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Continue your students’ study of a beautiful language and a lifetime of benefits in the same easy format as First Start French I. Develop your students’ vocabulary, strengthen their grammar, and expand their knowledge of the world.

First Start French II builds on the skills you developed in First Start French I. More extensive vocabulary, expanded grammar, and further cultural information will move your student toward a great foundation in French. More practice in reading French will inform your students about important topics in French history, geography, science, and the arts. The Teacher Manual #6274 includes hints and guidelines to keep you ahead of your student. A pronunciation guide and CD #6275 will give your student the guidance needed to develop a good accent. Six fun, traditional French songs help with grammar and vocabulary. Student book #6273

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The Student Book is included as an e-book on the Primary Arts of Language: Writing DVD-ROM and is for use with Primary Arts of Language: Writing Complete Package or Primary Arts of Language: Writing Teacher’s Manual.#5194 Or it may be purchased here 274 pages divided into 3 sections, spiral bound.From Institute for Excellence in Writing Learn More

Student Book for use with #5181 Primary Arts of Language: Reading package for a second student. Learn More

Focusing on the Lewis and Clark exploration, the expansion of the United States, and the California Gold Rush, Westward Expansion and Migration will show students how settlers packed up their families and made the long journey across the country to settle in new territories. Perfect to supplement your history curriculum, independent study, or at-home tutorials, this 128-page social studies resource book explores history, geography, and social studies with activities that involve critical thinking, writing, and technology.

By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media

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Assorted Pastime Puzzles --Past Times Wooden Puzzle. A fascinating wooden puzzle with a theme from days gone by. Ornamental, entertaining and educational. May be one of the following: Mathematic Mystery, Pyramid Power, Toppling Tower, or Tower of Hanoi. Learn More

Interactive Notebook: Earth & Space Science is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive science notebooks. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for earth and space science. The lessons cover units of study in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. This interactive approach to diagramming science concepts gives students many opportunities to create models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. This workbook:

• -Helps students record, store, and organize essential information
• -Serves as a resource for review and test prep
• -Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information
• -Supports Next Generation Science Standards
• -Correlates to current national, state, and provincial standards

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Add up the money in a wallet full of yen, fold an origami hat, and follow a maze through the sights of Kyoto! These and other playful activities for children ages 6 to 10 offer a warm welcome to the Land of the Rising Sun. A host of crosswords, jumbles, cryptograms, spot-the-differences, and other puzzles acquaint kids with Japanese geography, language, food, arts, sports, and festivals. Dover Original. Learn More

Head south of the border to explore a sunny world of puzzles and fun facts! Welcome to Mexico, land of tropical rain forests, volcanoes, deserts, and beaches — and a vibrant array of ancient and modern traditions. This book introduces kids ages 6 to 10 to fascinating aspects of Mexican geography, language, food, arts, sports, and festivals. Puzzles and activities range from dot-to-dots, crosswords, and spot-the-differences to easy directions for making piñatas and maracas. Cute illustrations offer plenty of opportunities for coloring. Dover Original. Learn More

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Discovery and Exploration for grades 5–8. This 64-page interactive notebook includes 19 lessons that cover four units of study: Discovery, Europeans Seek New Trade Routes to Asia, Spanish Exploration, and French and English Exploration of the New World. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. This workbook helps students record, store, and organize essential information and serve as resources for review and test prep.

The Interactive Notebook series for grades 5 through 8 is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive notebooks. Each book provides an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for the social studies classroom.

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Perfect for children ages 7–8, this workbook builds confidence in the growing understanding of language arts of second graders.

Objectives include familiarity with storytelling, collective nouns, informational text, punctuation, prefixes and suffixes, and pronouns. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, DK Workbooks: Language Arts is an innovative series of home-learning language arts workbooks that is closely linked to school curriculum and helps make learning easy and fun.

Paperback | Published by DK Children Feb 17, 2014 | 60 Pages | 8-1/2 x 11 | 6-8 years

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Perfect for children ages 6–7, this workbook supports the expanding language-arts skills of first graders. Among the topics covered are long and short vowel sounds. Writing sentences, understanding stories and poetry, letter blends, and verbs.

Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, DK Workbooks: Language Arts is an innovative series of home-learning language arts workbooks that is closely linked to school curriculum and helps make learning easy and fun. Each title is packed with exercises and activities to strengthen what children learn in school. With clear questions and supportive illustrations to help children understand each topic, the books provide practice to reinforce learning and understanding of key concepts, such as parts of speech, sentence structure, and sounds.

A parents’ section contains answers, tips, and guidance to provide support, and a certificate of achievement will reinforce confidence in kids by rewarding their accomplishments.

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Take students in grades 5–8 on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Exploring Australia! This 48-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Map projects and hands-on activities engage students in learning about the physical, political, and human geography of Australia. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. This book aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

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Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using World Civilizations and Cultures! This 96-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Hands-on activities, research opportunities, and mapping exercises engage students in learning about the history and culture of civilizations around the world. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. Aligned to Common Core State Standards, NCSS standards and national and Canadian provincial standards. By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media Learn More

Take students in grades 5–8 on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Exploring Africa! This 48-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Map projects and hands-on activities engage students in learning about the physical, political, and human geography of Africa. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level.

