New Release Books by School Specialty Publishing

Skills for Scholars Readingprovides children in grade 1 with necessary reading instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning important reading skills. Features activities that teach: ~ Letter-sound correspondence ~ High-frequency site words ~ Writing & ordering the alphabet ~ Long & short vowels & blends ~ Nouns, verbs, & adjectives ~ Homonyms ~ Making sentences ~ Picture & context clues ~ Cause & effect ~ Following directions ~ Reading comprehension The popularSkills for Scholars Workbook seriesoffers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!

Skills for Scholars Basic Skills Helpersprovides children in preschool additional instruction in basic skills necessary for the school year ahead. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning basic skills. Features activities that teach: ~ Kindergarten readiness ~ Size & shape ~ Same & different ~ Left to right & top to bottom ~ Letters A to Z ~ Ordinal numbers ~ Patterns ~ Beginning sounds ~ Rhyming words The popularSkills for Scholars Workbook seriesoffers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!

Handwriting skills reinforce eye/hand coordination andSkills for Scholars Handwriting: Cursiveoffers just the right practice for children ages 7 to 9. This workbook offers 80 pages of cursive activities that also reinforce literacy skills by using words children need to read and write for school. With perforated pages and easy-to-follow directions children will have fun learning to write cursive! Features activities that teach: • How to write each letter of the alphabet in cursive • Combining letters to make words • Combining words to make sentences The popularSkills for Scholars Workbook seriesoffers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!

Each page features fun and effective exercises that will help your student memorize and write the letters of the alphabet.

Finally, an exciting and dynamic way to communicate the basic concepts of elementary science to your young learner! Science Essentials—The most thorough and comprehensive early learning science guide available! Designed by leading experts in the field of science education, this hands-on guide provides children in grades 3–4 with the tools they need to become actively involved with science. Science Essentials leads children through the processes of observation and experimentation, prediction and drawing conclusions. What makes Science Essentials so different from other books? It''s the most complete book that offers: • Challenging and motivating science investigations. • Hands-on approach to science learning. • Complete direction and examples to encourage independent study. • Vivid, full-color illustrations to spark the learner''s interest. • Answer key to measure student performance. Science Essentials—your essential early learning science guide!

This classroom poster is perfect for preschoolers who are learning their shapes. Available in increments of 10. Large 17 x 22" size! Only $1.99.

Math classroom poster to help demonstrate various geometric shapes. Available in increments of 10. Large 17 x 22" size! Only $1.99.

Encourage students to join you on a learning adventure throughout the school year! This fun, adventure-themed bulletin board set features a treasure map, gold coins that are perfect for customizing your classroom with the student names or activities, ancient temple ruins, multicultural characters, and more. Includes 38 pieces.

This colorful environmental poster explains what a carbon footprint is. It provides suggestion on how to decrease you carbon footprint. Available in increments of 10. Large 17 x 22" size! Only $1.99.

Total Basic Skills provides first graders with the key to total school success! This 352 page workbook features 4 core subjects that provide in-depth practice in essential skills. With easy-to-understand directions this workbook also features fun, interactive games in addition to a complete answer key. Skills include: •Reading comprehension •Numbers, math operations, and problem solving •Phonics, vocabulary, and spelling •Writing and grammar

Everything for Early Learning is the perfect practice tool that every second grader needs to achieve success in school! Children work through fun and engaging activities that provide skill-and-drill in important reading, language arts, and mathematical skills. This 320 page workbook is full of bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and features practice pages to ensure children master the essential skills. This workbook also includes a complete answer key and easy-to-understand directions. Features: •Problem-solving •Deductive and analytical thinking •Fractions •Counting money •Main idea •Facts & opinions •Nouns & verbs •Punctuation

Total Basic Skills provides preschoolers with the key to total school success! This 352 page workbook features 4 core subjects that provide in-depth practice in essential skills. With easy-to-understand directions this workbook also features fun, interactive games in addition to a complete answer key. Skills include: ~Reading comprehension ~Numbers, math operations, and problem solving ~Phonics, vocabulary, and spelling ~Writing and grammar

Guides children to make positive goals in life, such as being kind to others, intellectually exploring their world, and taking care of themselves. On board pages.

