Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Poetry. This 32-page book sparks students' interest in reading and writing poetry. It features types of poems such as acrostic, cinquain, diamanté, haiku, limerick, narrative, numerical, and sensory. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Fiction. This 32-page book helps students create characters, settings, and plots; develop ideas; and write original fiction. Students practice brainstorming, writing and punctuating dialogue, and sequencing events. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Reports. This 32-page book gives students a step-by-step approach to writing reports on any topic. Activities cover focusing on a topic, taking notes, preparing outlines, utilizing research tools, writing, editing, proofreading, and revising reports. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Personal Writing. This 32-page book teaches students about journal entries, autobiographies, anecdotes, lists, and letters. Activities include setting goals, looking at points of view, exploring relationships, and describing feelings. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Facts and Opinions. This 32-page book helps students write news articles, headlines, directions, editorials, and reviews. Activities include distinguishing facts from opinions, using active verbs, and evaluating advertisements. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Description. This 32-page book helps students write descriptions of people, places, things, and abstract ideas through the use of adjectives and lively verbs. Students compare and contrast people; explore idioms, similes, and metaphors; and test their powers of observation. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.

Facilitate a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Analogies: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource reinforces reasoning and logic skills through analogies in language arts, science, geography, health, art, music, and math. It includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use.

Make music come alive for students in grades 5 and up with American Popular Music! This 96-page book explores how the roots of American music began and developed. From European musical traditions in the seventeenth century to African American music today, this book uncovers a foundation and appreciation of AmericaÕs music. It features genres such as ragtime, blues, Dixieland, swing, big band, musical theater, folk, country western, rock and roll, disco, funk, punk, rap, alternative, and contemporary Christian.

These fun writing exercises will improve studentsÕ understanding of the writing process along with their language arts skills. This engaging reinforcement workbook includes reproducible practice and application work pages, evaluation rubrics for teacher and students, student writing prompts, writing skills tests, and an answer key. Unit topics include using commas, narrative writing, expository writing, writing a persuasive essay, writing a vignette, using adjectives and adverbs, and more! Aligned with Common Core State Standards. --Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.

Make reading fun for students in grades 4 and up using Reading Tutor: Sports! This 48-page book captures readers' enthusiasm with interesting, age-appropriate stories and activities relating to sports. The book includes activities that reinforce difficult comprehension skills and improve reading levels. It is great for use in the classroom and at home!