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This box set includes the hardback edition of the following titles: Ancient Greeks, Castles, Celts, Digging Up the Past, Egyptians, Iron Age, Maya, Romans, Stone Age, and Vikings.

Series: Beginners How many eyes do spiders have? What do fire fighters wear? What kind of truck can transport the space shuttle? Find the answers to these questions and lots more in these exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own

Age 6 years and up

Recommended for grades 6-8

100% Unique Content! No overlaps in matching Teacher Guide #8665 and Student Packet.

This student packet features multiple-level reproducibles that offer solutions based on the latest reading strategies.

This packet includes content-rich activity sheets, quizzes, and a final exam for direct student use.

44 + pages

• Prereading activities
• Vocabulary activities,
• Study guide
• Graphic Organizer
• Literary Analysis
• Writing Activities
• Critical and Creative thinking challenges
• Comprehension quizzes
• Unit test
• Answer key
• Scoring rubric

The world is at your fingertips! This theme-based writing curriculum allows students to experience world history through cultural literature and the study of famous people and events while learning to write with the Structure and Style® writing method. Offering a full year of instruction for students in grades 6–8, these lessons cover all nine IEW Units. Vocabulary cards, literature suggestions, and access to helpful PDF downloads are also included.

From Institute for Excellence in Writing

Enter the world of the ancients from the stately halls of Rome to the mysterious pyramids of Egypt with Outmatched: Ancient History! Players choose which cards to play to test their opponents’ knowledge and gain points. Outwit, outlearn, and outmatch your adversaries to win and become a master of ancient history. Contains eight decks of cards including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greece: Classical and Archaic, Greco-Roman World, Israel and Judah, Mesopotamia, Rome, and Rome: Fall of the Republic. A perfect companion to Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons!(#2235)

Grades 3-12 From Institute for Excellence in Writing

This powerful and inspiring seminar will transform the way you teach writing to children (and perhaps your own writing as well)! You'll learn how to incrementally teach students to write with clear structure and compelling style. Begin with the basics—rewriting a paragraph—and continue all the way into advanced creative and essay writing. Learn how to nurture excellence in writing and thinking in students of any age

Whether your students are eager learners or reluctant writers, the award-winning Teaching Writing: Structure and Style video seminar will give you the tools you need to confidently teach your students to write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively. Teachers or teaching parents of students in grades K–12 and beyond will learn how to effectively teach their students to outline and summarize, generate cohesive paragraphs, create stories ,produce reports and critiques, develop essays, translate their thoughts and ideas into writing, vary sentence structure, use interesting vocabulary, and add literary devices.</p>

This complete package includes twelve Forever Streaming* Videos : nine streaming videos of the entire Teaching Writing: Structure and Style teacher training course, providing instruction on the nine structural models and multiple stylistic techniques (14 hours total viewing time—may be watched all at once, or viewed one at a time throughout the school year) three streaming videos of sample Student Workshops at four different grade levels to help you with that first lesson

Premium Membership that allows you access to the following for one year from the date of activation: streaming video of the entire Teaching Writing: Structure and Style teacher training course streaming video of sample Student Workshops at four different grade levels to help you with that first lesson online Master Classes taught by Andrew Pudewa free access to our online the IEW Checklist Generator™ audio MP3 downloads of Andrew Pudewa’s most popular conference talks several PDF downloads content updated annually in July TWSS Seminar Workbook, which serves as the guide for the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style and contains charts, word lists, sample lesson plans, and more! *Forever Streaming is available from IEW.com as long as it is needed by the original purchaser. Nontransferable.

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This teacher guide contains gentle Socratic questions designed to prompt discussion and discovery. Beautiful drawings of indigenous animals are also included which will familiarize students with some remarkable creatures, their habitat and habits, cultivating respect and wonder for the natural world. Geographic elements include country maps and flags for children to cut out, paint or color, encouraging journaling of all they are learning.

Part One covers Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. In Asia we explore China, Japan, Thailand, and India. In Africa we visit Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ghana. This course includes nature study, folktales, fables, music, art, poetry, and history.

Each country visited also includes a Library Connection, as well as History and Biography suggestions, so that parents can expand the study with additional recommendations. Each chapter in the teacher guide concludes with a fun foray into the cuisine of the country with recipes, photos, and links to create a memorable evening visiting unique culinary creations from around the world.

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This teacher guide contains gentle questions designed to prompt discussion and discovery. Geographic elements include country maps and flags for children to cut out, paint or color, encouraging journaling of all they are learning. Beautiful drawings of indigenous animals will familiarize students with some remarkable creatures, their habitat and habits, cultivating respect and wonder for the natural world.

Continue your journey around the world in this homeschooling curriculum covering South America and Europe! In Europe you and your children will travel through France, Spain, Italy, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Great Britain. In South America: Ecuador, Chile, Peru, and Brazil. Along with award-winning literature, this course includes nature study, folktales, fables, music, art, poetry, and history.

