New Release Books by School Specialty Publishing

Handwriting skills reinforce eye/hand coordination andSkills for Scholars Handwriting: Printingoffers just the right practice for children ages 4 to 7. This workbook offers 80 pages of printing 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 print! Features activities that teach: • How to write each letter of the alphabet • 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!

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!

This fun and entertaining kit allows open-ended play and creativity for young children. Colorful and sturdy, the hands-on learning foam fish help to develop letter recognition skills through activities involving matching, uppercase and lowercase letters, sequencing, spelling, textures, colors, sorting, lacing, and eye-hand coordination. Each fish features a word on one side with a textured surface on the reverse side. The skills and concepts taught with this kit support national reading and Englishstandards. The activity book and cards further extend the skills children learn in school with fun activities on letter and number recognition, word puzzles, dot-to-dot, imaginative play and classifications.

Skills for Scholars English & Grammarprovides children in grade 3 with necessary grammar instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning sentence structure, punctuation, usage and more! Features activities that teach: • Alphabetical order • Compound words • Contractions • Nouns & pronouns • Past, present, and future tense verbs • Prepositions • Punctuation • Conjunctions • Subjects & predicates • Types of sentences • Parts of a paragraph 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 Alphabethelps preschoolers learn and reinforce their alphabet skills – by solving puzzles, 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 the alphabet! Features activities that teach: • Pre-reading skills • Decoding printed letters and words • Uppercase & lowercase letters • ABC order • 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!

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

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

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

Boosts early math and reading skills 20 wipe-off activity pages Learning games and puzzles

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 At Home 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 home. 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 At Home Sounds teaches vocabulary recognition of familiar sounds heard in and around a home. It also improves observation and short-term memory, while helping children develop listening, visual discrimination, and critical thinking skills. Hear & Go Seek At Home 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 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!

Instill the love of reading and reinforce essential reading comprehension skills with Listen, Read, and Learn with Classic Stories. • Listen to this collection of best-loved stories on CD. • Read and enjoy the stories over and over again. • Learn with story-based activities to reinforce reading skills. • 320 colorful pages Listen, Read, and Learn with Classic Stories, Grade 3 features these classic children’s favorites: • John Henry • Fables • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves • Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby • Anansi Learns to Fish • Rip Van Winkle

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 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!

The listen-and-match game that makes learning fun! Hear & Go Seek Rhyming Word Sounds is the fun, easy way for young learners to develop important early literacy and listening skills! Players listen carefully to each word that is spoken on the CD to determine if it rhymes with a word that is pictured on their game card. Whenever spoken words correctly rhyme with the picture words, the 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 Rhyming Word Sounds teaches phonemic awareness and vocabulary recognition of rhyming words. It also improves observation and short-term memory, while helping children develop listening, visual discrimination, and critical thinking skills. Hear & Go Seek Rhyming Word 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!

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

Helping children prepare for Kindergarten by building important motor skills! Big Skills for Little Hands: I Can Draw! will help children build hand coordination and dexterity by teaching them to hold and use drawing utensils. Children will draw pictures while learning an essential skill for school success! A write and wipe board in the back of the book offers more opportunities for learning. After completing this book, young learners will be proud to say “I Can Draw!” Features: • Drawing activities to create puppets, props, and fun animal characters • Activities support national standards for early childhood • Essential practice in manual coordination • A write and wipe board with bonus fine motor activities The Big Skills for Little Hands series features fun activity pages that teach important motor skills necessary for Kindergarten. Children will have fun cutting, pasting, folding, drawing, tracing, and coloring their way to school success! Plus each activity completed becomes a new creation to play with again and again! All the activities meet national standards for preschool and kindergarten. Collect all 8 titles in this must have series!

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 English-Spanish Learning Kitprovides different types of activities that help children learn, remember, and reinforce early math and reading skills in both English and Spanish. Educators know that repeating a concept over and over again is an effective way for children to learn and 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: ~ The alphabet and ABC order ~ Colors and shapes ~ Numbers and counting ~ Same and different ~ Addition and subtraction ~ Fractions ~ Pronunciation skills ~ Featuring fun learning songs and More! The Total English-Spanish Learning Kit includes: 1 Educational Workbook 3 Leveled Beginning Readers

Skills for Scholars Math provides children in grade 5 with necessary math instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow direction, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning important math skills. Features activities that teach: ~ Adding & subtracting fractions & decimals ~ Improper fractions, mixed numbers, & percents ~ Conversions ~ Rounding & estimating ~ Prime numbers ~ Multiplication & division with regrouping ~ Multiplying money & fractions ~ Probability & ratios ~ Geometry ~ Graphs & measurements The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers 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

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

TheRead & Sing Along™: 2 Board Books • 2 CDsoffer twice the fun and learning! Listen to the stories! Sing the stories! Read the Stories! TheEarly Learning Read and Sing Along™ Board Book Two Packcontains the titlesAt the FarmandI Like Colors. Toddlers and preschoolers will want to singAt the Farmover 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. TheRead & Sing Along™ Board Books With CDsfeatures 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

Provides an explanation to the many questions children have about science and technology using a question-and-answer format with straightforward language.

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!

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!

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

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.

Features activities that teach colors and shapes, same and different, opposites, letters A to Z, name, address, phone number, sequencing and ordinal numbers, etc.

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.

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!

A look at inventions throughout history, from flint tools and the wheel to the Internet.

Colorful activities will engage children during napping or bedtime quiet time, and the soft sounds of each lullaby will soothe and comfort.

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

This comprehensive curriculum will reinforce tested language arts skills. The sequential, coordinated, standards-based content will meet the academic needs of school teachers, and will be easy to implement for state test preparation.