Expand students reading and vocabulary skills as well as their listening skills as they follow directions, step-by-step, to solve word problems and make creative, seasonal art projects. The results may be surprising, even to the students! The activities are organized by seasons and include major holidays and special days as well as fun topics such as sports and vacation.

These word puzzle books are an exciting way to enrich students' vocabularies. A valuable teaching tool that students can use with minimal supervision, word puzzles stimulate an active interest in words and language. These books offer a challenging way to sharpen reasoning skills, stimulate vocabulary, and reinforce spelling skills. The variety of puzzle formats and subject matter provide engaging activities that complement core and extended curriculum materials. Codes, mazes, riddles, rhymes, rebuses, word searches, crossword puzzles, and matching activities are just a few of the formats presented in a wide variety of subject areas.

Help students explore the wonders of science with the mind-stretching activities in this series. Each book includes a number of special features, with fun, easy-to-prepare activities that cover topics from the three main branches of science: physical science, earth science, and life science. Clear, step-by-step instructions foster independent learning; guided questions help develop observation and critical thinking skills; fascinating facts and extension activities enrich learning. In addition, background information and teaching tips are provided in the Activity Guide at the back of the book to help you maximize students' understanding of scientific concepts.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin Bloom into a hierarchy of educational objectives. This classification system, known as Bloom's Taxonomy, divides cognitive objectives into subdivisions ranging from simple to complex. Although other systems have been proposed, Bloom's remains widely recognized by educators and utilized in Critical Thinking cirriculum. The six subdivisions include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This book is divided into six sections to match the subdivisions of Bloom's Taxonomy and designed to teach critical thinking skills by providing a variety of across-the-curriculum activities in math, language arts, science, social studies, history, geography, art, and music. An answer key is included.

Do you want to encourage your students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in a fun-filled, productive way? If you do, then this is the book for you! These step-by-step activities also expand reading and vocabulary skills if you have students read them, and they develop listening skills when you read them aloud to your class. Organized by seasons, the activities include Presidents' Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day and a variety of other subjects and special days throughout the year. Students will learn how to follow directions for coloring, changing words into other words, drawing pictures, folding paper and more. Each activity includes easy-to-understand directions, and requires a minimum of preparation time by the teacher. Your class will enjoy the mystery of following step-by-step directions without knowing the results until they're actually done!

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Every class includes students who lag behind the rest of the class or race ahead of everyone when working on activities. This book provides creative solutions to that problem. The teacher provides each student with drawing paper, a pencil, crayons and a copy of the activity sheet. Then the student reads and follows the directions, step-by-step, or listens to the teacher read them aloud. The activities encourage students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in fun-filled, productive ways.

These reproducible books have a much broader scopes than most math workbooks. In addition to offering computation practiced, they reinforce skill such as problem-solving, number sense, data analysis, measurement, geometry and more. Closely aligned with the national standards, a special assessment section at the end of each book helps teachers evaluate students’ progress and prepare them for standardized tests.

Each book in the Word Power series provides 22 activities which introduce more than 60 challenging new words chosen from popular literature at the designated level. This mode of selection expands the conventional basal vocabularies and ensures the usefulness of words learned. Three two-page reviews reinforce learning. Activity pages introduce new words in context. Reinforcement is provided in student activities matching words with their meanings, aphabetizing words, matching words with their antonyms, and completing puzzles. All lessons are teacher-created. The teaching guide includes a list of source books for each level.

Milliken's Creative Writing books provide a variety of meaningful writing experiences. Activities are designed to allow each writer to draw upon his or her unique background of experiences to create poetry and prose. Ideas for sharing and extending writing across the curriculum are included. Writers are encouraged to use the steps of the writing process discussed the Guide to the Writing Process. A proofreading checklist and Holistic Writing Evaluation form are included.