New Learning Publishing
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Rochester, New York, United States
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Thomas: I bring 25 years of classroom experience teaching grades 4–8 across all core subjects in both elementary and middle school settings. Along the way, I’ve led curriculum development initiatives and designed district-level assessments that align instruction with measurable outcomes. I collaborate with a team of seasoned educators and writers, each with deep experience in instruction and curriculum design, to create engaging, standards-aligned materials that support teachers and accelerate student learning.
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Grammar Unit One: What is a Sentence?
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
4th - 8th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Grammar
Novel Ideas: C. S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew
Synopsis: Digory and Polly are exploring one day and come across Digory's Uncle Andrew. He sends them on an experiment to see what two different colored magical rings do. Little did Uncle Andrew know but he sent them on an adventure like to other. They, with a few other fellow travelors, are sent to a new world that is just being created. This world is called Narnia. Thus beginnings your exciting adventure into the world of Narnia.
This print and use workbook is a child-directed literature
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: Judy Blume's Double Fudge
Synopsis: Fudge loves money. He makes his own money and plans to buy everything he sees, including Washington D.C. He plans to name the city after himself. Along with his desire for money, Fudge meets a friend in school who is very rich, Pete's best friend is moving out of the building, and the Hatcher's long lost cousins appear out of nowhere. This sequel of "Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing" is just as enjoyable and just as hilarious. Enjoy the many misadventures that occur to the Hatche
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: Barbara Robinson's The Best School Year Ever
Synopsis: When you think of the coming school year, you think of all of the learning and fun with friends you are going to have. At Woodrow Wilson School, all the students can think about is which Herdman they were going to have in their classroom. It isn't a pleasant thought either.
The Herdmans are rotten, dirty, and crazy. They create disasters everywhere they go and never get caught doing it, even though everyone knows they caused it. They don't limit their mischief to school. The
3rd - 8th
English Language Arts, Reading
Novel Ideas - R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Night of the Living Dummy
Story Synopsis:
Lindy and Kris are twin sisters. They do everything together and they are very competitive with each other. One day Lindy finds a ventriloquist dummy and decides to keep it. Kris quickly becomes jealous and gets one, too. The competition becomes intense.
Things get even more intense when strange things begin to happen around the house, strange things only a dummy could do. After reading this book you are going to think twice about calling anyone or anything a "dummy"!
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2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: D. Barry and R. Pearson's Peter and the Starcatchers
Synopsis: How did Peter learn to fly? How did he and his lost boys come to Never Land? Who was Captain Hook before he got his hook? Where did Tinkerbell and the mermaids come from? These questions and more are answered in this tell all book.
A mysterious voyage to the Kingdom of Rundoon turns into a battle of good and evil. A trunk filled with unknown powers is the goal for many in this book of strange twists and even stranger characters. Enjoy Peter Pan like you have never se
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Grammar Unit Two: Capitilization and Punctuation
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
4th - 8th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Grammar
Grammar Unit Three: Understanding Nouns and Pronouns
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
4th - 8th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Grammar
Novel Ideas: Jerry Spinelli's Loser
Synopsis: Donald is different. As a small child it is not easily noticed. As he gets older, the other children begin to notice. He goes from the goofy kid to the one no one wants on his or her team. Loser is a great story about learning how being different can be a burden and a joy.
This print and use workbook is a child-directed literature study that requires no teacher or parental prep time.
The format is an exciting new approach to studying literature. Each page engages the student in
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas - Sterling North's Rascal
Synopsis: Sterling North is 11 years old in 1918. He spends his days pretty much on his own since his mother died, his sisters moved and his dad is away much of the time. But on a May morning he finds a baby raccoon, brings it home and soon the two are inseparable and share many adventures.
Sterling and Rascal meet many people as they visit stores around town town, attend a Model T race, and participate in a pie eating contest. When a flu epidemic breaks out, they go and visit with relatives fo
3rd - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
A to Z Mysteries: The Bald Bandit - A Novel Study for Young Readers
Synopsis: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose were sitting at home one afternoon when the doorbell rang. At the door was Detective Reddy and he needed their help to find a videotape of a bank robber. With Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose on the case you can be sure it will be exciting and anything can happen. Will these children find the tape? Who is Detective Reddy? How will Ruth Rose get away from the bank robber? All these questions and more will be answered in this thrilling book.
This print and use workboo
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading
Novel Ideas - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
Synopsis: Hobbits are a race of little people in Middle Earth. They are a people who love peace and quiet and enjoy well tilled soil. They like to laugh, eat and have parties. They do not like noise and they do not like to be rushed.
