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Includes NEW topics to intrigue and inspire; Provides high-interest writing, editing, and proofreading activities; Models different types of writing; Boosts writing success with handy checklists and guide sheets. Grades 10-12. From Walch Education. Learn More

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An easy-to-use guide which provides background, vocabulary, and discussion questions for each of the chapters in Famous Men of Rome Text (sold separately). The Greenleaf Guide helps to set your study of ancient Rome in a Biblical context. How do the various figures from Rome’s history match up to God’s standards of justice or righteousness? There is background material, vocabulary, and suggested discussion questions for each chapter in Famous Men of Rome. Also included are suggested supplementary readings including selections from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, the Aeneid, and David Macaulay’s City. Can be used for elementary grades and up.

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Greenleaf Press Guide to the Old Testament. This outline will guide you from Genesis to Nehemiah chronologically. 196 Bible readings, questions, and suggestions for further study. Appropriate for elementary through high school.

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Evaluating Writing is the teacher's manual to evaluating Writing Strands assignments. This manual addresses some concerns and conditions that cause children to fear and disdain writing, including: fear and insecurity, motivation, concentration, thinking through ideas, talking about mechanical problems, following directions, not wanting to edit, proofreading and what to do with a child that "just doesn't want to write". It has rough drafts, second drafts and finished papers written by homeschoolers using our exercises. Softcover, 96 pages, indexed. From National Writing Institute. Learn More

For seventh grade skills and up, Wordsmith is the perfect companion to Learning Language Arts Through Literature. For young people who want to improve their writing skills, step-by-step instructions are provided that will help any writer improve his techniques. The introduction provides a brief review of grammar followed by instruction on building stronger sentences, exercise in descriptive and narrative writing, creating dialogue, story writing, and writing from a particular point of view. Plus, the essential skills of every good writer, practice in proofreading and revising. From Common Sense Press. Learn More

Find the Errors II. Students enjoy this high school introduction to proofreading and, along the way, improve their writing skills. Each book contains several dozen student exercises, in the form of humorous anecdotes, as well as pretests and posttests, teachers' guides, and answer keys. This book focuses on verb tense shifts, pronoun/antecedet agreement, comma usuage, and more. Includes a pretest and a posttest for easy assessment. Grades 9-12. From Walch Education.

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Don’t just read about history — experience it! Color a picture of Viking warrior, make an edible oasis, create a Moorish ruler’s turban and Aztec jewelry and more. Designed to turn the accompanying book (The Story of the World, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages, sold separately) into a complete history program, this Activity Book provides you with comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional readings in history and literature, and plenty of simple, hands-on activities — all designed for grades 1-4. If you purchase this Activity Book, you have permission to copy the maps and coloring pages for use within your own family. Tests and Audio Book also available (sold separately) Learn More

Stop dreading math lessons! Picture your child enjoying math and finishing assignments in addition and subtraction, multiplication, and decimals with the colorful, best-selling Horizons 2nd Grade Math Set. Highly acclaimed, this proven math course includes 160 lessons within two student workbooks and a two-part teacher's guide. From Alpha Omega. Learn More

The Exciting World of Creative Writing by Christian Liberty Press Grades 7th-8th, 121 pages. This workbook is an excellent foundation for developing creative writing skills. Topics covered include the tools needed for writing, review of sentence structures, poetry stylesl and techniques, writing dialogue, outlining a story, writing powerful beginnings and endings, rewriting and proofreading, manuscript preparation and critiques, copyrights, getting published, and a Christian philosophy of writing. Learn More

Don’t just read about history—experience it! Color a picture of Captain Cook in Botany Bay, design an Ottoman pattern, play the Battle of Bunker Hill board game, and pan for gold. Designed to turn the accompanying book The Story of the World, Volume 3: Early Modern Times (sold separately) into a complete history program, this Activity Book provides you with comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional readings in history and literature, and plenty of simple, hands-on activities — all designed for grades 1-4. If you purchase this Activity Book, you have permission to copy the maps and coloring pages for use within your own family. Tests and Audio Book are also available (sold separately). Learn More

Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 6 covers grade-level skills in these areas: • capitalization • language usage • punctuation: apostrophes • punctuation: commas • punctuation: periods • punctuation: quotation marks • other types of punctuation • spelling Daily Paragraph Editing “extras” include: • a reproducible student language handbook that provides simple, clear rules and examples of their application to guide students in correct use of the mechanics, grammar, and spelling skills covered in the daily paragraphs. • a page of reproducible proofreading marks that models the standard markings used to correct and edit text. • an editing checklist to guide students in reviewing and revising their own writing or that of a peer. • an assessment rubric to guide teachers in conducting a holistic evaluation of student writing. . Grade 6. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

No matter how much teachers may talk about the importance of solid writing skills, nothing beats giving students the opportunity to make their own edits. Find the Errors! is a light-hearted approach to this age-old challenge. 37 passages contain short, humorous anecdotes, letters, crossword puzzles and more. But each passage is also riddled with errors! Now it's up to your students to go into those passages and identify and annotate the mistakes. They'll work on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and style. For middle school students, this is a very successful way to engage them, while giving them a palpable sense of accomplishment as they improve each passage. Extensive teacher support includes grammatical rules, answer keys, additional activities, and tests for easy assessment. Reproducible Teacher Book. Grades 7-9. From Walch Education. Learn More

This book contains both the Teacher Score Keys and Test Keys for Starline Press Earth Science 9 Student Books 901-912. Learn More

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