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Top Ten Titles for 2006

Sight Word Poetry Pages
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
One hundred fill-in-the-blank practice pages that help kids really learn the top high-frequency words.
Grades: PK - 2

3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 1-4
from Scholastic
(Primary, Intermediate)
Identify potential reading problems quickly and accurately with these powerful assessment techniques. Developed by leading experts in reading education, these leveled passages with scoring sheets help you screen students for strengths and weaknesses in word recognition, fluency rate and expression, and comprehension. Rubrics and grade-level benchmarks make interpreting the results simple and easy. With four passages per grade and ready-to-use record-keeping forms, you can document and monitor student performance all year long. Makes individual assessment manageable and efficient, so that you can focus on what's importantÑteaching. Meets Reading First guidelines.
Grades: 1 - 4

Clip Art for Phonics
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
Contains hundreds of cute and clever illustrations in the style made famous by Teacher's Friend. Every letter of the alphabet is represented including consonants, beginning sounds and short and long vowel sounds. Make your own flash cards, gameboards or matching activity using the many delightful phonetic illustrations!
Grades: PK - 3

5-Minute Daily Practice: Grammar
from Scholastic
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Help kids succeed in class and on tests with these fun, super-quick daily exercises that provide essential practice in grammar skills - and help meet the standards. All it takes is 5 minutes a day! Perfect for starting the day, engaging fast finishers, or reviewing skills.
Grades: 4 - 8

Little Kids . . . Count
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
All Reproducible! Counting 1-20 patterns and projects for developing beginning math skills! Also includes: fun, counting patterns and worksheets to reinforce math readiness skills, a counting skills assessment chart, completion certificates, and much more.
Grades: PK - 1

Teaching Writing Through Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organizers
from Scholastic
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Designed to help you teach writing effectively to students of different ability levels, this resource offers lessons, leveled organizers, and writing models to make planning and gathering materials a cinch. Seventeen units cover topics from structuring paragraphs to using elaboration to develop ideas, to persuasive essay writing. Helps ALL students master the writing skills and concepts they need to succeed on standardized tests and beyond.
Grades: 4 - 8

Write-and-Learn Number Practice Pages
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
Help kids learn how to write and recognize the numbers 1-30! Packed with cut-and-paste counters, tracing and writing activities, and more, these fun-to-do reproducibles give kids the independent practice they really need. A great way to lay the foundation for math success!
Grades: PK - 1

3rd Grade Basic Skills: Reading Comprehension and Reading Skills
from Scholastic
(Primary, Intermediate)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! Features engaging individual activity pages that support the units you teach - also great for homework practice. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Covers using context clues, classifying, sequencing, grammar skills, reading comprehension, and writing prompts. Includes a complete answer key!
Grades: 3

Little Kids . . . Cut
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
All Reproducible! Large, scissor skill patterns for developing fine motor skills! Also includes: easy to cut and make seasonal craft projects, a scissor skills assessment chart, completion certificates, and much more.
Grades: PK - 1

Creative Classroom Ideas
from Teacher Created Resources
(Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School, Staff Room)
Both veteran and beginning teachers will appreciate these simple and unique ideas to spice up daily routines! Activities cover motivation, review, management, and parent involvement and are general enough to use any time, with all ages and abilities.
Grades: K - 8

Here are the Top Ten Titles for November 2006

Winter Idea Book
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
Winter patterns, crafts, activities and ideas for the elementary classroom! Dozens of open-ended activities! Celebrate all of the Winter holidays plus a special chapter for the sport of basketball! All reproducible!
Grades: PK - 6

Biggie Patterns: Seasons & Holidays
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
You'll turn to this giant bank of clip art to jazz up just about anything - all year long! Simply photocopy the ready-to-use, full-page patterns and use them for decoration anywhere, for any purpose - report covers, invitations, announcements, letters home, or coloring pages. Includes irresistible patterns of pumpkins, snowflakes, valentines, birthday cakes, and more. Plus tons of ideas and tips for use!
Grades: PK - 3

