Christian School New & Revised Products for 2020-2021

The newly updated Reading Comprehension 4 is a collection of short, captivating readings designed to take your students’ comprehension skills to a whole new level!

Questions included with each reading evaluate recall of plot, characters, and setting . . . but new features challenge students to go beyond basic comprehension to apply literary concepts and think critically about what they read.

With the all-new Teacher Edition, you’ll be well-equipped to guide your students to a deeper understanding of the stories they read and help them discover spiritual applications along the way.

Like archaeologists searching for treasure, your students will discover truths and practical applications as they explore the Old and New Testaments with the Bible 4 Journal. Designed to help students dig deep into Scripture, this brand-new book will reinforce what is being taught in Bible class. Students will learn from godly examples and biblical principles portrayed in the lessons and be challenged to think from a biblical worldview and make personal applications in weekly entries.

Prompts for regular Bible reading and prayer will help students develop a daily reliance on God. As they dig into the Word of God, your students will learn to depend on it for the answers to life’s questions and challenges.

With this updated version of God’s Gift of Language 4, your students will develop effective communication skills—they will learn not only grammar and punctuation, but also how to research and write for assignments in manageable steps. Lessons are unified by engaging themes that will intrigue and motivate your students to keep learning. Language concepts will guide students in a logical flow from the known to the unknown.

The thinking skills and communication ability your students will develop in your fourth grade language class will benefit them for a lifetime.

With your new God’s Gift of Language 4 Teacher Edition, you’ll be thoroughly equipped to guide your students through the valuable process of analyzing each part of a sentence and then applying that insight to improve their own writing.

You’ll love how helpful and flexible this book is: whenever you need a new idea or want another way to explain a concept, you’ll find a variety of teaching tips, activities, and games ready to help you succeed.

Ignite your students’ imagination with the new, colorful edition of Writing with Purpose 4. Exciting practice activities improve their cursive and creative writing skills. You’ll find that assignments tie learning together with cross-subject integration. And by the end of the year, your students will gain the confidence to write better and express their imagination through writing.

Help your students develop speed and comprehension skills as they read about children and missionaries from faraway places in Adventures in Other Lands.

Each weekly selection assesses reading speed and includes a corresponding comprehension quiz. Critical thinking discussion questions, combined with stories from around the world, will help fourth graders understand different cultures and will inspire them to be missionaries wherever they are.

Once upon a Story is a brand-new reader featuring Build on It activities and a variety of talented authors. Because of the story selection and writing quality, it’s fun to read! At the same time, it helps you teach important skills and truths. You’ll also see a focus on literary terms, with review including symbolism, moral, and plot. Narrative text structure and point of view will be introduced and reviewed to build students’ understanding.

In Once upon a Story’s shrunken-page Teacher Edition, you’ll find so many teaching helps—including critical thinking questions and spiritual application.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Christiana’s Journey is a new addition to the fourth-grade reading program! The story has been redeveloped at grade level to better encourage students to understand the realistic elements of living a victorious Christian life. Activities and questions help make students see the story for what it is, rather than just an adventure.

In the shrunken-page Teacher Edition, you’ll find so many teaching helps—including critical thinking questions and spiritual application.

In this fascinating new reader, your students will develop an appreciation for the wonderful, diverse world God has created as they strengthen their reading skills. Selections organized by continent show God’s hand in many cultures and lands by exploring wildlife, geography, folk tales, language, and more with missionary stories demonstrating God’s hand as He works through His people around the globe.

The Teacher Edition contains all the help you’ll need to ignite your students’ excitement and deepen their knowledge. From downloadable audio files to critical thinking activities to optional enrichment projects, you and your students will enjoy seeing the world held lovingly in God’s hands.

The student text has been updated and features new art to illustrate the well-loved story of Hilda. New end-of-chapter activities keep your students engaged and thoroughly prepare your students to write a book report.

