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.
274 GOOGLE SLIDES GUARANTEED TO CAPTURE AND HOLD STUDENTS’ INTEREST! Does a hurricane really have an eye? How fast are tornadoes? Can a tarantula kill a person? How big is a baby giraffe? Can porcupines really shoot their quills? Is Pluto a planet? How old is the sun?
These fascinating high-interest / low reading level Google Slides stories & specific comprehension activities, are sure to capture readers’ attention… even the most reluctant readers! Colorful, vivid illustrations bring these stories to life while specific reading skills activities ensure students are getting valuable practice. From tarantulas to tornadoes, these are stories your students will WANT to read!
NO-PREP GOOGLE SLIDES
These easy-to-use Google Slides are ready to go! Just download them and you’re ready to start assigning them to your students. Assign the entire set or just today’s lesson!
FASCINATING NON FICTION SCIENCE TOPICS:
Written at a low reading level, these fascinating stories will motivate students of all ages and help them become more fluent, confident readers while simultaneously improving their general science knowledge.
FASCINATING HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS:
Does a hurricane really have an eye?
How fast are tornadoes?
Why do earthquakes happen?
What’s a smokejumper?
Can a boa constrictor climb a tree?
Can a tarantula kill a person?
What causes a solar eclipse?
Is Pluto a planet?
How old is the sun?
How big is a baby giraffe?
Can I run faster than a moose?
Can porcupines really shoot their quills?
What’s the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
SPECIFIC READING SKILLS PRACTICE:
Specific reading skills get a workout as students answer targeted reading comprehension questions. Each skill is clearly labeled for easy assessment and review.
SPECIFIC READING SKILLS FOCUS:
Reading for Details
Finding Facts
Cause & Effect
Drawing Conclusions
Compare & Contrast
Sequencing Events
Making Inferences
Classifying Information
Fact vs. Opinion
Vocabulary Enrichment
Sentence Writing
Two Subjects in One! High-Interest Reading AND Science!
These Versatile Lessons are designed to help you improve reading comprehension while ALSO improving students’ science knowledge!
SCIENCE-BASED READING SERIES:
This set of Google Slides is part of our new Science-based High-Interest Reading Series. These stories focus on fascinating topics from Life Science, Space Science, & Earth Science.
READY TO USE:
These interactive, no-prep Google Slides are ready to use! Simply download the Google Slides to your Google Classroom/Drive and assign them to your students! Assign the whole set or just a few slides for today’s lesson. The worksheets are ready to print and use too!
How do Google Slides Work?
Students read each lesson/activities on a computer or iPad then answer the skill questions right on their copy of the slides. Teachers can see students’ answers in real time, or review them later. Slides can also be printed and used as colorful classroom worksheets.
Your students will love these engaging DIGITAL Google Slides lessons! They’re perfect for students of all ages as daily homework, skill practice, remediation, review, and distance learning.
Includes:
274 GOOGLE SLIDES
COLORFUL ARTWORK
ANSWER KEYS
Enrich and reinforce reading and science instruction with this science vocabulary bundle. Each unit is designed to teach words commonly found in intermediate science programs. This is a great way to increase understanding of science concepts!
As students progress through the lessons featured, they gain practical knowledge with over 400 relevant science words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, word definition, spelling, and writing. Reinforcement activities include writing definitions, categorizing, matching, answering questions, completing sentences, puzzles, and much more.
All of the materials in this bundle are sold separately on TpT. Follow the links below to read detailed descriptions for each title.
The essential vocabulary pertaining to the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, as well as vocabulary associated with space exploration are covered in this unit.
Example: The planets turn on this axis, or ___, as they travel around the sun.
As students progress through the 26 exercises featured, they gain practical knowledge about these fields of science. Simultaneously, they become familiar with 75 “space” words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, word definition, spelling, and writing.
Reinforcement activities range from writing definitions, matching, completing sentences through context clues, sentence writing, identifying syllables, puzzles, and much more. A separate Space Vocabulary page is included.
Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about plants, food, bacteria, cells, seed germination, and more.
Contents Include:
- 15 Experiments Plus Extension Activities
- Glossary
- Letter to Parents
- Science Awards
Experiments Include:
- Soda Fountain
- Starch Test
- Sponge Garden
- Sugar Secret Code
- and Much More!
Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about gravity, magnetism, and electricity.
Contents Include:
- 15 Experiments Plus Extension Activities
- Glossary
- Letter to Parents
- Science Awards
Experiments Include:
- Floating Paper Clip
- Magnetizing a Nail
- Balancing Forks
- The Impaled Potato
- and Much More!
Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using materials found in the kitchen, garage, or garbage can!
Investigations cover physical science principles such as heat and light energy, metal conductivity, magnets, and more. Life science concepts include experiments in touch, taste, smell, central nervous system, reaction time, sight, and more. Earth science features concepts dealing with air and water.
Contents Include:
- 60 Experiments Plus Extension Activities
- Glossary
- Letter to Parents
- Science Awards
The 4 Titles in this Bundle Include:
Earth Science
Physical Science
Life Science: Human Body
Life Science: Biology
Promote students' thinking skills with the 22 dictionary and writing activities in this book. Each exercise spotlights an associated group of science topics – from “layers of the earth” to “spiny skinned invertebrate animals” to “spheres in nature.” The “Webbing” technique used throughout the book involves writing each featured word in one of the ovals provided, counting syllables, alphabetizing the words, using the words to answer questions, writing definitions, using them in sentences, locating requested words/terms using an encyclopedia, and more.
Reading Comprehension | Science | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | Camouflage
Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing Science-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic!
Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, scientific explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life.
Reading Skills
Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading.
