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Reading Detective Level A1 by The Critical Thinking Company contains standards-based higher order thinking activities to develop analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills to improve reading comprehension. Recommended for grades 5-6, softcover, 224 pages. Includes both student text and Teacher Key.

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Reading Detective Level B1 by The Critical Thinking Company contains standards-based higher order thinking activities to develop analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills to improve reading comprehension. Recommended for grades 7-8, softcover, 224 pages. Includes both student edition and Teacher Key.

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Dr. DooRiddles develops your child's fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations as it improves their spelling, vocabulary, reading, and problem solving skills. Children carefully read through clues in each riddle, analyzing connections within and between clues to figure out what is being described. Solving the riddles requires children to evaluate homonyms, synomyms, homophones, prefixes, roots and suffixes in order to deduce and spell whole and partial word answers. Grades PreK-2 activities may be read aloud to pre-readers. Gr. PreK-2. 48 pages.

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Dr. DooRiddles develops your child's fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations as it improves their spelling, vocabulary, reading, and problem solving skills. Children carefully read through clues in each riddle, analyzing connections within and between clues to figure out what is being described. Solving the riddles requires children to evaluate homonyms, synomyms, homophones, prefixes, roots and suffixes in order to deduce and spell whole and partial word answers. Gr. 4-7. 48 pages.

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Reading Strands shows parents how to talk about and analyze novels and stories. It provides parents with the basic skills they need to guide their children through any piece of fiction. Appropriate for the young child through 18 years old. In the extensive contents you'll see everything from ways to understand fiction (six units) to examining characters (ten units). For all grade levels. 138 pages, softcover. Learn More

Contains the novel as well as a parent's manual which dissects the book's structure and shows how to discuss literature with your children. This is a good way to see READING STRANDS in practice. Upper elementary grades and up.

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(Student Activity Book Only - Consumable, designed to be used as an extra workbook for additional student) .  See Item #2645 to purchase the complete program:  The Common Sense Press second grade reading program continues phonics instruction that will bring confidence and fluency to the beginning reader. The updated third edition is even easier to use with three new readers that give your student more practice in mastering phonics. Students will enjoy the exciting stories in the readers and use them to learn grammar, creative writing, higher-order thinking skills, and much more. The program includes a Teacher Book, a Student Activity Book, and 6 readers, each containing several stories all packaged in a convenient, attractive full-color box.​ There are three supplemental readers that can be used for additional practice, but are not necessary for the program.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans. Lessons require little or NO preparation! Instructions and activities for phonics, reading skills, grammar, creative writing, and higher-order thinking skills taken from six delightful readers! Includes a quick review of first grade phonics and instruction in advanced phonics.
• The "real book" read alouds needed for this program may be obtained through your library or purchased from bookstores or catalogs.
• Enrichment Activities included in The Red Book Program will challenge your student with thinking, writing, and creative activities that are ideal for the fluent reader and easily adaptable for the nonreader.
• Handwriting instruction teaches upper and lower-case letters, numbers, PLUS punctuation! Illustrated practice sheets encourage your students to do their best.
• Phonics Facts, Grammar Guides, and Punctuation Pointers keep students on track.
• Games, word-wheels, flip books, and MORE hands-on projects and activities are effective for ALL types of learners.
• Spelling lessons include spelling lists, word puzzles, and spelling tips.
• Assessments enable teachers to evaluate progress.Phonics Facts, Grammar Guides, Syllable Sense, and Punctuation Pointers aid students in remembering the tricks of the trade for reading, grammar, and spelling. 

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36 lessons include dictation or copying of literature passages from great books your children will love. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), and The Tale of Jeremy Vole (Stephen Lawhead), poetry selections and much more! The updated third edition is even easier to use with new lessons, journaling, and more. Includes all the language arts skills: reading, spelling (with suggested lists included), grammar, higher order thinking skills, creative writing, and handwriting in an easy-to-use format. For your convenience, Teacher Notes and answers are right in the margin of the teacher book. The Skills Index provides an easy reference.

