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. (32 pages)

The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 6, includes:

Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 6

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:

• “Hercules and the Many-Headed Hydra”
• “A Clever Jester Fools a King”
• “The Sausage”

Nonfiction Stories:

• “The Terra Cotta Warriors: An Army of Clay”
• “Animal Partnerships”
• “Deborah Sampson, Revolutionary Soldier”

Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 6

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 6 lessons include: 

• use positive and negative numbers
• calculate and use rates and ratios
• solve equations with exponents and variables
• add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers
• add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
• calculate with percentages
• graph points on a coordinate grid
• calculate volume
• calculate surface area
• represent three-dimensional figures with nets
• read, create, and interpret bar, circle, and line graphs, and histograms
• find measures of center

Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 6

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:

• noun phrases
• verb phrases
• proper and comparative adjectives
• intensive pronouns
• subordinating conjunctions
• prepositions
• use of commas
• use of apostrophes
• use of quotation marks
• use of semicolons
• titles of books, movies, and TV shows

Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 6
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 sixth 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 sixth grade topics:

• Organisms and Ecosystems: Inherited Traits, Chromosomes and DNA, Genetic Variation, Artificial Selection
• Climate and Weather: What Causes Weather, Regional Climates: The Poles, Hurricanes, Global Climate Change 
• Plate Tectonics: Our Changing Planet, Our Planet’s Interior, Plate Tectonics, Future Earth
• Energy: Potential and Kinetic Energy, Thermal Energy, Electrical Energy, Chemical Energy

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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