Description:
Contemporary's Foundations series helps students improve their basic skills.
Each book provides skill instruction, offers interesting passages to study, and furnishes opportunities for practice.
Foundations provides meaningful contexts for learning, using language which is easy to understand.
About Foundations: Social Studies, Revised Edition:
In Foundations: Social Studies, students will learn about world history, U.S. history, civics and government, geography, and economics.
They will summarize, make predictions, infer the main idea of cartoons, find information on maps, and read various kinds of graphs.
Background Information, Language Tips, and Writing Workshops will let students use what they already know as they read and write about social studies topics.
The revised edition includes a new World History chapter.
About the Series:
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In Foundations: Reading, students will read practical information,
nonfiction, poetry, and short stories.
They will learn to find the main point and the details; identify
fact, opinion, and bias; make inferences; read photographs and
cartoons; and understand rhythm, rhyme, plot, and theme.
Writing Workshops, Language Tips, and prereading questions
are designed to improve reading, writing, and thinking skills.
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In Foundations: Writing, students will practice the four steps to
writing an essay: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
They will read and write five kinds of essays: descriptive essays,
personal narratives, how-to essays, essays of example, and
comparison-and-contrast essays.
A language-skills workbook provides grammar, punctuation,
and sentence structure practice.
In Your Journal, With a Partner, and Language Tips will help students
become better writers, and better readers and thinkers as well.
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In Foundations: Science, students will learn about the human body, plant
biology, physics, chemistry, and Earth science.
They will practice putting events in order; reading diagrams, charts,
and graphs; using the scientific method; and making comparisons
and contrasts.
Try It yourself! activities will guide students through simple experiments
so they will have a better understanding of what they have been
reading about. Writing Workshops and Language Tips will help students
use their reading and writing skills to think about science topics.
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In Foundations: Social Studies, students will learn about world
history, U.S. history, civics and government, geography, and
economics.
They will summarize, make predictions, infer the main idea of
cartoons, find information on maps, and read various kinds of
graphs.
Background Information, Language Tips, and Writing
Workshops will let students use what they already know as they read
and write about social studies topics.
The revised edition includes a new World History chapter.
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In Foundations: Math, students will practice using whole numbers,
money, decimals, fractions, ratios, and percents.
Exercises will help students review the addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division facts; round numbers; estimate
answers; and solve word problems.
Math Notes, On their Calculator, and Language Tips will help
students improve math skills.
The revised edition of Math is a major revision. The language has been updated to make the material even easier to follow than before.
Foundations series at a glance
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