Thanksgiving Activities
from Teacher Created Resources
(Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate)
Children of all ages have fun preparing for holidays with creative activities and projects. For use at school, in clubs, and at home.
Grades: PK - 6

100 Write-and-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages
from Scholastic
(Primary)
Watch confidence soar as children master 100 sight words - the words most commonly encountered in any text. Children read more fluently, write with greater ease, and spell more accurately when they know these high-frequency words! These fun, ready-to-go practice pages let kids trace, copy, manipulate, cut and paste, and write each sight word on their own. Features words from the Dolch Word List, a commonly recognized core of sight words. Also includes games and extension activities.
Grades: K - 2

Daily Writing Warm-Ups: A Systematic Approach to Writing Practice (Grades 3-4)
from Creative Teaching Press
(Primary, Intermediate)
This resource book has daily practice lessons designed around a spiraling scope and sequence format to support and reinforce writing skills. This highly structured, 128-page resource book contains practice with standards-based writing skills; application of skills through authentic writing exercises, and formative assessments after every nine lessons.
Grades: 3 - 4

Thanksgiving Research Project Pack
from Hands of a Child
(Primary, Intermediate)
Our Research Project Packs present a great way for students to learn the tools needed to find information. While working through the activities in this unit students will learn the answers to these 10 questions:
• Define Thanksgiving Vocabulary Words
• Who were the Pilgrims?
• Map the voyage of the Pilgrims.
• Research what the Pilgrims went through for each season in their first year.
• Create a Timeline of the year before the first Thanksgiving through the changes the holiday went through to current.
• Compare the first thanksgiving menu to your thanksgiving menu.
• When does Thanksgiving occur?
• What are you thankful for and why?
• What are some characteristics we should be thankful for in others and ourselves?
• What are some of the symbols of Thanksgiving? Research their meanings.
Grades: 2 - 6

Here are the Top Ten Titles for October 2006

Letters, Numbers, and Shapes
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
Designed to help parents and teachers instruct children in the basics of reading, writing and counting. Provides engaging practice pages for each letter of the alphabet, numbers 1-10 and the basic shapes. The clever illustrations and large bold type also make cute and informative bulletin board displays. Creative characters teach upper and lower case letters and beginning sounds. A sign language page for each letter and four picture cards are also included.
Grades: PK - 1

Halloween Activities
from Teacher Created Resources
(Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate)
Children of all ages have fun preparing for holidays with creative activities and projects. For use at school, in clubs, and at home.
Grades: PK - 6

Happy Halloween!
from Hollister Kids
(Primary, Intermediate, Middle School)
If your community celebrates Halloween, you won't want to miss this cute elementary look at this colorful holiday. The learning package uses games, fun facts, newspaper activities and cartoons to teach young children and challenge their imagination. A special page of safety activities will get them ready to be safe as well as happy on Halloween.
Grades: 1 - 6

Printing Practice
from Teacher Created Resources
(Early Childhood, Primary)
Use this consumable or reproducible workbook to help children master the skills they need. Cute illustrations add interest to exercises that can be used in school or at home.
Grades: K - 2

Little Kids . . . Trace
from Scholastic
(Early Childhood, Primary)
All Reproducible! Large, tracing patterns for developing cognitive and fine motor skills! Also includes: seasonal tracing worksheets for reading and writing readiness, a tracing skills assessment chart, completion certificates, and much more.
Grades: PK - 1

Place Value Grade 3
from Teacher Created Resources
(Primary, Intermediate)
Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this series helps students master skills in reading, mathematics, penmanship, writing, and grammar. Each book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. Test practice pages are included!
Grades: 3

1st Grade Basic Skills: Reading Comprehension and Reading Skills
from Scholastic
(Primary)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! These fun activity pages support the units you are teaching. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Students develop early reading and language arts skills, practice sequencing, and build reading comprehension! Includes a complete answer key.
Grades: 1

