Language Arts

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.

Designed specifically for small-group instruction, Cut & Paste Word Family Sentences takes an active learning approach, providing students with multiple hands-on opportunities to develop an understanding of over 37 essential phonograms while building a wide range of literacy skills.

Knowledge of these essential phonograms enables students to read and spell more than 500 words. Students can then draw on their instant recognition of these phonograms to help them read more complex words quickly and with automaticity, thereby improving reading fluency and allwoing their brains to focus on comprehension.

Step-by-step directions tell how to use the word family words on each page to teach an entire lesson. Students tackle each scrambled word family sentence word by word, put the words in the correct order, and then practice reading the words within the context of the sentence. The partially completed illustration on each sentence page gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their comprehension through discussion and creative expression.

The sentences included in Cut & Paste Word Family Sentences are comprised of words that students will frequently encounter in their reading and find useful in their writing. Use the more than 37 phonograms featured in this book to help students with the following crucial early literacy skills:

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Oral language skills
• Sight word recognition and practice

This book features a simple lesson plan format to maximize learning of early literacy skills.

Pages are reproducible for whole classroom use. Also, pages are perforated and printed 1-sided so that they can be torn out and used with students or children at home.

• 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: Unbreakable Code; Taxes and Spending; Floating Continents; Labor Unions; Spanish Conquistador
• Science/Health: Tsunami; Electrical Energy and Sound; Natural Resources; Dr. Virginia Apgar; Hunting for Fossils
• Mathematics: Structural Engineers; Symmetry
• Technology: Elijah McCoy, Inventor; The Space Race: 1960s
• The Arts: Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Ludwig van Beethoven; Agnes de Mille

Improve comprehension and foundational reading skills with a leveled reading resource book packed with high-interest text.

Improve your guided reading lesson plans with Guided Reading: Infer for grades five and six. Designed to keep students' attention, this reading comprehension book includes 36 leveled readers—six at each reading level—and features charts, photos, and maps. The readers cover interesting topics such as U.S. presidents, world wonders, animal coloration, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Infer makes it easy for you to create a comprehensive guided reading program by offering everything you need to help students at various reading levels. This book contains:

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

The readers are separated by below-level and above-level comprehension skills and feature call-out boxes to direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction text addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can show what they know.

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.