Language Arts

Teacher's Guide and Answer Key. A powerful tool that complements, extends, and enriches the series, the Teacher’s Guides provide scaffolded instruction for individual learning needs. A variety of written and oral word games helps students build word-learning strategies and gives them practice using the familiar and key vocabulary words from each lesson. For use with Vocabulary From Classical Roots Book A Student Book (Item #2255). Learn More

Vocabulary from Classical Roots can be easily incorporated into any curriculum. Use the Student Books to teach word strategies as well as word etymologies. Assign exercises as independent or small group work, or incorporate them into whole class instruction. • Organized thematically • Abundant literary, historical and geographical references • 2 roots and 8–15 words in each lesson • Dictionary-style definitions • “Challenge Words” enhance vocabulary development • Expository and creative writing prompts in all review lessons. Grade 7 Learn More

Teacher's Edition For Vocabulary Building For Better Grades Student Book (Item #5410 - sold separately). 302 pages.

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Kids complete page after page of vacation theme stories by supplying the parts of speech indicated, then read the entirely silly story back and roar with laughter! Even if you’re not on vacation, you’ll love filling in the blanks and creating your own stories about “Cave Exploring” and “Driving in the Car,” among many others. Whether you’re home by yourself, or spending the night at a friend’s house, try playing Vacation Fun Mad Libs for kicks.

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Using Primary Sources to Meet Common Core State Standards is designed to help students learn how to analyze, interpret, and evaluate primary sources. The activities in the book are aligned with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA). Some of the ELA literacy skills covered are making inferences, summarizing text, citing evidence, and analyzing the connection between primary and secondary sources on the same topic. Topics covered include: The Charters of Freedom, The Civil War and The Great Depression. Learn More

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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Whether you want to dash off a limerick, ponder a sonnet or plot an epic poem, this write-in activity book is here to help. Each page is bursting with tips and inspiration for writing all kinds of poems – and inventing brand new styles too. With links to websites where you can listen to many of the poems in this book, and find more helpful writing tips.

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This special edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate adventure — complete and unabridged — is packed with thrilling action and stunning illustations by Fran Parreno. Follow young Jim Hawkins as he boards the Hispaniola and sets sail across the high seas in search of buried treasure. Danger lies ahead as he encounters mutiny, murder, shipwreck, and the mysterious Long John Silver.

Series: Illustrated Originals Beautifully illustrated, complete, and unabridged stories in paperback version.

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Find the hidden words in puzzles that cover every sport under the sun, from soccer and basketball to surfing and martial arts.

Series: Activity Puzzle Books Packed full of games, puzzles, mazes, and more, these books make any boring day or journey fun! Filled with individual and group activities, these books are sure to keep children (and adults!) amused for hours!

Ages 6 & up

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Over 100 fun wordsearches with bright, cartoon-style illustrations.

Series: Puzzle Books Packed full of games, puzzles, mazes, and more, these books make any boring day or journey fun! Filled with individual and group activities, these books are sure to keep children (and adults!) amused for hours!

Ages 6+

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Usborne Key Skills introduces important educational concepts and reinforces learning, with lots of opportunities to practice the essential skills needed to progress at each stage. Each title includes playful quizzes, simple, approachable notes, as well as a handy gate-fold practice page and hidden notes for grown-ups.

Using the wipe-clean pen provided, children will be able to practice again and again until they are able to master the skills covered in this advanced pack.

Math skills included: Fractions, Tenths, Adding and subtracting fractions, Fraction walls, Ordering fractions, Equivalent fractions, Telling the time.

English skills included: Indefinite articles, Word families, clauses & conjunctions, Adverbs & prepositions, Quotation marks, Present perfect tense, Writing paragraphs, Spelling prefixes & suffixes, Consonant blends and word endings, More homophones

 Intermediate # 12959 and Introduction # 12862.

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This beautifully illustrated edition of Johanna Spyri's timeless classic is one to treasure. Follow Heidi's adventures, from her carefree life high in the Swiss Alps among the goats and the birds, to her loneliness in the city. One of the most popular children's books of all time, this heartwarming tale is as entrancing now as when it was first written.

Series: Illustrated Originals Beautifully illustrated, complete, and unabridged stories in paperback version.

Age 8 years and up

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Test your brainpower with this engaging crossword book. The puzzles start out simple, and get increasingly more difficult as you go along. Perfect for practicing spelling and vocabulary in a fun way.

