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.

Improve reading comprehension scores with this personalized approach. Adding the Standards-Based Connections: Reading book to your curriculum will help you identify learning gaps so that you can redirect focus as needed. Complete with skill assessments, practice pages, and self-assessing I Can statements, this book is sure to help your students stay on track.

Standards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more.

Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!

Features:

• Answer Key

Monitor student growth for second grade language arts and improve classroom data tracking.

Enhance the way you assess student progress with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Language Arts for second grade. Filled with a variety of summative and formative language arts assessments, it covers essential topics such as:

• phonics
• capitalization
• parts of speech
• story elements

Gather information about a student's or class's skill level and create an all-in-one data tracking binder. This book covers grade-specific standards and skills and includes a variety of ready-to-go language arts assessments for the entire school year such as:

• traditional tests
• unit tests
• exit tickets
• prompt cards for one-on-one assessments

Show proof of progress easily and accurately with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. This series makes it easy to track student growth in language arts—one assessment at a time!

Using these historical documents, students make observations, generate questions, think analytically, and cite evidence to support their opinions and conclusions. Each pack contains 20 historical source documents including photos, maps, paintings, newspaper clippings, lithographs and letters in a mix of color, black-and-white and sepia finishes. Printed on sturdy 81⁄2" x 11" card stock. Includes free 15-page online Teacher's Guide. Grades 3–6