Books with author Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to weather conditions, daily weather changes, and how weather helps us. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic readiness skills.Early Bird: Weather includes:-Three colorful storybooks: Wondering About the Weather, A Wonderful Week of Weather, and Weather Helps Us. Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read!-Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include:-Story comprehension; letter recognition; sequencing-Counting to 20; patterning; beginning computation-Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary-Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds.-Answer keyWatch this short video to see the Early Bird books in action.See our Skill Sharpeners series for more activities to prepare your child for PreK, transitional kindergarten, or kindergarten.

Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten. Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to plants and how we use them. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic readiness skills.Early Bird: Plants includes:-Three colorful storybooks: Plants Are Living Things, Plants Have Parts, and How We Use Plants. Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read!-Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include:-Following directions; story comprehension; rhyming; vocabulary-Counting to 20; geometric shapes; measurement-Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary-Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds.-Answer key

High-Frequency Words: Center Games, Level B provides practice in Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary grade 1, Fry Instant Sight Words first 100, and Dolch nouns. The colorful and engaging game formats give young readers the motivation they need to practice reading high-frequency words. The written practice pages provide teachers with an informal assessment of word recognition skills. The word slider is perfect for fun and easy practice in the classroom or at home.

This book tells you everything you need to create a wide variety of activity centers that build critical thinking skills. Required materials are inexpensive and readily available. As students complete the tasks in each center, they will practice the skills of estimating, interpreting, sorting, classifying, organizing, designing, following directions and more. Every center has complete teacher directions and reproducible student directions and record sheets. All necessary forms and patterns and a center sign are provided in full color. There are up to ten different centers to create for each season of the year. Centers can be set up as a series of individual activities done over a period of time during an appropriate season or as a "carnival," where students spend two to four hours on one day touring several season-related centers.

Phonics games your students will want to play again and again! Providing your Grades K-1 students with hands-on motivating phonics practice has never been easier! Phonics Games, Centers for Up to 6 Players, Level B addresses the important phonics skills of short vowel words, blends and digraphs, while engaging students with fun full-color games. You'll love the ease and convenience of each center game -- all you have to do is laminate the game boards, cards, and directions then place them in an envelope until you're ready to play! Games and skills practiced in Level B include: Game 1: What's Up Front? Beginning Sounds, Game 2: Concentration Ending Sounds, Game 3: Go Pick! Rhyming Words, Game 4: Concentration Short Vowel Sounds, Game 5: 4-in-a-row CVC Words, and Game 6: Ping Pang Pow! Word Family Words Game 7: Spell It! CVC Words

High-Frequency Words: Center Games, Level D provides practice in Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary grade 3 and Fry Instant Sight Words first 100. The colorful and engaging game formats give students the motivation they need to practice reading high-frequency words. The written practice pages provide teachers with an informal assessment of word recognition skills. The word slider is perfect for fun and easy practice in the classroom or at home.