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Beautiful Feet Books

Beautiful Feet Books is a publisher of Rea Berg's History Through Literature, study guides, and a variety of children's literature.

Printed Materials: Books

Adventures with Atoms and Molecules

"Adventures with Atoms and Molecules" is a series of books that contains biology, chemistry, and geology experiments. Each experiment can be done as a classroom activity or at home with easy-to-find materials. Each book contains instructions for 30 experiments that show the effectiveness of the scientific method.

Building Thinking Skills Book 1: Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Writing, Math, and Science

This workbook contains activities in verbal and figural similarities, and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include reading comprehension; describing shapes, things, and words; following directions; antonyms and synonyms; several types of analogy; deductive reasoning; parts of a whole; mapping and directionality; logical connectives; spelling and vocabulary; overlapping classes; pattern folding; tracking, rotation, and reflection; mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects.

Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome

This book contains simple information about aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman life, with numerous hands-on projects for costumes, shoes, food, Greek/Roman crafts, art projects, Greek letters, clay tablets, Greek/Roman math and science projects.

Descriptive Mysteries: Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills

This is a workbook to improve writing and communication skills. Builds skills in descriptive vocabulary, directionality, compare and contrast, classification, organization, similarities and differences.

Everyday Words from Classic Origins: A Language Activity Workbook

This workbook is great for homeschoolers. It helps students master the Latin and Greek roots by providing sequenced activities, practice sets and reviews. A separate response key is also provided. It has over 275 word bases, including the variations. For example, FAC (FIC), FACT (FECT) (FY) all mean "to do, to make." Each lesson has five sections: "Touching Base", "Branching Out", "Words in Progress", "Words in Action" and "Word of Interest". After every 3 lessons, there are review activities and practice sets. There is also a list of Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes in the back of the workbook.

Free to Be You and Me

Free To Be... You And Me is a storybook and a songbook, a collection of poems and a gallery of pictures that bring out the child in readers of all ages. This innovative book celebrates diversity, challenges stereotypes, and encourages kids to be themselves in a joyful, positive manner. Its contents can be read aloud and shared. Best of all, in the midst of all the merriment this book brings, kids experience important messages and learn valuable life lessons.

Handle Associates Writing Skills Workbook

Designed by an educator who has taught grammar and writing from grades seven through the first year of college, this workbook emphasizes practice. It contains six separate topics: parts of speech, sentence structure, word usage, case, agreement, and style. Each page presents a brief lesson followed by related exercises. The book is available with or without answer keys following each section. Because the workbook arose from real classroom situations, it has been widely field-tested and is practical and effective

Key to Algebra Series

This is a series of workbooks covering topics in algebra from integers through graphing, square roots and quadratic equations. Each topic is introduced and explained briefly, then followed by exercises to practice the new skill.

Key to Fractions

These self-paced, self-guided workbooks by S. Rasmussen are for grades 4-12 and motivate students to succeed. Do you have students who have never mastered fraction concepts or who need a good review? Key to Fractions covers all topics from basic concepts to mixed numbers and is written with secondary students in mind. Minimal reading is required, so students can easily work independently or in small groups. There are four book levels available.

Math Shortcuts to the SAT*

This workbook offers 34 specific math shortcuts & strategies to the SAT* and PSAT.

Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook

In this companion workbook, Mary Kurcinka brings readers into her world-famous workshops, where she offers parents and educators insights, emotional support, and proven strategies for dealing with spirited children. Through excellent examples and easy-to-read text, this book provides parents with a pathway to understanding their child's temperament and to a place where parents can balance the needs of their child's unique temperament with their own needs and those of their family.

Spelling Power, 4th Edition

The latest edition of this award-winning spelling program includes a digital tutor, new DVD seminar and a number of other updates to accomplish it's goal - to teach solid, basic spelling skills. Geared toward homeschoolers, Spelling Power can be beneficial for gifted students because it allows them to work at their own pace and accelerate through curriculum when needed.

Teaching Values: An Idea Book for Teachers (And Parents)

In this workbook, Gary A. Davis provides activities and excercises for teaching students ages 9-15. Objectives and discussion questions for more than 50 lessons are included. Pages are reproducible and include checklists, quizzes and word searches. Davis assists educators in discussing universal values using creative lesson plans, questions, and role-play.

The Biology Coloring Book

Learn about the basic processes of life and the interactions of living things with their environment. Use the unique and highly effective Coloring Concepts method to take advantage of the fact that more than 50% of your brain is devoted to vision and movement. Experience for yourself how the action of coloring a carefully designed picture almost magically creates understanding more completely and quickly than passive reading. Allow yourself to be tutored step by step through the fundamental concepts of biology and the evidence and reasoning processes which led to them, while the colors and your movements form strong mental associations which greatly improve comprehension and memory.

