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. (30 pages)
• Assessment pages to build test-taking skills and confidence.

The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 2, includes:

Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 2

Each unit focuses on a wonderfully illustrated text selection that is followed by a variety of activities to help children practice fluency, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, structural analysis, phonics, and writing. Skill Sharpeners: Reading provides 15 motivating stories to capture readers’ attention. For example:

• “Peanut Butter”
• “The Case of the Missing Apples”
• “The Ugly Duckling”
• “Elephants”
• “A Visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium”

Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 2

Theme-based math units practice foundational skills! Each unit ends with a “Test Your Skills” activity that gives children a feeling of accomplishment. Designed to practice skills that have already been introduced and mastered, the grade 2 lessons include: 

• count within 1,000
• add and subtract within 100
• recognize the relationship between addition and subtraction
• identify hundreds, ten, and ones
• count by 1s and 2s within 1,000
• compare and sequence three-digit numbers
• solve multi-step word problems
• tell time to the half-hour
• tell time to the nearest 5 minutes
• calculate amounts with coins and bills
• measure length using centimeters and inches
• divide shapes into equal shares
• read a bar graph
• identify attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes

Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 2

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
• prepositions
• end punctuation
• use of apostrophes
• use of commas
• use of colons
• book titles
• abbreviations

Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 2
Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects motivate children to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards. The simple hands-on activities help second grade students 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 second grade topics:

• Physical Science: Matter, Changes in Matter, Forces and Motion, Forces at Play
• Life Science: My Body, Body Parts, Animal Life Cycles, Plants, Habitats
• Space and Earth Science: Space, The Sun, Weather
• Earth’s Systems: Geology, Water and Ice
• Science and Engineering: Science, Engineering

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.