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Five planes vanish into the blue ocean. Two crews disappear from a ship. Strange things can happen when you enter the Bermuda Triangle.

Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge.

With DK Readers, children will learn to read—then read to learn! Lev 3 Reader

Ages 7-8

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Learn about the lives of unusual flora with Plants Bite Back, this Level 3 DK Reader. Help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about the fascinating plants from around the world that survive by attacking. The highly pictorial stories have lively illustrations and a rich vocabulary with challenging sentence structure - ideal for children who are just beginning to read alone. Plants Bite Back is perfect for reading aloud and you'll both love the playful images. Ages 5+ Learn More

Read the incredible true story of the "unsinkable" ship that sank. Level 3 is for children able to read on their own. The stories are exciting and captivating in order to develop the child's own desire to read. More text and more complex sentence structure are presented, with information spreads to help develop the reader's general knowledge. The choice of subject widens to match the broadening of children's experiences and interests. Whether your child is learning how to read or wants to practice and improve his or her reading skills,DK Readers have the right story for developmentally appropriate reading at home. This innovative range of graded readers combines a highly visual approach with stories that children will want to read. Easy-to-read stories for beginning readers with word repetition progress to stories with rich vocabulary and more challenging sentence structure. There's a DK Reader for every child! Learn More

Stunning DK photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging age-appropriate stories in Eyewitness Readers a multi-level reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Ages 6-8. Learn More

Proficient readers will be drawn to this Level 4 Reader, which introduces them to the mysterious world of Egyptian and Incan mummies. As they learn more about ancient burial processes, kids will be exposed to rich vocabulary and challenging sentences, helping them improve their reading skills. Ages 8-10. 48 pages Learn More

The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary. Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. The grades 6–12+ remedial (RX) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. (RX activities are "prescriptive" to help underperforming students in grades 6–12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is grades 4–6; story content is grades 6+.) Teaching Support Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards. Grades 6-12+ 192 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

This teaching guide is written at the challenging level. The challenging level focuses on a variety of reading strategies to help students construct a meaningful literature experience as well as develop critical thinking and academic skills. Activities include chapter summaries, strategy pages, tests and more. Answers are included as well as notes to the teacher. Learn More

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 1. Practice makes perfect! That is the case with standardized tests too. Spectrum® Test Practice for Grade 1 includes comprehensive and "real" first grade practice tests for language arts and math that are Common Core aligned. Each test simulates the actual testing experience by including directions, examples, test questions, and a separate answer sheet with "bubbles" to be filled in for the answers. The online resources include language arts and math practice tests for your individual state's alignments. Answer key included. Reproducible. 160 pages. Learn More

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 2. Practice makes perfect! That is the case with standardized tests too. Spectrum® Test Practice for Grade 2 includes comprehensive and "real" second grade practice tests for language arts and math that are Common Core aligned. Each test simulates the actual testing experience by including directions, examples, test questions, and a separate answer sheet with "bubbles" to be filled in for the answers. The online resources include language arts and math practice tests for your individual state's alignments. Answer key included. Reproducible. 160 pages. Learn More

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 4. Practice makes perfect! That is the case with standardized tests too. Spectrum® Test Practice for Grade 4 includes comprehensive and "real" fourth grade practice tests for language arts and math that are Common Core aligned. Each test simulates the actual testing experience by including directions, examples, test questions, and a separate answer sheet with "bubbles" to be filled in for the answers. The online resources include language arts and math practice tests for your individual state's alignments. Answer key included. Reproducible. 160 pages. Learn More

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 5. Practice makes perfect! That is the case with standardized tests too. Spectrum® Test Practice for Grade 5 includes comprehensive and "real" fifth grade practice tests for language arts and math that are Common Core aligned. Each test simulates the actual testing experience by including directions, examples, test questions, and a separate answer sheet with "bubbles" to be filled in for the answers. The online resources include language arts and math practice tests for your individual state's alignments. Answer key included. Reproducible. 160 pages. Learn More