Flip open the new Song of the Brook Teacher Edition for comprehension questions, character themes, enrichment ideas, spiritual application, critical thinking questions, and activities. You’ll have everything you need to reinforce learning through review and assess students’ progress.

Explore the eastern half of the US with the Jacksons, a Canadian family taking a road trip east of the Mississippi River. Students will enjoy the ride: meeting inspiring characters, reading exciting stories, and discovering the rich heritage of four regions.

With this cohesive and delightful theme, students will be motivated to dig deeper into each selection as they evaluate text structure, analyze literary elements, engage their critical thinking, and develop their own writing skills.

Teachers will find a wealth of facts, ideas, and activities that make it easy to steer their students through this journey of fun and learning.

The new Fables and Folktales reader includes a wide variety of selections to engage your students’ interest and promote a love for reading. Students will enjoy invaluable lessons from Proverbs and parables along with practical applications from legends, fables, folktales, poems, and plays—each piece carefully selected to improve reading comprehension skills and further develop knowledge of literary concepts.

Comprehension questions, discussion opportunities, and write-in activities prompt critical thinking and encourage students to develop a biblical worldview as they compare literary morals to biblical truth.

The Teacher Edition includes a copy of the student text along with teacher helps in the side margins. With this Teacher Edition, you’ll be well equipped to lead students to a deeper understanding of literary concepts and creative writing techniques. But most importantly, you’ll be prepared to emphasize critical thinking as you encourage students to evaluate literature from a biblical worldview.

Be inspired by Ty Baxter as he develops new gadgets to help his friends in this exciting new student reader. Along the way, students will enjoy comparing famous historical inventions to modern technology—learning how the study of God’s creation led to innovation that would benefit mankind.

While reading these inspirational stories, students will learn to apply scriptural principles, exercise critical thinking, apply literary concepts, and comprehend literature on a higher level.

Activity suggestions to encourage collaboration, discussion, and application in the Teacher Edition allow teachers to deliver quality lessons with less prep time.

Travel west of the Mississippi River with the Daniels family as they explore four regions of the western United States. Visit breathtaking landmarks, read exciting western tales, and meet prominent people along the way in this exciting new student reader.

Through these western-themed selections, students will learn to recognize literary concepts, improve their writing skills, and apply a biblical worldview.

Teachers will find examples, activities, and questions in the Teacher Edition designed to guide their students through this learning experience.

The new Spelling, Vocabulary, and Poetry 4 offers many improvements—starting with the size. It’s now 8 ½” by 11”, just as customers requested. And just as customers requested, more application activities have been added.

You’ll also find improved word lists, now arranged by spelling rule, phonics focus, challenge words, and vocabulary words (instead of arrangement by theme). Since the rule/pattern is taught as the “hook” followed by the spelling words, students don’t have to try to remember a string of letters; they can focus on the reason why a word is spelled as it is. Rather than coaching memorization, this improvement will help you teach spelling.

This new teacher edition of Spelling, Vocabulary, and Poetry 4 is as helpful as a book could possibly be!

Sentence Bank, Spelling Hints, Teaching Tips, and Discussion Starters provide practical suggestions to connect with students and make spelling exciting and effective. Teacher Information supplies helpful suggestions for teaching spelling, vocabulary, and poetry while integrating critical thinking and biblical worldview.

The new Intermediate Mathematics for 7th grade replaces the previous Basic Mathematics. When you flip through it, it won’t take you long to see why!

New concepts and features have been added. It’s more relevant and a better fit within math’s scope and sequence. Review is more strategically inserted. Whether you’re teaching 7th grade math for the first time or you’ve been doing it for years, you’ll find the Teacher Edition and student text give you everything you need to engage and explain. It’s loaded with teaching notes, teaching tips, daily quick quizzes, and more.

Prepare to hear a lot of “Oh, cool, I get it!” from your students.

Take your explanations to a whole new level with customizable interactive web pages that provide hands-on learning experiences for your students. It’s like working problems on the board—but so much better!