Four Literature Links encourage students in vocabulary building, reading for content, and comprehension. Exciting activities bring each story to life and give your student many opportunities to be creative. ​​

• 36 weekly lessons (which includes 4 Literature Links) divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
• The following 4 books may be used for the Literature Links or you may use other stories which are included in the book:

1. The White Stallion, by Elizabeth Shub
2. Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans
3. Meet George Washington, by Joan Heilbroner
4. The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh

• Integrated language lessons include: phonics, reading, spelling, grammar, phonics review and higher order thinking skills.
• Focus on Spelling tips help with memorization of spelling rules. Suggested spelling lists are included for each lesson!
• Handwriting Instructions and work pages for cursive writing included! Teacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
• Phonics Facts, Grammar Guides, and Punctuation Pointers keep students on track.
• Review Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

The Yellow Student Activity Book is the perfect companion for the Yellow Teacher Book (Sold Separately, Item #0416) Everything in one book: student instruction, a place for writing, and a tool for easy record keeping. Allows for more independent work, a BONUS for teachers. The Yellow SAB provides Enrichment Activities such as word puzzles, analogies, logic/reasoning activities and more found ONLY in the SAB. (Answers are found in The Teacher Book.) Please note: The Student Activity Book cannot be used independently.

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​The Orange Book is a blend of dictation of literature passages, book studies, and special writing units. The story writing unit also includes instructions on making and binding their new book. The updated third edition is even easier to use with added editing and synonym practice to strengthen your student’s writing. Lessons integrate all the fourth grade language arts skills: grammar, creative writing, composition, spelling, higher-order reasoning, and study skills.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
• Teacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
• Everyday Words lessons contain dictation, grammar exercises, spelling tips, creative writing, and more.
• Five units that provide the opportunity for your student to apply skills through various styles.
• The five units include:

1. Research
2. Journal Writing
3. Poetry
4. Newspaper
5. Story Writing and Book Making

• Four Book Studies (listed in the order which they appear):

1. The Boxcar Children (Book #1) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
2. Wilbur and Orville Wright by Augusta Stevenson
3. Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson
4. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

• Each book study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
• Reviews Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

The Orange Student Activity Book is the perfect companion for the Orange Teacher Book (sold separately, Item #0418)! Everything in one book: student instruction, a place for writing, and a tool for easy record keeping. Allows for more independent work, a BONUS for teachers. The Orange SAB provides Enrichment Activities such as word puzzles, analogies, logic/reasoning activities and more found ONLY in the SAB. (Answers are found in The Teacher Book.) Please note: The Student Activity Book cannot be used independently.

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The Purple Book is a blend of dictation and unit studies including poetry, oral presentations, and speech making. The updated third edition is even easier to use with added vocabulary and spelling exercises. Lessons integrate all the fifth grade language arts skills: grammar, creative writing, composition, spelling, higher-order reasoning, and study skills.

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• eacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
• Everyday Words: Students hone in on grammar skills through dictation and writing exercises.
• Speech Making and Oral Presentation Units: Students learn how to make oral presentations such as speeches and stories. Poetry Unit: Additional creative writing and expression are taught extensively using poetry.
• Four Book Studies

1. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. Trumpet of the Swan by E.B.White
3. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
4. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

• Each book study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
• Review Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

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6th grade students mature in their language arts skills through 36 lessons. Passages from great literature encourage the reading of timeless classics. Dictation encourages expressive, creative writing. The updated third edition is even easier to use with new lessons that will introduce your student to additional classic literature. The study of suffixes and prefixes lays groundwork for skills needed at upper grade levels.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
• Teacher friendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed!
• Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher-order thinking, and study skills.
• Each lesson provides the opportunity for your students to apply their skills through research, creative writing, journal writing, etc.
• Four Book Studies

1. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Latham
2. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
3. Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
4. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

• Each Book Study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
• Two Units: Using the Library
• Writing a Research Paper
• Review Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments aid teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.

