Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for finding the main idea.
This unit features 48, short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to find the main idea about what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Each segment has 26 pages total.
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Practicing penmanship!
Each of the 44 lessons in this unit are designed so students can learn useful information while practicing good cursive handwriting and improving near-point copying skills.
The workbook pages have been sequentially arranged by difficulty – beginning with one-sentence copying activities and ending with 50-word paragraph copying. Each exercise boasts a different topic, from “famous quotes” and “inventions” to “manners” and “nutrition.”
Research suggests that writing information in addition to reading the information improves the chances that the information will be understood and remembered.
52 pages.
Bring Classic Literature to Life… with “Around the World in 80 Days!” These Interactive Google Slides feature 10 easy-to-read short chapters and introduce students to great classic literature, while improving their comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Dramatic and expertly-paced narration draws the listener into the classic story… keeping interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. This high-interest, abridged version of the Jules Verne classic is sure to become a classroom favorite!
*** Around the World in 80 Days- Adapted/Abridged Version
*** Professional Audio Narration
*** Versatile Google Classroom Slides & Printable Pdf Versions
*** 10 Easy-to-Read Chapters
*** 160 Pre-Reading, Vocabulary & Comprehension Activities
EASY-TO-USE:
Around the World in 80 Days is an easy way to engage students and bring some excitement to classic literature! Simply download the Google Slides and you’re ready to start using them today! :)
INTERACTIVE GOOGLE SLIDES:
Students answer comprehension questions directly on the slides- so no paper is needed! In addition, the font size is adjustable, making them easy to read even on a small laptop, iPad, or Chromebook. Story and activities can also be printed.
CAPTIVATING SHORT CHAPTERS:
Written to excite even the most reluctant reader, this classic story features 10 short, easy-to-ready chapters. Sentences were carefully constructed to ensure students of all abilities are able to read and appreciate this captivating classic. Reading levels were measured using the Fry Readability Scale. Chapters can be read on the Google Slides or printed out as pdfs.
DRAMATIC AUDIO & CLASSIC STORY: Listen to the story come to life… with professionally-recorded narration complete with sound effects, character voices and more. Professional actors read each chapter word-for-word, allowing students to follow along - a proven technique to aid comprehension and improve fluency.
100 COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Skill-specific activities include drag and drops, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks and more. Activities challenge students’ understanding of the story and focus on main idea, inference, recalling details, critical thinking, and sequencing.
60 PRE-READING VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
Key words are defined and used in context prior to each chapter to make reading easier and more pleasurable. Activities feature a modified Cloze format and use McGraw-Hill’s Core Vocabulary.
EXCITING ILLUSTRATIONS:
Exciting illustrations in every chapter help students during pre-reading activities as they visualize what they are reading.
Interest Level: Gr. 4 - 12
Reading Level: Gr. 2.0 - 3.0
Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | First Aid | Fire Extinguisher | Food Poisoning | Hand Washing | Print & Go. Is it time to teach KITCHEN SAFETY? These easy-to-use & highly-visual lessons are ready when you are! Short reading passages introduce students to key safety topics, while simple multiple-choice questions challenge students to show what they know. A great way to teach kitchen safety and life skills in a very deliberate and explicit manner! For students of all ages. (See product preview for tons of sample pages).
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Fire-Safe Clothing
Hand Washing Techniques
Burns & Scalding
Knife Safety & Getting Cut
First Aid for Burns, Cuts & more
Chopping Board Safety
Salmonella
Food Poisoning
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Putting Out a Grease Fire
SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS:
Students read each short passage then answer relevant kitchen safety questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities challenge students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, and more.
EVERYDAY SAFETY TOPICS:
Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook and prepare meals safely. Whether learning the correct way to use a knife or how to put out a grease fire, your students will get their fill with these explicit life-skills lessons.
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Multiple-choice and cloze reading comprehension questions challenge students after reading each passage. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues and more… Basic kitchen terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way.
VERSATILE LESSONS:
These multiple-choice activities require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple choice.
EASY TO USE!
These lessons are ready when you are! Just Print & Go!
This lesson unit is packed with 46 exercises designed to expand students’ awareness of a wide variety of learning techniques. Scheduling, outlining, note-taking, memorizing, test-taking (essay and objective), and reference tool use are all covered.
Whether learning to skim, using acronyms to remember, or organizing information into idea-grams, students will hone a number of learning styles sure to improve they study habits.
