Help your child thrive academically with the engaging Learning At Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle. The easy-to-use workbooks provide valuable skill practice at home and include a parent guide with teaching tips and fun learning activities!
Perfect for children who need additional practice or want to advance their skills, these workbooks help children practice important grade-level skills and stay on track while they are learning at home. The colorful and clever activities motivate children to engage with the lesson and become active learners!
Each at-home-learning bundle is aligned to current standards and includes:
Four full-color Skill Sharpeners workbooks that practice essential subjects such as math, reading, language, and science. (144 full-color pages each)
- A downloadable parent guide packed with tips and teaching support, including organizing a daily schedule, fun hands-on activity ideas, reading strategies, math models, and suggestions for helping children manage stress and share their feelings. (31 pages)
- Assessment pages to build test-taking skills and confidence.
The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 1, includes:
Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 1
Each unit focuses on a wonderfully illustrated text selection that is followed by a variety of activities to help students practice fluency, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, structural analysis, phonics, and writing. Skill Sharpeners: Reading, grade 1, provides 14 motivating stories to capture readers’ attention. For example:
- Dad and I
- Who Can Fix It?
- The Missing Mitten
- George Washington’s Barn
Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 1
Theme-based math units practice foundational skills! Each unit ends with a “Test Your Skills” activity that gives students a feeling of accomplishment. Designed to practice skills that have already been introduced and mastered, the grade 1 lessons include:
- count within 100
- add and subtract within 20
- add and subtract two-digit numbers
- solve simple word problems
- compare two-digit numbers
- compose numbers with tens and ones
- count by 2s, 5s, and 10s
- write number words
- use addition strategies (regrouping)
- tell time to the hour and half-hour
- identify equal shares
- identify two- and three-dimensional shapes
- read a graph and represent data on a graph
- identify and extend patterns
- determine the value of coins
- measure length
Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 1
This visually engaging workbook makes learning grammar and punctuation fun! Each theme-based unit includes reading selections, activities, and word games that will motivate your child to practice and learn essential grammar and punctuation skills. Plus, a Language Handbook provides you with a quick reference of the concepts covered.
The concepts and skills practiced include:
- nouns
- adjectives
- verbs
- pronouns
- adverbs
- end punctuation
- use of apostrophes
- use of commas
- use of colons
- abbreviations
Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 1
Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects will motivate children to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards. The simple hands-on activities help children understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way.
Each lesson includes interesting reading selections and activities that focus on one science concept, covering the following first grade topics:
- Physical Science: Sound, Light, Shadows, Technology
- Life Science: Leaves, Animals and Eggs, Mothers and Babies, Birds, Insects
- Space and Earth Science: Night Sky, Our Sun, Seasons
- Environment and Ecology Science: Uses of Wood, Earth Materials, Recycling
- Engineering and Design: Tools
About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.