Developing observation! Packed into this unit are 22 creatively illustrated lessons. Each boasts a drawing of a real-life situation complete with familiar objects. From “a visit to the ice cream parlor” to “a busy street corner,” students are given time to absorb the visual information from each picture. After putting the image aside, 12 questions are asked about what was depicted and students are asked to draw something they remember. Plenty of observation practice will be had by all as thinking and comprehension skills are given a workout.

Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice in the specific reading skill that emphasizes inference comprehension.The stories lack some facts that the reader must infer from the text in order to detect certain details. Questions following each story test student’s ability to recognize information that is implied but not directly given. 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

Teach essential sequencing skills the "hands-on" way with this fun and highly effective skill-based book! Exercises begin at a basic level where students manipulate language by cutting and pasting short stories into meaningful sequence. Activities then progress to a level where students are required to copy short stories in proper sequence. Finally, students formulate original sentences and write them in meaningful sequence. Sequencing is a prerequisite skill necessary for accurate comprehension, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes. So give your students a solid foundation on which to build with this delightful and essential book!

Updated Upload 11-2020. Designed specifically for the student who has been introduced to vowel sounds but still needs further practice to reach mastery levels. This comprehensive book offers over 120 pages of delightfully illustrated activities involving each vowel sound along with rhyming, riddles, letter substitution, sentence writing, word drills, alphabetizing, diphthongs, digraphs, and more! Phonemic awareness is an essential component of reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.

Diverse direction exercises! Packed with puzzle, maze, cut-and-paste, tracing, and dot-to-dot activities designed to make following directions fun, this creatively illustrated book is sure to boost basic thinking and direction skills. With 20 lessons in all, exercises range from “tracing a dancing clown” and “getting Chirpy through a maze to his nest,” to “correctly ordering three drawings of a boy brushing his teeth.”

Learning their letters the fun way! This book is an inventive and inspiring vehicle for children to make their way through the alphabet. Each coloring exercise sports a different letter - literally from A to Z.Students are asked to distinguish upper case from lower case by use of color. Illustrations range from baseballs to gum balls and apples to grapes. Each object is monogrammed with an upper or lower case letter. A few summary puzzles are included, as is a connect-the-letters in order illustration on the final page.

As students learn to write their A B C’s, and practice printing such words as “ambulance,” “barrel,” and “clown,” they give their new handwriting skills a good workout. Final activities move on to copying sentences. “The boy went to bed.” “Kim has a blue hat.”In all, there are 35 worksheets included in this book. Imaginative illustrations help to make the learning more fun. Vocabulary and spelling will be enhanced as students progress.

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.

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 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.

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.