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DIAGRAMMING
SENTENCES
reproducibles ...$8.00
This book starts from the beginning of sentence diagramming and shows your students how to diagram simple sentences with just a subject and a verb. It then s l o w l y progresses through adjectives and adverbs, all the way to compound sentences. There are explanations of how to draw the diagram for each part of speech and sentences to practice the skill. There are reviews and activities and an answer key. Like our other materials, explanation, practice, more practice and review.
USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO
IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION IN THE CONTENT AREAS
reproducibles...$17.00
JUMPSTARTERS FOR ROOT WORDS,
PREFIXES, & SUFFIXES
reproducibles...$8.00
JUMPSTARTERS
FOR FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEreproducibles...$8.00
Daily language arts activities cover imagery, simile, metaphor, adages, idiom, personification, allusion, symbolism and more. Five to a page and reproducible, the exercises are perfect for warming up the class early in the day or turning spare time at the end of the day into a lesson.
QUARTER TO
THREE
reproducibles
...$15.00
You’re
thinking, "Only fifteen minutes to go." But what do you do in those
last minutes before you can watch them board the yellow bus? Give them something
from Quarter To Three. The short assignments, that involve reading, math,
spelling, history, science, and language arts can be completed in about 15 to 30
minutes. Students need to be reading at about the fourth grade level, which is
true for most of our materials.
* Sample Page 1 * Sample Page 2
SAVE OUR
SUBSTITUTE
reproducibles
...$35.00
These
non-graded materials were specifically written for substitute teachers who will
be working with students who are at least in the fifth grade. The 5 units that
make up Save Our Substitute cover a variety of content areas as well as
worksheets that are general pass-the-time worksheets. Includes an extensive
answer key that has not only the answers for the assignments, but also contains
a bit of information on some do’s and don’ts as they apply to the
assignments and to keeping order in the classroom.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO?
reproducibles ...$13.00
These 50+
pages are for any students who have finished other assignments. We include these
materials in the category of language arts because the kids will be getting
small doses of commas, quotation marks, prepositional phrases, sentence writing,
and all sort of things related to English and writing. Material learned in one
assignment is reinforced in succeeding assignments. All the information
students’ need is contained in each assignment; therefore, they do not have to
have passing grades in English to do the assignments. It might even surprise
you, and them, that if they couldn’t learn any English in English, they have
learned something from these random language arts assignments.
* Sample Page 1 * Sample Page 2
WHAT COMES AT
THE BEGINNING OF A WORD
reproducibles
...$8.00
Thirty-four
pages of worksheets that include practice with sixteen different prefixes.
* Sample Worksheet 1 * Sample Worksheet 2
WADING
INTO WRITING
reproducibles
...$35.00
The thrust behind Wading Into Writing, which is recommended only for those who can read at least fourth grade, is to create different models for the students to follow. The worksheets that make up the unit contain some of the standard English stuff, but basically, the materials concentrate on developing writing skills. This is done by giving students models to follow. The models begin with simple sentences, build to more complicated sentences, and as they "wade through writing," they should ultimately reach the point where they can write three paragraphs that will at least remind you what paragraphs are supposed to look like. Additional sections cover the writing of short answers, letter writing, and book report writing.
WADING INTO WRITING WORD LIST
flip guide ...$9.00
This Kids In Between product has several hundred words and phrases that have been classified into parts of speech. When any writing assignment calls for using a prepositional phrase, student can flip this handy little flip chart to prepositional phrases. They can also flip to nouns, verbs, adverbs, and other parts of speech to aid them into putting together a complete sentence. These parts of speech appear side by side in columns thus allowing the learner to see that how a word is used determines what part of speech the word is. The flipchart also includes conjunctions, prepositions, commonly used phrases, and typical words that begin dependent clauses. The flipchart is not only a big help in completing the assignments in Wading Into Writing Reproducibles, but is also a real learning tool for getting the parts of speech straight.
KIB GRAMMAR: BY GOSH, I’M GETTING A HANDLE ON ENGLISH
 | Unit 1 - Adjectives & Nouns ...$14.00 |
| Unit 2 - Phrases & Clauses ...$14.00 |
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Unit 3 - At Last Verbs ...$14.00 |
What makes these units unusual is they take note of the fact that it is almost futile trying to teach about that illusive part of speech known to grammarians as the verb. It is for this reason, that except for linking verbs, the students are taken through two entire units before they are introduced to verbs. Over and over again they have to break down and identify parts of speech and structures. Of course, we've thrown in some writing assignments so that they can apply what they've been learning. We did our best to come up with an informally written series that includes cartoons. Unit 2 introduces phrases and clauses, and prepositions. The students finally get around to learning to identify and to use verbs in Unit 3. If you've tried everything else and your students still haven't mastered the difference between a verb and a kite, you might give this series a try. Endorsements from several teachers say these English units give struggling students the extra practice they need to master these parts of grammar. All our reproducible and come with answer keys.
