Resource/Activity Books

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Math for eighth grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about rational numbers, multistep equations, functions, the Pythagorean theorem, scatter plots, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

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• Reproducible Rights

The sound of a child reading is like music to a parent's ears—so get your child on the right track with Spectrum® Word Study and Phonics for grade 4! This best-selling language arts workbook uses progressive lessons, strategies, and practice to help children understand word formations and meanings.

Understanding letter sounds and word formation is an essential piece to the reading proficiency puzzle. Spectrum Word Study and Phonics for grade 4 guides children through synonyms, antonyms, consonant blends, and more. Filled with engaging exercises in a progressive format, this series provides an effective way to reinforce early language arts skills.

Mastering language arts is a long process—start with the basics. Spectrum Word Study and Phonics is here to help children begin a successful journey to reading proficiency. With the help of this best-selling series, your child will improve language arts skills with practice and activities that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills.

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• Answer Key

Facilitate a smooth transition from arithmetic to pre-algebra for students in grades 7 and up using Helping Students Understand Pre-Algebra.

This 128-page math book includes step-by-step instructions with these resources:

• examples
• practice problems using the concepts
• real-life applications
• a list of symbols and terms
• tips
• answer keys

The book supports NCTM standards and includes chapters on topics such as:

• basic number concepts
• operations and variables
• integers
• exponents
• square roots
• patterns

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• Answer Key

The Mark Twain Earth and Space Science book challenges students to work together while solving real-world problems.

STEM Labs for Earth and Space Science for sixth–eighth grades provides 26 integrated labs that cover the topics of:

• geology
• oceanography
• meteorology
• astronomy

The integrated labs encourage students to apply scientific inquiry, content knowledge, and technological design.

STEM success requires creativity, communication, and collaboration. Mark Twain's Earth and Space Science workbook for middle school explains STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Each lab incorporates the following components:

• creativity
• teamwork
• communication
• critical thinking

From supplemental books to classroom décor, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing the very best products for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects, including language arts, fine arts, government, history, social studies, math, science, and character.

Ensure a smooth transition from algebra to algebra II for students in grades 7 and up using Helping Students Understand Algebra II.

This 128-page math resource book includes:

• step-by-step instructions with examples
• practice problems using the concepts
• real-life applications
• a list of symbols and terms
• tips
• answer keys

Perfect for full units of study, as a supplement to math curriculum, or for additional at home practice, this book supports NCTM standards and includes topics such as:

• solving equations
• inequalities
• polynomials
• rational expressions
• roots and radicals
• quadratic expressions

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• Answer Key