Build basic skills with this 21-lesson unit! Activities introduce children to appropriate capitalization and basic punctuation. Students are taught to upper case the initial letter of names, months, titles, holidays, and more. Punctuation lessons focus on the use of question marks and periods. These step-by-step activities are sure to improve essential language and writing skills. Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice capitalizing words and punctuating sentences.

This fancifully illustrated book is filled with 25 pages of exercises designed to teach beginning consonants. What better way to start learning their B, C, D's than with images of familiar things. From drawings of a Bumblebee, a Cake, and a Door, to a Web, an Egg Yoke, and a Zebra, the highly visual lessons in this book help children put consonant sounds together with words and images. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary. All in all, this book is a great way for children to practice beginning consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association - all skills needed for reading success.

Building basic skills with this 21-lesson unit. These language-building activities introduce children to compound words and contractions. Word searches, puzzles, and color coding exercises are all utilized to teach the fundamentals. Skills reinforced by these activities include recognizing and forming basic compounds (tooth + brush = toothbrush), and understanding and writing contractions (what’s = what is). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

This book makes introducing children to vocabulary's A, E, I, O, U's a snap.Designed specifically for learning the basic beginning skills of vowel sounds, this starter book features 28 pages of fancifully illustrated activities. Visual word games and vowel tracing will instill the familiarity needed to encourage reading success.

Purposeful listening! This 24-lesson learning unit is packed with hands-on coloring activities designed to improve fine motor skills, visual perception, following directions, and more. Students follow rebus/picture directions that instruct them how to specifically color each segment of the accompanying illustration. Creative visual subjects range from “boxing kangaroos” and “a pig on a picnic” to “a giraffe hanging laundry on a clothesline.”

The building blocks of reading! This 20-lesson unit is brimming with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to verbs and adjectives. Word searches, puzzles, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals. As students progress, they are able to identify and understand that “verbs” describe an action or mode of being, and that “adjectives” offer enlightening and colorful descriptions. Skills reinforced by these activities include recognizing verbs, understanding “present” and “past” tenses, learning about adjectives that “compare,” using adjectives to “tell how things look,” and more. Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

Hot/Cold. Happy/Sad. Open/Close. Many/Few. These are just a few of the 20 opposites explored in this book. With each exercise, students read a vocabulary word, practice tracing it, then color two of the three images that it describes. As students progress, they will improve their vocabulary, reading, handwriting, fine motor, and critical thinking skills.

Reading made fun! This book is packed with 20 fully-illustrated, easy-to-read, comprehension activities for the beginning reader. Students are first challenged to match three sentences with three images: “The tree lost its leaves.” “I like to fly a kite.” “Herb is brushing his teeth.” To practice writing, spelling, and penmanship, pupils are then asked to create their own sentence to describe a fourth image. Coloring all the drawings adds a creative flair to each exercise.

Learning how a word ends is one more step toward successful reading. Utilizing drawings of everything from a craB to a mailboX, this book calls on images of familiar things to teach word closure. This creatively illustrated book is filled with 20 pages of exercises specifically designed to teach ending consonants. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary. Overall, this book is an outstanding way for children to practice ending consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association.

This 20-lesson unit is designed to help teachers evaluate students’ ability to understand and appropriately respond to verbal information. The exercises may also be used to assist in the development of listening and following direction skills. “How would you feel if a bull was chasing you?” “Is a potato a fruit?” “Wink your eye!”For those students who find verbal response difficult, or to add an element of fun, picture response cards have been included.

From “biggest” to “smallest” and “shortest” to “longest,” the 19 lessons in this book will develop students’ size comparison skills from good, to better, to the best! Children will have loads of fun tracing, coloring, and comparing everything from “snakes” and “worms” to “jump ropes” and “shoe laces.” Example: “The road to the city is long. The road to the ocean is longer. The road to the forest is longest.” Color the shortest road blue.Sizes include small, tall, little, long, and large. A pre/post test is included.

Take phonics up a notch! This creatively illustrated book brings an understanding of blends home to children who are just beginning to learn to read. Image association is used to help children create words using blends. Tracing words further emphasizes the lessons. Coloring exercises using images that represent blend words offer children an artistic outlet. In all, there are 32 different blend activities. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

Improve vocabulary and writing. Each of the 22 “word-building” lessons in this book features six words, a word-search lettered grid, and two incomplete words. Exercise themes range from Vegetables and Things in the Sky to Insects and Feelings. Students are challenged to find and circle the given words in the grid. Then they fill-in the missing letters in the two-word test. This lesson unit is a stellar way for a child to have fun and expand his/her vocabulary at the same time.

“Jed likes to jog.” “Curt likes to climb.” Two drawings are featured. Which sentence goes with which picture? This is but one of the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the two imaginative drawings.

“A kangaroo has strong legs.” “A moose is a large animal with antlers.” “Mother made waffles for breakfast.” Several drawings are featured. Which picture goes with which sentence?This is one the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the imaginative drawings.

The better their vocabulary, the more fun reading will be! Each of the 24 lessons in this book features a creatively illustrated scene: a day at the beach, camping in the woods, dinner at a restaurant, a hot air balloon ride, and more. Young readers are challenged to use each of the six words highlighted in each exercise to complete the sentences provided. From “sandbox” to “hopscotch” and “potatoes” to “pumpkins” the words and activities in this book are sure to boost reading comprehension and spelling skills. Of course, coloring the large, single-item drawings is all part of the fun.