Textbooks

• Lesson highlights
• Instructional materials needed
• Background content
• Vocabulary with definitions
• Preparation tips on how to get ready for a lesson
• Introduction with engaging activities and topics for discussion
• Step–by–step directed instruction
• History sidebars
• Misconception sidebars
• Challenge questions to stimulate further discussion
• Biblical worldview integration
• Reduced student pages with answers

• Blackline Masters
• Computer Transparencies

STUDENT EDITION:

The science series introduces a unique format that provides an enriched learning experience for students. This format has two essential components:

• A full color student textbook (hardcover)
• A science notebook (consumable) — an essential and necessary component filled with multiple hands–on application activities for every chapter.

 

STUDENT NOTEBOOK:

 

216 Science notebook pages of engaging, hands–on activities and experiments.

 

 

• Five-day systematic approach: Grades 1–3 – Warm Up (Pretest), Phonics, Word Study, Writing, Wrap Up (Posttest). Grades 4–6 – Pretest, Word Analysis and Vocabulary, Word Study Strategies, Writing, Posttest
• Natural integration of biblical worldview
• Word lists include Pattern Words, High-Frequency Words, and Challenge Words
• Optional suggestions for differentiated instruction
• Lessons developed to meet national language arts standards, current educational philosophy, and best practices
• Practice pages in standardized test format
• Recovery, Enrichment, and Extension sidebars address different learning styles, cross-curricular connections, and ideas for Word Walls
• Supplemental materials, such as blackline and digital masters, lend creativity to daily lessons

• Blackline Masters
• Color Digital Masters

READING AND LITERATURE TEACHER EDITION:

• A full-color, coil-bound resource with solid, foundational instruction, along with additional multimodal activities with integrated biblical worldview
• Shows student pages with answers for easy reference
• Contains a reading skills section of daily instruction in phonics, reading and listening comprehension, word meaning, and story sequencing, while exposing students to a variety of different genres and writing forms. Also contains literature guides and reader guides, which accompany suggested read-aloud books and student readers in a wide variety of genres, and that provide diverse activities to promote comprehension and critical thinking. Genres, literary terms, and literary devices that are taught in the reading skills section are reinforced in the literature guides and reader guides.
• Online materials including assessments, diagnostic tests, a genre chart, genre definitions, oral reading strategies, a phonics review packet, digital masters, blackline masters, literature guide masters, and reader guide masters

READING AND LITERATURE STUDENT EDITION:

• A full-color, consumable textbook with perforated pages offering practice and application of reading skills
• Includes realistic illustrations and photographs to capture students’ interest in words and language

LANGUAGE AND WRITING TEACHER EDITION:

• A full-color, coil-bound resource with solid, foundational instruction, along with additional multimodal activities with integrated biblical worldview
• Shows student pages with answers for easy reference
• Contains chapter objectives and daily instruction in grammar, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and speaking and listening skills. Provides students good crossover opportunities to apply knowledge across content areas, such as applying proper grammar and spelling to writing
• Online materials including assessments, digital masters, and blackline masters

LANGUAGE AND WRITING STUDENT EDITION:

• A full-color, consumable textbook with perforated pages offering practice and application of grammar conventions, vocabulary-building skills, and spelling
• Includes realistic illustrations and photographs to capture students’ interest in words and language