Science taps into a kid's natural curiosity—help your child explore fascinating facts and compelling passages with a workbook that generates interest and teaches key concepts. Spectrum® Science for grade 8 introduces, reviews, and reinforces the skills your child needs to thrive in this subject.

Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children's attention. Spectrum Science for grade 8 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about the nature of light, the detection of distant planets, and internal combustion engines.

When children develop a solid understanding of science, they're preparing for success. Spectrum Science for grades 3-8 improves scientific literacy and inquiry skills with an exciting exploration of natural, earth, life, and applied sciences. With the help of this best-selling series, your little scientist can discover and appreciate our extraordinary world!

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Help middle-grade students master essential math skills with the motivating, classroom-tested Math Minutes format featured in this new book. It provides 100 “Minutes” of 10 problems each for students to complete within a one- to two-minute period. Providing daily practice in every key area of math instruction, Math Minutes is a fun way to improve students' problem-solving speed (crucial for testing situations) and an instant assessment tool.

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

• multiplication
• division
• problem solving
• probability
• graphing
• place value
• algebra and functions
• geometry
• square roots
• percents, decimals, and fractions
• number sense
• measurement
• spatial connections
• math vocabulary
• and more!

Seventh-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty for students to complete within a one-to two-minute period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own math fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, timed drills, combined with instant feedback, make this a challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to using each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships, apply acquired understanding to complex situations, and find solutions to the realistic problems in each Minute.

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for grade 2 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 grade 2 will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook uses engaging text to support understanding main ideas, story structure, details, and key ideas.

Spectrum Reading 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.

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Evidence-Based Reading for kindergarten offers 64 pages of reading practice. It is aligned with current state standards and includes a reading comprehension rubric, a standards alignment chart, and pages of reading passages with evidence-based questions to encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful answers. Each question is designed so that students learn to support their answers with evidence from the text. A variety of literature and informational passages are included to engage learners in a range of texts.

The Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Reading series emphasizes close reading by requiring students to answer text-dependent questions in both literary and informational texts. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten to grade 5. Various reading and vocabulary skills are covered, and a culminating reflection question for each passage engages students' higher-level thinking skills. Of particular emphasis throughout the series are current state standards and the teaching of evidence-based reading.

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Help children with ADHD in kindergarten through grade 6 be their best using Empower ADHD Kids!

This 64-page book provides step-by-step plans that help teachers and parents teach practical strategies for mastering learning and social competencies to children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The activities provide a strong working knowledge of the characteristics of ADHD and includes:

• goal-setting techniques
• strategies to help children focus
• problem-solving strategies
• ideas to help children with ADHD realize their strengths

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children.

Spectrum® Word Problems for grade 2, includes focused practice for essential math skills. Skills include:

• Real world applications
• Multi-step word problems
• Adding, subtracting, reading, and writing numbers up to 100
• Measuring lengths and plotting graphs
• Time and money
• Recognizing and drawing shapes

Spectrum® Word Problems workbooks supplement classroom work and proficiency test preparation. The workbooks provide examples of how the math skills students learn in school apply to everyday life with challenging, multi-step word problems. It features practice with word problems that are an essential part of the Common Core State Standards, making it a perfect supplement at home or school.

Promote fine-motor development for special-education students in pre-kindergarten–grade 1 using Fine Motor Fun!

This 160-page resource book is packed with suggestions and reproducible activities that strengthen fine motor and visual perception skills.

An excellent tool for helping children with Dysgraphia, Perceptual Motor Difficulties, and Developmental Coordination Disorders, this book includes hundreds of developmentally age-appropriate activities such as:

• scissors skills
• lacing cards
• stencils
• finger plays
• stringing activities
• dot-to-dots
• tracing
• finish-the-picture activities
• mazes
• tactile and first-pencil experiences

This book supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”