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Your students will love this digital book about how wolves evolved to become humans' best furry friends—dogs! Taming the Wild Ones has fun facts, engaging text, and plenty of cute pictures of pups to keep your students absorbed page after page. This digital format is perfect for classroom or homeschool. It consists of ten pages of text, a glossary, and includes two editions: digital (for viewing on screen) or printable format (with no background color). Broken into subtitled sections for natura

Students will calculate the measure of an unknown angle based on the angle of an intersecting line of a right angle—a key skill in plane geometry. It teaches critical thinking, prompting students to think about connections and relationships in geometry. This resource includes a how-to guide examples, and practice exercises that progress in difficulty. Here's what you get: How-to guide with scaffolded notesThree sheets of practice exercises with a dedicated workspace for each problemPractice exer

Finding multiples is an essential skill in math. Students intuitively perform this critical skill through skip counting and this resource teaches them how. More than a "worksheet," this combined study guide, scaffolded notes, how-to guide, and practice sheet gives students everything they need to begin their journey toward mastery of finding multiples and factors—and how to distinguish between the two terms. Here's what you get: A detailed definition of multiples with examples.A detailed, step-b

Rounding is an essential skill in math. And if your students are anything like mine, you often hear, "What do I do again?" whenever they practice rounding, especially decimals. More than a "worksheet," this combined study guide, scaffolded notes, how-to guide, and practice sheet gives students everything they need to begin their journey toward mastering rounding to a specific decimal place. Here's what you get: A detailed, step-by-step explanation of how to round to a specific decimal place valu

Use this guide to basic plane figures as the perfect primer for your elementary students just beginning their journey into geometry. It defines plane geometry and introduces students to these basic plane figures: points, lines, rays, and line segments. It also explains how to name these geometric figures using points. This resource includes: Two-page guide to identifying and naming basic geometric figures, including study guide panelWorksheet on identifying these basic plane figuresWorksheet on

This reading passage--A Smaller Product: Multiplying Decimals--explores decimal multiplication by beginning with a simple explanation of multiplying whole numbers, moves on to explaining the concepts of a whole number times a decimal, then ends with why two decimal numbers equal a product less than both. Students ALWAYS ask this questions; explore it with them before you begin solving problems with decimal multiplication strategies! 347-word reading passageClear models that explain whole number

Maximize your instruction time by covering a lot with a little! Your students will love this article about how those creepy arachnids, ticks, can cause a red meat allergy. This is the perfect passage for teaching cause and effect, an introduction to allergies, arachnids, and many other topics. Students can interact with the text in several ways; you choose how and how much. Here is what's included: 482-word reading cause and effect passage that explores how a tick bite can cause a red meat aller

Maximize your instruction time by covering a lot with a little! Your students will love this introduction to probability, and you will love teaching math, reading, and critical thinking with one resource. Students can interact with the text in several ways; you choose how and how much. Here is what's included: 525-word reading passage that introduces probability, the probability number line, and the likeliness of specific events like rolling dice and flipping coinsMain idea and supporting detail

Flip a switch and your room fills with light. But how does this happen? What happens inside a light bulb? This reader explains how lightbulbs work. It touches on electricity, the flow of electrons, conductors, and two major figures in the development of the light bulb: Edison and Davy. Sciensanity! readers are great resources for guided reading groups, shared reading, science units, or independent reading. Teachers and parents, give your children something engaging and lively. Give them Sciensan

This fractions study reader introduces the concept of fractions as part of a whole with clear explanations and vivid pictures. It also covers the concept of equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions, and pre-teaches the concept of decimals with a brief explanation. Common Core Standards Core CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.1 CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.2 Touches on CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.C.6 CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.C.5 Standards of Learning (SOL) Core SOL 4.2 Touches on SOL 5.2 Sciensanity! Fr

Do you need an engaging comprehensive study reader for magnets for your elementary students? This reader covers EVERYTHING your students need to know about magnets, including: What magnets areThe magnetic properties of the earthPoles and attractionCompasses and how they workMagnetic and nonmagnetic materialsNatural and artificial magnetsHow people use magnetsUse this reader in guided reading, as a study guide, as background knowledge for classroom activities and labs, or as review. Second grade