McGraw Hill

Focus on the big ideas with an accessible print student text built around Essential Questions, enduring ideas, and NCSS Standards. Put your social studies students in the middle of the action with The Story Matters chapter openers, Biography features, maps, and timelines. Maximize comprehension with the Reading Help Desk in each lesson to assist students with reading strategies, note-taking activities, graphic organizers, and vocabulary support. Build critical thinking and historical analysis skills with features such as Thinking Like a Historian, It Matters Because, What Do You Think, and Connections to Today.

This supplemental, print guided-reading workbook is written at 2-3 grades below the Student Edition. Reinforce critical concepts from the text and help students improve their reading-for-information skills.

This supplemental, print guided-reading workbook is written at 2-3 grades below the Student Edition. Reinforce critical concepts from the text and help students improve their reading-for-information skills.

This 180-page volume provides professional development resources that will introduce practitioners to the methods that underlie a balanced literacy classroom, as well as help them plan and extend their curriculum. Offering a mix of research and advice from experts in the field -- including Dr. Donald Bear, Dr. Douglas Fisher, and Dr. Jana Echevarria -- Launching the Balanced Literacy Classroom delivers hands-on tips and techniques to help educators connect the latest findings on reading and writing with their daily practice. White papers and "In Practice" guides address the critical elements of the balanced literacy philosophy, such as read-alouds, close reading, collaborative conversations, word study, and more, and take each topic from theory into classroom use.

Charts (in booklet format) providing detailed information on Guided Reading/F&P levels, Lexiles, genres, and target skills of leveled texts.