Improve eye-hand coordination and executing verbal directions. Students will use pencil and paper - as well as scissors and glue - to complete the 22 creatively illustrated lessons in this unit. Activities include cutting and pasting pieces of a pictures together, connecting the dots to create an image, finishing incomplete drawings, making it through mazes, and tracing shapes. Even young students are sure to improve their fine motor skills.

Taking on antonyms! This book of five boldly illustrated game board lessons challenges students to match up words with opposite meanings (thick/thin, find/lose, push/pull). While playing the challenging word games, students get plenty of practice understanding and using antonyms. A student contract, a pre/post test and seven practice/review exercises are included. This 40-page unit includes an answer key.

Learning words by sight takes practice, practice, practice. This book provides children a fun way to do just that. Working from the standard Dolch List this book emphasizes 54 popular sight words - from mother to read and oodles of everyday words in between. All totaled, there are 29 different sight word activities in this book, including exercises to finish writing words, to unscramble words from blocks of letters and even completing sentences.

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.

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.

Solving basic math problems! This lesson unit focuses on simple, child-friendly addition and subtraction problems. Example: “8 birds in the birdbath. 3 leave. How many left?”Each of the 20 lessons in this book features five word problems that surround themes ranging from “In the Garden” to “Eating Out.” While improving practical math solving skills, students are also exposed to textbook instructions.

Students read the hilarious "newspaper articles" from the Bovine City Daily News, then answer who, what, when, where, & why questions designed to test comprehension. These laugh-out-loud stories can be used with individuals or small groups to help improve comprehension skills. Simply download, print, cut, and play! These will be a favorite with reluctant and struggling readers as well as those performing on grade level. Skill Reinforcement Features: - 75 Task Cards / Stories & Questions - Reinforcement of Basic 5 W's Concepts - 50- to 75-Word Reading Passages - Reading Level 3-5 - Answer Key

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.

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.

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.

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.

Help your students develop important writing skills with this fun and delightfully illustrated book. Easy Sentence Writing will inspire students to develop sentence-writing skills. Four formats add variety as they write original sentences, create sentences from pictures, form sentences from a word bank and more.

The step-by-step lessons in this book will result in a complete understanding of the makeup of paragraphs and their importance in the writing process. The lessons begin with identifying information in a single-topic paragraph. They expand to identifying and writing ideas that belong in multiple paragraphs. Further exercises include picking out information that does not keep to the main idea of a given paragraph, organizing topics in logical order, and writing original, two- and three-paragraph stories about suggested topics. Plentiful practice reinforces comprehension and mastery of this important writing skill, which will lead students to creating organized and meaningful compositions. Clever illustrations and high-interest subject matter add to the effectiveness of this comprehensive teaching aid.

With this step-by-step book, students will learn how to tell the difference between fragments and complete sentences, how to turn fragments into complete sentences, and how to write descriptive sentences using adjectives and adverbs. Combining short, related sentences is also covered, as well as capitalization and appropriate end punctuation. The lessons are sequential, beginning with identifying complete sentences, progressing to putting sentence parts together, and finally writing original sentences. A challenge activity on each page offers students an opportunity to expand on their understanding of the skills they have learned. While gaining competency in sentence development, students will also enhance their comprehension, vocabulary, handwriting, and spelling skills as they work through the various activities in Writing Sentences. An effective teaching aid for a wide range of ability levels!