Language Arts

Use this guide to explore the story of Bud, an orphan during the Great Depression, who embarks on a journey to find the musician he believes is his father. Bud, Not Buddy: An Instructional Guide for Literature features challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to help students analyze this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning book. This guide is packed with ways to practice close reading, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and practice text-based vocabulary, making it the perfect tool to teach students how to analyze story elements in various ways. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich and complex literature while supporting Common Core Learning Standards.

Grades 4-8

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Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice by Evan-Moor. Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher’s Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Contains 30 reproducible spelling units with activities for daily practice. Spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic and structural elements. Revised and updated. Meets State standards. Learn More

Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 2, by Evan-Moor. Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher’s Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Contains 30 reproducible spelling units with activities for daily practice. Spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic and structural elements. Revised and updated. Meets State standards. Learn More

Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 3, by Evan-Moor. Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher’s Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Contains 30 reproducible spelling units with activities for daily practice. Spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic and structural elements. Revised and updated. Meets State standards. Grade 3. Learn More

Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 4, by Evan-Moor. Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher’s Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Contains 30 reproducible spelling units with activities for daily practice. Spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic and structural elements. Revised and updated. Meets State standards. Learn More

Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher’s Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice by Evan-Moor. Contains 30 reproducible spelling units with activities for daily practice. Spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic and structural elements. Revised and updated. Meets State standards. Grade 5. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice by Evan-Moor. Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher’s Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Contains 30 reproducible spelling units with activities for daily practice. Spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic and structural elements. Revised and updated. Meets State standards. Grade 6+. Learn More

This highly-effective 96-page book teaches narrative (personal and story), opinion, and informative/explanatory writing as a 5-step process. The 5-step process is made up of Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing. The step-by-step lessons use examples and easy-to-understand concept maps that teach brainstorming, planning, editing, and revising. Each lesson is followed by practice that includes a simple, time-saving scoring rubric. Grades 3-5. 96 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

This highly-effective 104-page book teaches argumentative, narrative, and informative/explanatory writing as a 5-step process. The 5-step process is made up of Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing. The step-by-step lessons use examples and easy-to-understand concept maps that teach brainstorming, planning, editing, and revising. Each lesson is followed by practice that includes a simple, time-saving scoring rubric. Grades 6-7. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

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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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 to combine words into meaningful, well-constructed sentences.

1st - 2nd Grades

48 pages

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When Jack's aunt is forced to sell her beloved mansion but is still unable to raise enough money to pay her debts, the twelve-year-old goes to California in search of gold to help her. Joined by his trusty butler, Praiseworthy, Jack finds adventure and trouble at every turn. Will Jack strike gold in San Francisco or come home empty-handed? This new edition features illustrations by Brett Helquist. Learn More

Complete page after page of camp theme stories by supplying the parts of speech indicated, then read the entirely silly story back and roar with laughter! Remember–prepare yourself for–the funny (and not so funny) moments at camp spent with friends and counselors. Here’s your chance to retell that campfire story the way you think it should really be told.

From Penguin-Random House

Middle Grade

Ages 8-12+

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The story takes place at Pencey Prep in Pennsylvania. Holden Caufield has been expelled and will return home to Manhattan in four days. He has a physical fight with a dormitory neighbor over Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden has a crush on. He leaves the school a few days early and checks into a Manhattan hotel without telling his parents. Each encounter is a frustrating misinterpretation with sexual overtones. He flirts with strangers, tries to set up dates and then "chickens out." At one point, he sneaks into his own apartment and wakes his younger sister, Phoebe. In the end, he goes home because he misses everyone. Learn More

Encourages vocabulary development through 122 lively activities Supports learning with word groups that cover a wide range of common topics . Motivates students to broaden their general word knowledge Includes more than 1,500 words relevant to students' lives. Grades 7-9. From Walch Education.

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Catherine, is a 13 year-old daughter of an English country knight. She is known as "Birdy" for her caged pets. Birdy is a spirited and inquisitive young woman who narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year--the year 1290. In this journal, she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. She writes about her dislike of her brothers, schemes to avoid chores, and an annoyance with her parents. A Newbery Honor Book. Learn More

Charlotte's Web Literature Guide by Memoria Press. Literature study guides train students to become active readers. These guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition skills. Words to pronounce and spell prepare students for each chapter, and words to define build vocabulary. Comprehension questions teach students to think about what they have read and to learn to identify the important content of each story. Comprehension questions also teach students the advanced skill of composing a clear, concise answer to a question, a difficult skill at any age. Writing is thinking, and good questioning stimulates the child to think and to write. 3rd grade. Teacher's Guide available (item# 4407)

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Maximize your students’ reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Suggestions for maintaining Interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to reflect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity to synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 80 pages. Grades 3-5. From Teacher Created Resources. Learn More

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White is an all-time Newbery Honor-winning classic of children’s literature. The Student Guide and Teacher Guide included in the Charlotte’s Web Set will help develop your student’s reading ability.

The Teacher Guide contains the answers to the Student Guide (sold separately#4351) and the Quizzes and Tests.

117 pages

Non-religious

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By Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

“A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together - now a Disney+ movie starring Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff.

What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father—a famous efficiency expert—who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen.

Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into numerous films over the years — including a classic film starring Myrna Loy and a cult favorite with Steve Martin, Hilary Duff, and Alyson Stoner — this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the twentieth century.

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In her own courageous voice, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her, and life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family. Like the classic Cinderella story, this powerful memoir is a moving story of resilience and hope. Learn More

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

After enduring abuse at the hands of her cruel stepmother, Chinese Cinderella (CC) seeks refuge at a martial-arts school and joins a secret dragon society. Under the guidance of Grandma Wu, CC is introduced to the exciting world of espionage as a part of the Chinese Resistance movement. And when CC and her new comrades take on a daring mission to rescue a crew of WWII American airmen, they prove that true bravery knows no age barrier.

By Adeline Yen Mah

From Harper collins

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Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a brilliant Scottish scholar, man of letters, and serious student of folklore. His series of "fairy books" is generally regarded as among the richest collections in the English language. Gathered from around the world — from Norse and Icelandic sources, from the Far East, Mideast, Europe, Africa, Australia, and many other areas — these books not only introduced generations of youngsters to the enchanting world of fairyland but gave adults an opportunity to return to the wonderful realm of make-believe.

This delightful selection of six popular tales from Lang's Blue Fairy Book includes charming versions of "Cinderella," "The Bronze Ring," "Felicia and the Pot of Pinks," "The White Cat," "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks," and "Snow-white and Rose-red." New illustrations by Marty Noble capture all the romance and magic of these time-honored tales.

Reset in large, easy-to-read type, these perennial favorites will delight today's young audiences just as they enthralled readers when first published over a century ago.

Dover Original.

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Classical Rhetoric through Structure and Style teaches the student to compose essays and arguments based on the Progymnasmata, the most successful and enduring collection of rhetorical exercises in the Western tradition. This approach to composition emphasizes the classical method of building up the student’s reasoning and articulation skills through a series of interrelated, rhetorical exercises. Learn More