Most Popular Books by Cindy Barden

In Meet the First Ladies, your students will find a biographical sketch with detailed information, followed by questions for discussion and research. A page focusing on some aspect of life in the time is also included. Students will learn that not every First Lady was a wife (daughters and relatives also filled the role), how Martha Jefferson made soap, the identity of the first baby born in the White House, who rode down the White House stairs on a cookie sheet and much, much more!

Language Arts Warm-Ups: Expanding Vocabulary provides students with daily activities to get them warmed up for the lessons ahead and to review lessons learned. Each page features four warm-up activities that can be cut apart and used separately, making it easy to adjust each activity as needed. --Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of weather including uneven heating of Earth, the ater cycle, relative humidity, measuring rain, air, winds, pressure, reading weather symbols, and maps. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included.

The perfect resource for teaching young children important basic skills! Each of these 32-page activity books is packed with age-appropriate reproducible activity sheets. Activities build upon one another, allowing young learners to add to existing knowledge while applying newly-acquired skills and concepts. Appealing art makes each page fun! A skills matrix is included with each title.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of oceanography, including mapping the oceans, characteristics of water, the ocean floor, waves and currents, tides, life in the ocean, and underwater exploration. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book reinforce basic concepts in the study of the planet Earth, including the composition of Earth, Earth''s surface, minerals, rocks, weathering and erosion, mountain building and earthquakes, soil and soil conservation. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

Our popular Illuminating History series is now available with PowerPoint CDs! Each 32-page book includes a CD with 8 full-color illustrations and corresponding blackline reproducible pages in a PowerPoint format. You can now use your ink-jet or laser printer to produce both reproducible worksheets and color images. Since printed worksheets are also bound in the book, you can always make copies with a photocopier. For classrooms, the illustrations can be printed on plastic fur use with an overhead projector, or they can be shown as a PowerPoint presentation on computer monitors and multimedia projectors. Each 32 worksheet pages, 8 color illustrations

Lessons focus on food groups, calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, and the need for water. Activities encourage students to examine their daily diets for balanced nutrition. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to make logical deductions, identify "the moral of the story," analyze criteria, decide what information is relevant and what is not, think about moral dilemmas, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance your reading program. The activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice their sequencing skills by ordering the events in a story, giving directions, and more. A list of comprehension skills for all grade levels is included and a variety of assessment rubrics helps you track progress in achieving those skills. Answer key is included.

Milliken''s Reading Well! series provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance your reading program. Reading materials and styles of writing include realistic fiction, biography, poetry, fantasy, informational articles, myths, legends, tall tales, and plays or skits. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills. A list of comprehension skills for all grade levels is included on the Reading Comprehension Chart on page 1. A variety of assessment rubrics helps you track progress in achieving those skills. Each book in the series is sequential, allowing students to build on skills previous learned. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

Simply written guide for beginning readers to discover different types of dinosaurs and how they lived.

Shows different plants and animals of the rain forest.

Activities examine safety, explain types of emergencies, and how to act during times of minor or major crisis. Topics include first aid, safety from strangers, fire safety, household safety, outdoor safety, sports safety, and more. Each section includes rules, reasons, discussions, reproducibles, and extension activities. A great resource for teachers and parents!

The Word Parts Quick Starts workbook helps students to practice recognition and use of root words, prefixes, suffixes, and much more. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false, matching, word searches, and sentence writing practice.

Take a journey through history with students in grades 4–7 using The American Revolution. This 64-page book includes information on what caused the American Revolution, the Boston Tea Party, Yankee Doodle, Benjamin Franklin, the Declaration of Independence, the flag, and the Constitution. Activities include word searches, fact-or-opinion questions, and creative writing. The book includes answer keys, time lines, and suggested reading lists.

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Fiction. This 32-page book helps students create characters, settings, and plots; develop ideas; and write original fiction. Students practice brainstorming, writing and punctuating dialogue, and sequencing events. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Provides reproducible activities for the upper grade and middle school student which build and reinforce reading skills.

Each book features grade-level appropriate activities for use with any hundred number board. Use these hands-on activities to help students delvelop an understanding of everything from counting and number patterns to place value and problem solving. Includes games for pairs and small groups. Perfect for learning centers

Provide challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies topics. Activities include word searches, fact or opinion, creative writing, and more. Answer keys, time lines, and suggested reading lists are included.

Provides ideas and activities that can be used with a wide variety of literature, including fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as activities that relate to specific stories, books and poems.

Help students learn to write while encouraging them to write about topics that interest them. Open-ended activities cover generating ideas, prewriting, sequencing, writing final drafts, and proofreading.