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

The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 3, includes:

Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 3

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 17 motivating stories to capture readers’ attention. For example:

Fiction Stories:

• “Shea and the Leprechaun”
• “A Mouse Adventure”
• “The Story of Little Sparrow”

Nonfiction Stories:

• “Inuit, People of the Far North”
• “Bats”
• “Harriet Tubman”

Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 3

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 3 lessons include: 

• addition and subtraction with regrouping
• write numbers in expanded form
• divide within 100
• even and odd numbers
• solve multi-step word problems
• add and subtract within 1,000
• count by 5s, 10s, 100s, and 1,000s
• compare and sequence numbers to 10,000
• multiply using arrays
• tell time to the nearest minute
• determine the value of money
• measurement
• graphing
• identify fractions
• perimeter and area
• identify attributes of quadrilaterals

Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 3

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: 

• singular and plural nouns
• adjectives and adverbs
• singular pronouns
• verb tenses
• subject-verb agreement
• sentence fragments
• subordinating conjunctions
• end punctuation
• comma usage
• apostrophes
• colons in a business letter
• use of quotation marks

Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 3
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 third 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 third grade topics:

• Physical Science: Forces and Motion, Magnets, Gravity
• Life Science: Life Cycles, Growth and Change, Animal Groups, Offspring, Fossils, Dinosaurs, Adaptations, Ecosystems
• Earth Science: Weather, Climate, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods

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