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The updated third edition is even easier to use with added exercises that will strengthen your student’s reading comprehension and writing skills. Based on dictation lessons, the Everyday Words unit teaches grammar, sentence structure, and sentence diagramming using classical literature for the middle school student. The Poetry Unit encourages an appreciation while memorizing, reciting, and analyzing various poems. In the Short Story Unit, students will analyze the elements of a story, develop a plot line, write dialogue and much more. In the Research Unit, students will learn how to do research in an easy to follow step by step plan for student and teacher.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
• Teacher friendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed!
• Three Unit Studies

1. Poetry
2. Short Story
3. Research

Three Book Studies

• The Star of Light by Patricia St. John
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
• Much Ado About Nothing - a play by William Shakespeare

• Each Book Study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
• Review Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments aid teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses.

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Primarily based on dictation, your student will learn all the components of language arts in one easy to use book. A five week Writing Unit prepares students for high school writing and research as well as continued study in prefixes, suffixes, and roots words. Four Book Studies are designed to expand understanding through various activities involving reading and writing skills. The updated third edition is even easier to use with new lessons and analogies study.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into daily plans. T
• eacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
• Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher order thinking, and study skills.
• Encouraging a love for classical literature, through dictation students learn punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, grammar, creative writing, and more.
• Spelling lists each week from the most Commonly Misspelled Words.
• Vocabulary Building exercises bring meaning to vocabulary in context making it useful in everyday language.
• Continued study of suffixes, prefixes, and root words prepares students for college testing.
• Four Book Studies (listed in the order they appear):

1. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
2. A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
3. Eric Liddell by Catherine Swift
4. God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew

• A five week Writing Unit prepares students for high school writing and research as well as continued study in prefixes, suffixes, and roots words.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
• Reviews Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

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Student Book Only - To Be Used with an additional student when using the Learning Language Arts Blue Book 1st Grade Complete Set or Teacher's Edition.

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The Common Sense Reading Program, the Blue Book, for first grade skills, is the perfect reading program for beginning readers. The updated third edition is even easier to use with clearer instructions and a colorized companion Student Booklet. Lessons include: phonics instruction using the "Successful Reading for Beginners" series. Your student begins reading stories right away! ​ 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans. Lessons require little or NO preparation! Read-aloud stories and "real books" provide a basis for language arts skills: phonics, reading, spelling, grammar, and higher order thinking skills, even handwriting included! The "real book" read alouds for this program may be obtained through your library or purchased from bookstores or catalogs. A systematic phonics approach includes: short and long vowels, consonant blends, word families, and sight words. Handwriting instruction teaches upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation! Illustrated practice sheets encourage your student to do his best. Games, word-wheels, flip books, and MORE hands-on projects and activities are effective for ALL types of learners. Assessments enable teachers to evaluate progress. Essential to the program, consumable Student Activity Books may be purchased separately.

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All the practicality, humor and fun of Wordsmith, but written for the younger student, ages 9-12. An easy to use writing course encouraging students to develop their writing skills as they participate in every role on a newspaper staff: editor, reporter, writer, etc. Children develop a love for writing as they express themselves through sentence and paragraph writing, persuasive writing, and much more. The third edition has a larger font and cleaner type for easier reading. With added examples and delightful new illustrations, developing writing skills is made fun and easy. Recommended for grades 4-6.

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The Teacher's Guide, Books A, B, & C, expands on the skills presented in the Get Ready, Get Set, and Go for The Code books, providing teachers with various options for instruction and reinforcement. The wide variety of activities may be adapted for whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one learning situations. Each lesson addresses the principles of effective reading instruction and follows the same easy-to-use format: Quick Review, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Completing Student Pages, Fluency, Comprehension, Writing, Reinforcement Activities

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Geographic literacy means more than memorizing maps, of course. It's the doorway to understanding other cultures and becoming informed members of the global community. Geographic Literacy: Maps for Memorization is a one-stop, comprehensive resource for helping students master the physical locations and characteristics of foreign nations and regions. Easy to integrate into any geography or history class, the program includes, for every region: Revised maps with up-to-date political boundaries and place names Important historical and cultural information Critical-thinking questions that supplement map memorization Materials that meet National Geography Standards Working between labeled maps and blank maps, students develop a facility for reading, labeling, and understanding the world around them. Take a look at the samples we've provided here, and you'll see why Geographic Literacy: Maps for Memorization is so successful. Now in its third edition!

