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Books in Skills for School series

  • Skills for School Word Searches, Grades K - 1

    Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing

    Paperback (Brighter Child, May 1, 2019)
    Word Searches features 64 pages activities that highlight words essential for early reading readiness and vocabulary development, as well as improve attention skills. The Skills for School series makes learning simple with colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions. Each book focuses on different early learning skills, allowing you to choose the book that best fits your child’s areas of improvement. The practice pages include fun activities that help build your child’s confidence in the subject matter and school. Each book also includes fun stickers that are great for motivating and rewarding your child.
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  • Skills for School Beginning Writing, Grade 1

    Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing

    Paperback (Brighter Child, March 14, 2019)
    Beginning Writing features 64 pages of activities essential for beginner writers, including practice pages for grammar skills like punctuation, parts of speech, capitalization, and more. The Skills for School series makes learning simple with colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions. Each book focuses on different early learning skills, allowing you to choose the book that best fits your child’s areas of improvement. The practice pages include fun activities that help build your child’s confidence in the subject matter and school. Each book also includes fun stickers that are great for motivating and rewarding your child.
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  • Skills for Starting School Shapes and Sizes

    DK

    Paperback (DK Children, July 18, 2017)
    A fun, hands-on sticker and activity book to help children explore shapes and sizes, developed in collaboration with educational experts.Help your preschooler get ready for school with Shapes and Sizes. Featuring more than 80 colorful stickers, this book is filled with hands-on activities to spark curiosity and boost confidence in learning key early mathematical concepts.Children will practice recognizing shapes and describing their properties, comparing sizes, and exploring patterns. Shapes and Sizes introduces first geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares, and teaches simple vocabulary to describe sizes, including comparatives and superlatives. Playful images even encourage them to identify shapes and sizes in the world around them.Children will love learning about and exploring everyday objects through play with the funny and friendly cat, monkey, and elephant characters in Shapes and Sizes, part of DK's Skills for Starting School series.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.
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  • Skills For Starting School My Sticker Reward Chart Book

    DK

    Paperback (DK Children, July 18, 2017)
    A reward chart book with 22 charts and 600 stickers to help teach young children 12 essential personal and social skills for starting school in a fun and rewarding way, developed in collaboration with educational experts.Friendly and funny characters Bip, Bop, and Boo guide you through activity pages and help children understand each skill, from getting dressed and brushing their teeth to listening carefully and being polite. Twenty-two tear-out charts, six hundred reward stickers, and five achievement certificates provide positive reinforcement to motivate children to try their best. Additional ideas and tips give further inspiration for parents to help support their child with each skill.Created in collaboration with educational experts specifically to teach children the personal and social skills needed to start school, My Sticker Reward Chart Book helps to build independence and resilience so both kids and parents can feel more confident when that exciting day comes.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.
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  • Skills for Starting School Ready to Read

    DK

    Paperback (DK Children, July 18, 2017)
    A fun, hands-on sticker and activity book for any child who is familiar with letter sounds and is ready to move on to reading simple words, developed in collaboration with educational experts.Help your preschooler get ready for school with Ready to Read. Featuring more than 80 colorful stickers, this book is filled with hands-on activities to spark a love of reading and boost confidence in learning key literacy skills.Children will practice their existing phonics knowledge by reading letter sounds, finding missing sound stickers, and blending letter sounds together to read their very first words. Picture clues encourage them to use context in reading, starting with familiar consonant-vowel-consonant words.Children will love learning to read their first words through play with the funny and friendly cat, monkey, and elephant characters in Ready to Read, part of DK's Skills for Starting School series.This Level 3 playbook builds on concepts learned in Level 1 Skills for Starting School ABC Games.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.
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  • Skill for Starting School Story Time

    DK

    Board book (DK Children, Sept. 6, 2016)
    Hear all about Bop the Elephant's day in Story Time.Perfect for little hands, this book-and-toy set comes with an adorable Bop the Elephant, just like the one in the book.Promoting interactive learning, developing social skills, and boosting children's curiosity, Story Time encourages listening skills, creativity, and fun. Bip, Bop, and Boo talk about their days, from building sand castles to zooming down slides at the park.Helping all children be ready for school, this series of books boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence. With a range of formats to choose from including workbooks, games, and board books, and featuring the loveable characters Bip, Bop, and Boo, this series helps children develop and maintain the skills needed for school readiness.
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  • Skills for School Addition & Subtraction, Grade 1

    Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing

    Paperback (Brighter Child, May 1, 2019)
    Addition & Subtraction features 64 pages of easy-to-follow activities and practice that engage children’s skills in addition and subtraction―specifically adding with numbers 0 to 10, subtracting with numbers within 20, and adding and subtracting within 100 using multiples of 10. The Skills for School series makes learning simple with colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions. Each book focuses on different early learning skills, allowing you to choose the book that best fits your child’s areas of improvement. The practice pages include fun activities that help build your child’s confidence in the subject matter and school. Each book also includes fun stickers that are great for motivating and rewarding your child.
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  • Skills for School Mazes, Grades PK - 1

    Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing

    Paperback (Brighter Child, May 1, 2019)
    Mazes features 64 pages of fun activities to keep children’s minds active and learning, while reinforcing their fine motor skills and attention skills. The Skills for School series makes learning simple with colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions. Each book focuses on different early learning skills, allowing you to choose the book that best fits your child’s areas of improvement. The practice pages include fun activities that help build your child’s confidence in the subject matter and school. Each book also includes fun stickers that are great for motivating and rewarding your child.
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  • Skills for School 100 Need-to-Know Words for Kindergarten

    Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing

    Paperback (Brighter Child, March 14, 2019)
    100 Need-to-Know Words for Kindergarten features 64 pages of activities that include coloring, tracing, word puzzles, and more to help children master the most important 100 words essential to reading readiness. The Skills for School series makes learning simple with colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions. Each book focuses on different early learning skills, allowing you to choose the book that best fits your child’s areas of improvement. The practice pages include fun activities that help build your child’s confidence in the subject matter and school. Each book also includes fun stickers that are great for motivating and rewarding your child.
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  • Get Ready for Kindergarten, Grade K

    Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing

    Paperback (Brighter Child, Jan. 17, 2019)
    Help your child develop fine motor skills and gain confidence in school with the easy-to-follow, 64-page Get Ready for Kindergarten. This title in the Skills for School series features motivational stickers and engaging activities that focus on learning the ABCs, numbers 0 to 20, colors, shapes, and more. This book offers young learners a simple and fun way to practice the fundamentals of kindergarten.
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  • Bip, Bop, and Boo Get Ready for School: I'm Ready for School

    DK

    Board book (DK Children, May 5, 2015)
    Supports the PBS KIDS mission.Get ready to play, get ready to learn, get ready for school.This interactive board book is designed to support childhood development through the early years. The themed lift-the-flaps and peep-throughs in I'm Ready for School enable a child to learn key skills and knowledge in the comfortable context of play, exploration, and discussion about real-life experiences. Key concepts such as morning routines, eating breakfast, and matching shoes, to colors, shapes, and opposites are all covered in I'm Ready for School to inspire learning and support language skills, social skills, and physical and knowledge development.This new series of interactive books and games brings the brightest and best start to learning for every child. Key skills are developed through play, exploration, and hands-on experience. Each element of the series supports active learning through creative thinking, boosting confidence, curiosity, and independence. The series provides a solid foundation in reading, arithmetic, and writing, and supports emotional, social, and motor skills development.The guiding early learning developmental milestones of school readiness inform each part of the program, supporting parents as they help their little ones to get ready for school. The colorful characters — the storyteller, the adventurer, and the creator — were developed as an engaging and effective way to inspire a confident, curious, and capable child who will be ready for school.
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  • Skills for Starting School Playtime

    DK

    Board book (DK Children, Sept. 6, 2016)
    Boo the Monkey is ready for fun in Playtime.Perfect for little hands, this sturdy book-and-toy set comes with an adorable Boo the Monkey to help children use their imagination to dress up and play pretend games. Watch Boo transform into a wizard, a pirate, and a firefighter.Promoting interactive learning, developing social skills, and boosting children's curiosity, Playtime encourages creativity and fun opening the door to imaginative play.Helping all children be ready for school, this series of books boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence. With a range of formats to choose from including workbooks, games, and board books, and featuring the loveable characters Bip, Bop, and Boo, this series helps children develop and maintain the skills needed for school readiness.
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