Each book is divided into thematic units that help students focus their reading and thinking.
Adventures in the New World: America's Early Days
Unit One: Explorers to the New World
Unit Two: Pirates and Privateers
Unit Three: Early Settlers
The American Revolution: People and Events That Helped Shape the New Country
Unit One: Making History
Unit Two: Rebels with a Cause
Unit Three: Of Machines and Men
The Second World War: Remembering the Costliest War in History
Unit One: Battling the Enemy
Unit Two: Making Weighty Decisions
Unit Three: Identifying the Faces of War
Settling the West: Adventures in Pioneering and Westward Expansion
Unit One: Unsung Heroes of the West
Unit Two: The Wild and Crazy West
Unit Three: Stories of the West
A Very Uncivil War: Famous People and Events in the War Between the States
Unit One: Helping Those in Need
Unit Two: Risking It All for Freedom
Unit Three: In the Heat of Battle
Worlds of Yesterday: Life in Ancient Civilizations
Unit One: Ancient Ways of Life
Unit Two: Ancient Disasters
Unit Three: Ancient Wonders
These content-area workbooks with high-interest, accessible selections offer reinforcement and practice of essential reading skills. The reading levels range in difficulty so you can match lessons to your students' instructional reading levels.
FEATURES
- Teaches both narrative and informational standards-based reading skills.
- Skill activities following every section and unit reinforce the same set of essential reading skills and strategies
- identifying main idea and supporting detail
- making generalizations
- determining cause and effect
- drawing conclusions
- recognizing inferences
- using context clues
- Many titles blend with the social studies and literature curricula so reading practice is relevant and meaningful.
- All of the high-interest selections and over 70 percent of the history selections are nonfiction and teach informational reading skills.
Preparation for state and national tests
- The open-ended and multiple-choice questions match the format of state and standardized tests.
- Graphic organizers and writing prompts ask students to compare and draw conclusions from several selections.
- National and state language arts standards are reflected in the skill activities at the end of each selection and unit.
- End-of-unit test items match the format of most state and standardized tests.
TEACHER GUIDES
- guided reading lesson plan for each selection
- frontloads vocabulary
- offers critical thinking questions with strategies identified
- provides literacy focus with related literary skill
- overview of reading strategies
- answers for all student activities