Spectrum Grade 5 Science Workbook, Natural, Earth, Life Sciences, and More With Scientific Research Activities and Safety Tips, Classroom or Homeschool Curriculum (Volume 57)

I have been buying spectrum workbooks for my granddaughter for two or three years now and really love them! They have helped her considerably in school! I will continue to buy them!

I love this book. My son is 4th grader and it is helping him with his critical thinking, learning to be a close reader, reading comprehension, vocabulary and patience all at once. I give him about a good 40 minutes a week to work on a section of his choice and he is getting about 50 to 60% of the stuff on his own. But the stuff he doe to get straight off, we work on strategies and context stuff. I like seeing him progress and his confidence build. The best part about this book is it teaches patience in working to locate and think about answers. The book is structured well so he can easily thumb through and find a page to work on. Book isn’t to multiple pages of reading. It’s read one page, then answer about 7 questions on the nest page. It contains 7 chapters , 7 lessons per, with a Chapter Review Test at end of each. The book it totally appropriate for a 4th or 5th grader. It doesn’t take a whole lot of explaining to understand how to use effectively. Also the answers are explained in back of book.

My 5th grader is loving this book! It’s going over general science terms and she is diving in! Doing multiple pages daily because she enjoys it so much.

While there are different methods to try and teach science, this book uses the "Read passage and understand the story and the example"- method. This is useful in understanding the particular vocabulary that relates to a field of science. This is a great book for a private tutor like me to read and work with students when there is not necessary variety of tools for every experiments. However, this does not replace learning science through visual methods like conducting experiments. This is great supplement to what the student may learn in school, but does not replace the in-class learning experience.

Very happy with the way the activities are laid out. Every lesson has its own question segment. Very kids friendly and in depth details.

So many exercises and very descriptive. My 5th grader make sure that she does atleast a chapter everyday. It has lots of variety on subjects. The clarity of instructions and the thoughtful layout of the workbook make it easy for my child to navigate through the lessons independently. I liked the inclusion of progress-tracking tools within the workbook.

We home schooled for 5th grade to see if we could help the kids catch up to their level . Teachers have reported our 11 year old is able to work independently and follow along with reading while in science class something she struggled with before home school. These are great as they have passages to read and math problems to work out solutions. It asks many questions about what the kids think along with a correct answer guide.

Very good for home schooling easy to follow

We homeschool and I was pleasantly surprised at how engaging these lessons were. My daughter loved doing them (no this is not a fake or paid review). Will be purchasing this name brand for the next school year! She took a lot away from these lessons and I highly recommend!

It seems a bit scattered and unfocused with bits of things instead of focusing on a few main themes. Haven't worked much from this because of that.

This serves as a good foundation to build other lessons.

My son is enjoying this book so far.

This really helped. I will definitely buy from this again next year!