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| Introduction | p. 14 |
| Skills Checklists | |
| Reading Comprehension Skills Checklist | p. 18 |
| Words and Vocabulary Skills Checklist | p. 19 |
| Spelling / Grammar and Usage Skills Checklist | p. 20 |
| Writing Skills Checklist | p. 21 |
| Geography Skills Checklist | p. 144 |
| Map Skills Checklist | p. 145 |
| Science Skills Checklist | p. 204 |
| Computation and Numbers / Problem Solving Skills Checklist | p. 230 |
| Geometry and Measurement / Graphing, Statistics, and Probability Skills Checklist | p. 231 |
| Language Arts | p. 17 |
| Reading Comprehension Skills Exercises | |
| Follow the Flags (Following Directions - Picture Clues) | p. 22 |
| The Thrill of a Big Wave (Inference) | p. 24 |
| Leah's Vacation Letter (Context) | p. 25 |
| Catch a Leprechaun (Choose Title - Read for Details) | p. 26 |
| 20,000 Feet and Still Climbing (Read for Details) | p. 27 |
| Join the Circus! (Paraphrase) | p. 28 |
| Ride a Raging River (Paraphrase) | p. 29 |
| High Seas Adventure (Literary Techniques - Personal Response) | p. 30 |
| Mythical Sea Creatures (Main Idea) | p. 31 |
| The World's Luxury Train (Character Analysis - Story Elements) | p. 32 |
| Drop into the Alps (Read Table) | p. 34 |
| Race with the Dogs (Predictions - Conclusions) | p. 35 |
| Hunting for Nessie (Personal Response) | p. 36 |
| Rock into the Future (Literary Techniques) | p. 37 |
| Fight the Fiercest Bull (Sequence) | p. 38 |
| Old News Is Goose News (Titles - Cause and Effect) | p. 39 |
| A Little Sluggish (Conclusions - Generalizations) | p. 40 |
| Your Name in Neon! (Author's Purpose - Point of View) | p. 41 |
| An Ancient Art (Information from Illustrations) | p. 42 |
| Alone in the Tangled Woods (Predictions - Author's Purpose) | p. 43 |
| A Ride with the "King" (Read Charts and Tables) | p. 44 |
| High Climber (Read Graph) | p. 45 |
| Lessons in Silliness (Read Titles) | p. 46 |
| Cures and Courage (Context) | p. 47 |
| Letters to Leonardo (Read for Details) | p. 48 |
| Explore the Sunken Titanic (Read for Details - Summarize) | p. 49 |
| Words and Vocabulary Skills Exercises | |
| What Would You Do with It? (Learning New Words) | p. 50 |
| Sunken Treasure (Context) | p. 51 |
| Happy as a Clam (Figurative Language) | p. 52 |
| Good Taste in Friends (Figurative Language) | p. 53 |
| How Many Whales? (Confusing Words) | p. 54 |
| Swimmers' Line-up (Analogies) | p. 55 |
| Should You? Could You? Would You? (Learning New Words) | p. 56 |
| Could You? Would You? Should You? (Learning New Words) | p. 57 |
| Where Would You Find This? (Learning New Words) | p. 58 |
| Where Would You Find That? (Learning New Words) | p. 59 |
| Submarine Watch (Roots) | p. 60 |
| Making Waves (Learning New Words) | p. 61 |
| Don't Obey the Signs! (Antonyms) | p. 62 |
| Impostors in the Sand (Synonyms) | p. 63 |
| A Biped on a Unicycle (Prefixes) | p. 64 |
| Peril at Sea! (Suffixes) | p. 65 |
| The Whole in the Pale (Homophones) | p. 66 |
| A Whale or a Wail? (Homophones) | p. 67 |
| Beware of Crabby Crabs! (Multiple Meanings) | p. 68 |
| The Shirt Doesn't Fit (Word Classification) | p. 69 |
| Marooned! (Denotation and Connotation) | p. 70 |
| Tasty Words (Word Histories) | p. 71 |
| Boardwalk Analogies (Analogies) | p. 72 |
| Hot Beach Cool Drinks (Context) | p. 73 |
| Digging up Words (Foreign Words) | p. 74 |
| Shipwreck! (Compound Words) | p. 75 |
| Octopus or Squid? (Confusing Words) | p. 76 |
| Spelling Skills Exercises | |
| Double Trouble (Words with Double Consonants) | p. 77 |
| A Troublesome Twosome (Spelling Rule: ie and ei) | p. 78 |
