With the Language Arts 4 Today book for first grade, learning essential language arts skills only takes 10 minutes a day!

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for first grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these skills and concepts:

• fluency
• sight words
• comprehensions
• phonics

The Language Arts 4 Today book for first grade aligns with current state standards.

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for first grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This language arts workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress.

The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use language arts workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 2. 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 2 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master sentences, parts of speech, capitalization, and punctuation.

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 2 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

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for kindergarten is a fun, standards-based language arts workbook that strengthens reading comprehension skills by increasing children's ability to understand, process, and analyze text.

Strong reading skills are the basis of school success, and Spectrum Reading for kindergarten will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook promotes reading proficiency and improves the understanding of sounds, letters, word recognition, and idea integration.

Spectrum Reading workbooks will help your child improve their reading habits and strengthen their ability to understand and analyze text. This best-selling series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it is carefully designed to be both effective and engaging—the perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Features:

• Answer Key

Each book in this series features 100 “Minutes” to help students build basic skills, increase speed in math operations, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Each Minute consists of 10 problems of varying degrees of difficulty that incorporate a variety of skills. Each ten-problem reproducible can be used as a learning or testing tool.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance their overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! First-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of first-grade math instruction, including:

• counting
• number words
• place value
• counting back
• fractions
• ordering numbers
• ordinals
• basic addition
• money
• calendar
• graphs
• symmetry
• greater than/less than
• basic subtraction
• plane and solid figures
• telling time
• measurement
• and more!

First-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of ten classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening format. The quick, one-minute format combined with instant feedback makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding to complex situations and to the solution of realistic problems in each Minute.