Each country visited also includes a Library Connection, as well as History and Biography suggestions, so that parents can expand the study with additional recommendations. Each chapter in the guide concludes with a fun foray into the cuisine of the country with recipes, photos, and links to create a memorable evening visiting unique culinary creations from around the world.

The award-winning storyteller, May McNeer brings her delightful style to the amazing, wonderful, and dramatic story of California. A classic book revived from the mid-twentieth century, McNeer’s history is made extraordinary by the pairing with a master lithographer–Cornelius DeWitt–who creates sweeping spreads of the Golden state’s dramatic story. California’s stunning coastline, its agriculture, Missions, giant redwoods, Rancherias, and the wild days of the Gold Rush, are vividly and unforgettably brought to life in this lovely reissue.

36 pages

Paperback

From Beautiful Feet

Recommended for all ages

Teacher Guides

Teacher guides provide the framework for the novel, including any background information necessary to prepare students for the text. Discussion questions help you delve into the novel's plot, conflict, theme, and character motivations/interactions. Plus, they're designed to elicit student thought, discussion, and participation!

Time-saving, inspiring lesson plans provide a comprehensive novel unit—created by teachers for teachers. The legwork is done for you. The chapter-by-chapter guides incorporate research-based, higher-order reading, writing, and thinking activities.

• 32+ pages
• Summary
• "About the Author"
• Character list
• Background information
• Initiating activities
• Vocabulary activities (Gr.1–8)
• Discussion questions and answers
• Graphic organizers
• Writing ideas
• Literary analysis
• Post-reading discussion questions
• Cross-curriculum extension activities
• Assessment Scoring rubric

See also Student Packet # 7037

Teacher Guides

Teacher guides provide the framework for the novel, including any background information necessary to prepare students for the text. Discussion questions help you delve into the novel's plot, conflict, theme, and character motivations/interactions. Plus, they're designed to elicit student thought, discussion, and participation!

Time-saving, inspiring lesson plans provide a comprehensive novel unit—created by teachers for teachers. The legwork is done for you. The chapter-by-chapter guides incorporate research-based, higher-order reading, writing, and thinking activities.

• 32+ pages
• Summary
• "About the Author"
• Character list
• Background information
• Initiating activities
• Vocabulary activities (Gr.1–8)
• Discussion questions and answers
• Graphic organizers
• Writing ideas
• Literary analysis
• Post-reading discussion questions
• Cross-curriculum extension activities
• Assessment Scoring rubric

See also Student Packet #8666

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Although many people have been taught that the period from 400 to 1522 A.D. was marked by darkness, ignorance, and struggle, this guide will show you that the opposite is true!

Links to websites, hands-on activities, discussion questions, mapping activities and much more will bring the Middle Ages to life.

Hands-on activities add depth to the history while vocabulary lists, comprehension questions, research topics, and website links make this both an academically strong study and one that will engage your entire family in stimulating discussions. Our teacher guide provides the structure you want and the flexibility you need to successfully teach this complex time period.

In the accompanying homeschooling curriculum, students will learn about King John, King Arthur, Saladin, Queen Eleanor, Joan of Arc, Shahrazad, Marco Polo, Peter Abelard, Geoffrey Chaucer and many others. They will learn about Martin Luther who revealed a new way to approach God and about John Wycliffe who organized the Bible. Students will read about the life of Columbus, whose voyage to North America changed the world forever. By reading some of the best literature on the subject, homeschooling students will be encouraged to discuss new ideas and social changes.

A Cathy Duffy Top Pick This is America! And this is its glowing, epic story, from the days of the Viking expeditions to the birth of the Atomic age. Here are the explorers, the American Indians, the settlers and fur trappers, the soldiers, the statesmen, the men and women who have shaped our country and its destiny. It is our story of adventure, of wars, of industry and invention, of hardship and growth; it is an unparalleled tale of courage, high ideals, hard work--and a precious thing called Freedom.

Perhaps more happened, faster, in the history of this country than in any other. Earl Schenck Miers tells its story as it should be told: in terms of the great moments and events, and through the lives and experiences of individuals.

Among the fifty chapters included are: the faith and longing for freedom of worship that brought the band of Pilgrims to Plymouth's shores; James Smith's own account of his capture by the Indians in 1755; excerpts from Davy Crockett's diary, telling of the last days of the Alamo; a young Southern girl's description of the burning of Columbia, S.C., in the Civil War. Miers has recreated unforgettably, the hardships of a cattle drive, the inspiring story of how Booker T. Washington overcame great obstacles to build a school, the suspense that held America in a spell in 1927 when a young man named Lindbergh flew to Paris by himself.

This telling of the American story is dramatic, ever engrossing--and it is based on careful scholarship. The more than 200 illustrations by James Daugherty--most of them in color--are an integral part of the book. A great artist and a superb scholar-storyteller have joined forces to produce a memorable record--an instructive, immensely readable and heart-warming book about the country we love.</p

Author: Earl Schenck Miers

Recommended For: Primary & Intermediate (3rd through 7th)