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 6. Practice makes perfect! That is the case with standardized tests too. Spectrum® Test Practice for Grade 6 includes comprehensive and "real" sixth grade practice tests for language arts and math that are Common Core aligned. Each test simulates the actual testing experience by including directions, examples, test questions, and a separate answer sheet with "bubbles" to be filled in for the answers. The online resources include language arts and math practice tests for your individual state's alignments. Answer key included. Reproducible. 160 pages. Learn More

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 7. Practice makes perfect! That is the case with standardized tests too. Spectrum® Test Practice for Grade 7 includes comprehensive and "real" seventh grade practice tests for language arts and math that are Common Core aligned. Each test simulates the actual testing experience by including directions, examples, test questions, and a separate answer sheet with "bubbles" to be filled in for the answers. The online resources include language arts and math practice tests for your individual state's alignments. Answer key included. Reproducible. 160 pages. Learn More

The Middle Ages (400 – 1600) – This engaging story tells world history in a compelling, fun way. Who discovered chocolate? What happened to the Giant Fovor of the Mighty Blows? Why did the Ottoman Turks drag their war ships across dry land? Susan Wise Bauer leads you on a fascinating journey through the cultures, conflicts, and ideas that continue to shape our world. This read-aloud book is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children, or for older readers to enjoy alone. ( Turn it into a full-year curriculum with the accompanying Activity Book (sold separately), which provides coloring pages, map exercises, review questions, reading lists (fiction and nonfiction), research ideas, and fun crafts & projects. Parents of older students (4th grade and up) can use the Tests (sold separately) to evaluate progress, with multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. Learn More

This unit on Homer's Iliad is the first taught in classical literature. Requires about an hour a day of class time as well as 30 minutes to an hour of reading at night. Includes references, quotations, spelling, vocabulary, commentaries, questions, writing assignments and more. Recommended for 6th grade and up. Published by Logos. Spiral bound. Learn More

Math Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math. Students read a short story that includes a chart, table, or graph. Next they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the math concept and develop their critical thinking (comprehension) skills. Students can’t just scan the story for answers—they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the chart, table, or graph to explain and support their answers. Stories are age-relevant, high-interest, and show students that math is integral to everyday activities. Teaching Support: Includes general and student introductions, a lesson that explains the concept of evidence, a chart of topics and key ideas to help select activities, and detailed answers. 110 pages. Grades 3-4. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Math Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math. Students read a short story that includes a chart, table, or graph. Next they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the math concept and develop their critical thinking (comprehension) skills. Students can’t just scan the story for answers—they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the chart, table, or graph to explain and support their answers. Stories are age-relevant, high-interest, and show students that math is integral to everyday activities. Teaching Support: Includes general and student introductions, a lesson that explains the concept of evidence, a chart of topics and key ideas to help select activities, and detailed answers. Grades 5-6. 128 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

This teacher's manual gives a step-by-step outline for the entire SWR program. Wanda Sanseri, a homeschool educator with experience as a professional classroom instructor and a private tutor, shows how to teach reading the "write" way. Some children learn to read no matter what a teacher does. By phonetically teaching spelling from the start as the backbone for reading, this program can teach all children, regardless of learning styles, to read and spell. Spell to Write and Read is designed as a the overall step-by-step teacher's guide that accompanies the specific word list in WISE Guide (sold separately, Item #2784). SWR covers preparation, philosophy, pointers for preschoolers, reading aloud, evaluating achievement levels and teaching penmanship with phonograms. It illustrates in scripted detail the spelling dictation process, covers instructions and examples for the teaching spelling rule reference pages, provides ideas for reading assignments, explains ways to improve comprehension skills, and teaches you how to help refine composition skills. Appendices include Wanda's Senate Hearing Speech on Literacy, the Diagnostic Spelling Scale, sample Reference Pages, a summary of keys to the language, detailed lesson plan ideas, a bibliography, glossary, and an index. From Back Home Industries. Reviewer Cathy Duffy lists it in her newest curriculum guide as one of her Top 100 Picks! Learn More

