• 3 levels of nonfiction reading selections on the same topic
• Text-based comprehension questions (multiple choice and open-ended)
• Words to Know lists with vocabulary for each reading selection
• Visual literacy page to enrich learning and support focused discussions
• Text-based writing prompt and a writing form
• Graphic organizers

• Social Studies: Our President; Harriet Tubman; The Statue of Liberty; Veterans Day; Lakes
• Science/Health: Exercise; Food Chains; Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Mathematics: Estimating Cost; Metric Measurements; Fractions
• Technology: Learning at the Computer; Curiosity Rover
• The Arts: Native American Weaving; Photography; Kristi Yamaguchi; Ansel Adams

Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating. Simple STEAM helps parents realize they don't need to be engineers or scientists to support STEAM learning.

• Help children explore STEAM concepts with fun and engaging activities
• Discover STEAM learning opportunities in everyday activities and experiences
• Prepare children for kindergarten
• Build crucial 21st century learning skills, including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking

Cursive Practice is perfect for improving cursive handwriting with a practice page for each letter that includes words and sentences beginning with the letter.

Additional exercises in copying from cursive to cursive and from manuscript to cursive are also provided. The Traditional Handwriting series books each include a blank, lined practice page and a handy reference chart.

• Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities provide practice of grade-level language, math, and reading skills, focusing on one skill in each subject area.
• The daily lessons progress in difficulty as students move through Day 1 to Day 5, and the weekly units progress in difficulty throughout the year.

• Language: grammar, mechanics, usage, and syntax
• Math: algebraic expressions, ratios, rational numbers, problem solving, coordinate planes, graphing patterns, and statistics
• Reading: reading: theme/main idea, author's purpose, literary elements, author craft, inference, and analysis

Improve reading comprehension at various levels with a guided reading resource book for first and second grades.

A perfect addition to your language arts lesson plan, Guided Reading: Determine Importancefor first and second grades includes six sets of readers, two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The bold images and maps appeal to students as they learn about ants, chimps, sound, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Determine Importance offers the essentials for an effective guided reading program for first and second grades. This reading comprehension book includes:

• discussion guides
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• leveled readers that cover high-interest topics
• graphic organizers and an observation sheet

The readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students' attention. Callout boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.

This math resource for first grade teachers provides everything you need to implement math workshop in your classroom.

Math Workshop for first grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:

• addition concepts
• time
• composing shapes
• making ten

Simple and easy-to-use, this teacher resource for first grade teachers complements any curriculum.

Like reading and writing workshops, math workshop is an instructional model that combines whole-group lessons with leveled guided math groups and independent practice. It allows teachers to give students direct, leveled instruction while providing opportunities for practice and skill review. Math Workshop for first grade simplifies the workshop method with a comprehensive introduction and over 25 step-by-step lessons. This teacher resource for first grade math also includes these helpful features:

• comprehensive lesson plans
• leveled practice pages
• hands-on activities for every lesson

The Math Workshop series for kindergarten through fifth grades gives teachers everything they need to implement the math workshop method. Each book contains 28 complete lessons, a thorough introduction, and reproducible game templates. Each lesson begins with an essential question, a warm-up activity, and a whole-group lesson. It is followed by three leveled small-group lessons and a short assessment. Lessons are rounded out with a practice worksheet for each small group and an activity to practice the skill. Teachers are also provided with math talk questions and a math journal prompt to extend learning. The Math Workshop series gives teachers the flexible tools needed to begin small-group math instruction.