The listen-and-match game that makes learning fun! Hear & Go Seek Around Town Sounds is the fun, easy way for young learners to develop important early literacy and listening skills! Players listen carefully to the CD for familiar sounds that are commonly heard in and around a city. If the objects making those sounds correctly match the objects pictured on their game boards, players place game pieces on the matching pictures. The first player to fill his or her game board wins! Featuring photographic pictures that appeal to young learners, Hear & Go Seek Around Town Sounds teaches vocabulary recognition of common city sounds. It also improves observation and short-term memory, while helping children develop listening, visual discrimination, and critical thinking skills. Hear & Go Seek Around Town Sounds can accommodate small or large group play up to 12 players. It can also be used by a single player to reinforce visual and auditory vocabulary recognition. It’s a perfect game for the classroom as a positive reward or an expansion of a unit theme, and it’s ideal to play at home as well. Plus, each game includes an instruction sheet with suggestions for additional vocabulary-building activities. Play Hear & Go Seek and discover the sounds of learning fun!

The listen-and-match game that makes learning fun! Hear & Go Seek Everyday Sounds is the fun, easy way for young learners to develop important early literacy and listening skills! Players listen carefully to the CD for familiar sounds that are commonly heard every day. If the objects making those sounds correctly match the objects pictured on their game boards, players place game pieces on the matching pictures. The first player to fill his or her game board wins! Featuring photographic pictures that appeal to young learners, Hear & Go Seek Everyday Sounds teaches vocabulary recognition of everyday objects and their sounds. It also improves observation and short-term memory, while helping children develop listening, visual discrimination, and critical thinking skills. Hear & Go Seek Everyday Sounds can accommodate small or large group play up to 12 players. It can also be used by a single player to reinforce visual and auditory vocabulary recognition. It’s a perfect game for the classroom as a positive reward or an expansion of a unit theme, and it’s ideal to play at home as well. Plus, each game includes an instruction sheet with suggestions for additional vocabulary-building activities. Play Hear & Go Seek and discover the sounds of learning fun!

The listen-and-match game that makes learning fun! Hear & Go Seek Animal Sounds is the fun, easy way for young learners to develop important early literacy and listening skills! Players listen carefully to the CD for familiar animal sounds. If the animals making those sounds correctly match the animals pictured on their game boards, players place game pieces on the matching pictures. The first player to fill his or her game board wins! Featuring photographic pictures that appeal to young learners, Hear & Go Seek Animal Sounds teaches vocabulary recognition of common animal sounds. It also improves observation and short-term memory, while helping children develop listening, visual discrimination, and critical thinking skills. Hear & Go Seek Animal Sounds can accommodate small or large group play up to 12 players. It can also be used by a single player to reinforce visual and auditory vocabulary recognition. It’s a perfect game for the classroom as a positive reward or an expansion of a unit theme, and it’s ideal to play at home as well. Plus, each game includes an instruction sheet with suggestions for additional vocabulary-building activities. Play Hear & Go Seek and discover the sounds of learning fun!

Picture Learning Reading, Writing, and Math, Grade 1 features picture clues in directions and activities to support independent learning. Includes fun activities that build early reading, writing, and math skills. Also includes 160 sticker activities, flash cards, and a picture dictionary.

