Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Recommended Resources Big Scholastic sale on PDFs

I noticed this at another site, and thought I'd pass it along. Scholastic is offering a slew of PDFs at $1 each, but the offer ends today: http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/

I can't vouch for the quality, but you can view each one individually before buying, and content includes vocab and grammar, problem solving, etc.

Thanks for this. Just in case anyone is like me and was slightly confused, they are PDF books--at first I was like, "One PDF for $1 is not a good deal!"

Yep. I noticed that some of them are 80 or more pages long. They're all over the map in terms of subject area, style, level, and length. I plan to use some for at-home enrichment.

Thanks. I found some good ones to use for afterschooling.

Just wanted to thank the OP for posting this. DW took this and ordered over two dozen, because homeschooling is still an option on the table.

And then, just after she finished downloading, her laptop crashed and burned. Naturally.

You're welcome. I bought 75. I'm sorry to hear about the laptop, but even if it's complete toast, each PDF can be downloaded up to three times.

I'm a PDF nutcase. Every time I've bought a new worksheet-like book, say from Critical Thinking or the "[blank] for the Gifted" series, is scan each separate lesson/problem into a separate PDF. I've also done a ton of mazes and "brain booster" type of exercises this way. It makes it much easier to organize for me.

I've also started scanning in all of DS6's portfolio type of stuff (homework, etc.), minutes from TAT meetings, etc. I save emails and scanned letters to and from the school, as well as other historical documents, as PDFs, with file names starting with yyyy-mm-dd date format so it's easy to see the history.

What I've done with my whole "learning" folder, which contains worksheets and everything else related to the kids and their education, is put it into a TrueCrypt volume. That makes backing up the whole thing a snap, as simple as dismounting the volume and doing a file copy.

Thanks! Just ordered a few in preparation for next year as a homeschooler

FTR in case anyone is thinking of buying it, the 4th-6th grade analogies book is on the easy side for my MG 2nd grader. She's still enjoying them, but I probably should have gone up a level. They may get harder as the book goes on, I suppose. She was completely thrilled to find a packet of analogies on her work table, bless her little heart.

Ooops--looks like it's 4th and 5th, not through 6th. I misread the cover. That'll learn me.

DD would like to lodge a protest about this one:

Redwood is to maple as pumpkin is to:

a) pineapple b) beet c) birch

(Which one do you think is correct, and why? I bet you guys will pick the one she did!)

a) pineapple

Pumpkins and pineapples are both fruits, as redwoods and maples are both trees.

Assuming that everyone agrees that "birch" is least right, I'm trying to come up with some logic whereby beet could be an option. Vegetable, grows below ground, all three can be propagated by seed, pumpkin leaves are inedible, neither beets nor pineapples have viny growth. Um, can't do it. Did the book seriously say that beet was the better answer?