Books in Early Bird series

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 ocean plants and animals and protecting ocean life by keeping beaches clean. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic reading and math readiness skills.Early Bird: Ocean includes:-Three colorful storybooks: 1, 2, 3 What Do You See?, I Live in the Ocean, and Clean It Up! 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; left-to-right tracking-Counting to 20; geometric shapes; graphing-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 his or her body, growing and changing, and how to be healthy and strong. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic reading and math readiness skills.Early Bird: Body includes:-Three colorful storybooks: My Body, I Grow and Change, and Healthy and Strong. 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; 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 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 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

Introduce children to opposites in this tabbed, brightly illustrated board book!In this first concept book, little ones can turn the tabbed pages to learn about opposites! The spreads feature the concepts of up and down (a rocket and car), long and short (two snakes), slow and fast (tortoise and bunny), loud and quiet (two lions), and big and small (two dinosaurs).