Amazing Animals: Alligators: Multiplication 6-Pack


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What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? How many teeth does an adult alligator have? How long do they live, and how big can they get? Students will sink their teeth into reading all about one of their favorite reptiles. This 6-Pack of math readers integrates math and literacy skills, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help students explore mathematics in a meaningful way. Fourth grade students will practice multiplication while learning new concepts and vocabulary terms like habitat, predator, carnivore, antibodies, and endangered species. The captivating images, practice problems, and mathematical charts and diagrams help develop students' math and reading skills. The DOK-leveled Math Talk section facilitates mathematical discourse and higher-order thinking skills with questions that students can respond to at school or home. This full-color book includes text features such as a glossary, index, captions, answer key, and a table of contents to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. The Problem Solving section and Let's Explore Math sidebars provide numerous opportunities for students to practice what they have learned. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.




Zack's Alligator


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When Bridget the alligator arrives in the mail, she's only the size of a key chain! But after Zack soaks her in water, she grows into a real live alligator. Bridget wrestles the garden hose and swings from the monkey bars. And what other alligator can do cartwheels? Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress)




Amazing Animals: Alligators: Multiplication


Book Description

Read all about alligators while developing your multiplication skills through real-life math problems! This nonfiction book combines math and literacy skills, and uses practical examples of problem solving to teach math and reading content. The full-color images, math graphs, and practice problems make learning math relevant and fun, and the table of contents, glossary, and index will further understanding of math and reading concepts. Sidebars and an in-depth problem solving section provide additional learning opportunities while challenging students’ higher-order thinking skills.




Home in the Cave


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A baby bat explores the cave he lives in, discovering the other creatures who live there and the important role that bats play in providing food for them.




Inside Out & Back Again


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Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.




Amazing Animals: Alligators: Multiplication: Read-along ebook


Book Description

Read all about alligators while developing your multiplication skills through real-life math problems! This nonfiction book combines math and literacy skills, and uses practical examples of problem solving to teach math and reading content. The full-color images, math graphs, and practice problems make learning math relevant and fun, and the table of contents, glossary, and index will further understanding of math and reading concepts. Sidebars and an in-depth problem solving section provide additional learning opportunities while challenging students’ higher-order thinking skills.




Amazing Animals: Alligators


Book Description

Read all about alligators while developing your multiplication skills through real-life math problems! This nonfiction book combines math and literacy skills, and uses practical examples of problem solving to teach math and reading content. The full-color images, math graphs, and practice problems make learning math relevant and fun, and the table of contents, glossary, and index will further understanding of math and reading concepts. Sidebars and an in-depth problem solving section provide additional learning opportunities while challenging students’ higher-order thinking skills.




Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Tests


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Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Test: Help Improve Your Child’s Math and English Skills – Many parents are expressing a demand for books that will help their children succeed and excel on the fourth grade assessment tests in math and English –especially in areas where children have limited access to computers. This book will help students practice basic math concepts, i.e., number sense and applications as well as more difficult math, such as patterns, functions, and algebra. English skills will include practice in reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary. Rubrics are included for self-evaluation.




The Lost Lion


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Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /l/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow Larry the Lion as he tries to find his way home. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title We Love to Learn: Practicing the L Sound. The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the /l/ sound found in the text * Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the /l/ sound * Group Activity that guides students to identify the /l/ sound, decode the words that contain it, and use the words * Extended Activity that provides students with additional opportunities to think about, list, and use words containing the /l/ sound * Writing Activity that guides students to write the letter that makes the /l/ sound




Sort it Out!


Book Description

In rhyming text, Pack the Packrat sorts his collection of trinkets in a variety of ways.