Warm up brains and quick start your classroom action. Activities are grouped by content strands and are useful for beginning a unit, reviewing a concept and expanding into a larger lesson.

Using current research on learning styles and methods, this topseller will help teachers choose and use thinking and reading strategies that enable students to comprehend the content as well as read individual words. A must for any teacher who has struggling readers.

Five activities a day for 36 weeks to keep language skills sharp. Activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence and are correlated to state and national standards.

Science Smart Starters

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Math Smart Starters

A comprehensive review of 500 difficult vocabulary words found on most standardized tests. This resource offers a thorough study of vocabulary by helping students to: develop a broader knowledge of words and meanings; recognize relationships between groups of words; apply complex vocabulary to everyday situations; attain a more elaborate method of speaking and writing.

Power practice books. Contain over 100 ready-to-use activity pages.
•Word scrambles
• Crossword puzzles
• Category games
• Analogies
• Word searches

Provides 28 weeks of suggested lessons, activities, study guides, and quizzes to help students become more powerful readers.
Includes:
• Detailed daily lesson plans for weeks 1-5
• Lessons for weeks 6-28 which can be taught as "mini-lessons" while working with the stated skills/strategies in class novels.
• Activities to accompany all skills and strategies.
• Study guides and quizzes.
• Index of suggested novels.

Creative Puzzles to Challenge the Brain
This resource includes fun, creative puzzles to help students develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The activities cover convergent and divergent thinking, brainstorming, flexibility, originality, forecasting, synthesizing, and more! These brainteasers are ideal for "problem of the day," extra credit, homework assignments, or center activities.