Best Selling Books by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Every pocket in Folktales & Fairy Tales for Grades 2-3 begins with a two-page reproducible retelling of a tale. About the book: - There is a teacher resource page that offers suggestions for sharing the tale. - Comprehension, art, and writing activities follow, helping the story come to life for students. - Two pages of evaluation forms help both teacher and student assess what was learned. The eight tales in this book include: - Henny Penny - The Brave Little Tailor - The Fisherman and His Wife - Jack and the Beanstalk - The Elves and the Shoemaker - The Frog Prince - The Emperor''s New Clothes - The Bremen Town Musicians

Scaffolded, explicit instruction improves your 8th graders'' writing! The 25 weekly units provide trait-based writing practice, covering the essential traits of strong writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, & conventions.

The Never-Bored Kid Book 2 for ages 7 and 8 is filled with activities that are fun to do and are valuable learning experiences at the same time. Kids will practice age-appropriate skills such as: addition and subtraction facts two-digit addition and subtraction word problems reading graphs reading comprehension phonics spelling writing

They''ve completed Second Grade and their confidence is growing as fast as they are. Keep them flying high through the summer months with Daily Summer Activities, Moving from Second to Third Grade. Language Arts practice: - a fiction and a nonfiction story with comprehension questions each week - sentences to correct for capitalization punctuation, and grammar - 8 to 10 spelling words to learn each week - manuscript handwriting practice - creative writing activities Mathematics practice: - addition and subtraction facts - word problems - two and three-digit addition and subtraction with and without borrowing and carrying - multiplication facts to 25 - practice cards for addition and subtraction facts from 10 to 18 Language skills such as: - alphabetical order - contractions - nouns and verbs - synonyms and antonyms - vowel sounds - parts of sentences Beginning geography: - map symbols - reading simple maps As someone who has already tried the series said: "Evan-Moor''s Daily Summer Activities is wonderful. It is the right amount of review, at the right speed of presentation. It keeps academic skills sharp and children love it. It is what I recommend to all my parents." -Second Grade Teacher, Schaumburg, IL.

Offers ideas for twenty-seven reports designed to fit into a file folder and includes student and teacher directions, reproducible cover pages, and forms for each section.

Daily Handwriting Practice, Contemporary Cursive is more than just a handwriting book; it is a learning tool that helps developing young minds practice basic skills in an interesting and unique way.For example, on the topic "Simple Machines," students learn about simple tools and the physics applied in using them. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content-area topics appropriate for the classroom.Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from famous inventors to famous quotations, amazing hunters to the water cycle. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week.This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it.

"Based on National Geography Standards. Geography literacy, content-area reading practice, reproducible information pages & activities, 24 physical & political maps, cumulative reviews and assessments."--Cover.

Engage your child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process. Each unit includes stories and practice pages that help children understand science concepts and provide a foundation for completing each STEM challenge. A STEM journal activity helps guide children through the engineering design process: plan, create, test, and record. Topics within each STEM challenge target earth, life, and physical science. Each unit covers a specific scientific concept and includes: Science Story: Introduces each science concept Practice Activities: Support children''s understanding STEM Story: Fictional story with a problem to solve STEM Challenge: Hands-on activity to solve a problem STEM Journal: Provides a planning outline to help complete the challenge activity Includes answer key. First grade STEM skills include: Connect words and pictures Fine motor skills Letter formation Visual discrimination Word meaning Sequencing Inference Comprehension First grade activities incorporate scientific concepts such as: Physical science Solids, Liquids, Gas Parts Work Together Making Sound Life science Living Things Have Parts What Do Animals Eat? Animals and Their Babies Earth science The Moon Bodies of Water Recording Weather Use Smart Start: STEM for enrichment at home and help your child develop lifelong critical thinking skills.

Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 4 provides rule charts and practice pages for these grammar and punctuation skills: - kinds of sentences - simple & complete subjects and predicates - common, proper, singular, plural nouns - irregular plurals - using I and me correctly - possessive nouns & pronouns - kinds of verbs - subject-verb agreement - forming verb tenses - irregular verbs - adjectives - comparative and superlative adjectives - adverbs - comma usage - quotation marks - tricky word usage

Help your first grader build strong math foundations with Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities. Developed by teachers, the colorful activities introduce math skills in creative ways. Each unit introduces important math vocabulary and helps children recognize math in the world around them. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities workbooks provide structured weekly activities to help children practice and learn numbers, counting, measurement, addition and subtraction, shape recognition, and graphing. Audio story read-alouds with colorful illustrations help students learn math concepts and make connections to the real world. Illustrated activities provide meaningful practice in a variety of formats, giving children multiple opportunities to achieve understanding. Math activities: - Provide strong math foundations that teach the most important math skills. - Include creative and fun lessons that help children create positive math connections. - Use reward stickers to motivate children to complete the activities. - Include audio stories that incorporate reading comprehension and vocabulary to demonstrate how math works in the real world. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities is organized into weekly lessons around one math skill or strategy. Each unit begins with activities that have simple tasks that help children better understand the concept. Children gain confidence as they compete each activity and gradually progress to completing more difficult math tasks. Each unit includes: - Math stories: audio read-aloud stories help children experience math with real-world problem solving. - Math practice activities: introduce one skill/concept per week. - Write It! activities: build math vocabulary, beginning writing, and fine motor skills. Throughout this early learning series, children will practice essential foundation math skills, such as: - Skip counting - Fractions - Graphing - Addition and subtraction - Measurement Includes answer key.

The books in this series are as varied as the needs of the young learners you must provide for in your classroom. They are practical and give you a broad range of active learning experiences from which to choose.

A comprehensive resource for grammar, mechanics, usage, and vocabulary practice.

Daily instruction on reading strategies and skills needed to improve comprehension and raise test scores.

Daily instruction on reading strategies and skills needed to improve comprehension and raise test scores.

Accelerate children''''s reading skills by helping them learn to read sight words and high-frequency words!The ability to read sight words and high-frequency words is necessary for fluent reading and is one of the most important components of language learning! Since many sight words and high-frequency words are not phonetic, children need repeated practice to recognize these words on sight. The stories and activities in this book help children read Dolch Sight Words and high-frequency words quickly and accurately.Each full-color Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words activity book guides young children in practicing and learning important sight words from the Dolch Sight Word List as well as the most commonly used high-frequency words.Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words:* Provides strong reading foundations: 18 units build high-frequency and sight word identification and increase reading fluency.* Creative and fun lessons: Entertain your child while he or she learns important foundational reading tools.* Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities.Accelerate children''''s reading skills by helping them learn to read sight words and high-frequency words! The ability to read sight words and high-frequency words is necessary for fluent reading and is one of the most important components of language learning! Since many sight words and high-frequency words are not phonetic, children need repeated practice to recognize these words on sight. The stories and activities in this book help children read Dolch Sight Words and high-frequency words quickly and accurately. Each full-color Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words activity book guides young children in practicing and learning important sight words from the Dolch Sight Word List as well as the most commonly used high-frequency words. Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words:* Provides strong reading foundations: 18 units build high-frequency and sight word identification and increase reading fluency. * Creative and fun lessons: Entertain your child while he or she learns important foundational reading tools.* Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities.* Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child and model correct pronunciation. Each unit''''s story provides specific practice of carefully chosen words children have practiced and learned in previous units.Each unit provides structured activities to help children practice and learn "must-know" sight words and high-frequency words. The carefully controlled vocabulary within each unit provides: * Learn New Words: Introduction to new words* Practice New Words: Practice activities to reinforce children''''s learning* Story: Audio read-aloud story to model fluency * Review: Word-list practice sliders to help children review words at any timePractice important kindergarten sight words and high-frequency words such as: * Sight Words and High-Frequency Words: farm, going, hill, live, more, top, when, brother, from, give, know, put, sister, your* Story Vocabulary: grass, sheep, box, dog, rain, snow, sun, windPerfect for language learners and early learners, these activities provide a strong foundation for reading and recognizing common English words.Pair Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words with Smart Start: Read and Write and turn your child into a successful reader. Includes answer key.* Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child and model correct pronunciation.Each unit''''s story provides specific practice of carefully chosen words children have practiced and learned in previous units. Each unit provides structured activities to help children practice and learn "must-know" sight words and high-frequency words. The carefully controlled vocabulary within each unit provides:* Learn New Words: Introduction to new words* Practice New Words: Practice activities to reinforce children''''s learning* Story: Audio read-aloud story to model fluency* Review: Word-list practice sliders to help children review words at any timePractice important kindergarten sight words and high-frequency words such as:* Sight Words and High-Frequency Words: farm, going, hill, live, more, top, when, brother, from, give, know, put, sister, your* Story Vocabulary: grass, sheep, box, dog, rain, snow, sun, windPerfect for language learners and early learners, these activities provide a strong foundation for reading and recognizing common English words.Pair Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words with Smart Start: Read and Write and turn your child into a successful reader. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.Includes answer key.