| Words That Stick Together (Compound Words) | p. 79 |
| Letters with a Secret Life (Confusing Consonants and Blends) | p. 80 |
| Too Many Frogs (Plural Words) | p. 81 |
| The Case of the Vanishing Endings (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 82 |
| Tricky Endings (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 83 |
| Ants for Sale (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 84 |
| Tangled Endings (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 85 |
| You Are That? (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 86 |
| At the Root of It All (Root Words) | p. 87 |
| Lazy Letters (Words with Silent Letters) | p. 88 |
| Surprising S (Words with the Letter S) | p. 89 |
| Who's Gone Wrong? (Words with the Letter W) | p. 90 |
| Winning Combinations (Vowel Combinations) | p. 91 |
| Peculiar Words (Unusual Words) | p. 92 |
| Words That Make You Laugh and Cry (Funny and Sad Words) | p. 93 |
| Rule Breakers (Words That Break Spelling Rules) | p. 94 |
| Unearthly Words (Space Words) | p. 95 |
| Words You Can Eat (Food Words) | p. 96 |
| Words That Won't Stand Still (Movement Words) | p. 97 |
| Giant, Colossal Words (Big Words) | p. 98 |
| Itsy-Bitsy Words (Small Words) | p. 99 |
| Sniffing Out Mistakes (Identify Incorrect Spelling) | p. 100 |
| Signs for Spellers (Editing to Correct Spelling) | p. 101 |
| Grammar and Usage Skills Exercises | |
| Smooth Sailing (Parts of Speech) | p. 102 |
| Key Creatures (Common and Proper Nouns) | p. 103 |
| Agate Lake (Present Tense Verbs) | p. 104 |
| Blue River (Past Tense Regular Verbs) | p. 105 |
| A Scrambled Menu (Adjectives) | p. 106 |
| Campfire Procedures (Adverbs) | p. 107 |
| Picturing Prepositions (Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases) | p. 108 |
| Rapidly Falling (Contractions) | p. 110 |
| Storm Hits Camp Lookout (Editing: Capitalization) | p. 111 |
| Unbelievable News (Editing: Capitalization) | p. 112 |
| A Truly Freaky Storm (Editing: Capitalization) | p. 113 |
| A Camper's Midnight Hike (Editing: Punctuation) | p. 114 |
| A Dream Job (Effective Words) | p. 115 |
| Personally Speaking (Effective Sentences) | p. 116 |
| Beginnings That Grab (Good Beginnings) | p. 117 |
| Writing Skills Exercises | |
| Catch the Action (Active Words) | p. 118 |
| Precisely Precarious! (Precise Words) | p. 119 |
| Words with Taste (Effective Words and Phrases) | p. 120 |
| Good Advice (Interesting, Complete Sentences) | p. 121 |
| Smashing Beginnings (Good Beginnings) | p. 122 |
| The Red Page (Poetry - Sensory Appeal) | p. 123 |
| The Tallest of Tales (Exaggeration - Imaginative Writing) | p. 124 |
| Here's How! (Good Connections Between Ideas) | p. 125 |
| Ask Me Anything! (Effective Questions) | p. 126 |
| An Editor's Error (Sentence Sequence) | p. 127 |
| Speaking in Metaphors (Metaphors and Similes) | p. 128 |
| In My Opinion (Opinion - Editing) | p. 130 |
| Old News Is New News (Adapt Writing Form) | p. 132 |
| No Bones about It! (Figurative Language) | p. 134 |
| He Said. She Said (Dialogue) | p. 136 |
| In the Mood (Mood) | p. 137 |
| Picture This (Description) | p. 138 |
| Words on the Move (Effective Words and Phrases - Visual Images) | p. 140 |
| Stomach-Flipping News (Sentence Clarity) | p. 141 |
| Social Studies | p. 143 |
| Geography Skills Exercises | |
| Getting to Know the USA (Identify States and Bodies of Water) | p. 146 |
| What a Way to See the USA (Facts about States) | p. 148 |
| The Reasons for Regions (Identify U.S. Regions, States, and Capitals) | p. 150 |
| Big Trees and Wild Surf (Pacific Region) | p. 151 |
