Best Selling Books by Cindy Barden

Activities to stretch imaginations and acquire critical thinking skills. Reproducible prose and poetry exercises for metaphors and similes, limericks, haiku, letters, editorials, tall tales, myths and legends. An extensive Teacher Notes section, literature references, vocabulary and other extras.

Activities explore the effects of simple machines. Lessons focus on the concepts of force, friction, gravity, and inertia. 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 explain elementary concepts in the study of the solar system, including orbits, the sun, the moon and moon phases, planets, seasons, and day and night. 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 ecology, including the water cycle, dependence on energy from the Sun, photosynthesis, food chains and webs, and biomes. 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.

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.

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.

Reinforces basic chemistry principles, including atomic symbols and structure, matter, compounds and mixtures, acids and bases, solvents and solutions, oxidation, and gases.

The activities in this book provide an introduction to the basic concepts of magnetism and electricity. Material presents magnets, circuits, and battery cells. Work is suitable for individuals, small groups, or class instruction. 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 reviews.

The activities in this book reinforce basic concepts in the study of the universe, including the planets, stars, comets, astronomers and their tools, and space travel. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for reference and review.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of chemistry, including matter, atoms, molecules, physical properties of matter, and changing states of matter. 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.

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.

Welcome to the fascinating world of early North America — the land that once was home to mastodons, mammoths, and the hunters who followed the herds. The activities in this book provide an overview of life in North America beginning with the first migrations of people across the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age. The eight full-color transparencies at the back of the book (print books) or the included PowerPoint slides (eBooks) can be used alone or with specific activities listed in the table of contents. For a print book with the PowerPoint presentation instead of transparencies, please see MP8823.

Contains biographical sketches with detailed information on the presidents of the United States, as well as questions for discussion and research.

The activities in this book reinforce basic concepts in the study of light and sound, including the nature and behavior of light, sources and uses of light, types of lenses, the vibration and travel of sound, and the characteristics of sound. Various activities, such as experiments, puzzles, and review questions help students effectively learn the principles presented. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for reference and review.

This packet, centered around nonfiction and nature, provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance a reading program. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills, and an assessment rubric helps you track progress in achieving those skills. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin Bloom into a hierarchy of educational objectives. This classification system, known as Bloom''s Taxonomy, divides cognitive objectives into subdivisions ranging from simple to complex. Although other systems have been proposed, Bloom''s remains widely recognized by educators and utilized in Critical Thinking cirriculum. The six subdivisions include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This book is divided into six sections to match the subdivisions of Bloom''s Taxonomy and designed to teach critical thinking skills by providing a variety of across-the-curriculum activities in math, language arts, science, social studies, history, geography, art, and music. An 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 any reading program. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills, and the assessment rubrics helps you track progress in achieving those skills.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin Bloom into a hierarchy of educational objectives. This classification system, known as Bloom''s Taxonomy, divides cognitive objectives into subdivisions ranging from simple to complex. Although other systems have been proposed, Bloom''s remains widely recognized by educators and utilized in Critical Thinking cirriculum. The six subdivisions include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This book is divided into six sections to match the subdivisions of Bloom''s Taxonomy and designed to teach critical thinking skills by providing a variety of across-the-curriculum activities in math, language arts, science, social studies, history, geography, art, and music. An answer key is included.

This packet, which focuses on nonfiction comprehension skills, provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance a reading program. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills, and an assessment rubric helps you track progress in achieving those skills. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

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 develop their critical thinking skills by answering what will happen next in a sequence of events, differentiating between real and make believe, 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.

Make algebra equations easy for students in grades 6 and up using Jumpstarters for Pre-Algebra: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page resource covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, math stories, number sense, place value, geometry, algebra, and measurement. The book includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use.

Bring history to life for students in grades 6Ð12 using Westward Expansion and Migration. This 128-page book is perfect for independent study or use as a tutorial aid. It explores history, geography, and social studies with activities that involve critical thinking, writing, and technology. The book includes topics such as Lewis and Clark, the Santa Fe Trail, the Gold Rush, and San Francisco. It also includes vocabulary words, time lines, maps, and reading lists. The book supports NCSS standards and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

GRADES 4–12: This 64-page language arts workbook helps students strengthen their understanding of correct capitalization and punctuation. FEATURES: A great way to start the day''s lesson or as review for test prep, this language arts resource book features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately, or the entire page can also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment. INCLUDES: This resource book for language arts includes daily mini-activities to help enhance learning for students. With fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and word searches, concepts covered in this workbook include capitalization of proper nouns and important words, using end punctuation, commas, and much more. WHY MARK TWAIN MEDIA: Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

This packet, focusing on reading comprehension with social studies, provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance a reading program. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills, and an assessment rubric helps you track progress in achieving those skills. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

Pre-Algebra and Algebra Warm-Ups for grades 5 to 8+ provides students with daily math 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 when 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.

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.

Short, daily warm-ups cover the U.S. Constitution as well as our government and how it functions. Five warm-ups per reproducible page. Includes answer keys and suggestions for use.