1st Grade Reading Skill Builders Workbook


Book Description

Learn from home with kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 1st grade reading success! This colorful workbook is jam-packed with fun games and exercises—perfect for first-graders tackling early reading. Good reading skills are essential for success in 1st grade and beyond. This 128-page workbook is full of engaging activities that strengthen an early reader’s ability to recognize and understand a variety of words and text, from phonics to sentences to stories. Each activity focuses on a skill needed to become a superstar reader, such as: • letter sounds • short & long vowels • compound words • contractions • syllables • reading comprehension • plurals ... and much more! With vibrant pages full of games and puzzles, 1st Grade Reading Skill Builders Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.




2nd Grade Reading Skill Builders Workbook


Book Description

Learn from anywhere with these kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 2nd grade reading success! This colorful workbook is jam-packed with fun games and exercises for 2nd graders tackling reading. Perfect for back to school--no matter what that looks like! Good reading skills are essential for success in 2nd grade and beyond. This 128-page workbook is full of engaging activities that strengthen an early reader’s ability to recognize and understand a variety of words and text, from phonics to sentences to stories. Each activity focuses on a skill needed to become a superstar reader, such as: • consonant blends • silent consonants • long vowels • hard & soft letter sounds • compound words • contractions • prefixes & suffixes • reading comprehension ... and much more! With vibrant pages full of games and puzzles, 2nd Grade Reading Skill Builders Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.




1st Grade Success with Sight Words


Book Description

A solid foundation of reading skills is essential for children to become successful readers. Learning basic sight words is a critical step in building that foundation. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead--and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! Here are some of the great features you'll find inside: Duck Tracy Duck Tracy has found some clues, but he needs help! Children trace the new "jiffy words," adverbs, and verbs so that Duck Tracy can read them. Dear Pen Pal Children practice new sight words by filling in the missing words from a letter about a camping trip, slumber party, pet lizard, and more. Be a Poet It's time to rhyme! Children read the poems and fill in the newly learned adjectives and verbs to make a rhyme. Criss Cross Reading the clues and filling in the crossword puzzle with the correct sight words reinforces knowledge of words about farm animals, location, and the home. Art Starts Children read aloud a short story with sight words and then draw pictures to illustrate the story. Do the pictures match the story? Give your child's confidence in reading a boost with First Grade Success with Sight Words.




Success with Uppercase Letters: Grades K-1 (Sylvan Workbooks)


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Neat handwriting enables others to read one's work. It can also help develop a student's visual memory, which is vital for effective reading. A successful writer is able to communicate with others in meaningful ways--and will better experience the world of reading as well. The activities in this workbook, which introduce letters by their shape, are designed to help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead--and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! Here are some of the great features you'll find inside: Letter Connection Children connect the ladybugs, jellybeans, or cookies to practice the formation of uppercase letters. Name Game Writing children's names is a great way to practice handwriting. Children fill in the first letter on boys' and girls' name tags. Write Around the Wheel Seats on a Ferris wheel put a festive spin on practice writing uppercase letters. Tongue Twisting Time Writing the first letter in a string of words helps reinforce penmanship and reveals a fun tongue twister! Sign Sightings Children practice writing letters in the world around them, finishing words in street signs and store signs. Give your child's confidence in writing a boost with Success with Uppercase Letters: Grades K-1.







Fifth Grade Geometry Success (Sylvan Workbooks)


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Success in math includes mastery of geometry skills and requires children to make connections between the real world and geometry concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you'll find inside are: Connect the Plots Students plot ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, then connect the points to reveal a hidden picture. Work It Out Fido's Friendly Finds is a new pet park in town. Fido's owner, Frank, wants to offer fenced-in areas for dog training. Students determine the total fencing that he will need, reinforcing skills calculating perimeters. Paint Puzzler [tentative title] Hugo is going to paint the set for the community play. Students calculate surface area of different objects to determine the amount of paint he needs. Flip and Turn Students reinforce the concepts of flips and turns while drawing flags from around the world. Plus! Game Pieces The workbook includes tangram pieces for students to cut out and use with games, make patterns, and solve tangram puzzles. Give your child's confidence in math a boost with 5th Grade Geometry Success.




2nd Grade Spelling Games & Activities


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Sylvan s Second Grade Spelling Games & Activities includes entertaining, grade-appropriate exercises that will help your child improve his or her spelling skills. Rather than using rote memorization as a way to teach spelling, the games and activities in this workbook provide a fun way for kids to get involved in learning and succeed in school. Spelling and language arts in general are crucial subjects in second grade, and the activities in this workbook are a great supplement to your child s classroom work.




Kindergarten Success with Sight Words Workbook


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"Learn to identify sight words with Sylvan's proven techniques for success"--Cover.




3rd Grade Geometry Success


Book Description

Success in math includes mastery of geometry skills and requires children to make connections between the real world and geometry concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you'll find inside are: Hidden Word After writing the names of shapes, students unscramble circled letters to solve a riddle. Puzzling Patterns To practice patterns, a large grid pattern has missing pieces, and students must match sets of shapes to the place where they belong. Shape Up Students determine the number of vertices, edges, and faces of common objects such as boxes, buildings, and more. Picture Perfect To reinforce symmetry, students draw the missing half of different items, such as letters, shapes, and faces, Plus! Game Pieces The workbook includes pentomino and tangram pieces for students to cut out and use with games, make patterns, and solve tangram puzzles. Give your child's confidence in math a boost with 3rd Grade Geometry Success.




2nd Grade Geometry Success


Book Description

A solid foundation of basic geometry skills is essential for early success in math. Children who have a solid understanding of two- and three-dimensional shapes, symmetry, patterns, and location concepts will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you'll find inside are: Neighborhood Walk After practicing shapes, children walk through the house, yard, or neighborhood, finding things shaped like circles, rectangles, triangles, and octagons. Later they look for spheres, rectangular prisms, cylinders, and cones. Robot Repair Children draw a line from each robot head to a correct body, or from each robot to its missing parts, by distinguishing the shapes. Farm Fences Farmer Green wants to put fences around all of the animal areas of his farm. Children calculate the perimeter of the areas to determine how much fencing material Farmer Green needs to buy. Dance Floor Robin and Roscoe are looking for a light-up dance floor for their dance party. All of the dance floors have the same area, so children help determine the one with the largest perimeter. Plus! Game Pieces The workbook includes pentomino pieces, pattern blocks, and tangram pieces for children to cut out and use with games, make patterns, and solve tangram puzzles. Give your child's confidence in math a boost with 2nd Grade Geometry Success.