Language Arts

Inspiring real-life topics engage elementary kids as they learn to become capable writers and help make this an easy-to-use teaching tool that they enjoy.

How to Write a Paragraph Reproducible Workbook

Promote a "can do" attitude with inspiring activities that help students master that very important writing unit--the paragraph. Busy teachers appreciate the variety of activities, hands-on experiences, and independent learning opportunities presented in this valuable resource.

Skill Sharpeners Reading Activity Book

Skill Sharpeners Reading, Kindergarten, provides a one-page story for each letter of the alphabet. For example:A—Any Ants?; D—Digging; G—Good and Bad; N—The New One; P—In a Puddle, and W—Waffle Wagon. Activity pages include listening for beginning sounds, matching words and pictures, cut-and-paste activities, sentence completion, and following directions.

Building Spelling Skills, Grade 6

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<div>Increase your student&#39;s language arts skills with<em> Building Spelling Skills Grade 6+ Teacher&#39;s Edition</em>! This&nbsp;blackline master resource provides you with 30 weekly ready-to-use units. This comprehensive resource features spelling lists, dictation sentences, engaging activities, teaching tips, record keeping, and more.</div>

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<div>Spelling lists include:</div>

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<div>- Homophones</div>

<div>- Blends</div>

<div>- Vowel sounds</div>

<div>- Prefixes and suffixes</div>

<div>- Root words</div>

<div>- Compound words</div>

<div>- Words with silent letters</div>

<div>- Easily confused spellings</div>

<div>- Multisyllabic words</div>

<div>- Curriculum vocabulary</div>

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<div>Students learn 540 words total by 18 spelling words per week. A variety of short daily activities include word study, word meaning, editing, puzzles, fill-in-the-blank, and more.</div>

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Building Spelling Skills Grade 5 Teacher's Ed, Reproducible, 160 Pages

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<p>Increase your student's language arts skills with&nbsp;<em>Building Spelling Skills Grade 5 Teacher's Edition</em>! This blackline master resource provides you with 30 weekly ready-to-use units. This comprehensive resource features spelling lists, dictation sentences, daily activities, teaching tips, record keeping, and more.</p>
<p><strong>Spelling lists include:</strong></p>
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<li>Contractions</li>
<li>Blends</li>
<li>Vowel Sounds</li>
<li>Prefixes &amp; Suffixes</li>
<li>Compound Words</li>
<li>Words with Silent Letters</li>
<li>Easily Confused Spellings</li>
<li>Multisyllabic Words</li>
<li>Irregular Plurals&nbsp;</li>
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<p>Students learn 540 words total by 18 spelling words per week. Short daily activities include word study, word meaning, editing, word puzzles, fill-in-the-blank, and more.</p>
<p>Ready-to-use in your classroom, learning center, or as a homeschool supplement. Order yours today! Shop for<a href="https://www.mardel.com/languagearts"><em><strong> more language arts resources here</strong></em></a>.</p>
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Building Spelling Skills, Grade 4

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<p>Increase your student&#39;s language arts skills with <em>Building Spelling Skills Grade 4 Teacher&#39;s Edition</em>! This blackline master resource provides you with 30 weekly ready-to-use units. This comprehensive resource features spelling lists, dictation sentences, daily activities, teaching tips, record keeping, and more.</p>
<p>Spelling lists include:<br />
- Contractions<br />
- Blends<br />
- Vowel sounds<br />
- Prefixes and suffixes<br />
- Compound words<br />
- Words with silent letters<br />
- Homophones and easily confused spellings<br />
- Consonant digraphs<br />
- Time and calendar words<br />
- Multisyllabic words</p>
<p>Students learn 540 words total by 18 spelling words per week. Short daily activities include word study, word meaning, editing, word puzzles, fill-in-the-blank, and more.</p>
<p>Ready-to-use in your classroom, learning center, or as a homeschool supplement. Order yours today! Shop for<a href="https://www.mardel.com/languagearts"><em><strong> more language arts resources here.</strong></em></a></p>


Building Spelling Skills, Grade 3

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<p>Increase your student&#39;s language arts skills with <em>Building Spelling Skills Grade 3 Teacher&#39;s Edition</em>! This blackline master resource provides you with 30 weekly ready-to-use units. This comprehensive resource features spelling lists, dictation sentences, daily activities, teaching tips, record keeping, and more.</p>
<p>Spelling lists include:<br />
- Contradictions<br />
- Blends<br />
- Vowel sounds<br />
- Prefixes and suffixes<br />
- Compound words<br />
- Words with silent letters and homophones<br />
- Consonant digraphs</p>
<p>Students learn 450 words total by 15 spelling words per week. Short daily activities include letter work, word meaning, editing, word puzzles, fill-in-the-blank, and more.</p>
<p>Ready-to-use in your classroom, learning center, or as a homeschool supplement. Order yours today! Shop for <a href="https://www.mardel.com/languagearts"><em><strong>more language arts resources here</strong></em></a>.</p>


Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2

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<p>Increase your student&#39;s language arts skills with <em>Building Spelling Skills Grade 2 Teacher&#39;s Edition</em>! This blackline master resource provides you with 30 weekly ready-to-use units. This comprehensive resource features spelling lists, dictation sentences, daily activities, teaching tips, record keeping, and more.</p>
<p>Spelling lists include:<br />
- Short and long vowel words<br />
- Contractions<br />
- Blends and digraphs<br />
- Spelling for /er/<br />
- Variant vowel sounds such as ou, ow, oo<br />
- Adding ed and ing</p>
<p>Students learn 300 words total by 10 spelling words per week. Short daily activities include fill-in-the-blank, matching, word puzzles, hidden words, correcting misspellings, and more.</p>
<p>Ready-to-use in your classroom, learning center, or as a homeschool supplement. Order yours today! Shop for <a href="https://www.mardel.com/languagearts"><em><strong>more language arts resources here</strong></em></a>.</p>


Daily Handwriting Practice Traditional Manuscript

<p>Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Manuscript, is more than just a handwriting book; it is a learning tool that helps developing young minds practice basic skills in an interesting and unique way.  For example, as students learn to clearly write, &ldquo;The pizza is divided into fourths,&rdquo; they are reinforcing their understanding of fractions and ordinal numbers.</p><p>Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content-area topics appropriate for the primary classroom.  Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises include nutrition, our solar system, pets, and vehicles. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week. This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it.</p><p>Practice includes the following important vocabulary words:     &bull; color words     &bull; number words     &bull; days of the week and months     &bull; position words     &bull; sports     &bull; family members.  Curriculum topics addressed include:     &bull; nutrition     &bull; the solar system     &bull; the layers of the Earth     &bull; recycling     &bull; fractions     &bull; the continents     &bull; geometric shapes     &bull; money     &bull; energy.  Skills reinforced that help keep handwriting legible include:     &bull; correct letter formation     &bull; letter placement     &bull; spacing between letters     &bull; spacing between words.</p><ul><li>- Evan-Moor Daily Handwriting Practice: Traditional Manuscript</li><li>- Great for all grade students needing manuscript handwriting practice</li><li>- Convenient 112 reproducible pages for classroom use</li><li>- 36 weeks of handwriting practice</li><li>- Includes weekly schedule</li></ul>

Reading Detective A1 Workbook

<p><i>Reading Detective's</i> fiction and nonfiction activities use higher-order thinking to develop reading comprehension. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pre-tests and post-tests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations. 200-225 pages.

Reading Detective Beginning Workbook

<i>Reading Detective's</i> standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

Daily Handwriting Practice Modern Manuscript

<p>Incorporated into the writing exercises in Daily Handwriting Practice, Modern Manuscript, are many other basic areas of learning important to developing minds. For example, as students learn to clearly write, &quot;The gray ant is in third place, &quot; they are reinforcing their understanding of colors and ordinal numbers. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content area topics appropriate for the primary classroom.</p><p>Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from nutrition to our solar system, pets to vehicles. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week. This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it.</p><p>Practice includes the following important vocabulary words: color words, number words, cardinal and ordinal, verbs, animal names, days of the week and months, sports, position words, family members.</p><p>Curriculum topics addressed include: nutrition, the solar system, the layers of the earth, recycling, fractions, the continents, geometric, shapes, money, and energy.</p><p>Skills reinforced that help keep handwriting legible include the following: correct letter formation, letter placement, spacing between letters, and spacing between words.</p><p>When students complete this book, they will take away a self-made learning tool, because the final four weeks of practice assemble into an Alphabet Book about vehicles. Engaging line art illustrations accompany every exercise. All 112 pages are reproducible for classroom use and perforated for easy removal.</p><ul><li>- Evan-Moor Daily Handwriting Practice: Modern Manuscript</li><li>- Great for all grades of students needing practice with modern manuscript handwriting</li><li>- Includes daily schedule for 36-week school year</li><li>- Convenient 112 reproducible pages</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

The Five Ws Reading Comprehension Workbook

Terrific for reluctant readers! Students are sure to enjoy the high-interest, factual newspaper articles featured in this book. Each article is presented in a realistic and appealing format complete with dateline and picture. Follow-up questions require the reader to respond to the “Five W's” - who, what, when, where, and why. A great way to boost comprehension skills! Reading levels are achieved through the use of controlled vocabulary, simple sentence structure, and appropriate illustrations.