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

The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 5, includes:

Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 5

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

Fiction Stories:

• “The Tiger and the Jackals”
• “Old Bragwynn the Pirate” 
• “How Shalbus Egbert Bested the Bear”  

Nonfiction Stories:

• “Tracking Tornadoes”   
• “Silkworms”
• “Joy Adamson: Living with Lions”   

Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 5

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 5 lessons include: 

• add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit numbers
• multiply by powers of 10
• generate number patterns
• analyze, generate, and use number patterns
• determine perimeter, area, and volume
• graph points on a coordinate grid
• identify equivalent fractions
• add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals
• use order of operations
• analyze three-dimensional figures

Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 5

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
• singular pronouns
• verb tenses
• subject-verb agreement
• sentence fragments
• subordinating conjunctions
• prepositions
• use of commas
• apostrophes
• use of quotation marks
• use of semicolons

Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 5
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 fifth 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 fifth grade topics:

• Organisms and Ecosystems: How Plants Get Food, Food Webs, Adaptations, Decomposers
• Earth’s Systems: The Atmosphere, The Water Cycle, Water on Earth, Weathering and Erosion
• Space Systems: Gravity, Day and Night, The Sun and Stars, Patterns of Stars
• Structure and Properties of Matter: Physical Properties, Mixtures and Solutions, Chemical Properties, Chemical Reactions

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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