Hard-to-visualize concepts come alive with helpful images and videos.

Your students will understand more and pay more attention in class . . . and you’ll spend LESS time preparing your lessons.

This book is loaded with practical content and helpful features. Thorough step-by-step explanations, multiple examples and illustrations for each lesson, strategically placed review sections—students can go directly to the textbook when they need help understanding new material.

Topics presented are current, exciting, and relevant. Critical thinking opportunities train students to think beyond a surface level of knowledge and understanding. And as you’d expect from Abeka, math is presented from a biblical worldview: a way to discover the order in which God created the world.

With this bridge between Intermediate Math and Algebra I, students will enter Algebra I confident and prepared.

Whether you are a new teacher or have years of experience, you’ll find everything you need to inspire your students and present concepts effectively.

Daily lessons within the teacher edition guide teachers in being able to thoroughly cover material. The examples and illustrations within the text help support the teacher’s lesson. You’ll even find interesting extra information you can share to get students excited about what they’re learning.

Help your students develop their reasoning skills to think through current issues. Present a biblical worldview—not by forcing in verses or stretching biblical applications to make them fit, but by taking real opportunities that dovetail nicely within your lesson. This Teacher Edition will help you be intentional about using math to invest in your students’ personal growth beyond their ability to get the right answer.

The brand-new STEM Project Guide Student Book and Teacher Key equip students and teachers in preparing successful science-investigation or engineering-design projects for both in-class presentations and entry into STEM fairs. Replacing the Science in Action project guide in 9th grade, this unique guide aligns with current STEM fair requirements. Detailed directions and background information compliment any science curriculum and are incorporated into Abeka’s Science 9 daily lesson pacing.

Building on the biblical view of the nature of science taught in Abeka’s middle-school science texts, both teacher and student will benefit from detailed directions for every step of the project—from choosing a topic and researching to developing and then presenting the project—along with grading forms for evaluation. Students will be able to perform science-investigation or engineering-design projects at a grade-appropriate rigor and will be graded on their science and engineering content.

The new edition of Grammar and Composition III will equip your students with grammar and writing skills that will prepare them to meet future academic and career goals by incorporating assignments using real-world scenarios and modern technology. Students sharpen their grammar and writing proficiency while improving their creative, rhetorical, and business writing styles.

As a grammar and composition teacher, you need easy access to the answers to every exercise that your students will be completing. With your new Grammar and Composition III Teacher Key, you’ll have just what you need to equip your students with lifelong critical thinking and communication skills. Clear explanations and a user-friendly format work simultaneously with your curriculum. This resource will make your job easier and give you more time to focus on helping each student excel.

Students will reach a higher level of understanding literature—and enjoy it—with the new 9th grade Themes in Literature. Features previously included only in the Teacher Edition are now presented in the student book, giving students background information and literary concepts that will expand their thinking skills and get them excited to read more.

Critical thinking exercises, unit reviews, and defined literary terms guide students to focus on what’s most important as they read the works and study for tests. Illustrations and introductions are now included for EVERY selection to spark students’ imagination and help them understand what they’re about to read.

The newly updated Teacher Edition of Themes in Literature maintains the previous edition’s strong emphasis on character-building principles and universal themes. But now, students will move beyond mere knowledge—toward understanding and discernment—with an increased focus on literary concepts, text analysis, and critical thinking.

You’ll find an abundance of tools and tips to make your lessons helpful and interesting, inspire class discussion, assess student comprehension, and make your class preparation easier: saving you time and making you a more effective, engaging instructor.

It’s even easier to hold as you teach! The Teacher Edition is divided into two volumes, spiral bound … a simple change that makes a big difference for you.

Your students are capable of learning more. With the new 9th grade Vocabulary, Spelling, Poetry III book, now they will learn more!