Picture Learning Puzzles, Games, and Journaling, Grade PreK–1 Features: Picture clues in directions and activities to support independent learning Puzzles, games, journal prompts, and drawing activities that build vocabulary and writing skills 160 sticker activities, flash cards, and a picture dictionary

T-REX and his dinosaur friends are on the loose! But don’t worry—they are here to help your child learn and have fun. Kids will practice basic skills as they complete mazes, hidden pictures, dot-to-dots, and other activities in the colorful activity book. Then, when they put the puzzle together, they will develop visual discrimination, eye-hand coordination, and motor skills while strengthening their imaginations and storytelling abilities. T-REX is a 3’ x 2’ giant floor puzzle with 32 extra-thick jumbo pieces tough enough for little hands. This book and puzzle combination pack is the perfect mixture of learning and fun! Appropriate for children ages 3 and up.

A Full School Year of Lesson Plans for First Graders Designed by experts in elementary education, this valuable resource offers a full school year in six curriculum areas—everything you need to teach your child at home or supplement your child''s school curriculum. This comprehensive first grade resource includes: --36 weeks of lesson plans for first graders --Weekly lesson plans at a glance --Instruction in Reading, Language Skills, Spelling, Math, Science, and Social Studies --Art, Music, and Movement activities integrated into the curriculum --Extension activities to support each week''s lessons --Explanations of concepts, skills, and teaching strategies --Step-by-step instructions --Full-color, ready-to-use activity sheets --380 pages Your child needs to build a strong academic foundation. With the Learn At Home series, your child will be well on the way to success

Connect with Words, Grade 2offers children important vocabulary practice in all subject areas! Children need to understand the basic vocabulary of a subject to be able to learn the skills and concepts of each subject. Designed in a 36-week, unit-by-unit sequence this 352 page workbook covers key math, social studies, language arts, and science vocabulary in a fun approach. Helping children build a foundation of language that will help them achieve success in every area of school! Plus, theConnect with Words seriesoffers a CD-ROM portal to thousands of additional worksheets! Once the program is running, simply click on the title of a page, you will be able to choose 200 from nearly 15,000 printable activities and practice sheets targeting the same subject areas for additional practice or to help hone difficult skills. You can also download and print the progress poster from the CD-ROM and track the progress! Featuring: •Provides important vocabulary practice in each subject area •Designed in 36-week word skill practice lessons •Choose 200 additional worksheets from a database of 15,000 •Printable progress report

One Subject - Lots of Ways to Learn! Children will find everything they need to help them prepare for and excel in school inside this fantastic learning kit. Developed by educators, the materials in this kit are the perfect supplement to the concepts taught in the classroom. This Total Alphabet Learning Kit provides different types of activities that help children learn, remember, and reinforce the alphabet and early reading skills. Educators know that repeating a concept over and over again is an effective way for children to learn to absorb information, and that is what the materials in this kit do! Packed full of Workbooks, Flash Cards, Audio CDs, and More, children will learn: ~ Upper and lowercase letters ~ Beginning and ending consonants ~ Vowel sounds ~ Blends ~ Word families ~ How to write letters ~ Featuring fun learning songs and More! The Total Alphabet Learning Kit includes: 3 Educational Workbooks 2 Sets of Flash Cards 1 Sing-Along Activity Book with Audio CD 2 Writing Tablets

Our proven Spectrum Writing grade 6 workbook features 136 pages of writing fundamentals. Recently updated to current national standards, including revised sequencing for smooth transition between skills, along with new nonfiction activities. This workbook for children ages 11 to 12 includes activities that reinforce topics to ensure writing proficiency. Writing skills include: *Sequence of events *Compare and contrast *Point of view *Facts and opinions *Writing process Our best-selling Spectrum Writing series features age-appropriate workbooks for Preschool to grade 6. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in vocabulary fundamentals to ensure successful learning!

Bestselling Math Workbook series, aligned to state and national standards

Test with success using Spectrum Language Arts for grade 6! The four-part lessons encourage creativity and strengthen writers by focusing on gerunds, colons and semicolons, and double negatives. The book features easy-to-understand directions and includes an answer key, a writer''s handbook, and helpful writing tips. Today, more than ever, students need to be equipped with the skills required for school achievement and success on proficiency tests. This 184-page book aligns with state and national standards, is perfect for use at home or in school, and is favored by parents, homeschoolers, and teachers.

