Christian School New & Revised Products for 2020-2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.