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Scholastic’s Leveled Math Readers offer lively sto-ries and colorful nonfiction content that children can read and enjoy on their own, with their families, or as part of guided reading or math lessons. These books are perfect for building skills such as phonemic awareness, pho-nics, fluency, comprehension, and of course vo-cabulary development-- especially math-related vocabulary.

Each book is available in paperback as well as in an interactive eBook format suitable for use on the computer or whiteboard.

As children read and explore these books they will become more confident as readers and en-rich their understanding of essential math con-cepts. This guide offers robust lessons and reproducible activity pages for 60 books, levels A-M.

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Level L

Growing a Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Level M

Wild and Weird Record Breakers . . . . . . . 6

Level N

Count Your Chickens!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Pizza Party! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Level O

Making a Big Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Too Many Cooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Zoo Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Level P

Against the Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Dogs Can Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

The Lions’ Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Level Q

Bidding Battles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Biggest Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Forest for the Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

A Tiling Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Weather Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Level R

Number Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Think Outside the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Tracking Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Level S

Costume Party: Cost and Confusion! . . . . 40

Symmetry Rules! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Tracking Predators and Prey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

X-Treme Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Level T

Money Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Wild Waters: Facts and Stats . . . . . . . . . 50

Level U

Bridging the Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Monster Crop Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Level V

Nature’s Numbers and Patterns . . . . . . . . 56

Space Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Level W

Pyramids, Temples, and Tombs . . . . . . . . . 60

Tiles and Tessellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Math Skills Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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About the Series The Leveled Math Readers offer content-area reading about important math topics and concepts. These books are leveled to help you determine which books students may read independently or as part of a guided reading session. You will find that these versatile books are ideal resources for math lessons. They may also be sent home for students to read and explore with their families. Used alone or in conjunction with the supporting teacher’s notes and activities in this guide, the Leveled Math Readers are designed to help students

• experience engaging stories and informational text designed to spark their imaginations.• build essential vocabulary and concepts that relate to problem solving and mathematical thinking.• apply and reinforce reading skills.• analyze patterns within and beyond the books.• engage in discussion to enhance comprehension as well as speaking and listening skills.

Teacher’s Notes and Activity Pages• In this guide you will find detailed teacher’s notes and activity pages for 30 books.• Included are ideas for introducing and discussing the books and for reinforcing learning through

hands-on activities and writing, as well as suggestions for ways to use the reproducible activity sheets. All suggestions may be easily adjusted to suit different ability levels and learning styles.

• Each activity sheet includes a note to families so that students can share what they have learned and continue learning at home.

About the eBooks• Each 3–5 Leveled Math Reader is also available as an eBook. These eBooks

are ideal resources for whole-class discussion and to help support reading skills and reinforce the math concepts explored in the book. For your convenience, copies of the related teacher’s notes and activity page from this guide can also be found on the CD-ROM.

• The software features page-turning functionality, which allows you to use the book on an interactive whiteboard with the whole class or in groups. Each eBook contains an array of whiteboard tools, allowing you to annotate key vocabulary or highlight key teaching points. Annotations can be saved and utilized for assessment, lesson continuation, or future referral.*

• Note that the audio support provided in the eBooks is in a text-to-speech format. Though the majority of your students will not likely need to use the audio, it is provided for those readers who may need a little extra support.

Additional Resources

• Skills Index: The materials in this guide support current standards as well as best practices for building math skills. See page 64 for a ready reference to math concepts.

• Website: Visit www.scholastic.com/leveledmathreaders for more information, including correlations with Common Core State Standards and details about Leveled Math Readers available for other grades.

Introduction

Recommended System Requirements Windows XP SP3 or later;

Mac OSX v 10.4.11 or later Flash 10.0 or higher

(not included on discs) Recommended minimum

processor speed 2GHz and 1 GB RAM

*In order for the annotations to be saved for future use, the product must be

installed to your computer hard drive. Please note that the ‘save’ function is not

available when this product is installed on a Mac.

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Read and Do Math Assign partners to revisit the book and work together to complete each Wise Up! activity and the Challenge activity. Share and compare answers and the procedures used to solve the problems.

Hint for Challenge on page 16: Draw 18 circles. Divide each circle into four quarters; use each quarter to represent one apple.

List the following combinations of apples and trays: 2 trays of 3 apples; 4 trays of 5 apples; 3 trays of 6 apples. Have partners make two drawings to show each combination. One drawing should be a graphic depiction of

the array; the other must show the same combination but be a more realistic drawing that looks like apples on a tray. Challenge them to then write a multiplication sentence that matches each array. On the whiteboard or chalkboard, demonstrate a graphic array that shows 3 trays with 4 apples on each, as shown:

Display these ingredients for apple sauce:

6 apples 8 ounces of water 8 ounces of sugar Servings: 6

Have students rewrite the list of ingredients for 3 servings and for 12 servings.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

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Key Vocabulary feet, pounds, meters

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Read and Talk Math Display the cover and read the title. Ask: What business do you think you will learn about in this book? How might math be a part of that?

Before students begin to read on their own, have them preview the book by looking at the photos. Say: As you read the book and look at the photos, be

sure to read the captions for the photos, as well.

After students have read the book independently, reread the note on page 3. Ask: About how many kinds of apples are not grown for market? List several kinds of apples on the board, such as red delicious, McIntosh, and Granny Smith. Take a quick survey to see which apple is the favorite of the class. Use tallies to record students’ votes.

Next, reread the note on page 5. Turn to the picture on page 11 and ask: Do you think an apple tree is taller or shorter than the height of our classroom? Why?

Discuss the different uses for apples, listed on page 12. Ask: Suppose you needed two pounds of apples to make an apple pie. How many pounds of apples would you need to make five apple pies?

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Distribute to partners the reproducible, Picking Up Apples. Provide a number cube and have them play the game to practice multiplication and division.

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Picking Up ApplesPlay the game with a partner.

Materials: 2 coins as markers, 1 number cube

To Play: Take turns rolling the number cube and moving the appropriate number of spaces along the path. On a separate paper, keep track of the number of apples each player picks up. After both players reach the finish line, find your totals. The player with the most apples wins.

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