Series: Puzzle Books Packed full of games, puzzles, mazes, and more, these books make any boring day or journey fun! Filled with individual and group activities, these books are sure to keep children (and adults!) amused for hours!

ages 8+

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Watch as the bug whizzes around the tracks in this delightful interactive book. Wind up the bug by pulling it backward, place it on the tracks and watch it wiggle around the garden.

Series: Pull-Back Books

These cheerful board books have a toy to pull back on it's wheels and send down four different tracks. Each scene is full of things to spot and talk about.

Age 3 years and up

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This delightfully illustrated book encourages language development at a key stage in children’s lives, introducing over 400 everyday words through a variety of themed sections. Help preschoolers build the vocabulary they will need to communicate effectively, make friends, and learn to read and write when they start school. Ages 3 and up Learn More

A naughty puppet, a flying horse and a sorcerer’s apprentice are just some of the characters you’ll meet in tales from all over the world. These ten very different stories, each with their own lively illustrations, are the perfect length for reading at bedtime – or any time. Learn More

ABOUT UPSIDE DOWN MAD LIBS The idea is simple. Someone asks for a part of speech: a verb, a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. We’ve included definitions and examples of the parts of speech in case you’ve forgotten. Players call out their ideas to fill in the blanks. In the end, you have a story reeling from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense, but it all makes you laugh. That’s what you call a Mad Lib &#174, the world’s greatest word game.

Players have been howling with friends or laughing all to themselves for 35 years! Unmatched in topsy-turvy hilarity, Upside Down Mad Libs&#174 includes, “Video Madness,” “Words to Swear By,” “Flashes on Faxes,” and for computer whiz kids, “Good to the Last Byte.” Upside Down Mad Libs&#174 carries on the side-splitting tradition while taking the laughs to new, dizzying heights.

Middle Grades 

from Penguin Random House

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Preparing Communicators for Collegiate Success

Author: Andrew Pudewa

In this twelve-week video course, high school and college students learn effective note-taking strategies as they write précis (summaries) and essays, tackling assignments of varying lengths from one paragraph to several pages. With tips and tools for writing an abstract, creating and arranging content, citing sources, applying various style guides, using literary devices, and writing on-demand essays, this curriculum will prepare your students for university writing assignments.

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Preparing Communicators for Collegiate Success

Author: Andrew Pudewa

EXTRA STUDENT MATERIALS ONLY—NOT A COMPLETE COURSE. Purchase this binder and student packet if you already own the necessary Teacher’s Manual and have access to the accompanying URW video course. This product contains a complete set of student materials for extra students who are watching the University-Ready Writing video course in a group or classroom. The binder and student packet includes a 3-ring student binder with four tabs for organizing student work and a packet of handouts with source texts, checklists, and more!

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G. A. Henty (1832-1903) wrote vastly popular, carefully researched books about fictional youngsters who lived during critical periods of history. In this exciting volume, he provides a thrilling glimpse of the struggle between Great Britain and Spain for supremacy of the high seas, as seen through the eyes of a sixteenth-century teenager, Ned Hearne. Along with three friends, young Ned is swept up in one adventure after another as he accompanies the daring English mariner Francis Drake on amazing voyages of discovery across the Pacific. An eyewitness to the great naval battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada, Ned has firsthand views of England's rise as the world's most powerful sea-going nation. A rousing, old-fashioned tale of ruthless life on the high seas, Under Drake’s Flag introduces today’s young readers to one of yesteryear’s most widely read authors—a writer whose many talents earned him the title Prince of Storytellers. Learn More

Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their masters. Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted; Eliza and her husband, George, who elude slave catchers and eventually flee a country that condones slavery; Simon Legree, a brutal plantation owner; Little Eva, who suffers emotionally and physically from the suffering of slaves; and fun-loving Topsy, Eva's slave playmate. Critics, scholars, and students are today revisiting this monumental work with a new objectivity, focusing on Stowe's compelling portrayal of women and the novel's theological underpinnings. Reprint of the John P. Jewett & Company, Boston, and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, Cleveland, 1852 edition. From Dover Publications. Learn More

Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition) A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION By LAURA HILLENBRAND.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

 In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended onthe fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by author Laura Hillenbrand.

Paperback | Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks Jul 29, 2014 | 528 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4

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