Where do you see purple in the world--in the sunset, at Halloween, in a bruise on your knee? Find out the many ways that purple can make us feel. A page for caregivers and teachers suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.
Where do you see blue in the world--in the ocean, in the sky, on your grandma's front porch? Find out the many ways that blue can make us feel. A page for caregivers and teachers suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.
Objects are not all alike. They have different colors! You can use color to sort objects into groups. Simple text and vibrant illustrations will engage early readers and aid comprehension. List of sight words. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Word Problems: Mass and Volume uses an engaging narrative and authentic, real-world problems to teach readers strategies to solve one-step word problems involving mass and volume. The text models the problem-solving process for readers and provides hands-on opportunities for readers to apply their own problem-solving skills. Readers will discover that there is often more than one way to solve a problem.
This engaging title introduces young readers to the concept of equal sets. Decodable text and image support help readers identify familiar things that come in pairs, sets of threes, fours, fives, and more. The book uses relatable objects, such as four legs on a table and five fingers on a hand, to teach the concept of sets. Readers are also encouraged to find their own number set examples in their everyday lives.
This informative book introduces readers to the concept of perimeter using real-world examples. Through modeling, readers will learn that perimeter is calculated by adding together the length of each side of a figure. This title also explains how to measure the perimeters of familiar places, such as classrooms and football fields, by using addition and multiplication.
This book offers readers insight into solving length word problems. Designed to support the Common Core State Standards, this title includes strategies such as using drawings, symbols, and number lines to solve problems. Real-world examples and engaging text make learning meaningful to young readers.
Friends identify the shapes of things in their neighborhood, create new shapes by joining and separating existing ones, and discover why certain shapes are useful for building structures.
Read all about primary colors, and how they mix together to make secondary colors.
Everything in nature has an opposite, or at least, that is the way people describe things that are the most unlike. This engaging book shows these extreme differences in sizes, colors and light, texture, smell and taste, the states of water, landforms, positions and directions on Earth, seasons, and even in people. An activity spread asks children to find opposite characteristics in a group of animals.
This colorful book introduces young readers to the world of color. Readers will learn how an enormous range of colors can be made from just three primary colors. This title also explains the difference between warm colors and cool colors. The book uses famous works of art to show readers how color can be used to both show a scene and convey a message.
From dogs and cats to turtles and rats, this book uses rhyme to show kids the facts! Photographs of pets in funny situations help children understand the concept of size. Children learn by comparing animals to determine which is bigger or smaller. An activity at the end asks children to identify which animal on the page is the biggest, the smallest, and medium-sized.
Look out! Mina's pet Deinonychuses have spilled the paint! Kids will love this simple book that uses dinosaurs to mix colors in order to create new colors.
Count the circles on Billy's bike as he tries to catch up to his pet Hypsilophodonts. Kids will enjoy looking for shapes in this entertaining book that puts kids and dinosaurs together in everyday situations.
Understanding how to make ten is a key building block in the base-ten system. In this engaging title, young readers explore different number combinations that make up the number ten. Easy-to-follow text and colorful images introduce readers to the concept of a fact family and related facts. The text also models how readers can use their fact family knowledge to solve missing addend questions that equal ten.
This entertaining title introduces young readers to the concept of patterning. Readers will learn that a pattern is an ordered set of numbers or shapes arranged according to a rule. Accessible text and vivid images guide readers as they learn to identify patterning rules and extend patterns. Readers are also encouraged to create their own patterns and recognize patterns in the world around them.
By introducing young readers to the colors of food, they also learn about healthy eating. Eating fruits and vegetables in as many colors of the rainbow everyday ensures that we get all of the important vitamins and nutrients we need to stay healthy.
This intriguing book asks children to identify objects made from different materials-metals, wool, rubber, glass, wood, and paper. Simple explanations follow each object describing where these materials come from. An activity asks children to match objects with the materials from which they are made.
This fascinating book challenges children to identify similarities and differences in the patterns, textures, and body parts of animals, as well as in the way certain animals begin life, such as hatching from eggs. A fun activity asks young readers to compare illustrations of dinosaurs and identify how they are the same.
By introducing young readers to the colors of food, they also learn about healthy eating. Eating fruits and vegetables in as many colors of the rainbow everyday ensures that we get all of the important vitamins and nutrients we need to stay healthy.
Children will discover that two-dimensional shapes are all around them even inside their toy boxes! Young readers will learn about nine different shapes, and an activity asks them to find shapes in a page full of toys.
This title invites young artists to look at lines. Readers will learn that there are many different kinds of lines-straight, curved, zigzag, thick, thin, vertical, horizontal, and more. This title features the work of well-known artists to show readers different ways line is used in works of art.
This title introduces young artists to the element of shape. Readers will learn how shapes of all kinds, including geometric shapes and the organic shapes found in nature, can be used in art. They will learn how artists use shapes to create patterns or make objects look nearby or far away.
Young artists will be drawn to this book as they learn about space as an element in art. Readers will learn how artists create the feeling of a three-dimensional space on a flat surface-by overlapping objects, by placing objects higher or lower in the picture, and in many other creative ways.
Young artists will feel inspired as they explore texture in famous works of art. Readers will learn that objects can have many kinds of textures. They will also learn how objects of different textures can be used in art and how artists can create the illusion of texture on a flat surface.
