Most Popular Books by Cindy Barden

GRADES 4–12: This 64-page social studies workbook helps students to increase their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, its amendments, and how it affects them today. FEATURES: A great way to start the day''s lesson or as review for test prep, this government 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 social studies includes daily mini-activities to help enhance learning for students. With fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and true/false questions, concepts covered in this workbook include the Constitution of the United States, the Preamble, the Articles (including the three branches of government, the Amendments in the Bill of Rights, and Amendments XI through XXVII). 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 is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to collect and organize data, identify cause and effect, use analogies, make logically sound decisions, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet, which focuses on interpreting information, 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.

Connect students in grades 4 and up with conventions using Language Arts Tutor: Capitalization and Punctuation. This 48-page resource features innovative games, stories, riddles, and puzzles that improve grammatical skills and enrich the learning experience. A sidebar on each page states the concept or skills reinforced by the activity. The book includes answer keys and suggestions for use.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to identify cause and effect, analyze relationships between concepts, complete patterns, complete logical exercises, and more! 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 following directions and sequences, and the assessment rubrics helps you track progress in achieving those skills.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to compare concepts, identify patterns, interpret graphs, analyze procresses, and do some creative writing! Answer key is included.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to distinguish between concrete and abstract words, identify cause and effect, use analogies, make logically sound decisions, and more! Answer key is included.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Connect students in grades 4 and up with conventions using Jumpstarters for Capitalization and Punctuation: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource covers end-of-sentence punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, semicolons, proper nouns, and capitalization. It includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use.

Treat your students to an exciting hot air balloon ride across the USA. There''s lots to see and do as each state is visited (the District of Columbia, too), its history and geography explored, and fascinating facts explained. There are map activities, places and physical features to identify, and topics for further investigation. There are parks, lakes, mountains and swamps to discover as well as the thousands of plants and animals that share our land and water. This product has been selected by a national panel of classroom teachers as a winner of Learning Magazine''s Teachers'' Choice Award.

Where can you find dinosaur footprints or rune stones? How salty is the Great Salt Lake? Where can you find a moon bow? From Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida, students tour the USA with a collection of fun facts, games and puzzles. Enhance your geography and social studies curriculum with reproducible activities such as Alabama Bingo, Florida Tic-Tac-Toe and Louisiana Question Game.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents T. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring the Executive branch to life! Students will learn about the election process, including fascinating facts about the Constitution, electoral votes, and much more!

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Color Overheads Included! Welcome to the fascinating world of the American twentieth century a time when changes in technology, communications, and transportation changed the world. The activities in this book provide an overview of social, historical, and cultural events in the U.S. during the twentieth century. People entered the twentieth century on horses, steamships, and steam locomotives and left it in Concord jets, nuclear submarines, and space shuttles. The eight full-color transparencies at the back of the book can be used alone or with specific activities listed in the table of contents.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Madison, Monroe, and Adams, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents F. D. Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Tyler, Polk, and Taylor, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

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 practice rhyming and writing poetry. 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.

Give your students a jump start on math mastery. In this helpful classroom resource, short, daily warm-ups cover basic math skills, multistep equations, fractions, algebra, tables and graphs, decimals, money, and measurement. It includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use. --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. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources. -

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to order and sort lists, create and solve their own math problems, estimate distances and sizes, correctly use idioms, construct graphs, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to do basic logic puzzles, organize information, work backwards through problems, create a business plan with their classmates, identify patterns, and more! Answer key is included.

Teach students the language of maps and watch them discover the world! This packet presents the basics of mapmaking, reading a map, using a compass, and much more! Following directions today will prepare your students for travel!

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life.

A comprehensive resource that includes the basics of reading maps along with using a compass, reading latitude and longitude, drawing map symbols, using time zone maps and much more.

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 use context to learn and use words. 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.

Welcome to the fascinating world of ancient Greece—the land of city-states, powerful gods and goddesses, myths, and philosophy. Explore the glory that was Greece, the civilization where the Olympics began, and the birthplace of democracy. The activities in this book provide insight into the history, religion, customs, culture, mythology, art, life, and beliefs of ancient Greece. 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 MP8819.

This packet, focusing on reading comprehension with fiction, 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, which is full of reading assessment activities, 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.