Most Popular Books by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

The 27 stories in Read and Understand Science address objectives drawn from the National Science Education Standards. There are stories in the areas of life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and technology.

This series introduces beginning readers to the basic elements of weather. Correlated to State Standards!

Each unit includes a one-page nonfiction text and supporting activities, such as close reading, vocabulary, comprehension and writing.

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 Third grade STEAM projects include: - Litter - Feeling at home - Wildfires - Small farms - Clutter - Therapy objects - Rising sea levels 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!

Help your kindergartener 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. - Provide 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: - Counting - Shapes - Sorting - Graphing - Addition and subtraction - Measurement Includes answer key.

Give your students their own practice book for daily instruction on reading strategies and skills--and reduce time spent on photocopying! The student book contains the same student pages as the teacher''s edition. Student books do not contain answer keys. (Teacher''s editions only.) Help your seventh grade students learn how to understand, respond to, and enjoy what they read! The student book provides full-page daily activities on reading strategies and skills. Daily Reading Comprehension presents students with direct instruction and practice of the comprehension strategies and skills they need to become strong and successful readers. 150 original fiction and nonfiction passages with comprehension items help you engage students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of texts. Reproducible pages, included in the teacher''s edition, provide visual tools for students to help them apply reading skills to the passages they read. And because activities are presented in an exam format, students practice important test-taking skills while they strengthen comprehension. What''s new in the revised edition? Visual aid comprehension pages Constructed response questions. Standards-aligned questions replace multiple choice questions. 30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills and strategies: Skills: Strategies: Theme Evaluate Evidence Character and Setting Main Idea and Details Visual Information Author''s Purpose Prediction Make Inferences Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Text Features Sequence Monitor Comprehension Make Connections Visualization Organization Determine Important Information Ask Questions You''ll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it... provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies. supports struggling and reluctant readers. integrates easily into any language program and any classroom. works great for test-prep. is correlated to current standards. Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts with Daily Reading Comprehension!

Contains 12 portable and self-contained centers that students can use to practice their language and phonics skills.

This unit is a perfect choice for integrating many curriculum areas. Lessons for art, creative writing, nonfiction writing, reading, math, science, social studies, and literature are organized and displayed in construction-paper pockets creating an exciting work portfolio. This book included patterns, reproducibles, and writing forms.

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers reinforce literacy skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and record forms.

How Your Body Works covers these concepts: - bodies change as they grow older - the body has external and internal parts - the brain controls the body and is the center of thinking - we use five senses to find out about our world - the body has lungs for breathing - the body digests food for energy - the heart pumps blood throughout the body - bones support and help move the body, muscles help the body move. A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes: - teacher directions for lessons - reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations

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

Take It to Your Seat: Writing Centers, Grades 3-4 contains everything you need for 13 centers. Center activities provide practice in the writing process. These centers are ideal for small-group and individual practice. Skills include editing sentences and paragraphs and writing: - lists - captions - synonyms - stories - science notes - thank-you notes - expanded sentences - descriptive adjectives - descriptive paragraphs - cinquain, name, and alphabet poems

Give your students their own Daily Word Problems practice book, ideal for daily warm-up, review, or homework. The student book corresponds to the teacher''s edition, providing weekly themed word problems that present math within the context of real-world situations. (No answer key)

Critical thinking skills are more important than ever in academic and real-world situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking provides you with daily activities that build and grow students'' problem-solving skills in engaging formats such as logic and visual puzzles, brainteasers, creative writing, picture comparison, word play, and "what if" questions. Daily 20-minute practice lessons help students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students'' higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world. Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking for warm-up exercises, extension activities, early finisher tasks, and small-group center activities to develop your students'' critical and creative thinking skills. How it works: - Monday-Friday: Full-page daily activities focus on a specific behavioral verb each day. The verb is defined at the top of the page so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill. - Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area. - Questions and tasks are open-ended and can be used to promote peer-to-peer discussions as students share and discuss answers, while also fostering critical thinking skills. - An answer key provides sample responses for each day''s activities. Evaluate students'' responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered. Grade 4 activities include: logic puzzles, creative writing, picture comparisons, and "what if" questions. Daily lessons practice higher-order thinking skills such as: - Analyzing - Predicting - Designing - Composing - Organizing - Evaluating - Imagining - Strategizing

"Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! Daily Phonics helps students gain the phonemic awareness, decoding, and word-study skills they need to read proficiently."--Publisher''s website.

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.

Focused instruction on important nonfiction writing forms!Nonfiction Writing provides 16 units of instruction and practice activities. Each unit focuses on a specific nonfiction writing form and includes guided lessons and accompanying student pages that target skills essential to that writing form. The units are grouped into three sections: expository, persuasive, and narrative writing.