Here are the Top Ten Titles for September 2006

Sight Word Poetry Pages
from Scholastic SCH0439554381 (Early Childhood, Primary) One hundred fill-in-the-blank practice pages that help kids really learn the top high-frequency words. Grades: PK - 2

Place Value Grade 3
from Teacher Created Resources TCR8603 (Primary, Intermediate) Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this series helps students master skills in reading, mathematics, penmanship, writing, and grammar. Each book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. Test practice pages are included! Grades: 3

Vocabulary Builders (Grades 2-3)
from Weekly Reader Publishing WRPEWR171 (Primary) Vocabulary Builders are engaging reproducible books that help students in Grades 2-3 develop essential vocabulary and word skills. The books use high-interest articles, taken from the award-winning Weekly Reader magazine, as resources for key language arts practice. Each 2-page lesson features an engaging Weekly Reader magazine article on one page so that students can read the vocabulary words in context. The second page is vocabulary skills practice. Throughout the book, the articles that provide the context for the vocabulary words are identified as A, B, or C lessons to indicate below-level, on-level, or challenging reading. Grades: 2 - 3

Place Value
from Zephyr Press ZPR1569762155 (Primary, Intermediate) Kids can say goodbye to math anxiety with the help of the learning techniques introduced in this series of teacher-aides. Drawing on visual and kinesthetic learning strategies instead of abstract concepts, even students who have always struggled with computation can become math whizzes. Each book is designed to replace the drudgery normally associated with rote memorization with the satisfaction and success gained from engaged, hands-on learning. The key is recognizing visual patterns that exist between numbers when they are arranged in global "wholes." These visual patterns provide multiple pathways for computation and recall and are especially suited for kids who have had little success with traditional learning techniques. These resources are packed with handy blackline masters of worksheets, assessments, and overheads and provide a comprehensive program for elementary math skills. Grades: 2 - 5

Kindergarten Basic Skills: Alphabet and Fine Motor Skills
from Scholastic SCH0439500303 (Early Childhood, Primary) Teach and reinforce important basic skills! These fun activity pages support the units you are teaching. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Students develop pre-writing skills, learn to recognize and write their letters A to Z, and build fine-motor skills! Grades: K

Cursive Writing Practice Pages With a Twist!
from Scholastic SCH0439316634 (Primary, Intermediate) Take the ho-hum out of teaching cursive writing with lively, learning-filled activities students just can't resist! Dozens of instant reproducibles provide kids with the practice they need to recognize and tackle writing every letter of the cursive alphabet. Includes: letter-formation practice pages, tongue-twister writing pages, skill-building puzzles, games, and more. Great for homework or anytime! Grades: 2 - 5

Autumn Idea Book
from Scholastic SCH0439499607 (Early Childhood, Primary) Autumn patterns, crafts, activities and ideas for the elementary classroom! Dozens of open-ended activities! Celebrate all of the Autumn holidays plus a special chapter for the sport of football! All reproducible! Grades: PK - 6

Animals ABC: Learning with the Alphabet
from Weekly Reader Publishing WRPEWR177 (Early Childhood, Primary) Animals ABC: Learning with the Alphabet is an engaging reproducible book that makes learning fun from A to Z! The enjoyable activities help Pre-K children and kindergarten students build essential language arts skills. With this high-interest book, children will be introduced to each letter of the alphabet with 4 pages of letter practice, tracing, coloring, matching, rhymes, and rhythms. Plus, each letter will be supported by a tear-and-fold minibook that children can take home to keep. The 31 lessons cover the consonants and long and short vowels. The letters are presented in sequence, but may be introduced in any order a teacher chooses. Grades: PK - K

Cloze Reading (Rdg. Level 2)
from Remedia Publications REM0412 (Intermediate, Middle School) Use brief, high-interest stories and cloze procedure to increase comprehension! Besides stories and context clues, each book provides word lists and comprehension questions to promote greater understanding of each selection. A good tool for students who need help with word order or sentence structure. Grades: 3 - 8

