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Grow your own sunflowers inside a pot that you decorate yourself!

This kids gardening activity is easy for kids and comes with everything you need inside

Illustrate and write your own gardening story in an included mini hardcover book! Use colorful markers and stickers to bring your personal sunflower story to life Growing sunflower seeds is easy and great for the environment!

Sunflowers are good for pollinators and can be harvested by animal friends or saved to plant even more yellow flowers

This gardening kit features kid-friendly and non-toxic gardening and crafting supplies

Ages: 6+

Contents Include: plastic flower pot with saucer, potting mix, mini book, sticker sheet, mini markers, instructions, sunspot sunflower seeds

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Help students learn about our nation’s leaders and innovators with an informative social studies book.

The American Leaders & Innovators: Colonial Times to Reconstruction workbook provides biographical sketches that help students identify American leaders and innovators of the past as real people. The biographies deal briefly and concisely with people who helped make the republic great. Each of the 19 units contain a reading selection, a key details page, and an activity page, featuring graphic organizers, map analysis, writing activities, research opportunities, and more. Profiles include Benjamin Franklin, Tecumseh, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Blanche Kelso Bruce.

This workbook is correlated to current national and state standards.

64 pages

Grade 6-Grade 12 / Ages 11-18

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Build word power with 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons!

Each lesson teaches ten words, and includes research-based activities that tap students' prior knowledge for greater understanding and give them multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them. Topics include synonyms, antonyms, compound words, homophones, root words, prefixes and suffixes, and much more. Watch reading skills soar!

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Do you wish you could add some EXTRA MAGIC to your stories? This book is packed full of words to help with creating characters, setting scenes, and writing EXCITING STORIES!

There’s also plenty of space to build your own word bank. Open this book and enter the WONDERFUL WORLD OF WORDS!

8 Years & up

96 pages

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Includes three and four-word phrases that mirror typical reading patterns, multi-syllabic sight words, such as away, under, and going, and it also combines the most common words with a wider range of other sight words. 50 each 8" x 2" Grades 1-4 Learn More

Includes three- and four-word phrases, including contractions; complex sight words including those often confused, such as because, before, and behind, and it also includes phrases found in questions and compound sentences. 50 each 8" x 2" Grades 1-4 Learn More

Includes three- and four-word phrases, including a wide range of common words such as went, our, and see; and it also uses known words to construct longer phrases found in conventional reading. 50 each 8" x 2" Learn More

Instant Words are the most common words for teaching reading, writing, and spelling.

Dr. Fry developed both the Fry Readability Graph and a list of "Instant Words," the words that readers need to be able to comprehend instantly because they are so commonly used.

1st - 3rd

Grades 64 pages

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Sight words are the most frequently used words in reading and writing. They are called "sight words" because they must be recognized instantly, on sight, for reading fluency. This series includes exercises that develop, reinforce, and strengthen students' ability to identify, understand, and use common sight words with correct spelling and word formation. Flash cards for all 100 grade-appropriate sight words can be found at the back of each book.

128 pages.

1st - 2nd Grades

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Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking processes and transform their thinking and reading skills into written words. This isn't just another set of writing lessons. It's a well-developed strategic plan peppered with fresh ideas and surprising activities that inspire students to do their best!

Students learn how to use paragraphs to develop ideas and write a complete story.

3rd - 4th

Grades 48 pages

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Develop students' writing skills and prepare them for the types of writing they will need for college and career readiness: opinion/argumentative, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing.

The in-depth units in this book provide step-by-step lessons that focus on these specific types of writing styles and provide examples and strategies to work through the writing process from opening sentence to conclusion.

160 pages each.

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The Write Stuff Grade 2 (Paperback)(11"x8.5"x0.35") by Tracie I. Heskett

Features:

*Explores Narrative, Opinion/Argumentative, and Informative/Explanatory Writing

*Introduces Diverse Writing Selections for Modeling and Analysis

*Targets Essential Paragraph Features and Critical Essay Components

*Encourages Feedback Through Peer Reviews, Self-Evaluations, and Teacher Input

*Lexile Levels and Standards Correlations Provided

160 Pages

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Equip students with the necessary skills for expanding and elaborating their ideas so they can write well-structured paragraphs and well-supported essays.

5th - 8th Grades

112 pages

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Written by 3rd grade teachers

Fun, engaging lessons that build as the year goes on

Teaches important concepts like narrative, informational, and opinion forms of writing

Easy "practice, assess, diagnose" framework teachers, parents, and tutors love

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Enrich content area reading and encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, history, and geography. A readers' theater is also included.

Topics include:

African Americans in Early America

Leaders Before the Civil War

War, Reconstruction, and Segregation

Leaders from the Civil War to the Great Depression

African American Heroes, 1865-1940

The Civil Rights Movement,

1945-1970 Moments and Movers in the Civil Rights Movement

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Enrich content area reading and encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of Native American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, history, and geography. A readers' theater is also included.

Topics include:

The Iroquois Confederacy

War and Revolution

Southeastern Tribes

The Western Plains

Conflict in the Southwest

The Far East

Native American Leaders

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Kids will love putting their own stamp on creativity! Use the four-color stamp pad and 71 sturdy wooden-handled rubber stamps to complete a fun-filled 25-page activity book to practice reading, writing, and early math skills. Create cards, personalize art projects, notebooks, and more with upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation stamps. All the supplies store neatly in a sturdy wooden tray. The possibilities are endless! Learn More

Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, 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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7th - 12th Grades

32 pages

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1(one) Glitter Pencil Grip - Color may vary.

Benefits Adults & Children, Righties & Lefties

#1 Grip recommended by therapists to help kids write

Designed by doctors, tested by kids, approved by parents

Fits on pencils, pens, crayons & many drawing and writing tools

Kids customize their school supplies and love the bright colors!

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The History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide contains everything you need for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of History Quest: Middle Times, the narrative history series, and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of the Middle Ages through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more.

Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy ancient literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from four cultures across the world. The History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history.

From the Fall of Rome to the Ottoman Empire, the study guide to History Quest: Middle Times is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with activities, world geography, great books, and writing. Young students study events and people from medieval times including the Middle East, China, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, Japan, India, Mali, Mongolia, Great Zimbabwe, Polynesia, and Russia.

This comprehensive curriculum combines history studies with geography, literature, hands-on activities, and writing. History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is a teacher/parent guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from the Fall of Rome to the 17th century CE.

This study guide includes: 34 weekly units with lessons for:

• History reading assignments from History Quest: Middle Times (#7344) and history encyclopedia History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)
• Terms & Concepts (learning goals)
• Map work
• Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork
• Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities
• Medieval history blackline maps
• Hands-on activity instructions
• Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations
• Unit schedules and supply lists
• Student coloring and activity pages

Grade level: 1st through 6th

Pages: 264

From Pandia Press

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Primary SubjectEnglish/Writing

Grade6 

FormatPaperback

Brand NameTeacher Created Resources

Dimensions11.0" x 8.5" x 0.38"

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the new study guide #8913 for this course includes important facts, vocabulary, and comprehension questions for each chapter, as well as enrichment activities such as mapwork, drawings, research, writing assignments, and more!

The Teacher Guide includes the following: answers to questions contained in the Student Guide (#8913), tests, and the answer key.

See also 8819, 8920, 8921.

127 pages. Grades 5-8 Learn More

Ages 5 - 8

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