Language Arts

Al Capone Shines My Shoes By GENNIFER CHOLDENKO.What do you do when your neighbors are a bunch of hit men, con men, and mad dog murderers? Well, if you’re Moose Flanagan, you ask the most notorious convict of them all, Al Capone, for help. But when that convict comes through for youÑand then asks you for a favor in returnÑsuddenly it’s a whole different ball game. Picking up where the NewberyÐHonor winning Al Capone Does My Shirts (#8723) left off, this lively second romp featuring Moose, his friends, and some of Alcatraz’s “finest” is just as satisfying as the first.Paperback | Published by Puffin Books Jan 25, 2011 | 304 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | Middle Grade (10 and up) Learn More

Some may just want to read Alice in Wonderland for the madness of it all, but if you are really brave and want to jump into the rabbit hole with Alice, you need this guide. In it you will find practical questions and, in a very un-Wonderland way, helpful answers—often including additional background information to help the student better understand the context of the story. Full of comprehension worksheets and fun projects to enrich the book. Any 3rd grader can join in this adventure. Learn More

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By LEWIS CARROLL Introduction by Chris Riddell.

They’re Puffin Classics for a reason, it’s because they’re the best.

Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in this topsy turvy adventure! On an ordinary summer’s afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute . . .

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All Quiet on the Western Front A NOVEL By ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen.

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . . This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.

Mass Market Paperback |  Published by Ballantine Books Mar 12, 1987 | 304 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8

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Part of the Spell to Write and Read program by Wanda Sanseri. A typical dictionary shows how to spell a word but not why it's spelled that way. The recently updated Alpha List analyzes 2300 high-frequency words and/or commonly misspelled words including all 2000 words in WISE Guide plus 300 highly used proper nouns. Each word is divided into syllables, marked with SWR markings. Related rules are cited, common derivatives listed, points of interest noted, and crossreference is made to their location in WISE Guide. Alpha List is not restricted to users of SWR. The marking system is summarized and the rules are provided. If a child misspells a word, now you can have a resource to successfully explain it phonetically. Stands alone or works in conjunction with Wise Guide. From Back Home Industries. Learn More

This book is Part 1 of 2; it contains only instructions for letters A-I.

91 pages; book is consumable 

Preschool-Kindergarten.

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Fast-paced games provide practice for beginning reading skills! As the caller reads each card aloud, players scan the cards in front of them. If two cards are matching, the player says "SPLAT!" and flips the cards over. The first player to flip over all of their cards wins. Three color-coded decks make it easy to adapt the game for one-on-one practice or multiple players. For 2–6 players. Cards are 3½" x 2¼". Set includes 225 cards: 75 calling cards and 150 answer cards. Learn More

Add new excitement to mealtime with these educational and entertaining double-sided, write-on, wipe-off placemats. These durable activity mats are ideal for use with our multicolored Learning Mat Crayons #3308 and are available in a range of topics from math to maps! Ages 4+ Learn More

Ride across Texas on a mountain lion with Pecos Bill, work up a giant appetite with the mighty lumberjack Paul Bunyan, spread happiness with Johnny Appleseed, and confront the Fastest Draw in the West!

Read these wild tales–and then act them out yourself! This beautifully illustrated Companion Reader is an exact transcript of Jim Weiss’s award-winning storytelling performance of three classic American stories and one original tall tale, available on audio CD #2082.

The Reader can be enjoyed on its own, or used along with the recorded performance to build strong language skills.

Listen to the Jim Weiss stories, read along to improve fluency, vocabulary, and grammar, and then speak great words and sentences out loud by practicing and performing the short, accessible dramatic versions of Jim’s performances (including a stage play, a puppet show, and a dramatic monologue).

Ages 5 and up

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The Quiz booklets consist of 6 analogy quizzes and 6 vocabulary quizzes. Each quiz has twenty problems; the answers to these may be found at the back of the booklet. At the top of each quiz is a heading that indicates its correspondence with a particular analogy or vocabulary group. All the quizzes are reproducible. Includes vocabulary quizzes and tests to be used with Analogies 1 Student Book, (Item #3752). Answers included. Learn More

Analogies 2   presents between 15 and 20 analogy units, with each unit consisting of 20 problems, and reviews techniques taught in Book 1.

 Analogies 2: 6 Vocabulary and Analogy Quizzes includes vocabulary quizzes and tests to be used with Analogies 2 Student Book (Item #3753).

Answers included.

About Analogies Series: This program helps students sharpen reasoning ability, develop critical thinking, learn vocabulary, and prepare for standardized tests. These books use a step-by-step approach to analogy problem-solving written in a conversational style.

From EPS.