The Coloring Review of Neuroscience

This step by step text by D. Michael McKeoug his designed as a supplement to an introductory neuroscience course and is intended to provide the beginning student with a global view of the field.

The Geography Coloring Book

The detailed plates in The Geography Coloring Book provide an opportunity for the student to make their own brightly colored world atlas and reference book. There is a surprising amount of content in this book. Though the coloring makes it memorable and enjoyable, even without coloring the book, it is an easily accessible world reference book. There is descriptive text which provide useful information and background, both physical and political as well as instructions on how to use and color the book. There is also an index including a dictionary that the author suggests in his preface can be used for two kinds of quizzes.

The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations

The classic Russian book by Boris A. Kordemsky is marvelously varied with puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Grades 9-12

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders

This is one of two workbooks by authors DeFina and Feifer which discuss both language-based and non-language-based disorders from a brain-based education model of learning. They are intended for school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, special educators and school administrators. They use cutting-edge research from the neurosciences to understand the various brain mechanisms involved in written disorders and reading disorders in children.

The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids With Sensory Integration Dysfunction

This companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child presents activities that parents of kids with sensory integration challenges can do at home with their child to strengthen their child's abilities - and have some fun together along the way. Find more than one hundred playful activities to help develop and organize a child's brain and body.

Values Are Forever: Becoming More Caring And Responsible

Parents, teachers and youth leaders will enjoy teaching character development using this creative workbook by Gary A Davis, Ph.D. Activities covering values such as Life Goals, Accepting Differences and Earning Respect, ask the students, ages 9-15, to think for themselves. Lessons progress from easy decisions and choices to those with more serious long-term consequences.

Visual Perceptual Skill Building

This book is intended for children in grades K-4 whose visual perceptual skills are developing. It has excercies in mazes, visual discrimination, visual closure, visual memory, visual sequential memory, and visual spatial relationship.

Vocabulary from Classical Roots

This is a workbook series offering five levels of vocabulary studies. The publisher describes the layout: "Lessons begin with a Latin phrase frequently used in English and contain 11-15 words, plus: phonetic pronunciation; parts of speech and multiple definitions; illustrative sentences with culturally varied literary, historical, or geographical references; derivations of words; related forms of the same word; familiar words based on the same root; challenge words based on the same root; pictorial illustrations of varying style and mood, including humor; exercises on synonyms, antonyms, analogies, sentence completions, and usage; vocabulary in context in paragraph form."

Word Roots

Word Roots are workbooks for ages 8-11 or ages 12 to adult. By teaching kids to recognize the prefixes, roots, and suffixes that can reveal a word's meaning, you'll help your students expand their vocabulary, as well as their comprehension and spelling skills. Wonderful for warm-ups or word-of-the-day exercises, each activity introduces Greek or Latin roots, then builds understanding with their English counterparts.

Writing Fabulous Sentences and Paragraphs

This workbook helps elementary age writers refine their sentence and paragraph writing. It contains reproducible pages which model and provide practice in the basic components of writing. Including excercises to help students write more complex sentences, use figurative language, organize writing and thoughts better, and more.

Websites & New Media: Commercial

Bright Minds

This website contains books and educational software designed to help children receive higher grades and improve their test scores. Products are designed for chidren grades PreK-8.

Free Spirit Publishing

Free Spirit produces award-winning gifted resources that help children and teens think for themselves, succeed in life, and make a difference in the world.

Key Curriculum Press

Key Curriculum Press offers a wide variety of resources for Middle and High School math including: supplemental materials, puzzles and posters, professional resources, software, and textbooks.

Leadership Publishers

Leadership Publishers Inc. was founded by Lois Roets in 1982 to provide educational materials for educators serving talented and gifted students. The company continues to provide books and workshops for talented and gifted students, their parents and school districts.

Miquon Math Materials

This series of workbooks, published by Key Curriculum Press, is targeted at K-6 homeschooled students. The material is not specifically designed for the gifted, but students can utilize advanced grade materials. As part of the coursework, students build models for concepts to prepare them for written work.

Singapore Math & Science Books

Singapore Math offers series of books on both math and science appropriate for classroom use and homeschooling. There are six different series of math programs from pre-school to college and two levels of science: primary and lower secondary. They offer textbooks and workbooks as well as teacher's guides. Offers placement tests, placement guides, scope and sequence, answer keys and online forum help.