“Evaluation” is the most abstract and complex level of critical thinking. To evaluate or make judgments, students must accept a given criteria as the standard before being able to come to an accurate conclusion.The 25 lessons in this unit provide practice with personal values, accuracy of facts, recognizing bias, and using reference sources.Example: “You want to go to a summer camp. What makes a good one?”The sequential activities featured here are sure to develop critical thinking skills.
Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary!
This practical book is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills!
Words Include: resume, employer, social security, qualified, salary, interview, overtime, supervisor, and many more.
Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5
Contents Include:
- 7 Lessons
- Activities that cover abbreviations, personal data, job applications, paychecks, safety, and much more
- Answer key
Skills Covered Include:
- Apply information
- Choose the correct word
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand meaning of words and ideas
- Use context clues
- Develop life/survival skills
- Write an original sentence
- Understand consumer information
- Spell correctly
- Apply math to real-life situations
Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | Kitchen Fires. | Appliances | Burns | Is it time to teach KITCHEN SAFETY? These easy-to-use & highly-visual lessons are ready when you are! Short reading passages introduce students to key safety topics, while simple multiple-choice questions challenge students to show what they know. A great way to teach kitchen safety and life skills in a very deliberate and explicit manner! For students of all ages. (See product preview for tons of sample pages).
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Kitchen Safety
Grease Fires - (How to put them out)
Fire Extinguishers
Stove Top & Cooking Safety
Fire-Safe Clothing
Small Appliance Safety
Burns, Scalding & Steam
Potholders & Oven Mitts
Knife Safety
Where to Store Cleaning Supplies
Wet & Slippery Floors
Trip Hazards & Falling Accidents
Step Stools & Ladders
And more!
SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS:
Students read each short passage then answer relevant kitchen safety questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities challenge students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, and more.
EVERYDAY SAFETY TOPICS:
Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook and prepare meals safely. Whether learning the correct way to use a knife or how to put out a grease fire, your students will get their fill with these explicit life-skills lessons.
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Multiple-choice and cloze reading comprehension questions challenge students after reading each passage. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues and more… Basic kitchen terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way.
VERSATILE LESSONS:
These multiple-choice activities require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple choice.
Includes
47 Pages
Answer Key
Capture the interest of eager learners and reluctant learners alike with these humor-filled workbooks guaranteed to put a grin on students' and teachers' faces. These skill-based activities revolve around a set of comical characters who get involved in silly and absurd situations. Zany illustrations with humorous captions keep kids smiling, while solid practice activities teach important basic skills. The amusing characters have been given wacky and unusual names that are repeated often in all four books, giving lots of practice with certain letter group sounds. Grammar: More than 350 silly sentences provide opportunities to work with verbs, nouns, adjectives, antonyms, synonyms, punctuation, run-on sentences, fragments, and more!
Paying attention! The 30 lessons in this learning unit will teach students to listen, remember what they have been told, and execute the oral directions given. To begin, students listen as an explanation of each exercise is given. “On your worksheets there are three rows of boxes. You will be told what to do in each row.”Next children are given instructions. “Draw a line from the fish to the ball; make it go over the pig.” “Draw a triangle in the middle box.” While having fun with these imaginative activities, students will boost their listening, comprehension, and motor skills.
Paying attention! The 30 lessons in this learning unit will teach students to listen, remember what they have been told, and execute the oral directions given. To begin, students listen as an explanation of each exercise is given. “Your worksheet is filled with empty boxes that you will begin to fill.”Next children are given specific instructions. “In the middle box on the bottom row, put an 8.” “In the middle box on the top row put an M.”While having fun with these imaginative activities, students will boost their listening, comprehension, and motor skills.
The 26 lessons in this book take students through a full range of exercises designed to further their dictionary skills. From identifying syllables, compound words and guide words, to comprehending multiple meanings, homonyms and abbreviations, the activities included here will help build a better understanding of the many uses of a dictionary. Exercises include alphabetization, finding definitions, spelling, determining parts of speech, and more.
Free-time fun in 15 minutes or less! Each of the 24 creative yet challenging crossword puzzles in this unit focus on synonyms and/or antonyms. Word clues challenge students to identify the similar or opposite word from the given list.
Examples:
The synonym for Full is: Horrible, Hold, Stuffed...
The antonym for Dull is: Arid, Boring, Sharp...