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Includes vocabulary quizzes and tests for Analogies 3 Student Book, (Item #5173). Answers included. Analogies 3 is composed of 4 Vocabulary Groups of 100 words each, with the alphabetized and defined words representing some of the most challenging vocabulary used in the analogies. Techniques from the previous books in the series are also reviewed. Learn More

Human history began when people gathered around rivers, began sowing seeds, settled into permanent shelters and chose collaboration over competition to create pockets of stability in an often harsh and threatening world. These tiny gatherings slowly grew and civilizations took root around the Yellow River in China, the Indus Valley, the storied Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the Nile. This guide and the literature in this study tells the stories of those peoples–the ones who planted crops and built cities, developed technology, the arts, literature, and pushed human achievement to levels never seen before.

This story is told through myth, literature, religious texts, archaeological evidence, and much more. Adaptations of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Ramayana, and Egyptian and Greek mythology pair with first hand accounts from people who witnessed historically significant events. Accurate fictional accounts bring to life figures like the Old Testament prophet Elijah, provide colorful depictions of life in Egypt and Greece and ancient Roman Brittania.

This teacher guide will take you and your high school level student from the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia and Sumer, on to ancient Egypt, through the wanderings of the Jews and the splitting of the Israelites into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to the Yellow River and the first Emperor of China, through the Indus Valley and its incredible flourishing, to the cradle of democracy, ancient Greece, and into the Roman Empire and the birth of Christianity. This guide delves deep into the beliefs and ideas that motivated our ancestors to create, to worship, to conquer and to love. Comparative studies between the religious systems of Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, Israel, and the development of Christianity provide essential perspective in understanding how each culture is directly shaped by what it takes to be true. Compare how creation narratives contribute to the understanding of human value, how myth both reflects and shapes history, how story ties all of humanity together.

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.

•This study contains 108 lessons. •Complete 3 lessons per week for a one-year study.

Grades 9-10

Beautiful Feet

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The 100 stimulating writing activities in this journal are based on quotations that speak to older adolescents and adults. Writing prompts probe penetrating questions and sharpen critical-thinking skills. Grades 10-12. From Walch Education. Learn More

Animal Farm By GEORGE ORWELL

George Orwell’s timeless fable—a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history. As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.

With a foreword by Ann Patchett

Paperback

 128 Pages | 5-7/16 x 8

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Join the animals in this village as they dance, sing, and play. Recurring characters, locations, and props encourage linking the cards in endless combinations for fresh, new stories every time it's played. Use this beautifully illustrated visual card set by Stephanie Graegin to create your own stories! Can be played individually or in a group, make up your own way to play!

Features:

For ages 3 and up

36 cards - instructions included

Cards are 3.75" x 4.75"

Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award

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Anne of Avonlea By M. R. MONTGOMERY

The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series. Now Anne is half past sixteen and she’s ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She’s as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and adventure . . .

Paperback | Published by Puffin Books Sep 17, 2009 | 400 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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Anne of Green Gables By L. M. MONTGOMERY.

The celebrated classic about a red-headed orphan and the family who falls in love with her. The Cuthberts are in for a shock. They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables – but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead. Highly spirited Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts’ affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter, and soon it’s impossible to imagine life without her. A favourite classic with cover and introduction by the inimitable Lauren Child, award-winning creator of Clarice Bean and the hugely popular Charlie and Lola series.

Paperback |  Published by Puffin Books Sep 11, 2008 | 464 Pages | 5 x 7 | Middle Grade (8-12)

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In this guide students complete comprehension and critical thinking questions along with multiple activities per chapter, which include a drawing guide to create your very own drawing, the differences between Scripture and legends, and more. This guide includes questions and answers for each chapter, fun projects, and a recipe for a raspberry cordial. Recommended for grade 5.

73 Pages

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Anne of the Island By L. M. MONTGOMERY

The third heartwarming book about red-haired Anne Shirley. As her childhood friends get married and move away, Anne too leaves Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport. Although Priscilla Grant and Gilbert Blythe are there, too, she feels lonely and out of place. But Anne soon makes new friends, one of whom is rich, handsome Roy Gardner, whose attentions to Anne make Gilbert very jealous ...

Paperback | Published by Puffin Books Apr 01, 2010 | 368 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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Grab your passport and get ready for a daring adventure! This comprehension guide is filled with challenging exercises and fun activities to benefit your student as they circumnavigate Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Includes vocabulary lists, comprehension questions and engaging activities such as build your own rainforest. The goal of the comprehension guide is to help students increase comprehension on a literal and inferential level, expand vocabulary, identify biblical values in the literature while developing a student's appreciation and love for reading. The guide is paperback with dozens of reproducible pages, great for school and homeschool use.

Recommended for students in the 6th grade.

Softcover71p.

Veritas Press

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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 item is not available online and can only be purchased at our physical location.

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.

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Poetry Writing Activities for Middle School: "As blue as a rainy day without a friend" Even the most skeptical students will love creating 5 feeling poems, simile poems, scribble poems, and more. Grades 6-8. From Walch Education. Teacher Guide available. (Item #4361) Learn More