Suggests a variety of experiments and activities to demonstrate the concept of energy.

Help your grade 2 students develop comprehension and vocabulary skills! Leveled reading selections and follow-up comprehension and vocabulary activities cover skills such as synonyms, recalling information, using context clues, and more!

Using standardized testing formats, math skills are kept sharp with focused practice in computation, word problems, graphing, measurement and numbers. Includes scope and sequence charts and answer keys.

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth activities that provide important context for students as they learn about each topic before they develop solutions. Each robust unit includes a hands-on STEAM task that provides students with a problem to solve using the design process of Problem and Task, Research, Brainstorm and Design, Make It and Explain It. Additional resources in each unit include: - Teacher Page with a unit overview and implementation suggestions - Real-World Connection that introduces the topic with a fictional story - What Is the Problem? page to help students brainstorm solutions to the issue - Learn About the Problem page that provides detailed information about the problem in the real world - Art Connection that incorporates creativity into finding solutions - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math connections that present additional information about how these fields are used to solve problems - Career Spotlight that presents a variety of careers related to the problems or solutions in the unit Sixth grade STEAM projects include: - Music education - Misinformation - Making places safer - No transportation - Bullying - Nowhere to skate - Microfinance STEAM Project-Based Learning is an approach to project-based learning that uses science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics to engage children in empathizing, thinking critically, and collaborating to develop solutions. Teaching children how to think creatively prepares them for new unknown technologies, industries, and careers. With STEAM activities and tasks, the final product is not as important as the process. Through the process of experimenting and exploring, students are using creative and critical thinking skills. Scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and artists use the same critical thinking skills to find new and innovative solutions. Each book includes a STEAM puzzle and a completion certificate!

Comprehensive but not complicated! Math Fundamentals helps your second grade students navigate the new math. Math Models and think questions, plenty of skill practice, and real-world problems guide students in thinking through, analyzing, and solving problems. To help you target instruction, each unit clearly lists the standards information, mathematical practices, and skills covered. Within a unit, math lessons are presented simply. Every math lesson includes: A Math Models reference page that shows students strategies for solving problems, Skill practice pages that progress in difficulty, and A culminating problem-solving activity that leads students through the process of solving a real-life problem.

Comprehensive but not complicated! Math Fundamentals helps your third grade students navigate the new math. Math Models and think questions, plenty of skill practice, and real-world problems guide students in thinking through, analyzing, and solving problems. To help you target instruction, each unit clearly lists the standards information, mathematical practices, and skills covered. Within a unit, math lessons are presented simply. Every math lesson includes: A Math Models reference page that shows students strategies for solving problems, Skill practice pages that progress in difficulty, and A culminating problem-solving activity that leads students through the process of solving a real-life problem.

In 36 weeks of systematic instruction, your second-graders will learn 95 key academic vocabulary words that they are likely to encounter in multiple subject areas and in assessment instruments. Examples of the words presented in grade 2: - collect, examine, requirement - comparison, explain, result - complete, importance, similar - direct, observe, state

While being engaged in fun activities, your children will be practicing important age-appropriate skills such as visual discrimination, sequencing, small muscle coordination, following directions, reading, and critical and creative thinking. The activities in The Never-Bored Kid Book, Ages 7 and 8 are organized around 15 age-appropriate themes, including: play ball soup flock of birds bats off to the races outer space rainforest animals pirate''s treasure popcorn insects cowboys and cowgirls earth movers flightless birds bread unusual fish

Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to the rainforest and rainforest animals. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic readiness skills.