This series helps on-level and below-level students build their “word power” in short incremental lessons, and provides you, the teacher, with maximum flexibility in deciding when and how to assign these exercises.
All lessons are reproducible. That makes them ideal for homework, extra credit assignments, cooperative learning groups, or focused drill practice for selected ESL or remedial students.
A quick review of the book’s Table of Contents will enable you to individualize instruction according to the varied needs of your students.

All important concepts — ranging from primary-level phonics to the nuances of connotation — are thoroughly presented from the ground up. Traditional word attack strategies and “getting meaning from context clues” are dually emphasized.

Over 1,200 clearly outlined folding instructions show how to create 20 paper models of world's most celebrated extinct animals — Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon, 16 others — as well as a mountain, volcano, dinosaur egg, and a prehistoric tree.

Anathem is set on a planet called Arbre, where the protagonist, Erasmas, is among a cohort of secluded scientists, philosophers and mathematicians who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe. Erasmas - Raz to his friends - has spent most of his life inside a 3,400-year-old sanctuary. The rest of society — the Sжcular world — is described as an "endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change." Their planet, Arbre, has a history and culture that is roughly analogous to Earth. Resident scholars, including Raz, are unexpectedly summoned by a frightened Sжcular power to leave their monastic stronghold in the hope that they may prevent an approaching catastrophe.