Appreciating other lands and cultures. The history, language, customs, and cultures of Greece, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria are all topics covered in this informative book. As students learn about these far off places and work the accompanying activities, they will build comprehension. The 30 illustrated exercises here enhance learning with information-packed stories about each country. The Greek history of the Olympic Games is covered, as is a recipe for German Potato Salad. There is even a lesson on the Holidays in Holland. Learning has never been so much fun.Reading Level 3

Information-packed crossword puzzles! From Connecticut to California and New Mexico to New Jersey, each of the country’s 50 states is the focus of a unique crossword puzzle. Using an encyclopedia to discover solutions, students learn valuable information about each state. Examples: - The name Arizona comes from this Indian word. - Nebraska’s state flower. - The name of Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate near Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Improve a multitude of skills while learning that Thanksgiving is about more than eating turkey with stuffing! From answering “Pilgrim Problems” to sequencing historical facts, students will expand their knowledge of this unique American holiday as they practice basic skills. The 39 activities in this unit focus on reading, comprehension, finding the main idea, inferences, cause and effect, fact vs. opinion, comparing, sequencing, rhyming, vocabulary, decision making, and more. Contents Include: - Pre/Post Test - Vocabulary List & Activities - Reading Comprehension Activities - Language Activities - Math Word Problem Activities - Writing Prompts - Arts & Crafts - Mapping Skills - Game - Bulletin Board - Much More!

A lesson a day in January! These fun, interactive Google Slides offer a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest/low-reading level stories are followed by engaging activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Whether used as morning work or homework… you will never run out of usable activities again! VERSATILE LESSONS: Ideal for teaching in person, through distance learning, or both. Versatile Google Slides can be completed online and can ALSO be printed as a set of pdf lessons! Need a larger font size? Have the students use the ZOOM Magnifying Tool in their Google toolbar. Want to enlarge each slide for easier viewing & reading? Again the Zoom Magnifying Tool does the trick! The slides can be easily enlarged… making them a larger, scrollable document… This interactive feature makes them ideal for students of ALL abilities. EASY-TO-USE: We’ve done the work for you! Simply download these Google Slides to your Google Drive and assign them to your students. Assign the entire month, or just today’s lesson! ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: 31 Short, Nonfiction Stories Crossword Puzzles Word Search Puzzles Fill-in-the-Blanks Multiple Choice Using a Map Using a Graph Sentence Writing Drag & Drops True & False Questions Extended Research Activities Answer Key Included and more! Reading Level: Grades 3 - 4 Interest Level: Grades 3 - 12

GOOGLE SLIDES LESSON for NOVEMBER 11th! Veterans Day!!! Taken from our NEW Daily Comprehension- November Google Slides, this lesson is for THIS Week… November 11th. Don’t miss out. :) ABOUT DAILY COMPREHENSION - NOVEMBER: A lesson a day in November! These fun and informative interactive Google Slides offer a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest/low-reading level stories are followed by engaging activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Whether used as morning work or homework… you will never run out of usable activities again! EASY-TO-USE: We’ve done the work for you! Simply download this Google Slides lesson to your Google Drive and assign it to your students. Its ready to go… VERSATILE LESSONS: Ideal for teaching in person, through distance learning, or both. Versatile Google Slides can be completed online and can ALSO be printed as a set of pdf lessons! Need a larger font size? Have the students use the ZOOM Magnifying Tool in their Google toolbar. Want to enlarge each slide for easier viewing & reading? Again the Zoom Magnifying Tool does the trick! The slides can be easily enlarged… making them a larger, scrollable document… This interactive feature makes them ideal for students of ALL abilities. DAILY COMPREHENSION SERIES INCLUDES: Crossword Puzzles Word Search Puzzles Fill-in-the-Blanks Multiple Choice Using a Map Using a Graph Sentence Writing Drag & Drops True & False Questions Extended Research Activities Answer Key included and more! Reading Level: Grades 3 - 4 Interest Level: Grades 4 - 12