Cloze Reading (Rdg. Level 3)
from Remedia Publications REM0413 (Intermediate, Middle School) Use brief, high-interest stories and cloze procedure to increase comprehension! Besides stories and context clues, each book provides word lists and comprehension questions to promote greater understanding of each selection. A good tool for students who need help with word order or sentence structure. Grades: 3 - 8

Here are the Top Ten Titles for August 2006

Quick Quilts Across the Curriculum
from Scholastic
SCH0439234689 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Brighten up your classroom with quick NO-SEW quilts that celebrate and display students' learning. You'll find dozens of cross-curricular project ideas with easy-to-follow directions such as: a Getting to Know You class quilt, an Olympics plastic-bag quilt, a holidays storybook quilt, a shaped poetry quilt, a muffin-tin calendar quilt, an endangered species floor puzzle quilt, and much more.
Grades: 3 - 6

3rd Grade Basic Skills: Reading Comprehension and Reading Skills
from Scholastic
SCH0439503981 (Primary, Intermediate)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! Features engaging individual activity pages that support the units you teach - also great for homework practice. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Covers using context clues, classifying, sequencing, grammar skills, reading comprehension, and writing prompts. Includes a complete answer key!
Grades: 3

Leveled Reading: 40 Ready-to-Use Lessons (Grade 2)
from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR143 (Primary)
High-Interest Leveled Reading Activities. Now children will want to develop and improve their reading skills! The new Leveled Reading series from Weekly Reader combines high-interest nonfiction and fiction in engaging student practice books, written at specific reading levels: 2.0-3.0 for second graders. With Leveled Reading, the five skills of reading are carefully sequenced through high-interest, visually stimulating reading selections, followed by questions that develop strong literacy skills. Grade-appropriate material includes phonics skills for early second grade.
Grades: 2

Creative Classroom Ideas
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3655 (Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School, Staff Room)
Both veteran and beginning teachers will appreciate these simple and unique ideas to spice up daily routines! Activities cover motivation, review, management, and parent involvement and are general enough to use any time, with all ages and abilities.
Grades: K - 8

Comprehension & Critical Thinking Level 5
from Teacher Created Materials
TCM3375 (Intermediate)
Use these step-by-step guides to build students' comprehension and critical thinking skills as they prepare for standardized tests that feature document-based questions.
Step 1 has students reading high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids authors. Step 2 has students strengthening comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Step 3 has students studying primary source documents (such as maps, census reports, population reports, charts, and graphs) that are related to the articles. Step 4 has students demonstrating critical thinking skills by responding to questions based on these primary sources.
All of the articles, primary source documents, and questions are included as reproducible pages. These lessons are easy-to-use and effective.
Grades: 5

Following Directions
from Remedia Publications
REM0202D (Primary, Intermediate)
Learning a life skill!
At a very young age, children encounter the need to follow verbal directions. As they grow, the directions become more complex.
The 23 lessons in this unit use math, language, art, and listening skills - as well as reasoning, logic, and visualization - to develop critical thinking. The primary purpose of each activity is to focus on following directions.
Example:
Count all the members of your family - even your pets. How many feet are in your family?
The activities featured begin at a fairly simple level and gradually become more difficult.
Grades: 3 - 6

Forensic Science
from Ready-Ed Publications
RED4018 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Contains simple, yet fun, hands-on introductory forensic activities. Tasks may require simple science materials that are readily available in most homes and school science resource centres. Sections focus on examining lip prints, fingerprints, teeth prints, blood drops, DNA, handwriting, identikit pictures, lie detectors, mystery substances, shoe prints and much more.
Grades: 5 - 7

Daily Language Practice (Grade 3)
from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR162 (Primary, Intermediate)
Focused Language Arts Practice. Reproducibles featuring 180 daily language arts activities, plus 9 monthly reviews. This essential series helps students in grade 3 strengthen their language and editing skills with grade-appropriate activities. Students practice one specific language arts skill per week to reinforce and build strength in that skill. At the end of each month, a full-page review includes all the language arts, skills that were covered in the previous four weeks. Daily Language Practice is an engaging series of language arts books that helps reinforce grade-appropriate skills in punctuation, capitalization, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and spelling, by focusing on one skill at a time, for one week at a time.
Grades: 3