M
COMES BEFORE N · Learning to Alphabetize
reproducibles
...$7.00
This
non-graded unit covers the basics of alphabetizing. The 33 worksheets begin with
a one-page pre-test and then move on to alphabetizing by the first letter,
second letter, and so on, ending with alphabetizing lists of words by the fourth
letter. The worksheets gradually get more difficult as the students are weaned
from the step-by-step instructions and the lists of words become longer and
longer.
I
FOUND THE ANSWER!
reproducibles ...$10.00
Skimming is often
considered a skill possessed by more sophisticated readers; however, we believe
the technique of skimming is a skill worth developing in poor readers since it
can take them past many of the words that they can’t read. I Found the Answer!
includes several reading passages and related questions to help the students
develop their skimming skills. They learn how to look for details as they are
skimming, as well as to look for key words in questions in order to locate an
answer more quickly. The second half of this unit puts their newly-acquired
skills to use by teaching how to skim for answers, write lead ins for answers,
and answer questions in complete sentences.
* Sample Page 1
EVERY BOOK
TELLS A STORY
reproducibles
...$8.00
Covers
aspects of writing a book report. These include looking at the major and minor
characters, the differences between plots and themes, and writing chapter
summaries. Models are given to help the students along in writing their own book
reports. Includes three sample book reports with questions.
* Sample Page 1
* Sample Page 2
OVER
THE MONTHS AND YEARS
reproducibles ...$6.00
Each sheet in
Over the Months and Years has students acquiring reference skills by using
reference books. Assignments will bring them face to face with how to discern
facts from opinions. They will find themselves in quest of some simple facts
about people, places, and events that have something to do with each month of
the year. The facts can range from something to do with ice cream cones to
locating the real name of Billy the Kid. Once they have their facts straight,
they render opinions related to the facts. This is reading and writing, but no
arithmetic.
THE COLOR BOOK
reproducibles...$20.00
The premise of these materials is to introduce all types of
information that are somehow connected to the colors red, green, blue, yellow,
black, white, silver, and gold. For example, they'll be reading about
figurative expressions such as "rolling out the red carpet," "blackballed," and
"yellow journalism." They'll read about the Green Mountain Boys, yellow fever,
the Red Cross, the blue whale, and "White Christmas." The reading passages
range from three or four lines to full pages. The assignments include
learning to discern between literal and figurative meanings, acquiring new
vocabulary, answering questions that relate to the text, counting how many times
a given color was used on a page, and rendering opinions about the facts that
were presented. Includes text, worksheets, tests and answer key.
Reproducible. Reading level 3.5-4.0.
PRIME TIME
reproducibles
...$10.00
Prime Time
includes 52 assignments, most of which have something to do with television, an
invention to which most students can relate. The emphasis is on language
arts—reading, writing and English. Half of the assignments are done at home;
the other half are done in class. The lessons cover everything from figuring out
the costs of props to surveying the class to see if women are honestly portrayed
on TV.
DAY
AFTER DAY
reproducibles ...$6.00
We wish that
we could come up with something terribly exciting to say about these materials;
however, what they amount to are worksheets for mastering the spelling of the
days of the week, the months of the year, and for learning when holidays occur.
FOLLOWING
DIRECTIONS
reproducibles ...$6.00
Which they probably won't do anyhow, but you can give it
your best shot. The directions they are to follow range from simple to somewhat
difficult. This includes giving directions to a location, deleting and adding
words to sentences as directed, and organizing information according to
directions, and completing drawings as directed are among the varied lessons.
FACT,
FANCY & OPINION
reproducibles ...$6.00
Activities help to discern between facts and opinions. The "fancy" part has to do with idioms and how they are different from both facts and opinions. Includes learning unreasonable opinions that use global words, such as never, always, every, and no one.
THIS
GOES BEFORE THAT
reproducibles ...$6.00
Activities teach how to use time element words as clues to
determine the proper order of events; write events that can occur before or
after other events; organize events according to when they occurred, and
complete several other types of sequencing activities.
DETAILS
ARE IMPORTANT
reproducibles ...$6.00
Helps them discern between important and unimportant
details; locate specific details; write details about a variety of subjects, and
more. Activities point out that not all people see the same details when given
the same information.
USING OUR LANGUAGE SERIES
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Using Capitals ...$5.00 * Sample Page |
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Subjects & Verbs ...$5.00 |
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Using Commas ...$5.00 |
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End Punctuation ...$5.00 |
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The Apostrophe ...$5.00 |
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Writing Sentences ...$5.00 |
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Writing Paragraphs ...$5.00 |
Looking over the orders we get, about 3/4's of all teaches must be getting gray and nervous trying to teach English. We've tried to help with our 7 books that cover specialized topics. Each book contains a pre and post test The art and contents are adolescent oriented. Material is quite repetitive. All the units are designed to be used independently of one another although we do recommend using Writing Sentences before Writing Paragraphs. The end result is your students should be able to get about 5 or 6 sentences, which are related to one another into one paragraph. All are reproducible. Please specify title.