A lesson a day in February! These fun, interactive Google Slides offer a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest/low-reading level stories are followed by engaging activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Whether used as morning work or homework… you will never run out of usable activities again! VERSATILE LESSONS: Ideal for teaching in person, through distance learning, or both. Versatile Google Slides can be completed online and can ALSO be printed as a set of pdf lessons! Need a larger font size? Have the students use the ZOOM Magnifying Tool in their Google toolbar. Want to enlarge each slide for easier viewing & reading? Again the Zoom Magnifying Tool does the trick! The slides can be easily enlarged… making them a larger, scrollable document… This interactive feature makes them ideal for students of ALL abilities. EASY-TO-USE: We’ve done the work for you! Simply download these Google Slides to your Google Drive and assign them to your students. Assign the entire month, or just today’s lesson! ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: 30 Short, Nonfiction Stories Crossword Puzzles Word Search Puzzles Fill-in-the-Blanks Multiple Choice Using a Map Using a Graph Sentence Writing Drag & Drops True & False Questions Extended Research Activities Answer Key included and more! Reading Level: Grades 3 - 4 Interest Level: Grades 4 - 12

Taken from our NEW Daily Comprehension- November Google Slides, this lesson is for November 5th. ABOUT DAILY COMPREHENSION - NOVEMBER: A lesson a day in November! These fun, interactive Google Slides offer a different nonfiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest/low-reading level stories are followed by engaging activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Whether used as morning work or homework… you will never run out of usable activities again! EASY-TO-USE: We’ve done the work for you! Simply download this Google Slides lesson to your Google Drive and assign it to your students. Its ready to go… VERSATILE LESSONS: Ideal for teaching in person, through distance learning, or both. Versatile Google Slides can be completed online and can ALSO be printed as a set of pdf lessons! Need a larger font size? Have the students use the ZOOM Magnifying Tool in their Google toolbar. Want to enlarge each slide for easier viewing & reading? Again the Zoom Magnifying Tool does the trick! The slides can be easily enlarged… making them a larger, scrollable document… This interactive feature makes them ideal for students of ALL abilities. DAILY COMPREHENSION SERIES INCLUDES: 30 Short, Nonfiction Stories Crossword Puzzles Word Search Puzzles Fill-in-the-Blanks Multiple Choice Using a Map Using a Graph Sentence Writing Drag & Drops True & False Questions Extended Research Activities and more! Reading Level: Grades 3 - 4 Interest Level: Grades 4 - 12 Answer Key

A NEW ONE-OF-A-KIND SERIES! Using daily reading lessons to teach American history. Engaging daily lessons take students on a journey of discovery through 20th Century America! Grab your student’s attention with exciting, easy-to-read stories that tell how America prospered during the Industrial Revolution and the Roaring Twenties and then survived two World Wars and the Great Depression. Fourteen important historical topics are presented in eight-page study units. The format of the study units is flexible and user-friendly – perfect for differentiated instruction. Students can work at their own pace according to their ability level. The stories are written specifically for students performing below grade level. Daily lessons guide students to carefully read each story, answer questions that test comprehension, and then write about what they have learned. Students will become more literate in American history while improving essential reading and writing skills. 132 pages per book. 20th Century American History. Learn how America prospered during the Industrial Revolution, the Roaring Twenties, and then survived two World Wars and the Great Depression. Topics include: • World War I and II • The Great Depression • The Space Race • The Civil Rights

A NEW ONE-OF-A-KIND SERIES! Using daily reading lessons to teach American history. Grab your reader’s attention with exciting, easy-to-read stories written specifically for students performing below grade level. Daily lessons guide students to carefully read each story, answer questions that test comprehension, and then write about what they’ve learned. Each book contains 14 important historical topics presented in eight-page study units. Each unit contains a three-page, fact-filled story complete with historical images on each page accompanied by five skill-based reading and writing activity pages. The format of the study units is flexible and user-friendly – perfect for differentiated instruction. Students can work at their own pace according to their ability level. Daily practice helps struggling readers become more literate in American history while improving essential reading and writing skills. 128+ pages per book. 19th Century American History. Learn about how westward expansion grew America but destroyed the Native American way of life. Topics include: • Settling the West • Slavery in America • The Civil War • Reconstruction & Segregation