| High Peaks and Deep Canyons (Mountain Region) | p. 152 |
| Tall Grasses and Twisters (Plains Region) | p. 153 |
| Cows, Cowboys, and Cacti (Southwest Region) | p. 154 |
| Lakes and More Lakes (Great Lakes Region) | p. 155 |
| Bayous, Beaches, and Hospitality (Southeast Region) | p. 156 |
| Big Cities and Capitals (Middle Atlantic Region) | p. 157 |
| History and High Tides (New England Region) | p. 158 |
| Which Region? (Review Regions) | p. 159 |
| Which Way in Washington? (Washington, DC) | p. 160 |
| State Hopping (Location of States) | p. 161 |
| Up, Down, Over, and Around (Physical Features of the U.S.) | p. 162 |
| National Treasures (U.S. National Parks and Monuments) | p. 164 |
| Not the Capital! (U.S. Cities) | p. 165 |
| Oh, Say Can You See the USA? (U.S. and The World) | p. 166 |
| Where Are You? (Your Location) | p. 167 |
| What's in Which Half? (Earth's Hemispheres) | p. 168 |
| The Long and Short of It (Latitude and Longitude) | p. 169 |
| Locating Places and Spaces (Latitude and Longitude) | p. 170 |
| Time Flies (U.S. Time Zones) | p. 172 |
| Hey, Neighbor! (North America) | p. 174 |
| The Largest Neighbor (Canada) | p. 176 |
| Viviendo en Mexico (Mexico) | p. 178 |
| Valuables from Mexico (Mexico's Economy) | p. 179 |
| The Fourth Largest Continent (South America) | p. 180 |
| Ever Been to Chicken? (U.S. Cities and States) | p. 181 |
| Record Setters (U.S. Landmarks, Places, and Features) | p. 182 |
| More Record Setters (U.S. Landmarks, Places, and Features) | p. 183 |
| Map Skills Exercises | |
| Underground Delivery (Map Symbols - Map Key) | p. 184 |
| Where in the World? (Landforms) | p. 186 |
| Over Land and Water (Continents - Countries - Bodies of Water) | p. 188 |
| The Misfit Packages (North America) | p. 190 |
| The Rest of the Parade (Scale) | p. 191 |
| A Mouse on Parade (Scale) | p. 192 |
| Delivery on the Slopes (Find Directions) | p. 193 |
| A Messy Map Mess-up (Kinds of Maps) | p. 194 |
| ?Que Tiempo Hace? (Weather Map) | p. 195 |
| Delivery by Subway (Subway Map) | p. 196 |
| Friday Night Deliveries (Using a Grid) | p. 198 |
| A Load of Old Bones (Road Map) | p. 199 |
| School Supplies (Floor Plan) | p. 200 |
| Science | p. 203 |
| Science Skills Exercises | |
| What Made Me Do That? (Laws of Motion) | p. 205 |
| Some Sound Science (Sound) | p. 206 |
| Science to Brag About (Kinds of Science) | p. 208 |
| For Budding Scientists (Plant Classification) | p. 210 |
| Pilfered Plants (Plant and Flower Parts) | p. 211 |
| Vital Processes (Plant Processes) | p. 212 |
| "File 'Em" or "Phylum"? (Animal Classification) | p. 213 |
| No Bones about It (Invertebrate Classification) | p. 214 |
| The Missing Chordates (Vertebrate Classification) | p. 215 |
| Eco-Tree (Ecology) | p. 216 |
| A Very "Gnaw"-ty Pet (Ecology) | p. 217 |
| Body Talk (Human Body Systems) | p. 218 |
| View from the Inside (Skeletal-Muscular Systems) | p. 219 |
| Marvelously Simple (Simple Machines) | p. 220 |
| The Great Breakup (Erosion and Weathering) | p. 221 |
| A Vacation Paradise? (Earth Processes) | p. 222 |
| A Rocky Business (Rocks) | p. 223 |
| Everybody Talks about It! (Weather Patterns) | p. 224 |
| Would You? Should You? (Atmosphere) | p. 225 |
| Where Would You Find It? (Earth and Space Science Vocabulary) | p. 226 |
| A Dangerous Attraction (Magnets) | p. 227 |
| Math | p. 229 |
| Computation and Numbers Skills Exercises | |
| The Final Count (Computation) | p. 232 |
| A Big Race--A Warm Pool (Read and Write Numbers) | p. 234 |
| Snatch, Clean, and Jerk! (Compare and Order Whole Numbers) | p. 235 |
