Books in Let's Get Ready For School series

An exciting new title in Black Dog's best-selling Get Ready for School series!For nearly a decade, and with over 730,000 copies in print, 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. Previous books in the series laid the foundation of early learning skills from pre-K through first grade. This new book takes kids into the next phase of learning. Get Ready for Second Grade builds on skills learned in first grade and covers reading, writing complete sentences, counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, adding and subtracting, shapes and measurements, time and money, cursive writing, weather, basic world geography, the solar system, and more. With more than 300 pages of activities and thousands of illustrations in each, these books will keep kids coming back for more over and over again.

Fun, colorful, and teacher-approved, Get Ready for School Connecting Cards let kids create their own words, sentences, and equations in endless combinations!Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Kindergarten Sight Words is the perfect, portable companion to Black Dog's best-selling Get Ready for School book series. The 36 sturdy, double-sided, full-color cards are designed with tongue-and-groove notches at either end so they can connect together in any combination a child can imagine.Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Kindergarten Sight Words helps young children recognize the most commonly used words in the English language, such as "the," "to," "and," "you," "it," "in," "said," and "for." Learning to recognize these high-frequency words is an important first step in learning to read.Kids can:*Trace the letters with their fingers while saying the word out loud *Arrange the words in alphabetical order *Connect cards to create simple phrases or short sentencesGet Ready for School Connecting Cards: Kindergarten Sight Words is the perfect way for kids to develop problem-solving and decision-making skills that are essential for the first year of school and throughout their lives.Also available: Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Letters Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Numbers Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Pre-K Sight Words

The Get Ready series offers fun, easy-to-understand activities to enhance skills in every area, from spelling, reading, and language to math, science, and health. Get Ready for 1st Grade prepares children for the next level: Phonics; Reading; Parts of Speech; Spelling; Sounds; Time & Money; Math Readiness; Vowels & Consonants; and Science & Nature.Rounded out with age-appropriate games and activities, alphabet and number flash cards, adorable animal characters, and cute, kid-friendly images—all rendered in beautiful full-color throughout—the Get Ready books are an inviting, exciting introduction to the world of learning.

Fun, colorful, and teacher-approved, Get Ready for School Connecting Cards let kids create their own words, sentences, and equations in endless combinations!Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Letters is the perfect, portable companion to Black Dog's best-selling Get Ready for School book series. The 36 sturdy, double-sided, full-color cards are designed with tongue-and-groove notches at either end so they can connect together in any combination a child can imagine. Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Letters includes the entire uppercase alphabet on one side of the cards, with the lowercase letters on the on the opposite side, plus additional cards with the most commonly used letters.*Connect cards to make names!*Combine the entire alphabet together in order and create a 13-foot long puzzle!*Build small words!*Find and combine all the vowels and/or consonants. Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Letters is the perfect way for kids to develop problem-solving and decision-making skills that are essential for the first year of school and throughout their lives.Also available: Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: NumbersGet Ready for School Connecting Cards: Pre-K Sight WordsGet Ready for School Connecting Cards: Kindergarten Sight Words

Designed to teach writing, counting, sorting and more in an absorbing style.Wipe-clean pages allow the activities to be tried many times over - simply wipe away with a cloth and start over.Includes wipe-clean, nontoxic pen.Great for preparing kids for school.For ages 4 and up. Warning: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not intended for children under 3 yrs.

Activities and Games prepares children for daily classroom activities such as counting, recognizing sets and patterns, identifying letters, and other early language skills.This adorably illustrated book reinforces age-appropriate kindergarten-ready curriculum skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and rewarding activities. With such extras as colorful stickers, memory cards, and tangrams, kids will enjoy coloring, completing patterns, matching pairs, matching words or numbers to pictures, connecting the dots, solving puzzles, completing mazes, and more.

Help your child prepare for kindergarten, develop confidence with age-appropriate activities, and acquire basic skills. The Get Ready for School books include entertaining and rewarding activities such as completing patterns, matching pairs, identifying sets, matching words or numbers to pictures, connecting the dots, completing mazes, and much more. Ninety-six write-on, wipe off pages allow children to practice skills over and over again. Sixty-four additional activity pages as well as memory game cards and congratulatory stickers reinforce the exercises and add to the learning and fun!Letters teaches basic pre-reading skills such as: ?Learning to write upper case and lower case letters ?Identifying beginning and ending sounds ?Rhyming ?Completing words ?Practicing alphabet order ?Distinguishing letters ?Matching upper case and lower case letters ?Completing letter patterns

Help your child prepare for kindergarten, develop confidence with age-appropriate activities, and acquire basic skills. The Get Ready for School books include entertaining and rewarding activities such as completing patterns, matching pairs, identifying sets, matching words or numbers to pictures, connecting the dots, completing mazes, and much more. Ninety-six write-on, wipe off pages allow children to practice skills over and over again. Sixty-four additional activity pages as well as memory game cards and congratulatory stickers reinforce the exercises and add to the learning and fun!Letters teaches basic pre-reading skills such as: •Learning to write upper case and lower case letters •Identifying beginning and ending sounds •Rhyming •Completing words •Practicing alphabet order •Distinguishing letters •Matching upper case and lower case letters •Completing letter patterns