Resource/Activity Books

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Strengthen essential math skills in 10 minutes a day with Math 4 Today for fourth grade.

Math 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for fourth grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these math skills and concepts:

• operations
• word problems
• measurement
• fractions
• line plots

The Math 4 Today book for fourth grade aligns with current state standards.

Math 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for fourth grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This math workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress.

The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use math workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key.

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

Perfect for students at different levels of understanding, Algebra for middle school and high school students provides teaching strategies as well as skill reinforcement and review.

Topics in this 128-page math resource book include these fundamental algebra skills:

• linear equations
• inequalities and absolute values
• systems of linear equations
• powers
• exponents
• quadratic equations and factoring
• rational expressions

This comprehensive algebra practice book supports NCTM standards and also includes practice pages, assessment tests, reproducible grid paper, and an answer key.

Features:

• Answer Key

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Science for fifth grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about ecosystems, body systems, physical and chemical changes, weather, Earth's crust, natural resources, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

Features:

• Reproducible Rights

Contains engaging full-color stories followed by activity pages that practice a variety of reading skills. Designed to help your child improve his or her reading skills. Each unit contains a cut-and-paste activity that introduces a consonant sound and three activity pages that reinforce reading readiness skills. 144 pages.

Each book in this series features 100 “Minutes” to help students build basic skills, increase speed in math operations, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Each Minute consists of 10 problems of varying degrees of difficulty that incorporate a variety of skills. Each ten-problem reproducible can be used as a learning or testing tool.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance their overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Fourth-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of fourth-grade math instruction, including:

• congruency
• perimeter
• angles
• patterns
• place value
• expanded form
• addition
• subtraction
• multiplication
• long division
• money
• graphs
• rounding
• greater than/ less than
• odd numbers
• standard measurement
• metric measurement
• and more!

Fourth-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of ten classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening format. The quick, one-minute format combined with instant feedback makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding to complex situations and to the solution of realistic problems in each Minute.