New Releases by Scholastic Books

Children learn phonics in easy-to-read books about Dora and her friends.

Real Life Math is an ideal tool for teaching math to adults who are learning ESL or who are at the pre-GED level. With examples based on real-life situations that your students are eager to master--from finding an apartment to using a map--this book is sure to keep them interested and motivated. For use with Grades 7 and Up.

Invites the reader to count the different kinds of baby animals found on each page.

Get the kids ready for the CTBS, TerraNova, CAT, Standard, and more!

Contains: Author biography, Chapter summaries, Discussion questions, vocabulary builders, assessment strategies, Reproducibles, and cross-curricular activities.

Even reluctant readers love these exciting and entertaining activities that teach grammar rules, expand vocabularies, promote reading comprehension, and much more. A big, creative collection that will surely help boost standardized test scores, this instructor book features 50 motivating reproducibles that reach and teach every learner. Grades: 3-6.

A kit provides all the pieces and simple directions needed to build a real, child-sized greenhouse and includes a book which explains how a greenhouse works and the basics of plant growth.

Open this fold-out book to find Laa-Laa and her book of yellow objects.

The teletubbies play with a large ball of string with messy consequences. On board pages.

Child-centered, hands-on activities.

Introduce your students to these award-winning books with these engagin teaching guides. Each guide includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students. For use with Grades 4-8.

The Stinkers, a group of mischievous kids, attempt to rescue Slappy, a sea lion, from a public aquarium.

An interactive package explains the tangram, an ancient Chinese game popular in schools today, and includes the seven basic pieces of a tangram as well as extra pieces to make a Magic Egg and Heart.

An introduction to light and its qualities answers a myriad of questions, including why the sky is blue and why soap bubbles are iridescent, in an early science guide that comes complete with a magnifying glass, concave lens, and prism.

Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes have been kidnaped by aliens, and Bugs challenges the aliens to a game of basketball to settle things.

Introduce your students to these award-winning books with these engagin teaching guides. Each guide includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students. For use with Grades 4-8.

Includes interchangable compass disks that demonstrate how people from different cultures at different times used compasses, in an introduction to the earth''s magnetic forces that explains how a compass works.

Includes 15 full-color 8"x10" movie photos.

This set of four fold-out books packed in a slipcase will give children hours of fun--with very little adult supervision--making their own Christmas cards, gifts, wrapping paper, ornaments, and yummy treats. Easy-to-follow, one-line instructions show how each of the eight kid-tested, step-by-step projects is made in only four or five steps, using materials that are found around the house.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, e, p, t.

Shows how to understand maps, looks at each region of the world, and shows plants and animals associated with each area

Write your answers on the wipe-off flap using a grease pencil or water soluble marker. Then check your answers to find out how well your progress is in learning to tell time.