Language Arts

This matching game will propel your child into ABC fun as they sound out the letters while matching them with familiar and vibrant illustrations. Developed hand-in-hand with learning professionals, this Super Genius game was specifically created with early learners in mind.

The concept is brilliant! There is always one -- and only one -- match between any two cards. Pick a cooperative rule or race to find the match. There are endless ways to learn… while having fun.

Skills:

• Visual perception
• Focus and attention
• Speech and language
• Processing speed

Contents:

• 62 Cards
• Illustrated Rules

Illustrated fiction, informational texts, and engaging exercises improve reading for enhanced learning across disciplines. Spectrum® Reading for grade 5 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 5 will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook uses engaging text to support understanding key ideas, details, knowledge integration, summarization, and theme.

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.

Features:

• Answer Key

This deck of 36 wordless storytelling cards features more than 30 games to build basic mathematics, storytelling and writing skills in children ages 3 - 10. The 12 character, 12 object and 12 setting cards invite children to create stories about mermaids, pirates and more.

• 30 Games in One: This new addition to Barefoot Books' popular Build-a-Story Cards series features more than 30 games crafted by an education specialist to build basic mathematics, storytelling and writing skills in children ages 3 - 10.
• Early Mathematics Skills: The robust instruction booklet includes clear directions for using the cards to reinforce familiarity with basic mathematics concepts such as shapes, relative size and quantity, patterning, measurement, addition, subtraction, counting by 5s and 10s, and word problems.
• Writers' Workshop: Includes kid-tested directions for activities that help children understand basic story elements, as well as prompts for drawing and creative writing activities. Featuring delightful artwork by Bear series and Port Side Pirates! illustrator Debbie Harter, the cards themselves are color-coded to indicate characters, objects and settings.
• Handy Deck Format: Like the popular Barefoot Books Build-a-Story Cards: Magical Castle, the Build-a-Story Cards: Ocean Adventure deck's 36 sturdy, versatile cards are designed to withstand travel, frequent solo or group play, and home or classroom use.

Improve reading comprehension skills with high-interest passages that meet the expectations of current state standards. Paired Passages for grade 5 features compelling material that students compare and contrast so that they can integrate knowledge and ideas across multiple texts. Designed to keep young minds engaged, this series strengthens comprehension skills and students' ability to think critically.

Paired Passages for grade 5 offers pairs of nonfiction and fiction passages for students to compare and contrast. Aligned to state standards, students will read high-interest passages about topics such as Babe Ruth, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, a Robert Frost poem, and more.

Help your students meet rigorous college- and career-ready expectations by improving reading comprehension skills. Paired Passages helps students meet and exceed reading standards by teaching them to compare and contrast:

• fiction with nonfiction
• fiction with fiction
• nonfiction with nonfiction

When students finish reading a pair of passages, they will rely on the text to complete the accompanying questions and activities.

The Paired Passages series for grades 1 to 6 improves reading comprehension skills by providing passages for students to compare, contrast, and synthesize. Filled with content that appeals to today's learners, the passages represent a variety of genres such as:

• literature (narrative, poetry, realistic fiction, and more)
• social studies
• science

Each topic features a pair of passages and is followed by two pages of text-dependent questions and activities. By using this research-based instructional approach, you are preparing students for a successful academic journey this year and for years to come.

Features:

• Answer Key
• Reproducible Rights