Middle & Upper Grades

Life Science for grades 5 to 8 is designed to aid in the review and practice of life science topics. Life Science covers topics such as classifying animals, plant and animal structures, life cycles, biomes, and energy transfer. The book includes realistic diagrams and engaging activities to support practice in all areas of life science.

The 100+ Series science books span grades 5 to 12. The activities in each book reinforce essential science skill practice in the areas of life science, physical science, and Earth science. The books include engaging, grade-appropriate activities and clear thumbnail answer keys. Each book has 128 pages and 100 pages (or more) of reproducible content to help students review and reinforce essential skills in individual science topics. The series is aligned to current science standards.

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• Pursuing a career path
• What employers are looking for
• What employers are not looking for
• The interview process
• Work ethic and other soft skills
• What you need to do to be considered for the position you want.

Diagraming Sentences will help students of all ages learn how the parts of speech fit together to make clear and complete sentences.

This 48-page language arts book shows visual learners how to diagram sentences to help them understand why some sentences may not sound or look right. The book also includes these resources:

• fun practice activities
• review activities
• a glossary
• answer keys

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

Interactive Notebooks: Math for sixth 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 absolute value, ratios, evaluating expressions, one-variable equations and inequalities, surface area, 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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A really practical application of math. Each book includes activities such as reading comprehension, filling out forms, using a glossary, and answering math word problems.

The multi-step word problems cover adding and subtracting money, multiplying and dividing money, figuring percentages, working with large numbers, and more. This life skills program will help students master math skills that are essential to everyday life! Each book includes an answer key.

Students will gain hands-on experience practicing the math they will use in the real world. The realistic activities in this series will teach students about paying bills, keeping a transaction register, filling out a credit card application, shopping online, using a debit card, making and keeping to a budget, shopping for the best buy, and so much more!

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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• Content in each book is specifically designed to practice and assess learning from the lessons in the INBs.
• Students practice and master their knowledge of sentence types, parts of speech, and punctuation rules with a variety of activities.