Language Arts

Improve reading comprehension skills with high-interest passages that meet the expectations of current state standards. Paired Passages for grade 5 features compelling material that students compare and contrast so that they can integrate knowledge and ideas across multiple texts. Designed to keep young minds engaged, this series strengthens comprehension skills and students' ability to think critically.

Paired Passages for grade 5 offers pairs of nonfiction and fiction passages for students to compare and contrast. Aligned to state standards, students will read high-interest passages about topics such as Babe Ruth, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, a Robert Frost poem, and more.

Help your students meet rigorous college- and career-ready expectations by improving reading comprehension skills. Paired Passages helps students meet and exceed reading standards by teaching them to compare and contrast:

• fiction with nonfiction
• fiction with fiction
• nonfiction with nonfiction

When students finish reading a pair of passages, they will rely on the text to complete the accompanying questions and activities.

The Paired Passages series for grades 1 to 6 improves reading comprehension skills by providing passages for students to compare, contrast, and synthesize. Filled with content that appeals to today's learners, the passages represent a variety of genres such as:

• literature (narrative, poetry, realistic fiction, and more)
• social studies
• science

Each topic features a pair of passages and is followed by two pages of text-dependent questions and activities. By using this research-based instructional approach, you are preparing students for a successful academic journey this year and for years to come.

Features:

• Answer Key
• Reproducible Rights

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 8. This standards-based workbook is packed with engaging, open-ended writing activities and grade-appropriate practice to build a stronger understanding of essential language arts concepts.

An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skills—the foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 8 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master sentence types, grammar, parts of speech, and vocabulary.

This comprehensive workbook doesn't stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum Language Arts for grade 8 includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer's Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. With the help of Spectrum, your child will build the language arts skills necessary for a lifetime of success.

Features:

• Answer Key

It only takes one reading comprehension resource book to help students improve skills at their own reading level.

Guided Reading: Synthesize for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with charts and photos, it enhances lesson plans with informational text about light, food webs, snow, invertebrates, and more.

Guided Reading: Synthesize provides you with a comprehensive guided reading resource. This reading comprehension resource book series includes:

• discussion guides
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• leveled readers with high-interest topics
• graphic organizers and an observation sheet

Separated into three readability levels, the nonfiction readers capture students' attention with appealing topics, colorful photos, graphic charts, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to prove comprehension.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.

Personalize learning and introduce effective note taking with a hands-on word study book for fourth grade.

Interactive Notebooks: Word Study for fourth grade engages students while they learn about:

• spelling patterns
• inflectional endings
• high frequency words
• affixes and roots

Standards-based interactive notebooks encourage students to create their own language arts portfolios.

Interactive Notebooks: Word Study for fourth grade helps you reinforce creative, personal note taking by allowing your students to create personalized pages for each word study topic. Students learn organization, color-coding, summarizing, and other useful skills while creating portfolios of their individual learning. This comprehensive language arts workbook guides you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks throughout the school year.

The Interactive Notebooks series provides workbooks for kindergarten to fifth grades. Each 96-page book contains a teacher's guide, lesson plans, reproducibles for creating notebook pages on a variety of topics, and generic reproducibles for creating additional notebook pages. Aligned to current state standards, the Word Study series focuses on the following language arts skills:

• phonics
• word parts
• syllabication