Skill Builders is a series that uses a variety of fun and challenging activities to provide students with extra practice in the basic skills for those who may need it or for those who are jsut being introduced to the concepts. Critical-thinking sections provide an extra challenge for all students, including accelerated students who want to refresh their knowledge of basic skills. Each workbook contains exercises based on national standards to help ensure that students master individual skills before progressing. And, all the Skill Builders combine entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics to make learning and reviewing basic skills both fun and effective. Skills include: mathematics, grammar, reading comprehension, phonics, spelling, handwriting, vocabulary, and Spanish. This is a great tool for keeping children current during the school year or preparing them for the grade ahead during the summer. (80) 6" x 9" perforated, reproducible pages
Phonics
Beginning with letter recognition and symbol-sound association, the phonics books in this series help develop higher-order thinking skills. They build on these basic concepts in order to strengthen the understanding of initial and final consonants, vowels, chunks and blends, digraphs, plurals, contractions, possessives, compound words and syllabication, prefixes and suffixes, antonyms and synonyms, homographs and homophones. |