Books with author Heather Stella

For half a decade, the Get Ready for School series has been a summer staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities such as coloring, completing patterns and mazes, matching pairs, connecting the dots, and more. Now, the original three books in the series have been revised and brought up-to-date, with brand new covers and art to match the rest of the series. Get Ready for Kindergarten builds confidence and skills in areas such as reading and beginning spelling, counting from 1 to 20, and learning to add and subtract, and it teaches concepts such as opposites, same and different, and sequencing. Along with all-new art, this revised edition includes 30% brand-new activities.

Take this colorful activity book with you wherever you go and let kids Get Ready for Kindergarten: On-the-Go! Packed with hundreds of teacher-approved, common-core aligned workbook sheets comes complete with a wipe-off board and a dri-erase pen. You and your young learner will love this friendly, colorful activity book that introduces and reinforces basic skills through entertaining puzzles, mazes, and more. Get Ready for Kindergarten: On-the-Go offers a wide variety of curriculum-based travel games for learning in planes, trains, and automobiles. Topics covered include: Upper- and lowercase letters and their sounds Numbers, counting, and simple math problems Common sight words Size and shape comparisons Identifying and completing patterns Time-tested and teacher-approved, Get Ready for Kindergarten: On-the-Go is perfect for fighting brain-drain over summer break. This fun and lively activity book helps kids develop a love for learning while enhancing essential motor and problem-solving skills. Colorful pages build toward a sense of accomplishment, and parents will love that this binder reflects current academic standards and aligns with the Common Core.

Black Dog has launched a new format of its best-selling Get Ready for School series. These four brand-new, activity-packed paperbacks give kids a head start in skills and learning for Pre-K and KindergartenFor nearly a decade, the Get Ready for School series has been a staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities.Get Ready for Pre-K: Numbers, Shapes & Colors focuses on numbers 1-10, simple math, a rainbow of colors, cutting, and crafts.Perforated pages allow kids to tear out pages and work on a few at a time, and to display their completed work on a wall, refrigerator, or bulletin board. Also included are more than 100 stickers!These perfectly portable Get Ready for School books will keep little hands and minds busy anywhere, anytime―at home, in the car, and out and about in waiting rooms and restaurants.Other titles in the series include:Get Ready for Pre-K: Letters & Sight WordsGet Ready for Kindergarten: Letters & Sight Words Get Ready for Kindergarten: Numbers, Time & Opposites

Better writing skills help children do their best in any subject. Get Ready for School: Writing Skills goes beyond improved letter formation to make sentence structure, word types, punctuation, and storytelling easy and fun. This laptop workbook comes with a handy wipe-off board and a dri-erase pen that will help kids in grades 1 thru 3 master the most important skill: communicating effectively! Get Ready for School: Writing Skills provides children with the building blocks needed to write sentences, then paragraphs, and eventually complete stories. This spiral bound laptop workbook includes tons of activities that will help young writers practice their new-found skills. The packed pages feature exercises that will teach and reinforce the following concepts:punctuationsentence structure parts of speechthree types of writing: narrative, opinion, and informativeparts of a story, sample stories, and story writing promptsAs a bonus, the book's perforated pages can be assembled into an "all about me" book that's personal to each young writer. Get Ready for School: Writing Skills is designed to go with your family wherever you go, complete with wipe-away practice space and dri-erase pen. Write on!

Take this colorful activity book with you wherever you go and let kids Get Ready for First Grade: On-the-Go! Packed with hundreds of teacher-approved, common-core aligned workbook sheets comes complete with a wipe-off board and a dri-erase pen. You and your young learner will love this friendly, colorful activity book that introduces and reinforces basic skills through entertaining puzzles, mazes, and more. Get Ready for First Grade: On-the-Go offers a wide variety of curriculum-based travel games for learning in planes, trains, and automobiles. Topics covered include: Numbers and counting Addition and subtraction Shapes and opposites Spelling and reading readiness Vowels, consonants, nouns, and verbs Basic scientific concepts such as weather, life cycles, and the five sensesTime-tested and teacher-approved, Get Ready for First Grade: On-the-Go is perfect for fighting brain-drain over summer break. This fun and lively activity book helps kids develop a love for learning while enhancing essential motor and problem-solving skills. Colorful pages build toward a sense of accomplishment, and parents will love that this binder reflects current academic standards and aligns with the Common Core.

