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A phonics best-seller for over 30 years, Explode the Code series has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Explode The Code Book 2 introduces students to the sounds of initial and final consonant blends. The exercises begin with beginning l blends and progress through to ending blends. Students practice blending sounds to read and write one-syllable words. In addition, several review lessons are included. Skills Addressed • Initial blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, sk, sl, pl, cr, dr, gr, br, fr, pr, tr, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw) • Ending blends (mp, sk, st, fr, lt, nt, lf, lp, nd, nk) Grades K-4. From Educator's Publishing Service. Learn More

A phonics best-seller for over 30 years, Explode the Code series has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Explode The Code Book 1 1/2 reinforces and extends the sounds of short vowels learned in Explode The Code Book 1. The exercises begin with short a and then follow with shorti, short u, short e, and short o. Students practice blending sounds to read and write CVC words. In addition, several review lessons are included. Skills Addressed • Short a • Short i • Short u • Short e • Short o Recommended for Grades K-4. From Educator's Publishing Service. Learn More

A phonics best-seller for over 30 years, Explode the Code series has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Explode The Code Book 1 introduces students to the sounds of short vowels. The exercises begin with short a and then follow with short i, short u, short e, and short o. Students practice blending sounds to read and write CVC words. In addition, several review lessons are included. Skills Addressed • Short a • Short a with final consonant sounds • Short i • Short u • Short e • Short o Recommended for Grades K-4. From Educator's Publishing Service Learn More

A phonics best-seller for over 30 years, Explode the Code series has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Go for The Code Book C introduces students to the sounds of initial and final consonants. This book prepares students for reading and writing through letter formation, tracking skills, and phonemic awareness activities. Grades K-1. From Educator's Publishing Service. Learn More

A phonics best-seller for over 30 years, Explode the Code series has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Get Set for the Code, Book B Address early literacy skills and letter formation. Twenty-one consonants and their sounds are introuduced through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities. Grades K-1. From Educator's Publishing Service. Learn More

A phonics best-seller for over 30 years, Explode the Code series has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Get Ready for the Code, Book A Address early literacy skills and letter formation. Twenty-one consonants and their sounds are introuduced through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities. Grades K-1. From Educator's Publishing Service. Learn More

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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This three-in-one coding robot is ready for coding-filled rescue missions! Preschoolers save the day the coding way when they explore early STEM fun with the Switcheroo Coding Crew. Here' s how each mission with this coding toy for kids unfolds: kids draw a coding rescue challenge card, transform their coding robot into one of three vehicles (police car, fire truck, or construction vehicle) and code to save the day! Along the way, they'll learn new skills, from 100% screen-free STEM and coding to critical thinking, logic, and more! When they' re not saving the day in Code Mode, kids can also snap a new vehicle shell onto their coding robot and discover the light, sounds, and tricks of Play Mode. Each vehicle shell comes with its own cool secrets! The Switcheroo Coding Crew comes with a 46-piece interactive playset, so kids can follow along with challenges or design their own STEM and coding rescue challenges!

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Learn to code with Huey, your color-sensing robot pal. This kit offers kids a hands-on, screen-free introduction to the world of robotics and coding. With a built-in color sensor, Huey navigates around maps that you create using 81 puzzle-shaped tiles. Huey recognizes the colors of the 32 coding discs, which tell it whether to turn right, turn left, or continue straight. Huey makes fun sounds and movements as it travels around the map, revving its engine as it gets started, and doing a little dance when it reaches home. Huey can be muted for quiet play. Build one of the 18 maps included in the full-color, 16-page challenge book and figure out where to place the coding discs to help Huey find its way home. Make sure to watch out for the red ghosts! If you hit one, you’ll have to debug your code and try again. There are four levels of challenges, which are appropriate for kids ages 5 and up. The size of the map grows with the difficulty of the challenge. Beginner maps use nine map tiles, while advanced ones use all 81 tiles! You can also create your own maps and then challenge your friends to solve them. The possibilities are virtually infinite! Learn about how Huey’s color sensor works in the full-color, 4-page instruction manual. A bonus online challenge book includes more than 40 additional challenges — 60 challenges in all! Can you solve them all? Huey does not require a computer, tablet, or smartphone to operate.

 WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD — Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

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Build, code, and play — with mighty REX!

Assemble your own robotic model of the giant, powerful, ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex. Use the handheld controller to command your robot to move around in all directions, light up its eyes, and play sounds, including chowing down on food and even farting! The special Code+Control wireless unit enables you to either directly control REX in real time, or write and save sequences of commands for the robot to perform at the push of a button. No app or separate devices are required! 

REX makes hands-on STEM learning fun and accessible. First, follow the step-by-step instructions to assemble the robot and controller from 100 pieces using the included screwdriver and decorate your completed dino with stickers. At 11 inches tall and 19 inches long, REX really commands respect! 

Then, learn the function of each button on the controller and how to combine those functions together into programs for your robot. With two motors and a flexible tail, REX can move in one of two ways: walking or gliding. Put REX into guardian mode and it will use its infrared sensors to identify intruders then unleash a ferocious roar!

