's Purpose
• Making Predictions
• Drawing Conclusions
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Nonfiction Text Features
• Fantasy vs. Reality
• Sequencing

Strategies:

• Make Connections
• Visualization
• Organization
• Determine Important Information
• Ask Questions
• Monitor Comprehension

You'll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it…

• provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies.
• supports struggling and reluctant readers.
• integrates easily into any language program and any classroom.
• works great for test-prep.
• is correlated to current standards.

Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts with Daily Reading Comprehension!

This resource book helps students strengthen foundational reading skills with leveled reading and interesting topics.

The Guided Reading: Connect book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six each for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. Filled with photos and maps, this book enhances guided reading lesson plans with informational text about topics such as money, recycling, national parks, and more.

Guided Reading: Connect provides you with a comprehensive reading program. The resource book includes:

• discussion guides
• graphic organizers
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• leveled readers with intriguing topics

Separated into three readability levels, informational readers capture students' attention with graphic charts, appealing topics, colorful photos, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to prove comprehension.

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.