240 Vocabulary Words 3rd Grade Kids Need to Know
from Scholastic
SCH0439280435 (Primary, Intermediate)
Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students' prior knowledge for greater understanding; and give students multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them. Watch reading skills and test scores soar!
Grades: 3

Leveled Reading: 40 Ready-to-Use Lessons (Grade 3)
from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR144 (Primary, Intermediate)
High-Interest Leveled Reading Activities. Now children will want to develop and improve their reading skills! The new Leveled Reading series from Weekly Reader combines high-interest nonfiction and fiction in engaging student practice books, written at specific reading levels: 3.4-4.0 for third graders. With Leveled Reading, the five skills of reading are carefully sequenced through high-interest, visually stimulating reading selections, followed by questions that develop strong literacy skills. Grade-appropriate material includes inferential comprehension for late third grade.
Grades: 3

Here are the Top Ten Titles for June & July 2006

Clip Art for Phonics
from Scholastic
SCH043950290X (Early Childhood, Primary)
Contains hundreds of cute and clever illustrations in the style made famous by Teacher's Friend. Every letter of the alphabet is represented including consonants, beginning sounds and short and long vowel sounds. Make your own flash cards, gameboards or matching activity using the many delightful phonetic illustrations!
Grades: PK - 3

Lessons Using Learning Bags for Math, Grades 3-4
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3192 (Primary, Intermediate)
What's in that gift bag? Students will want to know!
Store the materials for unique learning activities inside attractive gift bags, and watch students dig into them with gusto! The hands-on activities inside the bags will shift students' minds into gear; they'll be engaged in learning before they know it!
Grades: 3 - 4

Little Kids . . . Cut
from Scholastic
SCH0439502985 (Early Childhood, Primary)
All Reproducible! Large, scissor skill patterns for developing fine motor skills! Also includes: easy to cut and make seasonal craft projects, a scissor skills assessment chart, completion certificates, and much more.
Grades: PK - 1

Daily Warm-Ups: Reading, Grade 3
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3489 (Primary, Intermediate)
Each book in the Daily Warm-Ups: Reading series provides students with over 150 opportunities to master important reading skills. The warm ups include both fiction and nonfiction reading passages, followed by questions that are based on Bloom's Taxonomy to allow for higher-level thinking skills.
Topics in this series include:
animals
biographies
thistory
science
current events
fairy tales/fables
historical fiction
contemporary fiction
fantasy
mystery/suspense/adventure
Adding one daily warm-up a day to the classroom schedule or at home gives students the practice they need to improve their reading comprehension skills.
Grades: 3

Summer Idea Book
from Scholastic
SCH0439499631 (Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate)
Summer patterns, crafts, activities and ideas for the elementary classroom! Dozens of open-ended activities! Celebrate all of the Summer holidays and themes plus a special chapter for the sport of baseball! All reproducible!
Grades: PK - 6

1st Grade Basic Skills: Dot-to-Dots, Mazes, Word Searches
from Scholastic
SCH0439504015 (Primary)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! These fun activity pages support the units you are teaching. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Students practice their upper and lower case letters, and develop counting and critical thinking skills! Includes a complete answer key.
Grades: 1

Little Kids . . . Trace
from Scholastic
SCH0439504104 (Early Childhood, Primary)
All Reproducible! Large, tracing patterns for developing cognitive and fine motor skills! Also includes: seasonal tracing worksheets for reading and writing readiness, a tracing skills assessment chart, completion certificates, and much more.
Grades: PK - 1

Quick Tips: Morning Message
from Scholastic
SCH043937667X (Primary)
Designed for the busy teacher, this helpful resource is packed with instant ideas, and dozens of engaging and ready-to-use morning messages that connect with reading, writing, math, science, holidays, and more. PLUSÑmanagement tips and reproducibles to extend learning. Children look forward to a new message each morning and benefit from the daily routine. Makes morning messages a meaningful and skill-building part of the day!
Grades: K - 2

