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.
Knowing how to measure time in terms of days, weeks, months and years is an important life skill. Calendars, part of Remedia's Publications' Time Concepts Series, provides abundant practice in this skill. Your students will have a great time as they learn to recognize the names of the months and their association to the seasons of the year. A variety of creative activities help students learn day and month abbreviations, the various ways to write dates, the meaning of decade and century, holiday dates, and more! In addition, word problems are included that require students to calculate time and dates in order to find answers. So help your students acquire important life skills with this fun and essential basic skills book. Enjoy!
Help students reach mastery level with 248 high frequency words. Based on the Dolch List, this research-based set of flash cards will help students become better and more fluent readers.
This set features 220 sight words plus 28 colorful photo noun cards. This combination allows students to make phrases and sentences, laying the foundation for fluency in reading. Words are divided into 5 color-coded word lists, making it easy for readers to tackle essential words in small, manageable doses. Great for one-on-one or small group practice.
Contents Include:
- 220 Sight Words with Sentences
- 28 Photo Cards with Sentences
- 40 Hands-On Activities
- Complete List of Color-Coded Sight Words
- Bonus Activity Suggestions
Build Basic Skills the hands-on way!Young readers will have a great time as they complete over 60 fun-filled activities designed to improve reading, handwriting, comprehension, and fine motor skills! Each delightful lesson includes an easy-to-read mini-story followed by simple writing and comprehension activities. As a reward for completing each lesson, students are invited to color the story's lively illustration. Great for building reading confidence!
Challenged readers of all ages are sure to enjoy these activities as they sharpen their reading and writing skills. Features 30 stories with:
- Controlled vocabulary
- Short sentences
- Simple sentence structures
- Cloze reading
- Repetitive words
You’ll love having these ready-to-use activities on hand for review, remediation, and enrichment! Let Remedia Publications help your students have fun mastering those all-important basic skills.
60 pages includes an answer key.
Kids love a good mystery, and they won't be disappointed with the 20 "who-dunits" Detective Bree Cody encounters in this captivating skill-based book.Enthusiasm will skyrocket as students join police detective Bree Cody and her cat Rico, on a trek through the adventures of police work. The high-interest stories are sure to involve even the most reluctant readers as they investigate cases of theft, a missing person, arson, and much more! Mysterious characters such as Junkyard Jesse, an old miner from Landpuddle Lake; Mr. Dower, the druggist; and even a shy little pack rat add color and intrigue to the reading passages.Reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills get a workout as students reach each mystery, then follow the clues to their logical conclusions. Clever questions and activities encourage students to find facts, read for details, analyze situations, make inferences, and predict outcomes. 48 pages.Contents Include:
* 20 Mysteries plus Follow-up Questions
* Story Map
* Mystery Template
* Progress Chart
* Answer Key
Reading Level 3.4-6.2 | Interest Level Grade 4-12
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.
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.
Putting knowledge to work. Comprehension implies the understanding of information and the ability to see basic relationships. The 26 lessons in this unit provide plenty of practice in areas that emphasize comprehension. Students are involved in interpreting verbal and visual communications (A dinosaur “size chart” is provided. “How long was the Tyrannosaurus?”), making comparisons (Using the Table of Contents provided: “Which chapter is shorter?”), and finding relationships with the “big picture” (Using the map of the Lone Star Camp: “Where does the trail from the cabin lead?”). The sequential activities featured here are sure to develop critical thinking skills.
Improve attention span! The 23 visual activities in this popular unit are designed to increase students’ concentration and attention to details. One exercise, for example, includes two versions of a picture – each depicting two boys fishing on a riverbank. Students are challenged to find 10 differences between the drawings. The game-like exercises found here range from hidden objects and memory graphics to word pyramids and categorizations. Children are sure to have loads of fun while stimulating their thinking skills.
This unit is packed with 30 low readability stories about fun and unique careers. The included comprehension exercises are designed to teach students to better understand what they read, to follow directions, and to increase their critical thinking.
A variety of jobs are covered in the informative articles that start-off each exercise. The eight comprehension questions that follow each reading exercise work to boost comprehension skills.
Reading Level 3 | Interest Level 4-12
30 Jobs Include:
- Editor
- Waiter
- Chef
- Butcher
- Police Officer
- Miner
- Jeweler
- Pilot
- and more!
Reluctant readers of all ages and students reading below grade level are sure to enjoy the high-interest, factual newspaper articles featured in this book. Each article is presented in a realistic and appealing format complete with dateline and picture. Follow-up questions require the reader to respond to the Five W's (who, what, when, where, why) - a great way to boost comprehension skills! Reading levels are achieved through the use of controlled vocabulary, simple sentence structure, and appropriate illustrations. The reading level of stories in this book range from 5.0-5.9.
This 20-lesson unit is designed to help teachers evaluate students’ ability to understand and appropriately respond to verbal information. The exercises may also be used to assist in the development of listening and following direction skills. “How would you feel if a bull was chasing you?” “Is a potato a fruit?” “Wink your eye!”For those students who find verbal response difficult, or to add an element of fun, picture response cards have been included.
Help your students develop important writing skills with this fun and delightfully illustrated book. Easy Sentence Writing will inspire students to develop sentence-writing skills. Four formats add variety as they write original sentences, create sentences from pictures, form sentences from a word bank and more.
Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice in the specific reading skill that emphasizes inference comprehension.The stories lack some facts that the reader must infer from the text in order to detect certain details. Questions following each story test student’s ability to recognize information that is implied but not directly given. 28-page book includes an answer key.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
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.”
This action-packed book is sure to capture and hold student interest while building essential reading skills. Each intriguing story is followed by step-by-step activities that improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and more! The truly high-interest topics and low reading levels make this book ideal for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level, and teachers who simply want to spice up their reading curriculum.
Reading Level 1-3 | Interest Level 3-12
Lots of Repeated Practice for Challenged Readers
Struggling readers are sure to benefit from the high-interest / low vocabulary stories and writing practice in this terrific book. Features 30 stories comprised of repetitive words and sentence structure followed by questions, cloze reading, and sentence writing. This book is sure to be a terrific addition to any remedial reading program!
Phonics fun and learning in 24 crossword puzzles! Each exercise in this book is designed to teach a different vowel sound from "Short a as in Hat" to "oo</> as in Boot." The word clues encourage improved reading and spelling skills. The puzzles promote verbal awareness. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.
Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! The study of phonics helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance.
Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You'll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last.
Part II offers reproducible worksheets and activities to help students reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition.
Altogether, this information-packed unit will help:
- you teach reading more effectively!
- raise your students reading levels!
Grade Level K-3 | Interest Level 3-12
Get students listening! Work to improve comprehension skills through the use of the read-aloud, old-world tales and the remember-what-you-heard worksheets found in this learning unit. Included are intriguing versions of the following classic stories: “Rumpelstiltskin,” “The Frog Prince,” “Mother Holle,” “The Golden Goose,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Bremen Town Musicians,” and “The King’s New Clothes.”By purposefully listening as the stories are read to them, students will begin to develop an appreciation for literature.