Aligned to Common Core State Standards, NCSS standards and national and Canadian provincial standards.

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The Civil War: The War Between the States resource book for middle grades provides reading selections, photographs, and graphic organizers to bring this era to life for students. This Civil War book for middle school encourages students to examine the historical decisions of the leaders of the time, as well as everyday people, while completing activities that develop reading comprehension skills. By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media

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Help students learn about our nation’s history with a social studies book about the American Revolution. The American Revolution book by Mark Twain for fifth to eighth grades provides information on the events leading up to the American Revolution, the American victory, and the beginning of the United States government. This social studies resource book helps students examine the historical decisions of leaders of the time, as well as everyday people, while providing activities to develop reading comprehension skills. By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media Learn More

Teach students the importance of the U.S. Constitution with the help of Mark Twain’s U.S. Constitution book for middle and upper grades. Understanding the US. Constitution for fifth to twelfth grades helps students become informed citizens by delving into the history and structure of the U.S. Constitution. This social studies resource book covers the birth of the Constitution, the branches of government, the articles, and the amendments. Full copy of the U.S. Constitution and a sample test are included. By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media

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Interactive Notebook: U.S. Constitution is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive notebooks. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for the study of the U.S. Constitution. The book features mini-lessons, correlating interactive notebook pages, and informational text reading selections. The lessons cover the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention, and the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution. This interactive approach to diagramming social studies concepts gives students many opportunities to create models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. Correlated to current national, state, and provincial standards. By Carson Dellosa/ Mark Twain Media

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myPerspectives Homeschool Bundle Grade 11 American Literaturep>Publisher Description:

Homeschool Bundle includes: Students Edition Teacher's Edition complete Digital Path access

myPerspectives is a brand new English language arts curriculum for Grades 6 thru 12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness.</pHigh School TEs are 950+ pgs, hc; Student Books are three-hole punched and 1000+ pgs, pb, in two volumes.

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Publisher Description:

Homeschool Bundle includes: Students Edition Teacher's Edition complete Digital Path access

myPerspectives is a brand new English language arts curriculum for Grades 6 thru 12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness.</pHigh School TEs are 950+ pgs, hc; Student Books are three-hole punched and 1000+ pgs, pb, in two volumes. From Savvas, formerly Pearson.

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Close reading, literary analysis, composition, and grammar are scaffolded through this series which provides options for whole-class, small-group, and independent learning. Bundles include a hardback Teachers Edition, soft cover Student Book(s) and one-year access to digital resources, assessments, and data. Publisher Description: Homeschool Bundle includes: Students Edition Teacher's Edition complete Digital Path access

myPerspectives is a brand new English language arts curriculum for Grades 6 thru 12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness.

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myPerspectives is a brand new English language arts curriculum for Grades 6–12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness.

Homeschool  Bundle includes the Students Edition, Teacher’s Edition, and complete Digital Path access.</pmyPerspectives ™ ELA is a print & digitally blended comprehensive solution for next generation learners. The cutting-edge digital tools make the teaching of English Language Arts culturally, socially, and technologically relevant and engage students today who are digital natives to a whole new approach to learning that moves them beyond their own experiences. This new student-centered curriculum focuses on a consistent approach that improves learning and achievement.

Overview Students read texts and engage in activities that inspire thoughtful conversation, discussion, and debate. Students will encounter authors’ perspectives as they read literature from across time periods and cultures. As students read the literature and engage in activities in myPerspectives, they will formulate—and defend—their opinions as they develop their own perspectives. In each unit of study, students will read classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction texts, and view/listen to media selections, all related to an Essential Question. Students will use technology to interact with texts and activities, and they can write directly in their Student Edition to make interaction with texts more meaningful.

myPerspectives… • promotes student ownership of their learning through goal setting, student choice, and reflection • links together knowledge, skills and learning behaviors • is backwards designed from defined learning outcomes with learning activities, instruction, and assessments-- always feeding back to the Performance Tasks and Performance-Based Assessment • provides opportunities to personalize for learning in response to student performance and need Research shows that increasing student engagement increases student achievement. Student-centered learning environment is a cornerstone of this program.

myPerspectives allows students to take ownership of their learning and focuses instruction to help students develop independent reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in the context of meaningful projects.

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Reinforce geography concepts, such as location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region, with World Geography Puzzles: Countries of the World. The units profile selected countries and then give students an opportunity to reinforce their knowledge by completing a variety of fun and challenging puzzles like crosswords, word searches, hidden messages, and more. Each country profile includes basic information such as capital, population, and type of government. It also offers descriptions of what makes each country unique, such as landmarks and physical features, industries, wildlife, and historical importance.

These activities can be used as supplements to classroom or homeschool units focused on certain countries, or they can be a fun addition to any geography or social studies lesson. Students will enjoy learning about the countries of the world while completing these fun puzzle units.

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Strengthen students’ knowledge of basic math operations, fractions, decimals, geometry, algebra, metrics, and more! Mathematics Puzzles is a fun homeschool or classroom supplement that presents math skills reinforcement in crosswords, word searches, hidden number puzzles, and hidden message puzzles. Quizzes and answer keys are also included.

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