“Camouflage”
The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story with interesting facts the kinds of animals that use camouflage to keep from being attacked and eaten.
“The Lonely Chameleon”
The fiction story tells about the life of a chameleon and what happens when he changes his colors to either blend in or stand out.
Questions & Activities
Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions.
Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference,
Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation.
Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context.
Details:
Each short story is between 330 and 375 words and is written at a 2.9 to 4.4 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 3 and up.
Contents Include:
• 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories
• 10 pages of questions and activities
• Glossary
• Answer Key
• 18 total pages
These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus entirely on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more!
Students will read 12 short stories all about oceans. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question.
18 Additional Activities Cover:
- counting
- context clues
- following directions
- critical thinking skills
- alphabetizing
- finding details
- vocabulary
- math word problems
- grammar
- comprehension
- map reading
- graphing
- drawing solutions
- thinking skills
- and more!
These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus entirely on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more!
Students will read 12 short stories all about deserts and desert animals. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question.
18 Additional Activities Cover:
- counting
- context clues
- following directions
- critical thinking skills
- alphabetizing
- finding details
- vocabulary
- math word problems
- grammar
- comprehension
- map reading
- graphing
- drawing solutions
- thinking skills
- and more!
A real comprehension builder! Written information, graphics, and learning activities focusing on more than 70 different animals can be found in this 24-lesson unit. Each worksheet features three creatures. Students match a written description with pictures, then answer related questions. Additional research activities are suggested.
Example:
Partridge - Panda - Pike
I am very rare. I live in the bamboo forest of southern China. I have a white, chubby body. My legs, ears, and shoulders are black. I have black patches around each eye. What is my name?”
As students learn facts about a wide variety animals, they will enhance their reading and comprehension skills. Two overall review pages are included and can be used as pre/post tests.
Give your students a clear understanding of the body systems with this comprehensive and informative unit! From the “skull” to the “feet” and “tendons” to “tissue,” students will learn about human bones and muscles in this 28-lesson unit. As students gain a better understanding of the human body, they enhance their reading and comprehension skills.
Examples:
- How many ribs do people have?
- What are the number of bones found in the human foot?
- What is the difference between “voluntary muscle” and “involuntary muscle?”
- What does cartilage actually do?
Contents Include:
- Glossary
- Preview Pages
- Vocabulary Lists
- Informative Readings
- Fact pages
- Diagrams
- Experiments
- Crossword puzzle and word search that can be used as pre/post tests
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Get students thinking about sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing with these fun activities!
This unit includes 24 activities that use the five senses to reinforce other skills such as reading, rhyming, graphing, visual discrimination, thinking skills, math, and much more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Vocabulary
- Cause & Effects
- Critical Thinking
- Cooperative Learning
- Comprehension
- Graphing
- Sequencing
- Following Directions
- Math
- Categorizing
- and more!
Grab your students' attention with these fun, thematic units! Each unit includes 24 activities that use science topics to reinforce other skills in all subjects such as reading, writing, language, math, and much more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Vocabulary
- Cause & Effects
- Critical Thinking
- Cooperative Learning
- Comprehension
- Graphing
- Sequencing
- Following Directions
- Visual Discrimination
- Elapsed Time
- Categorizing
- and more!
The 6 Titles in this Bundle Include:
The Five Senses
Insects
Plants
Sea Life
Space
Weather
Grab your students' attention with this fun, thematic unit about weather! This unit includes 24 activities that use weather to reinforce other skills in all subjects such as reading, writing, language, math, and much more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Vocabulary
- Cause & Effects
- Critical Thinking
- Cooperative Learning
- Comprehension
- Graphing
- Sequencing
- Following Directions
- Visual Discrimination
- Elapsed Time
- Categorizing
- and more!
Grab your students' attention with this fun, thematic unit about outer space and the solar system! This unit includes 24 activities that use space to reinforce other skills in all subjects such as reading, writing, language, math, and much more!
Skills Covered Include:
- Vocabulary
- Cause & Effects
- Critical Thinking
- Cooperative Learning
- Comprehension
- Graphing
- Sequencing
- Following Directions
- Visual Discrimination
- Elapsed Time
- Categorizing
- and more!
Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of nutrition with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to:
- read for details
- make inferences
- find the main idea
- find facts
- summarize data
- build vocabulary
- draw conclusions
- restate information
- make decisions
Contents Include:
- High-Interest/Low Readability Stories
- Pre/Post-Test
- Word Search
- Glossary
- Answer Key
Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of good grooming with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to:
- read for details
- make inferences
- find the main idea
- find facts
- summarize data
- build vocabulary
- draw conclusions
- restate information
- make decisions
Contents Include:
- High-Interest/Low Readability Stories
- Pre/Post-Test
- Word Search
- Glossary
- Answer Key
Improve reading comprehension and help students get started on the road to a life-long pattern of good exercise with these high-interest/low readability stories. Content is informative, yet simple. Activities involve using charts, graphs, glossaries, answering questions, summarizing, and more.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12
Relevant, high-interest activities follow each reading selection and challenge students to:
- read for details
- make inferences
- find the main idea
- find facts
- summarize data
- build vocabulary
- draw conclusions
- restate information
- make decisions
Contents Include:
- High-Interest/Low Readability Stories
- Pre/Post-Test
- Word Search
- Glossary
- Answer Key
Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about the heart, lungs, bones, muscles, senses, and the brain.
Contents Include:
- 15 Experiments Plus Extension Activities
- Glossary
- Letter to Parents
- Science Awards
Experiments Include:
- Left or Right Sided?
- Food Tasting
- Exercise & Pulse Rate
- Dancing Hairpin
- and Much More!
