Movies as Literature: Brought to you by Design a Study, this complete, one-year high school English course uses classic movies on video to introduce and study the elements of literary analysis. Also included are an extensive teacher's guide/answer key, plot summaries, glossary of literary terms, and final exam.
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Drawn into the Heart of Reading: Carrie Austin Here's a multilevel reading program to use with any books you choose. Designed for multi level, this program is terrific. It takes your student through different genres from biographies to historical fiction, on down the list. There are suggested activities and instructions to work with any literature! There are daily lesson plans for different levels. Great for grades 2-8th. There is one teacher's guide and 3 student book levels.
Teacher's Book (for levels 2-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$49.95
Student Book (for levels 2-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18.00
Student Book (for levels 4-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23.00
Student Book (for levels 6-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28.00
Project Book Level 2 (for levels 2/3). . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6.50
Project Book Level 4(for levels 4/5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6.50
Project Book Level 5(for levels 6/7/8). . . . . . . . . . . . $6.50

The Language Mechanic: Tuning up Language with Logic -Put out by Critical Thinking Books and Software, this one has 172 pages of activities. This is a fun based way to teach standards based language mechanics!

Level A, Book 1 (grades 4-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19.99

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BOOKLETS TO THIS WEBSITE BY CHRISTIAN NOVEL STUDIES:

GREAT READING FOR GIRLS: Written by Rachel Roe with Amy and Chris Roe of Christian Novel Studies - Here are some great titles and descriptions of quality books for girls ages four through twelve! There are 28 pages of books and magazines for your daughter!
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GREAT READING FOR BOYS: Written by Chris Roe of Christian Novel Studies - Here are some great titles and descriptions of quality books for your son! There are even some great suggestions for parents of reluctant readers. There are 26 pages of books and magazines for your son!
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GOOD BOOKS FOR TEENAGE GIRLS: Written by Amy Beth Roe of Christian Novel Studies Here are some great titles and descriptions of quality books recommended by teenage girls. This one has 23 pages of great materials!
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LAUNCH A READING ROCKET!: Written by Chris Roe of Christian Novel Studies, this booklet has this plus 39 more projects, crafts, games and creative activities to enhance literature experiences.
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DESIGN A READING QUILT: Written by Chris Roe of Christian Novel Studies, this booklet has more than 100 other activities to enhance your literature experiences. These are easy to implement ideas that can be used with ANY book!
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MY STUDENT WROTE SOMETHING, NOW WHAT? Written by Don and Chris Roe of Christian Novel Studies, this booklet is a GREAT introduction to editing. One of my biggest issues with my children's writing was figuring out how to edit it. This booklet is the answer!
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20 EASY-TO-LEARN FICTION WRITING TECHNIQUES: Written by Don an Chris Roe of Christian Novel Studies, this 27 page booklet has some great ideas for helping your student with writing fiction! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4.00

Learning Language Arts Through Literature Series: Here's the rest of Debbie Strayer and Susan Simpson's language arts program. These cover grammar and writing mechanics, creative writing, penmanship and even some critical thinking skills. I recommend both the teacher and the student books for each of the levels.
Please mention which level you are ordering:

Yellow (grade 3)
Orange (grade 4)
Purple (grade 5)
Tan (grade 6)
Green (grade 7)
Gray (grade 8)

Teacher's Book. . . . . . . . $25.00 AND/OR Student Book. . . . . . . . . . $20.00
Gold (High School: British Literature - No Teacher's Book) . . . . . . . . .$25.00
Gold (High School): American Literature - No Teacher's Book). . . . . . .$25.00

 

Dr. Funster's Word Benders: Brought to you by Critical Thinking Press, this one is great thinking and vocabulary fun. These are great puzzles that require analysis of letters, words and word meanings to figure out how a world like "rank" can morph into "torpedo." Great for building spelling, vocab and even deductive reasoning skills. Please make sure you tell me which level you desire!

Levels: A (grades 3-4)
Level B (grades 5-6),
Level C (grades 7-12)

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Easy Grammar Series: Wanda C. Phillips has written this series and it's terrific. It simplifies learning grammar along with other concepts such as punctuation, capitalization and more. It is designed especially for students who struggle with learning grammar, but can be used as a review course for older students Please mention which level you are ordering:

Level 3/4 OR Level 4/5
Teacher's Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Student's Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13.95

Level 5/6
Teacher's Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26.95
Student's Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13.95

Easy Grammar Plus
Teacher's Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28.95
Student's Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13.95

 

NEW AND UPDATED!!!! Daily Grams: The newer volumes are broken down specifically by grade (3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and the Green one). There is a content and sequence in each one including page numbers as well as other improvements! Concepts are reviewed throughout. Each text has some of the old material but plenty of new material as well. Daily Grams now include more explanations!
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
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Editor in Chief: This series will challenge your students to think critically as they analyze a story, pictures and picture captions. Your student is looking for grammar, punctuation and content errors. The sequence is intended to be a continuation of book 1 skills for that level.

The progression is in this order: Beginning (grades 3-4), A-1, A-2 (grades 4/5); book B-1, B-2 (grades 6/7); C-1, C-2 (grades 8+)
Please make sure you tell us what level you are ordering!
Beginning Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.99
Books A-1, A-2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15.99 each
Books B-1, B-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16.99 each
Books C-1, C-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.99 each

Note: Now available also in Win/Mac software! Each Editor in Chief book shares the same stories and language mechanics skills as its software counterpart, but while Editor in Chief books help children focus on analyzing and correcting errors in printed text, the software helps children focus on learning the rules and vocabulary of language mechanics. Click here to see samples of the software.

Mention level when ordering:

Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $64.99
A-1, A-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $64.99 each
B-1, B-2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$64.99 each
C-1 or C-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$64.99 each

Great Editing Adventure: This was a terrific hit around our house! Students get to look for mistakes in pieces of funny/interesting stories (90 lessons per volume). Each story is broken into 2-3 sentences a day for your student to correct. They look forward to seeing the next day's segment! Teaching notes are included in the margins of the page. The publisher says the book covers 4-6th grade skills and is good review for 7th-8th grades.
Please mention which volume you are ordering:
Volume 1
Volume 2
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Comprehensive Composition: Kathryn Stout covers all 12 years in this helpful book. She has teaching tips to encourage better writing through editing, allowing students to develop at their own pace and improve with practice. She got great ideas for topics and different writing avenues including: paragraphs, essays, reports, outlines, biographies, narratives, letters and so much more!
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Punctuation Puzzlers: From Critical Thinking Press. These are fantastic "Language Logic Twisters". Quick activities designed to sharpen deductive reasoning and punctuation usage for clear communication.

Two Different Types: Commas and More OR Run-Ons

Level A (3rd-4th) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9.99
Level B (5th-6th) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9.99
Level C (7th-8th) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9.99

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