Most Popular Books by Cindy Barden

Advance student vocabulary using Jumpstarters for Vocabulary: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom for grades 4 and up! This 48-page resource covers dictionary skills, confusing words, homophones, antonyms, synonyms, words from mythology, and foreign words and phrases. It includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, 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 look for common attributes, create outlines, differentiate between fact and opinion and reality and fantasy, and more! Answer key is included.

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 previously learned. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

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, contemplate the logical reasons for rules, organize an event with limited resources, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet, which focuses on fiction 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.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of the human body, including the respiratory, digestive, excretory, circulatory, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems. 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.

Get a grasp on grammar with students in grades 4 and up using Language Arts Tutor: Grammar! 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 correctly use idioms, create surveys, collect and organize data, sort objects, and more! Answer key is included.

Help students practice the following vocabulary-building skills: defining, relating, classifying, writing, expressing opinions, and applying. Featuring two short, reproducible activities per page, this book has enough lessons for an entire year. Frequent reviews provide practice in a standardized-test format. Activities are correlated to state standards and a matrix is provided for selected states

This packet, which focuses on classifying 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.

This packet, which focuses on reading comprehension, 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 is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities and puzzles will teach students how to effectively present information, make logical inferences, plan ahead, and much more! Answer key is included.

Teach students the language of maps and watch them discover the world! This packet presents the basics of drawing a map to scale, reading mileage charts, and much more! Following directions today will prepare your students for travel!

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities focus on reading comprehension and will teach students to complete patterns, fill out and interpret charts, think about how things are alike a different, and do some creative writing! Answer key is included.

Put your students on the path to scientific discovery! These blackline reproducible books are filled with puzzles, open-ended activities, and experiments. Students develop problem-solving skills by using the worksheets to plan, hypothesize, predict, experiment, test, and analyze result. Each 32 pages

Students will learn fascinating facts about Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, 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.

Teach students the language of maps and watch them discover the world! This packet presents the basics of reading latitude and longitude, using time zone maps, and much more! Following directions today will prepare your students for travel!

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, turn word problems into equations, write an instruction manual, write definitions for various symbols, and more! Answer key is included.

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.

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 look for common attributes, organize information, differentiate between fact and opinion and reality and fantasy, and more! Answer key is included.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of the plants, including seeds, seedling germination and growth, roots and stems, flowers, trees, leaves and photosynthesis, and seasons and plants. 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.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities and puzzles will teach students how to streamline their writing by removing superfluous information, follow rules, spot discrepancies, make logical inferences, identify common attributes, and even create tests for their classmates! 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 compare ideas, summarize information, and differentiate between fact and opinion. 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 correctly use idioms, add prefixes and suffixes, sort objects, create surveys, interpret and create 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 make logical deductions, identify "the moral of the story," analyze criteria, decide what information is relevant and what is not, spot common attributes, and more! Answer key is included.

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.

In Meet the First Ladies, your students will find a biographical sketch with detailed information, followed by questions for discussion and research. A page focusing on some aspect of life in the time is also included. Students will learn that not every First Lady was a wife (daughters and relatives also filled the role), how Martha Jefferson made soap, the identity of the first baby born in the White House, who rode down the White House stairs on a cookie sheet and much, much more!

Color Overheads Included! Welcome to the fascinating world of the Roman Empire and its master architects and builders, emperors, powerful gods and goddesses, myths, and gladiators. Explore the glory that was Rome, the civilization that conquered most of Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. The activities in this book provide insight into the history, religion, customs, culture, mythology, art, life, and beliefs of ancient Rome. 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.

The perfect resource for teaching young children important basic skills! Each of these 32-page activity books is packed with age-appropriate reproducible activity sheets. Activities build upon one another, allowing young learners to add to existing knowledge while applying newly-acquired skills and concepts. Appealing art makes each page fun! A skills matrix is included with each title.

Activities will help students explore the concept of classificationthe arranging of things by like elements. The basis is a simple taxonomy. Some scientific names are briefly introduced and explained. 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.