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. 
• Assessment pages to build test-taking skills and confidence. (27 pages)

The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 4, includes:

Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 4

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

Fiction Stories:

• “Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Cat”
• “The Three Sillies”  
• “An Oregon Trail Diary”

Nonfiction Stories:

• “Penguins, Pelicans, and Puffins”
• “Grandma Moses”
• “Go Fly a Kite”                      

Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 4

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 4 lessons include: 

• add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit numbers
• divide with remainders
• add and subtract decimals
• compose and decompose numbers
• analyze and extend patterns
• time intervals
• logical thinking
• convert measurement
• estimate weight, length, capacity, and time
• round large numbers
• compare decimals
• compare and sequence numbers to 10,000
• describe shapes by types of lines and angles
• find factors and multiples

Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 4

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
• use of commas
• apostrophes
• use of quotation marks
• titles

Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 4
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 fourth 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 fourth grade topics:

• Our Bodies and Senses: Muscles and Bones, Skin, Eyesight, Hearing
• Shaping the Earth: Weathering and Erosion, Glaciers, Earthquakes, Volcanoes
• Waves: What Is a Wave?, Waves in the Water, Sound Waves, Digital Waves
• Energy: What Is Energy?, Heat Energy, Electrical Energy, Light Energy

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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