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The grade-appropriate reading selections in Reading Comprehension bolster any reading program. Reading skills such as main idea, identifying details, summarizing, author's purpose, and story elements have been carefully aligned with national reading standards. Work through one skill at a time or select from a variety of skills to give a broader range of practice before standardized tests. Empower your students to succeed and open the door to a lifetime of reading fluency with these easy-to-use reproducible worksheets.
About this product: While being engaged in fun activities, your children will be practicing important age-appropriate skills such as visual discrimination, sequencing, small muscle coordination, following directions, reading, and critical and creative thinking.
About this product: This book uses theme-centered pages to teach the elements of grammar. Each lesson includes a grammar rule, an example of the rule, and interesting practice activities. Your students will find these pages easy enough to do on their own,yet challenging enough to provide important review in the most fundamental areas of grammar instruction. Some of the concepts covered in this book are active and passive voice verbs, direct and indirect objects, and misplaced and dangling modifiers.
About this product: "Great leaders have many talents, but one critical skill -- often unrecognized -- is the ability to ask and answer questions. This unique book offers 78 questions that leaders at all levels need to ask and answer both inside and outside the organization. Leaders who master this question-response technique will gain much useful information about what is really going on in their businesses, as well as the admiration of employees, customers, and others with whom they interact. The questions and answers cover a range of common and uncommon situations, including: the need to connect employees' efforts to company goals; layoffs, business downturns, and mergers; personal crises of employees; coaching and mentoring sessions; and customer retention. The book even includes advice on answering questions when the answer is ""I don't know"" or ""I can't tell you."" With worksheets in each chapter, it prepares leaders to ask important questions of: * Customers (""Why do you do business with our competition?"") * Employees (""What's a recent management decision you didn't understand?"") * And even themselves (""What do I want to be remembered for?"")"
About this product: Raise Test Scores! Be sure kids test their best on standardized tests in math by familiarizing them with the skills, formats, and language they need to succeed. These practice tests are designed to look and read like state and national tests, such as the TerraNova, ITBS, CTBS, MAT, and more. The 8 ready -to-take practice tests are a great way to boost confidence‹and make test prep easy for you. Also includes bubble-style answer sheets and a skill chart for analyzing test results.
About this product: For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers’ guides every year, at last there’s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can’t get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice, and get to work. Drawing on his experience as founding editor of MacAdam/Cage, Pat Walsh gives writers what they need—specific, straightforward feedback to help them overcome bad habits and bad luck. He avoids the optimistic, sometimes misleading directions often found in publishing how-to books and presents the industry as it is, warts and all. Here is the first guide that tells writers just what the odds against them are and gives them practical tips for evening them.
About this product: Contains exercises based on national standards to ensure that students master skills before progressing. Entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics make learning and reviewing fun and effective. A great tool for keeping children cu
Ready-to-reproduce practice pages-written in a variety of genres, including articles, biographies, e-mail announcements, and how-to guides-help struggling readers build comprehension skills. Companion questions for each passage focus on skills such as inferencing, sequencing, predicting, understanding story elements, and more. All of the highly engaging passages are written at slightly below grade level.
About this product: Water exercise is excellent for physical therapy and fitness because it enhances range of motion and eases pain of movement. This book makes it easy for you to design your own water exercise program, whether for injury rehabilitation, special conditions, cross-training, or just shaping up.
Water Exercise features 78 clearly described and illustrated exercises that range from beginning to advanced levels of difficulty. The book also provides complete exercise programs for specific injuries and conditions as well as for improved fitness. You can tailor each program to suit your own needs so, no matter what exercise program you choose, you’ll start at the appropriate level and progress safely into more challenging movements.
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