A LESSON-A-DAY FOR EVERY DAY IN APRIL! ENGAGING READING COMPREHENSION LESSONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH! Featuring celebrities, inventors, sports, scientific discoveries, dramatic events and more… this series is sure to give you an unending supply of relevant and intriguing daily reading lessons. Each high-Interest passage is followed by a full page of skill-specific comprehension activities designed to sharpen essential reading skills. This lesson-a-day series is sure to become a classroom favorite! Ideal for bell work, enrichment, remediation and review. INCLUDES STANDARDS-BASED READING & WRITING ACTIVITIES: Stories are followed by skill-specific comprehension activities. Questions are clearly labeled with the standard/skill that it meets. LOCATE AN ANSWER DRAW CONCLUSIONS CAUSE & EFFECT FACT OR OPINION FIND FACTS MAKE INFERENCES SEQUENCE EVENTS FIND THE MAIN IDEA COMPARE & CONTRAST USE CONTEXT CLUES TO FIND MEANING All captivating events happened in the last 20 years! This is a growing series that will eventually include the entire school year. Reading Level: Gr 3 - 4 Interest Level: Gr 5 - 12 MORE DETAILS: This 21st Century Daily Comprehension resource is an all-new version of our popular Daily Comprehension series. A high-interest, nonfiction story has been chosen for each day of the month. The stories are a combination of historical, scientific, record-breaking, sports, and pop culture events that happened on that particular day. All of the stories are about events that occurred during the 21st Century. Care was taken to choose topics that appeal to a wide-range of interests. Students will learn some serious and some fun facts while improving their reading skills. A page of skill-based questions follows each story. Comprehension skills include: facts, locating the answer, cause and effect, fact or opinion, sequence, main idea, conclusion, inference, context, and comparison. INCLUDES: 65 pages Answer Key

Reading Comprehension | Social Studies | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | Civil War Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing History-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic! Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, historic explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life. Reading Skills Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading. “Civil War” The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story with sobering facts about the tragedy of the war between the North and the South and the fight to end slavery. “Escape to the North” The fiction story tells about a young Southern boy who helps a young runaway slave. Questions & Activities Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions. Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference, Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation. Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context. Details: Each short story is between 300 and 360 words and is written at a 2.8 to 4.8 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 4 and up. Contents Include: • 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories • 10 pages of questions and activities • Glossary • Answer Key • 18 total pages

Historically speaking! Students will build comprehension skills as they learn about important historic events and people of the latter 19th Century. Twenty stories about the dawn of the modern age are presented. From “Vincent Van Gogh” in 1853 to “The Horseless Carriage” in 1892, students will be exposed to sound historical information. Overall, this unit presents an integrated view by including achievements in science, music, and world events. Comprehension questions follow each story. Time-line activities are included so students can visualize the interaction of events.Reading Level 5

Embracing and understanding cultural differences. From information about America’s regional Indian tribes, to the languages, symbols, and legends of the Native American culture, this book’s cross-curriculum activities will teach students about this country’s “First Americans.” Activities here include reading, comprehension, language arts, math, social studies, critical thinking, following directions, and listening skills. Contents Include: - History of the America's First People (short stories & comprehension questions) - Native American Cookbook - Games - Crafts - Math Activity - Research Activity - Teacher Instructions Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-8

A Christmas Carol Reading level 1, audio narrated illustrated Google Classroom Activities for touch screen devices. Introduce students to great classic literature while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. This digital Classic is abridged and adapted into a reading leveled high-interest, low readability illustrated Google Classroom and includes the complete novel in 10 shortened chapters. This high-interest low-readability version is appropriate for all ages. Excellent for remedial readers, ESL, ELL or anyone who wants to read and understand this great classic in an easy reading format.

The Jungle Book Reading level 1, audio narrated illustrated Google Classroom Activities for touch screen devices. Introduce students to great classic literature while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. This digital Classic is abridged and adapted into a reading leveled high-interest, low readability illustrate Google Classroom Activities and includes the complete novel in 10 shortened chapters. This high-interest low-readability version is appropriate for all ages. Excellent for remedial readers, ESL, ELL or anyone who wants to read and understand this great classic in an easy reading format.

Romeo and Juliet Reading level 2, audio narrated illustrated Google Classroom Activities for touch screen devices. Introduce students to great classic literature while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. This digital Classic is abridged and adapted into a reading leveled high-interest, low readability illustrate Google Classroom Activities and includes the complete novel in 10 shortened chapters. This high-interest low-readability version is appropriate for all ages. Excellent for remedial readers, ESL, ELL or anyone who wants to read and understand this great classic in an easy reading format.