Black Dog has launched a new format of its best-selling Get Ready for School series. These four brand-new, activity-packed paperbacks give kids a head start in skills and learning for Pre-K and Kindergarten For nearly a decade, the Get Ready for School series has been a staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities.Get Ready for Kindergarten: Letters and Sight Words tackles curriculum-based activities including recognizing and writing upper and lowercase letters, days of the week and months of the year, and naming people and places in family and community.Perforated pages allow kids to tear out pages and work on a few at a time, and to display their completed work on a wall, refrigerator, or bulletin board. Also included are more than 100 stickers!These perfectly portable Get Ready for School books will keep little hands and minds busy anywhere, anytime―at home, in the car, and out and about in waiting rooms and restaurants.Other titles in the series include:Get Ready for Kindergarten: Numbers, Time & OppositesGet Ready for Pre-K: Letters & Sight Words Get Ready for Pre-K: Numbers, Shapes & Colors

Black Dog has launched a new format of its best-selling Get Ready for School series. These four brand-new, activity-packed paperbacks give kids a head start in skills and learning for Pre-K and KindergartenFor nearly a decade, the Get Ready for School series has been a staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities.Get Ready for Kindergarten: Numbers, Time & Opposites includes activities that reinforce numbers 1 through 20; comparing and contrasting; matching numbers to pictures; completing patterns and mazes; telling time; and simple math.Perforated pages allow kids to tear out pages and work on a few at a time, and to display their completed work on a wall, refrigerator, or bulletin board. Also included are more than 100 stickers!These perfectly portable Get Ready for School books will keep little hands and minds busy anywhere, anytime―at home, in the car, and out and about in waiting rooms and restaurants.Other titles in the series include:Get Ready for Kindergarten: Letters & Sight Words Get Ready for Pre-K: Letters & Sight Words Get Ready for Pre-K: Numbers, Shapes & Colors

Black Dog has launched a new format of its best-selling Get Ready for School series. These four brand-new, activity-packed paperbacks give kids a head start in skills and learning for Pre-K and KindergartenFor nearly a decade, the Get Ready for School series has been a staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities.Get Ready for Kindergarten: Numbers, Time & Opposites includes activities that reinforce numbers 1 through 20; comparing and contrasting; matching numbers to pictures; completing patterns and mazes; telling time; and simple math.Perforated pages allow kids to tear out pages and work on a few at a time, and to display their completed work on a wall, refrigerator, or bulletin board. Also included are more than 100 stickers!These perfectly portable Get Ready for School books will keep little hands and minds busy anywhere, anytime―at home, in the car, and out and about in waiting rooms and restaurants.Other titles in the series include:Get Ready for Kindergarten: Letters & Sight Words Get Ready for Pre-K: Letters & Sight Words Get Ready for Pre-K: Numbers, Shapes & Colors

These portable, tablet-size binders are the latest addition to Black Dog & Leventhal's best-selling, curriculum-based Get Ready for School series. The Laptop Workbook covers fold into a mini desktop surface, making them the perfect take-along activity books. First Grade Laptop Workbook is bursting with hundreds of challenging activities, including mazes, letter searches, dot-to-dots, and other fun activities that help your child master upper- and lowercase letters, rhyming, word families, and phonics. Also includes 140 stickers, a certificate of completion, perforated pages, and an answer key. Other titles included Kindergarten Laptop Workbook (9781579129743) First Grade Laptop Workbook (9781579129750).

These portable, tablet-size binders are the latest addition to Black Dog & Leventhal's best-selling, curriculum-based Get Ready for School series. The Laptop Workbook covers fold into a mini desktop surface, making them the perfect take-along activity books. Kindergarten Laptop Workbook is packed with hundreds of challenging activities, including mazes, letter searches, dot-to-dots, and other fun activities that help your child master upper- and lowercase letters, rhyming, word families, and phonics. Also includes 140 stickers, a certificate of completion, perforated pages, and an answer key. Other titles also available: First Grade Laptop Workbook (9781579129750) and Pre-K Laptop Workbook (9781579129736)

For half a decade, the Get Ready for School series has been a summer staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities such as coloring, completing patterns and mazes, matching pairs, connecting the dots, and more. Now, the original three books in the series have been revised and brought up-to-date, with brand new covers and art to match the rest of the series. Get Ready for First Grade builds on the skills learned in kindergarten and covers vowels and consonants, spelling, addition and subtraction, counting to 100, counting money, and telling time. Along with all-new art, this revised edition includes 30% brand-new activities.

Get ready for Pre-Kindergarten with this delightfully illustrated laptop workbook perfect for small hands with active minds. Get Ready for Pre-Kindergarten Laptop Workbook teaches basic early-learning skills through color-by-letter hidden pictures, mazes, letter searches and other fun activities that are teacher-created and parent-approved. In more than 245 enjoyable exercises with 140 award stickers to bolster confidence, Get Ready for Pre-Kindergarten Laptop Workbook helps your child master basic letter formation, uppercase letters, and phonics. This handy workbook includes more than 200 charmingly illustrated workbook pages and 140 stickers plus an award certificate.Designed for small hands with a cool laptop-style full-color design, this take-it-anywhere workbook will help instill a life-long love of learning.