"Brighter Child® First Words Flash Cards offer children a fun way to practice their first words to prepare for school. The set features 54 cards that help reinforce phonics, letter recognition, and reading readiness skills with full-color illustrations. A special card also offers creative game ideas designed to reinforce learning." --Publisher''s website.

Our proven Spectrum Writing grade 5 workbook features 136 pages of writing fundamentals. Recently updated to current national standards, including revised sequencing for smooth transition between skills, along with new nonfiction activities. This workbook for children ages 10 to 11 includes activities that reinforce topics to ensure writing proficiency. Writing skills include: *Purpose of writing *Active voice *Spatial organization *Setting and characterization *Writing process Our best-selling Spectrum Writing series features age-appropriate workbooks for Preschool to grade 6. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in vocabulary fundamentals to ensure successful learning!

The Read & Sing Along™: 2 Board Books • 2 CDs offer twice the fun and learning! Listen to the stories! Sing the stories! Read the Stories! The Early Learning Read and Sing Along™ Board Book Two Pack contains the titles At the Farm and I Like Colors. Toddlers and preschoolers will want to sing At the Farm over and over. Children will have fun learning the names of the farm animals, listening to rhyming words, and identifying word patterns. They can also practice early math skills by counting the animals on each page. Teaching children colors is as easy as reading and singing to together. Children will love the bright, colorful photographs and the rhythm of the rhyming words in this charming book. The Read & Sing Along™ Board Books With CDs features rhyming text and charming illustrations. Each audio CD offers a read-along story, sing-along story, 12 bonus songs, and the read-along story with page-turn cues. The additional songs reinforce important early math and literacy skills. This fun series includes CD storage compartments in the back covers, making these books ideal for home or while traveling! Each book features: • 12 bonus songs • CD storage compartments • Sing-along and read-along audio with page-turn cues • Select titles available in Spanish versions Collect all the titles in this fun

I Can Tell Time and Count Money offers fun-to-do practice that reinforces important telling time and counting money skills. This 128 page workbook features bright, colorful illustrations, and highlights essential grade-appropriate concepts. Each page offers ample space for children to complete exercises, and all activities are ordered in the appropriate educational sequence. The I Can series is dedicated to helping children practice and perfect important early-learning skills. Featuring 10 titles for children in preschool to fourth grade, these workbook/tablets cover printing, cursive, addition, subtraction, time, spelling, and much more!

"Music CD ; traveling games for one or more players; small talk and tall tale story starters ; license plate log.

Colorful illustrations-Fun-to-do activities-Extra practice with basic skills-Skills review

An account of the human body from skin to vital organs. Includes diagrams and charts.

Bilingual Reading Comprehension is designed for bilingual, two-way immersion, and dual-language classrooms. This valuable resource provides practice in reading for students who read in English, Spanish, or both languages. Identical reading activities are featured in both English and Spanish, allowing the teacher to tailor lessons to suit a multi-level classroom. Fiction and non-fiction activities reinforce essential reading skills, such as finding the main idea, identifying supporting details, recognizing story elements, learning new vocabulary, and much more.

Colorful illustrations-Fun-to-do activities-Extra practice with basic skills-Skills review

Skills for Scholars Learning Activitieshelps preschoolers learn and reinforce skills -- by solving problems, playing games, and completing fun brainteasers. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning basic skills necessary for school success! Features activities that teach: ~ Uppercase & lowercase letters ~ ABC order ~ Beginning consonant sounds ~ Numbers ~ Thinking skills ~ Visual discrimination ~ Sequencing ~ Eye-hand coordination The popularSKills for Scholars Workbook seriesoffers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!

Page after page of fun and educational activities add to the excitement of this book with three CDs of entertaining fun.

With over 100 songs on three audio CDs to choose from, children will be singing and dancing along. The text includes an extensive compilation of lyrics and sheet music.