"This fun, colorful 400-page book can be used as a textbook or a comprehensive workbook with your textbook to teach reading, writing, grammar, and punctuation skills and concepts that students are expected to know in fourth grade. They also develop critical thinking, vocabulary, and several other skills and concepts normally taught in fifth grade. The engaging lessons include easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts for visual learners–and there is no lesson preparation! Each lesson is followed by a variety of fun, colorful, mind-building activities that use different genres."

Language Smarts Level E Workbook - Reading, Writing, Grammar, and Punctuation for Grade 4

Children's Books

Noreen Conte

Education & Reference

The Critical Thinking Co.

This fun, engaging 80-page book teaches prefixes, suffixes, and new vocabulary. Each lesson includes activities where the student chooses the correct vocabulary word used in context, identifies the prefix or suffix, and solves a jumble puzzle that reinforces the lesson. The jumble puzzle is the punchline to a joke or riddle that is solved by unscrambling a set of words related to the one page lesson. In order to solve the jumble, students must first unscramble a set of vocabulary words related to the lesson. Each unscrambled word is a clue to the answer of the joke or riddle. The final step of the jumble puzzle is to look for multiple word meanings, synonyms, homographs, homophones, idioms, or figurative language to identify the answer to the joke or riddle. Students LOVE jumbles and each jumble reinforces the lesson. Try a sample (above) and you'll be hooked! A complete answer key is included.

Jumbles: Prefixes, Suffixes, Compound Words, Grades 3-5

The Critical Thinking

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.

Building Writing Skills Level 1 Workbook - Using a 5-Step Writing Process to Teach Writing (Grades 3-5)

This highly-effective 104-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.

Building Writing Skills Level 2 Workbook - Using a 5-Step Writing Process to Teach Writing (Grades 6-7)

This 88-page book teaches students techniques to strengthen their writing. In order to express thoughts clearly and precisely to make writing come alive, the students will: - Use vivid verbs, specific nouns, and strong adjectives - Spot unnecessary adjectives and adverbs - Recognize and correct pronoun antecedent confusion - Use the active voice rather than the passive voice - Be careful of qualifiers - Correct issues with point of view - Show, not tell - Use sensory details To write more interesting sentences that make writing flow in a logical manner, the students will: - Vary sentence types: simple, compound, and complex - Vary sentence beginnings - Use effective transition words and phrases - Use appositives to add meaning to sentences To make writing more appealing to readers, students will use the following literary devices: - Similes - Metaphors - Hyperbole - Alliteration - Repetition - Personification - Anthropomorphism - Onomatopoeia

Building Writing Skills: Essential Tips & Techniques Workbook - Using a 5-Step Writing Process to Teach Writing (Grades 6-12+)

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Science Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles - Reinforce Scientific Terms, Improve Reference Skills, & Spark Interest in Science! (Grades 4-6)

This 48-page book for ages 6-8 provides short, fun, and easy-to-use reading comprehension activities that improve critical reading and higher-order thinking skills. The activities focus on developing the student's ability to draw inferences from written text as they identify and evaluate evidence. Questions following all stories teach students to evaluate details that at first seemed insignificant but are actually meaningful! These activities develop a depth of analysis that guarantees superior inferential and reading comprehension skills for top grades and higher test scores!Research shows inferential reasoning is a prerequisite component to superior reading comprehension. The National Foundation for Educational Research concluded that "the ability to draw inferences predetermines reading skills: that is, poor inferential reasoning causes poor comprehension and not vice versa." We all make inferences in our daily lives (e.g. we naturally think a child is happy because we see them laughing). But how does this ability apply to written communication? When we read a written passage, we're actually reading a representation of the author's thoughts and ideas, because the written word does not convey a meaning in and of itself. Readers must construct the meaning through interpretation. The reader's interpretation is the result of inferential analysis which includes drawing from personal knowledge and experiences, social values, and cultural conventions. The interpretation connects a meaning to the words, providing the reader with an understanding of the character's actions, circumstances, or events in the story.Inference Jones Beginning 1 includes zany, amusing, and clever short stories full of hints and clues to help students hone their inference skills. It has a readability level appropriate for Grades 1-2 but can also be used as a remedial resource for older students (Grades 5-12+).

Inference Jones Beginning 1 Workbook, Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Critical Reading & Comprehension (Gr. 1-2)

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