ABRAMS LEARNING TRENDS

ABRAMS LEARNING TRENDS is an innovative publisher of quality–driven curriculum and supplemental materials for early childhood through grade 5, based upon and aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Our programs focus on literacy, reading, language arts, science, math, and social studies.

We are the Home of the Letter People, led by the highly successful comprehensive Pre–K program, Let's Begin with the Letter People. Best–selling Key Links Literacy provides K-3 classrooms with a cutting–edge balanced literacy program, written by world-renowned author Jill Eggleton. Recently released Group Independent Reading, based on the reciprocal teaching model, enhances the fluency begun in Key Links Literacy and provides opportunities for student-driven guided reading groups in grades 2-4 and Guided Reading Levels H-O.

No big book program on the market compares with Interactive Big Books, 70 full–sized big books in Science, Math, Social Studies, and Health & Safety for grades Pre-K–2. Each book includes hands–on manipulatives that engage students directly on the pages of the product. Our newest launch is Interactive Science 1 for Whiteboards and Classroom Computers – a program that allows you to teach Pre-K and Kindergarten students standards-based science concepts across multiple contexts in a fun, engaging, and meaningful way. Ten new digital modules support, enhance, and extend the science concepts presented in Interactive Big Books Science, Set 1.

In Content Area Reading Success – new for 2012 – students in grades 3-5 learn to master expository text, reading and processing nonfiction within the context of standards-based science and social studies topics.

For grades 2-5, Reading Trends focuses on five key reading comprehension skills. Reading levels in each book begin below grade level progress to on–level reading selections by the end of each student worktext.