Daily Warm-Ups: Reading, Grade 1
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3487 (Primary)
Each book in the Daily Warm-Ups: Reading series provides students with over 150 opportunities to master important reading skills. The warm ups include both fiction and nonfiction reading passages, followed by questions that are based on Bloom's Taxonomy to allow for higher-level thinking skills.
Topics in this series include:
animals
biographies
history
science
current events
fairy tales/fables
historical fiction
contemporary fiction
fantasy
mystery/suspense/adventure
Adding one daily warm-up a day to the classroom schedule or at home gives students the practice they need to improve their reading comprehension skills.
Grades: 1

Here are the Top Ten Titles for May 2006

Fun 5-Minute Math Practice Pages
from Scholastic
SCH0439294673 (Primary)
This fun collection of 40 reproducibles is perfect for: providing creative, motivating homework; preparing students for standardized tests; helping you meet the NCTM standards. Includes practice pages for addition, subtraction, money, time, multiplication, division, word problems, graphs, and more!
Grades: 2 - 3

1st Grade Basic Skills: Reading Comprehension and Reading Skills
from Scholastic
SCH0439500338 (Primary)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! These fun activity pages support the units you are teaching. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Students develop early reading and language arts skills, practice sequencing, and build reading comprehension! Includes a complete answer key.
Grades: 1

I Have, Who Has? Language Arts
from Creative Teaching Press
CTP2206 (Intermediate)
A Fun Interactive Way to Learn. The activities in these books consist of a series of question and answer cards. Students are actively engaged as each player answers a question and then asks the next one. When students reach the last card, they will find that it refers back to the first card. Requires minimal preparation but results in maximum participation and effort.
Grades: 3 - 4

I Have, Who Has? Math
from Creative Teaching Press
CTP2208 (Intermediate)
A Fun Interactive Way to Learn. The activities in these books consist of a series of question and answer cards. Students are actively engaged as each player answers a question and then asks the next one. When students reach the last card, they will find that it refers back to the first card. Requires minimal preparation but results in maximum participation and effort.
Grades: 3 - 4

Write-and-Learn Number Practice Pages
from Scholastic
SCH043945865X (Early Childhood, Primary)
Help kids learn how to write and recognize the numbers 1-30! Packed with cut-and-paste counters, tracing and writing activities, and more, these fun-to-do reproducibles give kids the independent practice they really need. A great way to lay the foundation for math success!
Grades: PK - 1

4th Grade Basic Skills: Math Drill
from Scholastic
SCH0439501911 (Intermediate)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! Age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Indepth drill worksheets give them the practice they need to succeed on the tests. Covers addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and fractions. Great for independent work and homework. Includes a complete answer key!
Grades: 4

Consonant Blends & Digraphs Workbook
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR2242 (Early Childhood, Primary)
The Consonant Workbooks help children develop reading skills, learn common spelling patterns, increase writing abilities, and improve vocabulary. These fully reproducible or consumable workbooks include a multitude of creative activities. Full size: 8 1/2" x 11".
Grades: PK - 3

Pre-Algebra (Grades 6-9)
from McDonald Publishing
MCR0470 (Middle School, High School)
This book focuses on important pre-algebra concepts and provides valuable practice with related skills. Use these activity sheets to complement the lessons in your mathematics textbook or to provide additional reinforcement of concepts students find challenging. The activities in this book are a combination of number problems and word problems. The word problems require students to apply what they have learned by creating equations and then solving those equations.
Grades: 6 - 9

3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 1-4
from Scholastic
SCH0439650895 (Primary, Intermediate)
Identify potential reading problems quickly and accurately with these powerful assessment techniques. Developed by leading experts in reading education, these leveled passages with scoring sheets help you screen students for strengths and weaknesses in word recognition, fluency rate and expression, and comprehension. Rubrics and grade-level benchmarks make interpreting the results simple and easy. With four passages per grade and ready-to-use record-keeping forms, you can document and monitor student performance all year long. Makes individual assessment manageable and efficient, so that you can focus on what's importantÑteaching. Meets Reading First guidelines.
Grades: 1 - 4

