Christian School New & Revised Products for 2020-2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.