Grammar & Writing

Guide your students through the process of writing with scaffolded practice that's as engaging as it is educational! Scaffolded lessons come in four sections: Sentences:Students practice combining sentences, constructing "super sentences," and using...

Enhance learning with daily mini-activities in this resource for language arts teachers. The Abbreviations Quick Starts workbook helps students recognize and use common abbreviations. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false,...

This workbook includes a variety of activities to help students master essential language arts skills. The Capitalization & Punctuation Quick Starts workbook helps students strengthen their language arts skills, while highlighting correct...

This book for figurative language provides fun, challenging daily activities. The Figurative Language Quick Starts workbook features activities that include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, concept application, and creative responses. Quick...

Help students build strong language arts proficiency with daily skill-building activities. The Grammar Quick Starts workbook reinforces grammar skills related to parts of speech; singular and plural nouns, pronouns, and verbs; capitalization;...

Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Abbreviations: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students gain an understanding of abbreviations, such as forms of address, days,...

Connect students in grades 4 and up with conventions using Jumpstarters for Capitalization and Punctuation: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource covers end-of-sentence punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks,...

Facilitate a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Figurative Language: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page language arts resource book provides daily practice on figurative language such...

Short warm-up exercises cover compound words, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. The book includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use. SEE SAMPLE PAGES: HERE   GRADE LEVEL: 4-8   FILE TYPE:...

Facilitate a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page language arts resource book helps students practice and...

Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Synonyms and Antonyms: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students recognize and comprehend words in the context of “similar...

Help students in grades 4 and up get a grasp on grammar using Language Arts Tutor: Grammar. This 48-page resource book features these activities that improve grammatical skills and enrich the learning experience: innovative...

Encourage students in grades 4 and up to improve their research skills and test scores using Note Taking: Lessons to Improve Research Skills and Test Scores. This 48-page activity book helps students develop strategies for effective note-taking...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Personal Writing. This 32-page book teaches students about journal entries, autobiographies, anecdotes, lists, and letters. Activities include setting goals, looking at points of...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Description. This 32-page book helps students write descriptions of people, places, things, and abstract ideas through the use of adjectives and lively verbs. Students...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Facts and Opinions. This 32-page book helps students write news articles, headlines, directions, editorials, and reviews. Activities include distinguishing facts from...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Fiction. This 32-page book helps students create characters, settings, and plots; develop ideas; and write original fiction. Students practice brainstorming, writing and...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Poetry. This 32-page book sparks students' interest in reading and writing poetry. It features types of poems such as acrostic, cinquain, diamante, haiku, limerick,...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Reports. This 32-page book gives students a step-by-step approach to writing reports on any topic. Activities cover focusing on a topic, taking notes, preparing outlines,...

Enhance learning with daily mini-activities in this resource for language arts teachers. The Synonyms & Antonyms Quick Starts workbook helps students to develop verbal proficiency by working with antonyms and synonyms that are adjectives,...

Help students in grades 4 and up write and speak with Synonyms and Antonyms. This 96-page resource can be used for individual or whole-group instruction and includes fill-in-the-blank worksheets, writing exercises, crossword puzzles, and matching...

This language arts book provides fun, challenging daily activities. The Word Parts Quick Starts workbook helps students to practice recognition and use of root words, prefixes, suffixes, and much more. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short...

This writing book provides fun, challenging daily activities. The Writing Quick Starts workbook helps students to communicate effectively in writing. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, writing prompts, creative writing...

Get a grasp on grammar with students in grades 5-6 using Grammar: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as parts of...

Providing an overview of grammar and an introduction to basic composition, this 96-page language arts resource book teaches the fundamentals of the English language. Grammar and Composition begins with words and progresses to sentences, paragraphs,...

Featuring open-ended lessons for the five most common types of middle-school writing, Writing: Fundamentals for the Middle-School Classroom will help encourage students in grades 5 and up to write every day. This 128-page language arts resource...

Support ELA proficiency with daily practice and lesson reviews. Language Arts Warm-Ups: Expanding Vocabulary for grades 5 to 8+ offers more than 300 activities that students can complete individually or as an entire class to increase subject...

Write on! Write with students in grades 6–12 using Adventures in Writing. This 64-page book includes writing projects for which students develop characters, settings, and plots in a variety of written, oral, and artistic formats. Formats...

Prove It! Using Textual Evidence provides teachers with the strategies they need to teach students how to cite textual evidence when reading and writing. This essential classroom resource will teach students how to read critically in literary...

Encourage ELA fluency by providing students with skill-building practice and writing prompts. Language Arts: Practice and Application for grade 7 introduces and reinforces the skills necessary for students to become excellent communicators. This...

This how-to guide provides teachers with all the information they need to help their students write from sources. It allows students to analyze informational texts, argument/opinion texts, narrative texts, diverse media sources, and multiple...

From jotting notes to taking tests, handwriting plays an essential role in the classroom. Spectrum® Manuscript Handwriting provides the printing practice children need to succeed. Give children an advantage across disciplines by...

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...

Developing handwriting skills in early learners can put them at the head of class! Introducing early learning concepts at home allows children to enter the classroom with the confidence they need for a strong start. Spectrum® Lowercase...

Developing handwriting skills in early learners can put them at the head of class! Introducing early learning concepts at home allows children to enter the classroom with the confidence they need for a strong start. Spectrum® Uppercase Letters...

Get ready to "hit a home run" with strategies and suggestions about how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. They'll "knock your socks off"!Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms and...

Get ready to "hit a home run" with strategies and suggestions about how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. They'll "knock your socks off"!Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms and...

This essential classroom resource provides educators with a solid foundation in teaching persuasive writing. Grades 3-5 students will learn persuasive writing techniques and strategies on how to research topics, form opinions, support their...

This essential classroom resource provides educators with a solid foundation in teaching persuasive writing. Grades 6-8 students will learn persuasive writing techniques and strategies on how to research topics, form opinions, support their...

This essential classroom resource provides educators with a solid foundation in teaching persuasive writing. Grades K-2 students will learn persuasive writing techniques and strategies on how to research topics, form opinions, support their...