Many features have been added or updated to equip students with the skills they need to understand vocabulary terms and to spell accurately and confidently. You’ll find 2 additional vocabulary words on each list, and each list now has 5 exercises to practice instead of only 2. Updated definitions help students understand each word fully, and brand new example sentences effectively illustrate the words—no more ambiguous fill-in-the-blank options.

With these added features, it’s no surprise that the book is larger. This 8” x 10” size also allows plenty of room for your students to make insightful decisions when choosing the right word by completing exercises that prompt them to do higher-level thinking, while a world of new vocabulary will be opened to them by studying common roots of English words.

Plus, with the new larger size, it won’t get lost among your students’ larger books.

It won’t take years of experience to feel like a master teacher when you have this incredible resource in your hand. So much more than “just” an answer key, this teacher key contains a wealth of helpful information to save you time as you develop your students’ minds and their biblical worldview. Sample sentences, suggestions for explaining and reviewing concepts, reminders to prompt your students—all here, ready for you.

While your students are studying words, why not use the chance to slip in some review from other parts of their school day? You’ll find terms from their other textbooks sprinkled throughout the lessons, as well as concepts from grammar class reinforced in optional writing exercises.

With the newly revised 9th grade Science: Matter and Energy your students will discover detailed illustrations, helpful study aid features, and exciting new thinking opportunities! These improvements will stimulate critical thinking and prepare your students to apply scientific knowledge in a variety of formats.

You’ll also find a greater emphasis on reasoning and fallacies in science—giving your students the ability to evaluate scientific claims through a biblical worldview. With these improvements—and more—your student will be able to transition into higher-level science studies from their study of Science: Matter and Energy.

Hands-on student lab ideas, suggested writing applications, and thought-provoking questions will help you be a science teacher who truly inspires students to love science—to see how it relates to daily life—and to think deeply about the exciting new concepts they’re learning.

This new Teacher Edition makes it easy for you to focus on what’s important. Your class preparation is made simple with detailed lesson plans, daily objectives, and checkpoints provided for you. The book is easy to navigate, too: the student page is inset next to your teaching information, chapter tabs and lesson-end indicators help you find your place, and the Teacher Edition is now divided into two manageable spiral-bound volumes.

In the updated edition of English 9 Curriculum, you’ll discover daily lesson plans that let you confidently focus on what really matters: teaching your students.

Abeka’s master teachers have organized each lesson in advance for you to have a successful year—whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran. Tips help you teach new concepts while fun ideas and prompts freshen up well-known content. Time saved from lesson planning and choosing homework exercises will allow you to make the most of the time in the classroom with your students, strengthening their foundation in the English language.

• 40+ Composition images
• 90+ Literature images
• 100+ Interactive webpages (Grammar, Composition, Improved Communication)
• Over 1,800 interactive sentences
• 10 Tutorial videos
• 28 Spelling/Vocab videos
• 10 Poetry videos

The updated United States History: Heritage of Freedom explores America's heritage in a narrative style that allows students to learn from the successes and failures of the past through a biblical worldview. As your students follow the events, people, and ideas that shaped the country over the years, they will discover the Christian values and patriotic spirit that the United States of America was founded upon.

Designed to flow from one major event to the next, each chapter begins with a timeline and an overview of related events. This edition includes additional charts, maps, and illustrations to help with visualizing a variety of concepts. With a foundation of knowledge to build upon, students will practice presenting and discussing their opinions in class after researching to support their viewpoint. The historical accounts and applications in this book will inspire appreciation for America's heritage of freedom.

The new U.S. History: Heritage of Freedom Teacher Edition for grade 11 includes an inset copy of the student text along with lesson plans and teacher helps in the side margins—exactly where you need them! Notes and discussion prompts go beyond the simple facts of history, preparing you to teach the why behind historic events.

With this Teacher Edition, you’ll be well equipped to present interesting, informative lessons on American history. Most importantly, you’ll be prepared to help students recognize God’s hand in the founding of the United States and teach them to see His role in this country’s continued success.