Bilbo Baggins is a wealthy Hobbit living in a hole on the side of a hill. He lives a comfortable life of ease. His comfortable life will come to an end when Gandalf the Grey arrives, and with him ten dwarfs who expect Bilbo to be the thief to steal back their sto
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: Robert Lawson's Rabbit Hill
Synopsis: New people are moving in to the country home. The last people did a very poor job of keeping up the yard and the gardens. This made for very lean years for the animals on Rabbit Hill.
Everyone is excited and nervous about what the new people will be like. After a great deal of rumoring and gossiping about all the work being done on the house and land, the day comes and life gets better than any of the animals could have ever imagined. Enjoy this age-old Newbery Award winning class
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
A to Z Mysteries: The Lucky Lottery - A Novel Study for Young Readers
Synopsis: Lucky O’Leary thought it was his lucky day when his grandfather gave him a multi-million dollar winning lottery ticket for Christmas. Luck runs out when the ticket is stolen! A fun day in the snow for Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose turns into a search for the thief who stole the ticket. Now it's up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to track down the thief and return the ticket . . . before Lucky loses out! Follow the trail of silver bow-ties to recover the Lucky Lottery!
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1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
Synopsis: Second to the right and straight on till morning! This will lead you to the original version of Peter Pan.
Peter and the lost boys want and need a mother. Peter talks Wendy Darling into coming to Neverland with him to be their mother. It becomes an adventure filled with pirates, redskins, fairies, and a crocodile with a clock in its tummy.
Join Wendy, John, and Michael and fly to Neverland and experience an island only children can appreciate.
This print and use workbook is
3rd - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas - Rick Riordan's Percy J & the Oly. Titan's Curse
Book Synopsis: Percy Jackson is not happy. His friends are allowed to go on a quest without him. Does this stop him? No? Artemis the Hunter and Annabeth are taken by Krono's army and Percy will not sit in camp and hope someone else saves them. He sneaks out of camp and joins the quest. The problem with this is he has broken tradition by making the group size too big and nothing good can come of it.
Join Percy and his friends on their quest to stop the Titan king from returning. This, th
3rd - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: E. B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan
Synopsis: Being different is a fear many people have. For Louis, it was cause for motivation. Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, a rare and graceful bird with a distinctive call. Unfortunately for Louis, he is mute. He can't trumpet like the rest. So he decides to develop other talents to make up for it.
With the help of his father, Louis develops a talent that, not only do the other trumpeters enjoy, but so do humans. Read on and enjoy how one bird's difference can make a difference in
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Novel Ideas: Andrew Clements' The Jacket
Synopsis: When Phil mistakes another boy for his younger brother Jimmy, his whole world is turned upside down. The only reason he mistook the boy for Jimmy is because the boy was wearing Jimmy's one of a kind jacket from Italy. The young boy was African American and now Phil thinks he is racist because he accused the boy of stealing the jacket. When he finds out the boy didn't, he begins to doubt his feelings about racism and whether or not he is a racist.
This print and use workbook is a chi
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
A to Z Mysteries: The Absent Author - A Novel Study for Young Readers
Synopsis: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose could not wait until their favorite author Wallis Wallace arrived at the Book Nook to sign copies of his new book. However, Wallis Wallace never arrived and the children began to investigate what happened to him. Will they ever find their favorite author, or will that be the last book Wallis Wallace ever writes?
This print and use workbook series is a child-directed novel study. There is no teacher or parental prep time required. The novel study series app
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading
Novel Ideas: Natalie Babbitt's Knee-Knock Rise
Synopsis: Egan has been sent to visit his relatives in Instep during the annual fair. Shortly after he arrives, he hears about the mysterious Megrimum that lives on top of Knee-Knock Rise. No one has ever seen it but, on rainy days, you can hear its howl coming down the Rise.
Egan is not satisfied with just believing the Megrimum exists. He wants to know for real and actually see it. Join Egan in his quest for the truth and see what the mystery is really about. Is it better to "just beli
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
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About the store
Experience
Thomas: I bring 25 years of classroom experience teaching grades 4–8 across all core subjects in both elementary and middle school settings. Along the way, I’ve led curriculum development initiatives and designed district-level assessments that align instruction with measurable outcomes. I collaborate with a team of seasoned educators and writers, each with deep experience in instruction and curriculum design, to create engaging, standards-aligned materials that support teachers and accelerate student learning.
Teaching style
Creative, hands-on approach to teaching in a diverse setting. Many lessons incorporate inquiry strategies while still applying the necessary basic skills.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Who's Who Among America's Teachers
My own education history
Thomas: BS Psychology, MEd. in Education
Additional biographical information
This is a combined project for Thomas Rende and several NYS teachers. Together we write and publish children's literature studies and additional educational resources for homeschoolers and teachers. We have many years of experience and have written exceptional resources.
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