Exploring similar and opposite meanings. This 21-lesson unit is packed with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to synonyms and antonyms. Puzzles, word searches, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals of identifying and understanding words of like meanings (close/shut) and opposing meanings (over/under). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

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.

Improve visual perception! Matching up images and letter-pairs that are “similar” and “different” is the primary activity of the 22 lessons in this unit. As students work these coloring and following direction activities, they will improve visual perception and fine motor skills.

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.

It's time to rhyme! This illustrated workbook of learning puzzles will assist students with the basic beginner skills needed to master rhyming words. Imaginative, hands-on activities are featured to help students adequately learn, clearly identify, and creatively write rhyming words. Whether helping Mr. Frog cross his pond by writing a rhyming word for each word on his lily pad path or coloring each "High in the Sky" kite that boast a pair of rhyming words, this book is one teaching tool sure to capture the interest and imagination of young students.In all, there are 21 fun-filled learning exercises including Search and Rhyme, Color a Rhyme, Sentence Rhymes, Picture Rhymes, and Crossword Rhymes.

Diverse direction exercises! Example: Draw an owl on the cactus. If ducks have 4 feet, cross out the S'sPacked with puzzles and drawing exercises designed to make following directions fun, this creatively illustrated book is sure to boost basic comprehension and direction skills. With 20 lessons in all, exercises are sure to keep students interested as they learn.

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.

Purposeful listening! This 24-lesson learning unit is packed with artistic, hands-on activities designed to improve fine motor skills, visual perception, following directions, and more. Students follow short written directions to complete the creative illustrations. “Connect the dots from 1 to 5.” “Draw a patch over one of the pirate’s eyes.”Visual subjects range from “a horse wearing a hat and boots” to “a bunny rabbit gardener.”

Know your numbers! Putting numbers in sequential order, skip counting, odd vs. even numbers, ordinal numbers, and more are covered in the 24 creatively illustrated lessons in the learning unit. “Join the numbered dots starting with 1 and ending with 99.” “Write the missing number: 71, __,. __, 74, __.” “Circle eighth place.”Numbers between 1 and 100 are the focus. Coloring skills add to the fun by giving motor skills a good workout.

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.

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.

An introduction to telling time! Understanding nighttime, daytime, seasons, clocks, and calendars are all covered in this 22-lesson learning unit. Designed for children not yet able to tell time, each exercise creatively illustrates time concepts ranging from “Time for Recess” and “Summer Fun” to a monthly “October” calendar missing some of its dates. Coloring and tracing activities are incorporated to promote motor skills and add to the fun of learning about time.

Money sense! This introduction to money helps students identify coins and their values as well as count coins. “Color the nickels silver.” “Draw a line to match the head of each coin with its tail.” A quarter, two dimes and a nickel are pictured. “How much do you have?”What students learned is put to practice “buying” items using their coins. “Cut out the coins and use them to buy a 26-cent ice cream cone, a 9-cent piece of candy, and a 16-cent pretzel.” In all, there are 25 worksheets in this basic skills learning unit.

“Solve the problem! Color the answers.” The exercises found here will improve math and motor skills. Basic addition computations have been incorporated into bold illustrations. One drawing graces each of the 25 lessons in this learning unit. After solving the 9 to 12 computation problems in a given exercise, students are directed to color the answers as well as the rest of the image. Visual subjects range from a “turtle” to a “pirate.” Math difficulty is focused on adding single digits.

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.

Build that vocabulary! This creatively illustrated 24-lesson book helps young readers match words with images. While they practice writing the four words featured in each exercise, they begin vital construction of their foundation vocabulary. From “bear” and “butcher” to “tree” and “teeth,” 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.

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.

“Solve the problem! Color the answers.”The exercises found here will improve math and motor skills. Basic subtraction computations have been incorporated into bold illustrations. One drawing graces each of the 24 lessons in this learning unit. After solving the 9 to 12 computation problems in a given exercise, students are directed to color the answers as well as the rest of the image. Visual subjects range from “an elephant taking a bath” to “a cat lifting a barbell.” Math difficulty peaks with subtracting single-digits from double-digits.

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.