The process of assembling REX gives you an insider's look at various electrical components found inside many robots and by experimenting with the different commands your robot pal can follow, you'll get a clearer understanding of how robots work!

• Build a robotic T. rex dinosaur and wireless controller with Code+Control Technology
• Two control modes: Direct remote control and programming
• Screen-free coding: No app or other devices required  
• Includes lights, sounds, motors, and an infrared sensor
• Put REX in guardian mode to protect your bedroom from intruders
• A comprehensive, educational gift for dino lovers and robot enthusiasts at an accessible price.

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Designed for middle-school history curriculum, independent study, or tutorial aid, the American History series provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies.

Perfect to supplement your social studies curriculum, activities in Industrialization through the Great Depression include critical thinking, writing, technology, and more!

This 128-page social studies resource book includes topics such as:

• early American factories
• Morse code
• Henry Ford
• the roaring ’20s
• the New Deal program

Vocabulary words, time lines, maps, and reading lists are also provided.

Meets NCSS standards and is correlated to state, national and Canadian provincial standards.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.

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Learn the basics of coding! Download the Snap Circuits^® App and control Snap Circuits^® projects using your smartphone or tablet to control lights, sounds and a motor! Discover Coding is a great introduction to coding, using easy graphical coding. More advanced coders can move up to BLOCKLY coding.

For nearly 20 years, future engineers all over the world have learned basic electricity with Snap Circuits^® kits. Now, Snap Circuits^® is taking the next generation into the world of coding! Download the Snap Circuits^® App and control Snap Circuits^® projects using your smartphone or tablet to control lights, sounds and a motor! Discover Coding is a great introduction to coding, using easy graphical coding. More advanced coders can move up to BLOCKLY coding.

Three ways to control:

• Real-time control
• Easy-to-use graphical coding
• BLOCKLY code

Learn the basics of coding, then code your own patterns of lights, sounds and moving parts.

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Build and program an amazing robotic buddy!

Discover the world of robotics — an exciting, interdisciplinary field combining physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics. Choose between the four-wheeled rover or the two-wheeled robot Sidekick, and get programming! Transform your Sidekick into its other mode any time you want.

As soon as your Sidekick is assembled, you can begin programming its movements directly on a built-in keypad. You can also download the free Sidekick app (Android or iOS) to unlock all of the Sidekick’s capabilities.

You control your Sidekick’s movements, sounds, and even facial expressions. Have fun and drive your Sidekick by remote control or by using your device as a gyroscope.

Code programs for your Sidekick using an easy, visual interface or the simulator, which are both included in the app. Your Sidekick is tons of fun! It can even play music and dance.

Choose from several styles of music and watch your Sidekick bust a move. Sidekick’s microcontroller — the robot’s “brain” — has separate inputs for LED lights, a speaker, two motors (left and right), a battery, and an infrared sensor that helps the Sidekick know where it is in the included maze game.

As you assemble this robot, you will learn how the Sidekick’s functions relate to each of these elements. Learn about the history of robotics and real-word roving explorers and humanoid robots.

A full-color, 36-page step-by step illustrated manual helps kids assemble both of the models and use all of the functions of the app — all while teaching them about robotics in the real world.

The app requires a tablet (recommended) or smartphone running iOS or Android. Please check the app stores for compatibility and device requirements.

Ages 8+ 

Requires 4 AA batteries (not included)

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A chronicle of American indigenous life, this guide captures the history of the complex societies that lived in North America when European explorers first appeared on the continent. Not only a history of tribal nations, this exploration also includes profiles of famous Native Americans and their many contributions—from early leaders to superstar athletes, dancers, astronauts, authors, and actors. Readers will learn about Indian culture through hands-on activities, such as planting a Three Sisters Garden, making beef jerky in a low-temperature oven, weaving a basket out of folded newspaper strips, deciphering a World War II Navajo Code Talker message, and playing Ball-and-Triangle. An important look at life before the settlers until present day, this resource shows that Native American history is the history of all Americans.

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Spectrum's Complete Learning + Videos Grade 6 Workbook will help your child navigate through fourth grade and give you the tools you need to make sure your child learns everything they need to know for future math, reading, and language arts success.This innovative sixth grade workbook features lessons and activities that focus on math, reading, and language arts, as well as instructional videos to help strengthen skills needed for future academic success. Each chapter features chapter introductions that focus on the what, why, and how of each lesson, with standards-based drills and skill practice.

A QR code is available to scan after each lesson, linking to a free video that reinforces each topic—a great tool for visual learners. Parents love using this workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate the reading, ELA, and math book into hands-on lesson plans and activities—tracking student progress with the answer key in the back of the 6th grade workbook.

352 pages

Grade 6 / Ages 11-12

Features: Answer Key

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Spectrum's Complete Learning + Videos Grade 5 Workbook will help your child navigate through fourth grade and give you the tools you need to make sure your child learns everything they need to know for future math, reading, and language arts success.