Here are the Top Ten Titles for November and December

Ads & Coupons
from Remedia Publications
REM0431 (Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School)
Help your students develop important life skills with these easy-to-use activities sure to strengthen their abilities in reading, comprehension, and math!
Ads & Coupons is a great way to help students become more confident and independent as they work through activities involving "real-life" situations. Students will learn the value of money-saving coupons, of shopping wisely by reading sale ads, and how information about special offers and events can be found in promotional ads. Relevant word problems and follow-up activities focus on everyday applications of these helpful survival skills.

Comprehension Crosswords Grade 6
from Edupress
EDP0190 (Middle School)
High interest reading selections team with the appealing crossword puzzle format to effectively build comprehension skills. From responding to what, when, where, and how questions at the first grade level to summarizing and paraphrasing information at the sixth grade level, students will learn to recall characters and facts, summarize main points, define main ideas and enrich their vocabularies. Topics for each book in this new series were selected to align with standards for each grade level in the areas of social studies, science and language arts.

Daily Comprehension: January
from Remedia Publications
REM1105 (Intermediate, Middle School, High School)
A lesson a day for the entire school year! Each 60-page book offers a different non-fiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by hands-on activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activites again! High-interest format.

The FUNbook of Grammar
from Remedia Publications
REM0104C (Intermediate, Middle School, High School)
Capture the interest of eager learners and reluctant learners alike with this humor-filled activity book guaranteed to put a grin on students' AND teachers' faces. Lots of amusing sentences provide opportunities to work with verbs, nouns, adjectives, antonyms, synonyms, punctuation, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and more!

25 Reproducible Literature Circle Role Sheets
from Teaching and Learning
TLC10141 (Intermediate, Middle School)
An exciting new approach for teaching literature! Twenty-five ready-to-use reproducible role sheets (including Fact Finder, Character Sketcher, Author Authority, Scene Setter, Conflict Connector and more!) make your discussions exciting and fun!

More Phonics
from Kids Can Press
KCP1682 (Primary)
Youngsters love Franklin! Now they can find him in this great primary workbook series featuring a fun collection of activities designed to reinforce basic math, reading and writing skills. In More Phonics, featured activities focus on sounding out long and short vowels, rhyming word families and more.

Improving Writing Through Revision
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3859 (Intermediate, Middle School, High School)
Focus on the revision stage of the writing process with activities that can be incorporated into any subject area that involves writing. The lessons and supporting materials allow students to practice the skills of revision to improve their writing.

BASIC/Not Boring Fourth Grade Book, The
from Incentive Publications
IPE4164 (Intermediate, Staff Room)
Finally! A book series that uses exciting adventures and delightful characters to help teach fundamental skills to grade students. This is the complete Grade Book resource you have been waiting for! Each book combines nearly 300 pages of exercises from the BASIC/Not Boring Series into a comprehensive resource teachers, parents, and students will love! Key skills for Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math are covered in each book. Also included are skills checklists, skills tests, and complete answer keys.

50 Writing Lessons That Work!
from Scholastic
SCH0590522124 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Motivating Prompts and Easy Activities That Develop the Essentials of Strong Writing
Boost creative and expository skills with this teacher-written resource! Lessons are designed to make students want to write well: organize their ideas, write focused paragraphs, make transitions, use strong adjectives and verbs, write dialogue, revise, and more! Includes reproducibles.

Directories & Guides
from Remedia Publications
REM0432 (Intermediate, Middle School, High School)
Help your students develop important life skills with these easy-to-use activities sure to strengthen their abilities in reading, comprehension, and writing!
Directories & Guides is a great way to help students become more confident and independent as they work through activities involving "real-life" situations. Students will get plenty of practice using a telephone directory, restaurant guide, mall directory, travel guide and more! Follow-up questions test students' understanding and reading comprehension.