| The Eternal Flame (Round Whole Numbers) | p. 236 |
| Clean Jumps, Please! (Place Value) | p. 237 |
| High Speeds and Tough Turns (Column Addition) | p. 238 |
| Knock Out! (Subtract Whole Numbers) | p. 239 |
| Sailing without a Sail (Multiply and Divide with Multiples of 10) | p. 240 |
| Hold Your Breath! (Whole Number Operations) | p. 241 |
| Weighty Calculations (Long Division) | p. 242 |
| Pedaling for Medals (Divide Whole Numbers) | p. 243 |
| Frosty Sports (Fractions) | p. 244 |
| Be Careful Not to Swing! (Lowest Term Fractions) | p. 245 |
| Pentathlon Calculations (Add and Subtract Fractions) | p. 246 |
| When Is a Shell a Scull? (Add and Subtract Mixed Numerals) | p. 247 |
| Take the Plunge! (Read Decimals) | p. 248 |
| Nose Rolls and Fakies (Compare and Order Decimals) | p. 249 |
| Problem Solving Skills Exercises | |
| Winter Sports Fest (Information Needed for Problem Solving) | p. 250 |
| Sports Trivia (Word Problems) | p. 252 |
| Lost in the Trees (Word Problems) | p. 253 |
| Tugging Problems (Solve Problems Using an Illustration) | p. 254 |
| Rah, Rah, Rah! (Multistep Problems) | p. 255 |
| Flipping over Numbers (Solve Problems with Statistics) | p. 256 |
| The Missing Snacks (Missing Numbers in Problems) | p. 257 |
| Horsing Around (Solve Problems with Money) | p. 258 |
| Up and Over (Choose Correct Operation) | p. 259 |
| Geometry and Measurement Skills Exercises | |
| Locker Room Mystery (Identify points, lines, angles, rays, and planes) | p. 260 |
| Geometry at the Ball Park (Identify line segments, points, planes, and angles) | p. 261 |
| New Angle on Cheers (Identify kinds of angles) | p. 262 |
| Gym Floor Geometry (Identify kinds of triangles) | p. 263 |
| Sharp Eyes for Shapes (Identify kinds of polygons) | p. 264 |
| Going in Circles (Identify properties and parts of circles) | p. 265 |
| Geometry on Wheels (Identify space figures) | p. 266 |
| A Close Look at Figures (Identify congruent and similar figures) | p. 267 |
| Get a Jump on Volume (Compare volume of space figures) | p. 268 |
| Courtside Measurements (Identify U.S. Customary units) | p. 269 |
| Passing the Test (Identify metric units of measure) | p. 270 |
| Uniform Measurements (Use U.S. Customary units) | p. 271 |
| Around the Edge (Find perimeter of space figures) | p. 272 |
| Juggling the Schedule (Measure time with a calendar) | p. 274 |
| Graphing, Statistics, and Probability Skills Exercises | |
| Outrageous Collections (Read and Interpret Tables of Statistics) | p. 276 |
| Lots and Lots of Loops (Read and Interpret a Pictograph) | p. 278 |
| Bodacious Balancing (Read and Interpret a Pictograph) | p. 279 |
| Tattoos, Trees, and Fast Talking (Read and Interpret a Circle Graph) | p. 280 |
| Playing with Fire (Read and Interpret a Line Graph) | p. 281 |
| Record-Setting Swallowing (Read and Interpret a Bar Graph) | p. 282 |
| Swatting to Set a Record (Find Locations on a Coordinate Grid) | p. 284 |
| The Things People Throw (Find Locations on a Coordinate Grid) | p. 285 |
| A Record-Holding Crawler (Plot Locations on a Coordinate Grid) | p. 286 |
| Eight Hours of Shoe-Shining (Plot Locations on a Coordinate Grid) | p. 287 |
| Record-Breaking Snake Biting (Describe Outcomes of Events) | p. 288 |
| Tattoo or Not Tattoo (Find Probability) | p. 289 |
| Appendix | p. 291 |
| Language Arts Skills Test | p. 292 |
| Social Studies Skills Test | p. 313 |
| Science Skills Test | p. 321 |
| Math Skills Test | p. 325 |
| Skills Test Answer Key | p. 333 |
| Skills Exercises Answer Key | p. 336 |
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