Product Description: Strengthen your grade 5 students comprehension and vocabulary skills!The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 5 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students abilities...read more

Product Description: The Human Brain aligns young readers with top scientists, doctors, and researchers from around the world in the field of neurobiology.The amazing abilities of the human brain are endlessly fascinating to kids. How do we think? How do we remember? How does our brain work with the senses to enable us to experience the world around us? What happens when a person’s brain is injured, and what can be done to help fix it? This book puts readers right beside the brain researchers and doctors who are constantly seeking answers to these questions...read more

Product Description: Ever since scientists first cloned Dolly, genetics has been a hot-button topic in the media and the political world. Genetics brings readers the inside story, and looks objectively at this fascinating modern science. From the Human Genome Project to stem cell research to the National Geographic’s own Genographic Project, scientists are exploring and rapidly advancing our knowledge of the human condition...read more

Product Description: Huge hurricanes, devastating droughts, ferocious blizzards. What’s going on? Scientists around the globe are focusing on extremes of weather, both past and present. Join the weather scientists who are using modern technology, including satellites and supercomputers, to produce a weather forecast for Earth’s future...read more

Product Description: This one-of-a-kind guide to running literature circles, based on Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons, shows teachers how to organize small discussion groups that work! Includes stimulating questions and writing prompts that motivate students to think and respond thoughtfully...read more