Lisa Greathouse

There is an amazing muscle inside your body. It pumps blood and keeps you healthy. What is it? Your heart! Read all about it in this colorful and engaging title.

Heart

Students read a high-interest nonfiction article, strengthen comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions, study a primary source document, and demonstrate critical-thinking skills through document-based questions.

Test Prep Level 3: Celebrating Cultures Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Test Prep Level 1: Flat Stanley Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Test Prep Level 1: An Astronauts Life Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Test Prep Level 3: Mickey Gets Fit Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Test Prep Level 3: School Meals Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Invite readers along on the preparations for a soccer tournament! With informational text, vibrant photos and charts, children are engaged from cover to cover while utilizing mathematic skills to increase understanding of all aspects of soccer, including sportsmanship and tournaments.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Count Me In! Soccer Tournament

Make patterns fun at recess time! This exciting title helps young readers recognize repeating patterns all around through helpful charts and familiar images of recess time. Children will better understand early STEM themes through the help of simple, applicable examples of patterns. This title will engage young readers with games and featured You Try It! problems!

Patterns

Recess Time

Use these step-by-step guides to build students' comprehension and critical thinking skills as they prepare for standardized tests that feature document-based questions. Step 1 has students reading high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids authors. Step 2 has students strengthening comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Step 3 has students studying primary source documents (such as maps, census reports, population reports, charts, and graphs) that are related to the articles. Step 4 has students demonstrating critical thinking skills by responding to questions based on these primary sources. Teacher Resource CD includes reproducible pages of articles, primary source documents, and questions.

Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 3

Learn how to make healthier foods with the help of this science reader.

Make It Healthy

Test Prep Level 3: Some Like It Hot Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Test Prep Level 1: Keeping an Eye on Mars Comprehension and Critical Thinking

There are all sorts of ways to sort farm animals! This charming title teaches young readers how to recognize animals' different qualities and sort them into sets, familiarizing children with set theory, data analysis, and early STEM themes. With the help of familiar images, engaging "You Try It!" problems, and a glossary, children will be able to sort animals into many different categories--big or small, two-legged or four-legged, fast or slow!

Farm Animals

Breathe in . . . breathe out. Do you ever wonder how you can do that? And do you ever wonder what happens to the air you breathe? Read this book to learn about your amazing lungs and how they work!

Lungs

Ted Fauce

Beaches, mountains, valleys, farmlands, and deserts are all part of the unique geography of California. Students will learn about each of these regions with this primary source e-book that builds students reading skills and social studies content knowledge. The intriguing primary source maps, letters, documents, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to meet the needs of students reading at different levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.

Geography of California

Where is your brain exactly? What does it do? Use your brain to read this engaging, Spanish-translated title and learn all about it!

Brain

Stephanie Kuligowski

Shares information on different mysterious events and rumored oddities, including crop circles, strange rains, and loud booms.

Unsolved! Mysterious Events

From Stonehenge to the Bermuda Triangle, there are many places on Earth that remain a mystery to scientists! Readers will discover these curious places--and more!--as they move through this fascinating nonfiction title. This mysterious book features detailed images, informational text, and stimulating facts and theories in conjunction with upper-level features, such as chapter format, a glossary of terms, and an index.

Unsolved! Mysterious Places

Practice addition at the playground! This fun title uses examples from all around the playground to help children practice their addition and understand early STEM themes. Add up two blue swings and three red swings to get five swings! Add slides, rings, jump ropes, basketballs, and more! These familiar images work in conjunction with engaging You Try It! problems to encourage young readers to practice and improve their addition skills.

Addition

At the Playground

A comprehensive set of titles about physical science topics that feature easy-to-follow text, lab activities, supporting graphics, highlighted content-area vocabulary, sidebars, photographs, graphs, glossary and index.

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