How to Glencoe

Today, I'm going to show you how to get free printable McGraw-Hill workbooks through the Glencoe website. The workbooks are grade based and easy to build lessons around. We often find videos of silly songs or stories on YouTube to compliment our workbook units, but you can apply them however you choose.

First, go to the Website:

http://www.glencoe.com

You will be greeted with a page that asks your state. It doesn't matter if you choose teacher or student/parent. Don't bother choosing a subject

When you log in, you'll see your state's specific guidelines. On the far left, there is a column of subjects. I'm going to show you two examples for getting to the free workbooks, one for Language Arts and the other for Math help. 

If you click LA, you'll be taken to a page like this:

Notice the far right column. Under Student, the last link says "Workbooks." Click it and you'll see this page:

Click your grade and Fire up that printer.

Now suppose you want math help instead. Just click the math subject on the left column of subjects and you'll get this page:

Again, on the far right column, under the word Student, we see "Student Workbooks." Click that and see this page:

As before, we choose our grade and prepare the printer.

We have a toner printer, which I strongly advise you acquire when printing workbooks. These aren't the tiny, 25 page Spectrum books; they're for big kids. Some of them are 170 pages long. The LA workbooks are jam packed with exercises, crossword puzzles, proofreading paragraphs...They're really good! Dollar tree has 1" binders for $1. I go to town with the hole puncher and store our workbooks in files unless we're actively working on them. As with all handouts, just be sure that you're actively instructing and not just depending on the page to do the job by itself. Check youtube for songs and stories, make posters and flash cards, make games to apply the words, encourage your student to use words in a story or say them throughout the day with a high-five reward, give a verbal mini-quiz of yesterday's lesson before starting today's...apply them.

Thus far, I've only used the Language Arts workbooks because that's where I feel my student needs extra attention outside of our everyday lessons, but I may add other subjects before the end of this year. What do you think about the free printable workbooks? Would you use them? Have you used them?