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This study guide is recommended for grades 5th -7th. Suggested activities include comprehension questions, vocabulary, proof reading activities and more. Biblical references are included. Learn More

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Author: Rea Berg and Rebecca Manor

Recommended For: K-3rd Grade

This open-and-go teacher's guide makes it easy to use the best literature to teach the story of the United States. We have sifted through 150+ titles to choose the best books available. Now you and your homeschooled students can dive into engaging stories with beautiful illustrations as you travel through time to meet Leif Erikson, Benjamin Banneker, Myles Standish, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, and dozens of others. This teacher guide includes historical background, recipes, discussion topics, many supplemental book recommendations, website links, and much more. Homeschool students will learn about the people who shaped our nation's heritage beginning with the Indigenous Peoples who first settled the American continents and ending at the conclusion of the Civil War. 

Learning history is most useful when the curriculum and unit studies show us what we can aspire to and what we ought to avoid or correct.

 An invaluable resource, this homeschooling teacher's guide takes out all the guesswork so you can enjoy hours of reading great books together, learning about the formation of our country, and having valuable discussions that will help you connect with your kids.

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This teacher guide offers true college-prep level work. It features comprehensive study notes for each required book, discussion questions, vocabulary, web links, answer key, writing assignments, and more! Extensive study notes accompany each title with an emphasis on critical thinking, analysis, and writing. Also included are parental warnings for mature content found in The Kite Runner as well as some recommended books and movies. Literary analysis of the hallmark titles Uncle Tom's Cabin, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lost Names, The Red Badge of Courage, Night, and Hiroshima is also included.

Accompanying curriculum is recommended for 11-12th grade students due to the amount of reading, emphasis on critical thinking and writing, as well as the content of the time period. Award either 1 American History credit or 1 World History credit as well as 1 Literature credit (general survey).

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Originally published in 1944, Foster earned her reputation by her masterful display of "horizontal history"—telling the story of world events in the geo-political sphere, while giving as much importance to advances in science, medicine, music, literature, and exploration. Thus, while Abe Lincoln was a boy romping the woods of Kentucky, Thomas Jefferson was completing his eighth year as president, George III reigned in Great Britain and Napolean was about to meet his Waterloo. Beethoven and Sir Walter Scott were at the height of their creative powers, while Victor Hugo was staging plays at school. By the time Lincoln was old enough to help his father chop wood, other young boys and girls were being prepared for the future parts they would play. Harriet Beecher was reading anything she could get her hands on, Charles Darwin was collecting toads, crabs and shells, and the impoverished boy Dickens was working in a shoe blacking factory in London. When Lincoln opened his shop in Salem, David Livingstone was opening up deepest Africa, and thousands of Americans were opening up the West on the Oregon Trail. The spirit of freedom was moving around the globe as the abolitionist movement gained power in the States and serfdom saw its demise in Russia. Technologically the world was bursting with the invention of the telegraph, the railroad and the steamboat. With her whimsical and informative illustrations and timelines Foster has magnificently captured a remarkable age and a remarkable man. 345 pgs Learn More

Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Pre-K. A full-color workbook that includes basic concepts, writing and reading readiness, math readiness, kindergarten screening guide and a developmental checklist. These workbooks do not have the breadth or depth that separate programs for individual subjects would have. However, if you’re after basic skills mastery in the primary grades, this is a viable, cost-effective option. Teaching suggestions and answer keys included. 540 pages.Grade Pre-K. Learn More

Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Grade 1. Five subjects conveniently bound into one full color workbook. Subjects (English, reading comprehension, writing, reading skills [including spelling/vocabulary] and math) are divided into color-coded sections for easy identification. This series covers a great deal of material focusing, of course, on basic skills. These workbooks do not have the breadth or depth that separate programs for individual subjects would have. However, if you’re after basic skills mastery in the primary grades, this is a viable, cost-effective option. Teaching suggestions and answer keys included. 540 pages 1st grade. Learn More