This innovative fifth grade workbook features lessons and activities that focus on math, reading, and language arts, as well as instructional videos to help strengthen skills needed for future academic success. Each chapter features chapter introductions that focus on the what, why, and how of each lesson, with standards-based drills and skill practice.

A QR code is available to scan after each lesson, linking to a free video that reinforces each topic—a great tool for visual learners. Parents love using this workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate the reading, ELA, and math book into hands-on lesson plans and activities—tracking student progress with the answer key in the back of the 5th grade workbook. For more than 20 years, Spectrum® has provided solutions for parents and teachers who want to help their children get ahead and exceed learning goals. Spectrum supports your child’s educational journey every step of the way.

352 pages

Grade 5 / Ages 10-11

Features: Answer Key

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Spectrum's Complete Learning + Videos Grade 4 Workbook will help your child navigate through fourth grade and give you the tools you need to make sure your child learns everything they need to know for future math, reading, and language arts success.

This innovative fourth grade workbook features lessons and activities that focus on math, reading, and language arts, as well as instructional videos to help strengthen skills needed for future academic success. Each chapter features chapter introductions that focus on the what, why, and how of each lesson, with standards-based drills and skill practice.

A QR code is available to scan after each lesson, linking to a free video that reinforces each topic—a great tool for visual learners. Parents love using this workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate the reading, ELA, and math book into hands-on lesson plans and activities—tracking student progress with the answer key in the back of the 4th grade workbook.

352 pages

Grade 4 / Ages 9-10

Features: Answer Key

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Spectrum's Complete Learning + Videos Grade 3 Workbook will help your child navigate through third grade and give you the tools you need to make sure your child learns everything they need to know for future math, reading, and language arts success.

This innovative third grade workbook features lessons and activities that focus on math, reading, and language arts, as well as instructional videos to help strengthen skills needed for future academic success. Each chapter features chapter introductions that focus on the what, why, and how of each lesson, with standards-based drills and skill practice.

Features: Answer Key

352 pages

Grade 3 / Ages 8-9

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A History with 21 Activities

By Richard Panchyk, Foreword by Senator John McCain

Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. Much more than an ordinary history book, it is filled with excerpts from actual wartime letters written to and by American and German troops, personal anecdotes from people who lived through the war in the United States, Germany, Britain, Russia, Hungary, and Japan, and gripping stories from Holocaust survivors—all add a humanizing global perspective to the war. This collection of 21 activities shows kids how it felt to live through this monumental period in history. They will play a rationing game or try the butter extender recipe to understand the everyday sacrifices made by wartime families. They will try their hands at military strategy in coastal defense, break a code, and play a latitude and longitude tracking game. Whether growing a victory garden or staging an adventure radio program, kids will appreciate the hardships and joys experienced on the home front.

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It's a crashin', bashin' set of STEM challenges for Botley the Coding Robot! The worlds of coding and construction collide in the Botley Crashin' Construction Challenge. The engaging accessory set comes with two new attachments inspired by the world of construction vehicles: turn Botley into a wrecking ball or tow truck with the moveable crane attachment, or snap on the adjustable plow arms and send Botley on bulldozer adventures!

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Botley 2.0 helps kids as young as 5 learn to code through 100% screen-free play. Botley 2.0 knows multiple ways to code right out of the box— code him to move in six directions, play music, and even put on a light show! Discover Botley 2.0’s 16 fun interactions— transform him into a train, police car, ghost, and more! You can even test your memory with the lights and sounds of a game of Botley Says! Your little coders can build coding sequences of up to 150 steps, and go on adventures with a built-in sensor that lights up Botley in the dark! With the help of Botley 2.0’s 78-piece activity set, kids will be solving their first coding and STEM challenges in just minutes! Learn More

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman from the first century B.C., was convinced that the upright moral life was the happier life. The Republic became the blueprint of the U.S. government almost 2,000 years after it was written. In The Laws, Cicero defends his understanding of the upright moral life and becomes the foundation for the West’s philosophical discussion on the natural law. Studying such perennial works is a boon to everyone. From the publisher: Cicero’s dialogue The Republic was written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic. Drawing on Greek political theory, it embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, setting out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of Utopia. This is the finest complete English translation of either work for over sixty years. The Teacher Guide includes the following: answers to questions contained in the Student Guide, quizzes, tests, exams, and the answer key. Learn More

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman from the first century B.C., was convinced that the upright moral life was the happier life. The Republic became the blueprint of the U.S. government almost 2,000 years after it was written. In The Laws, Cicero defends his understanding of the upright moral life and becomes the foundation for the West’s philosophical discussion on the natural law. Studying such perennial works is a boon to everyone.

From the publisher: Cicero’s dialogue The Republic was written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic. Drawing on Greek political theory, it embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman.

Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, setting out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of Utopia.

This is the finest complete English translation of either work for over sixty years.

The Student Guide provides questions corresponding with the text and also provides an in-depth study that will aid the student in gaining a better understanding of classical studies.

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by Cicero (Author), Jonathan Powell (Introduction), Niall Rudd (Introduction, Translator)

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory, the work embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, and sets out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of utopia.

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