Comprehension skills are given a great workout with these activities.
Life Skills | Kitchen Safety | Cooking | Food Prep | Knife Safety | First Aid | Fire Extinguisher | Food Poisoning | Hand Washing | Is it time to teach KITCHEN SAFETY? These easy-to-use & highly-visual lessons are ready when you are! Short reading passages introduce students to key safety topics, while simple multiple-choice questions challenge students to show what they know. A great way to teach kitchen safety and life skills in a very deliberate and explicit manner! For students of all ages. (See product preview for tons of sample slides).
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Fire-Safe Clothing
Hand Washing Techniques
Burns & Scalding
Knife Safety & Getting Cut
First Aid for Burns, Cuts & more
Chopping Board Safety
Salmonella
Food Poisoning
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Putting Out a Grease Fire
SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS:
Students read each short passage then answer relevant kitchen safety questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities challenge students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, and more.
EVERYDAY SAFETY TOPICS:
Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook and prepare meals safely. Whether learning the correct way to use a knife or how to put out a grease fire, your students will get their fill with these explicit life-skills lessons.
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:
Multiple-choice and cloze reading comprehension questions challenge students after reading each passage. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues and more… Basic kitchen terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way.
VERSATILE LESSONS:
These multiple-choice activities require NO TYPING… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are Drag & Drop!
EASY TO USE!
These Google Slides lessons are ready when you are!
Simply download them and start assigning them to you students in Google Classroom! For added versatility, these lessons can also be printed, saved as pdfs, or downloaded as a Powerpoint presentation.
Using analogies to teach problem solving!Example:
Yogurt is to Soft as Potato Chip is to _____.As students use clues to solve the puzzles, they must make comparisons, analyze attributes, find associations, use visual/verbal discrimination, and form logical patterns.The 21 lesson pages featured here first pose simple concrete analogies and then progress to more abstract problems. With these step-by-step exercises, children are sure to get plenty of critical reasoning practice.
Reasonable thinking! The 22 lessons in this unit cover five major areas of reasoning skills. The sequential activities featured here will most certainly help young learners develop critical thinking skills.Real vs. Make-believe:
A fairy godmother? A bumpy road? A magic banana?Inferring:
What does not belong? “Happy: humming a merry tune, a lost kitten, a closed door…”Fact vs. Opinion:
Write one fact and one opinion about this picture of an alligator.Assumptions:
“If the thermometer is at 5 degrees, you can assume you are going to feel _____.”Cause and Effect:
“Sara took a basket on her walk because she knew the berries were ripe. Cause? Effect?”
“Synthesis” is the ability to combine parts of a whole in new and different ways. It requires students to think flexibly, determine alternatives, and find new ways to accomplish a given task. A more advanced level of abstract thinking is needed for synthesis. The 25 lessons in this unit encourage students to go beyond the obvious to more original thoughts. Example: An illustration of a bulb connected to a battery is presented. “Electricity is stored in a battery.” Look at the accompanying pictures of batteries, wires, and light bulbs. “Which bulbs do you think will light up?”The sequential activities featured here are sure to develop critical thinking skills.
A springboard for comprehension! The 20 cloze procedure lessons in this book will help students not only gain a greater understanding of concepts, but will assist in expanding their vocabulary.Questions follow each cloze paragraph exercise - thus insuring that students have a broad understanding of the story by incorporating thinking skills as well as recall activities. The questions involve inference, prediction, and relationship.Of course, creative content choice keeps it all interesting with subjects ranging from “dolphins” to “lightening” and “magical mold” to “the Loch Ness monster.”
Retaining what is heard! Short, bright, read-aloud stories about subjects ranging from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to “Helping Baby Birds” are at the core of the 30 lessons in this learning unit. After listening closely to each story, students are given independent activities that focus on drawing conclusions, finding the main idea, and remembering details. By getting youngsters involved in the stories, they will gradually learn more thoughtful listening techniques.
Being able to determine main ideas is crucial to writing book reports, outlining, reading social studies and science materials, and general reading comprehension. That is why the lessons in this unit are so important.The 26 exercises in found here have been designed to help develop a thinking process for finding the main idea. Students begin by finding topics in sentences, then identify the main idea in a sentence. From here they move on to finding the focus of a paragraph, writing the main idea, and finally coming up with summary sentences for books. 28-page book includes an answer key.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-8