Accurate to the minute and featuring an AM/PM digital display window, this interactive clock teaches both analog and digital time. Geared clock's digital display window keeps track to the minute with the clock hands, helping children learn both methods of time keeping. Color-coded hour and minute hands match the color-coded window shutters. Keep the window closed and quiz your child on clock reading. Includes an Activity Guide. Ages 3+. From Learning Resources. Learn More

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This teacher's guide will provide you a road map in choosing the best tales, myths, and fiction for your homeschooling children, all with an eye towards character development. We know that reading aloud is important for nurturing academic skills, but even more essential, the stories we choose to tell our children will help shape their moral imaginations. Lists of wonderful books and homeschooling curriculum for multiple levels are paired with discussion prompts designed to draw character lessons out of the stories. Each title has been picked for its literary value as well as the character traits exhibited by the heroes and heroines.

Additionally, lesson plans make it easy to incorporate these homeschooling books into your family reading time, while spurring discussions that will jump off the pages and impact real life. Bible verses are provided along with memorization cards to make it easy to incorporate these essential truths into your child's daily habits. Use this guide as a reference for trips to the library, to help add depth to family read-aloud time, as a character development curriculum, and more. This homeschooling teacher guide is not designed to be used in any standard amount of time, feel free to use at your own pace.

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Focus on World History is a comprehensive program for students new to world history. The five volumes in the series trace the story of humankind from the dawn of early man in Africa right up to contemporary issues in the 21st century. Guided by the National Standards for History, each unit includes background material and student activities that build skills in decision-making, comprehension analysis, contrasting, sequencing, interpreting, research, mapping, and role playing. The pages of Focus on World History are filled with photographs, maps, charts, drawings, primary source documents, worksheets, and engaging reading selections. Each volume includes an answer key, glossary, assessment, and suggestions for additional activities and resources. Topics in this volume include: Early human communities; Emergence of agricultural societies; Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Greece; The great empires of Persia, China, India, and Rome; The emergence of major religions. Grades 7-12. From Walch Education. Learn More

Focus on World History is a comprehensive program for students new to world history. The five volumes in the series trace the story of humankind from the dawn of early man in Africa right up to contemporary issues in the 21st century. Guided by the National Standards for History, each unit includes background material and student activities that build skills in decision-making, comprehension analysis, contrasting, sequencing, interpreting, research, mapping, and role playing. The pages of Focus on World History are filled with photographs, maps, charts, drawings, primary source documents, worksheets, and engaging reading selections. Each volume includes an answer key, glossary, assessment, and suggestions for additional activities and resources. Topics in this volume include: The fall of major empires in Rome and China; The emergence and spreading of Islamic civilization; Growth of major religions; Trade and travel around the world; Rise of civilizations in Mesoamerica and South America. Grades 7-12. From Walch Education. Learn More

Focus on World History is a comprehensive program for students new to world history. The five volumes in the series trace the story of humankind from the dawn of early man in Africa right up to contemporary issues in the 21st century. Guided by the National Standards for History, each unit includes background material and student activities that build skills in decision-making, comprehension analysis, contrasting, sequencing, interpreting, research, mapping, and role playing. The pages of Focus on World History are filled with photographs, maps, charts, drawings, primary source documents, worksheets, and engaging reading selections. Each volume includes an answer key, glossary, assessment, and suggestions for additional activities and resources. Topics in this volume include: Expanding exchanges and cultures of Asia European culture and society redefined Africa south of the Sahara States and civilizations in the Americas Learn More

Focus on World History is a comprehensive program for students new to world history. The five volumes in the series trace the story of humankind from the dawn of early man in Africa right up to contemporary issues in the 21st century. Guided by the National Standards for History, each unit includes background material and student activities that build skills in decision-making, comprehension analysis, contrasting, sequencing, interpreting, research, mapping, and role playing. The pages of Focus on World History are filled with photographs, maps, charts, drawings, primary source documents, worksheets, and engaging reading selections. Each volume includes an answer key, glossary, assessment, and suggestions for additional activities and resources. Topics in this volume include: Empires and societies of Eurasia; European Renaissance and Reformation; Causes and consequences of the age of revolutions; Interactions and conflicts between Europe and Asia. Grades 7-12. From Walch Education. Learn More