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  • Skills for Starting School ABC Games

    DK

    Cards (DK Children, July 5, 2016)
    ABC Games is a fun new format for children to learn pre-reading skills and become familiar with the ABCs. Build early literacy skills with fun games that encourage learning through play.Each box includes two sets of 26 cards, a board book, and a guide filled with game ideas to help children learn the alphabet, phonics, and social skills. The durable and photographic cards can be used to teach alphabetical order, phonics and their sounds, and how letters form words.ABC Games makes early learning fun while hitting important developmental milestones, and creates a solid foundation for fundamental reading skills.
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  • Bip, Bop, and Boo Get Ready for School Games: Four of a Kind

    DK

    Cards (DK Children, Sept. 1, 2015)
    Containing 40 cards based on animals, vehicles, and types of food, Four of a Kind includes instructions on how to play memory and timed challenges based on sorting objects into groups and collecting cards into sets; plus a book provides further instructions to enhance the games, creating new experiences for the players.Supporting the PBS KIDS mission, these boxes of game cards are designed to support children's learning development through the early years. The guiding early learning developmental milestones of school readiness inform the content, supporting parents as they get a child ready for school.Each box includes 40 photographic cards and instructions to play a range of two-player games with ideas of games that a child can play to learn key skills. The colorful photographic cards will inspire and develop a confident, curious, and capable child. Parents will love playing these games with their kids.
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  • Skills for Starting School ABC

    DK

    Paperback (DK Children, July 5, 2016)
    ABC is a Level 1 activity playbook that encourages children's early literacy skills through play with fun, interactive learning activities.The characters Bip, Bop, and Boo help children learn their ABCs and the sounds they make. Children will practice phonics with hands-on learning opportunities, from matching stickers to the letters on each page to sounding out the alphabet. Complete with an achievement certificate, ABC begins your child's essential first steps to reading.
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  • Skills for Scholars Sequencing & Memory, Preschool

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, )
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  • Bip, Bop, and Boo Get Ready for School Games: Number Puzzles

    DK

    Cards (DK Children, Sept. 1, 2015)
    In Number Puzzles, one set of cards shows 10 simple addition problems and their answers, and the other set shows 10 simple subtraction problems and their answers. The instructions provide ideas for games to find the answer, or find the question to make the answers. Also included are challenges for children to create their own adding and subtracting questions, plus further problems, including the concept of what makes 10.Supporting the PBS KIDS mission, these boxes of game cards are designed to support children's learning development through the early years. The guiding early learning developmental milestones of school readiness inform the content, supporting parents as they get a child ready for school.Each box includes 40 photographic cards and instructions to play a range of two-player games with ideas of games that a child can play to learn key skills. The colorful photographic cards will inspire and develop a confident, curious, and capable child. Parents will love playing these games with their kids.
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  • Skills for Scholars English & Grammar, Grade 3

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, Jan. 18, 2010)
    Skills for Scholars English & Grammar provides children in grade 3 with necessary grammar instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning sentence structure, punctuation, usage and more! Features activities that teach: • Alphabetical order • Compound words • Contractions • Nouns & pronouns • Past, present, and future tense verbs • Prepositions • Punctuation • Conjunctions • Subjects & predicates • Types of sentences • Parts of a paragraph The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!
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  • Skills for Scholars Basic Skills Helpers, Grade 1

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, March 15, 2006)
    Skills for Scholars Basic Skills Helpers provides children in grade 1 additional instruction in basic skills necessary for the school year ahead. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning basic skills. Features activities that teach: ~ Short & long vowel sounds ~ Consonant blends ~ Compound words ~ Reading comprehension strategies ~ Predicting & making inferences ~ Following directions ~ Classifying ~ Sequencing ~ Nouns, verbs, & adjectives ~ Synonyms & antonyms ~ Kinds of sentences & punctuation ~ Addition & subtraction ~ Place value & fractions ~ Counting by fives & tens ~ Time & money ~ Measurement The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!
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  • Skills for Scholars How Our Government Works, Grade 5

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, Jan. 29, 2008)
    Skills for Scholars How Our Government Works workbook provides children a strong foundation of social studies essentials for school success! Offering children in fifth grade 80 pages of fun and engaging activities with full-color illustrations, that will help them become experts in how the U.S. Government works and how presidents are elected. Featuring perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning about the U.S. Government. Features activities that teach: ~ The U.S. Constitution ~ Amendments ~ Different types of government ~ Local, state, and federal government ~ Branches of government ~ Elections The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!
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  • Skills for Scholars Learning Activities, Grade 1

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, March 15, 2006)
    Skills for Scholars Learning Activities helps children in grade 1 learn and reinforce skills -- by solving problems, playing games, and completing fun brainteasers. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning basic skills necessary for school success! Features activities that teach: ~ Numbers to 25 ~ Skip counting ~ Beginning letter sounds ~ Colors & shapes ~ Word classification ~ Long & short vowels ~ Rhyming words ~ Time The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!
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  • Skills for Scholars English & Grammar, Grade 5

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, Jan. 18, 2010)
    Skills for Scholars English & Grammar provides children in grade 5 with necessary grammar instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning sentence structure, punctuation, usage and more! Features activities that teach: • Nouns & verbs • Past, present, & future tense verbs • Irregular verbs • Direct & indirect objects • Pronouns • Conjunctions • Subjects & predicates • Types of sentences • Adjectives & adverbs • Prepositional phrases • Adjective & adverb phrases • Punctuation • Synonyms & antonyms • Similes & metaphors • Idioms • Combining sentences • Types of paragraphs • Writing letters, invitations, & thank you notes • Writing poetry The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a soli
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  • Skills for Scholars English & Grammar, Grade 4

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, Jan. 18, 2010)
    Skills for Scholars English & Grammar provides children in grade 4 with necessary grammar instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning sentence structure, punctuation, usage and more! Features activities that teach: • Parts of a sentence • Nouns & pronouns • Subjects & predicates • Past, present, and future tense verbs • Transitive and intransitives verbs • Direct and indirect objects • Adjectives & adverbs • Correct word usage • Types of sentences • Conjunctions • Punctuation • Proofreading The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!
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  • Skills for Scholars Math, Grade 4

    School Specialty Publishing

    Paperback (Frank Schaffer, March 15, 2006)
    Skills for Scholars Math provides children in grade 4 with necessary math instruction. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, perforated pages, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning important math skills. Features activities that teach: ~ Place value ~ Adding & subtracting large numbers & mixed numbers ~ Rounding & estimating ~ Multiplication & division facts ~ Fractions & decimals ~ Geometry & Measurement ~ Graphing & ordered pairs ~ Time & money problems ~ Probability The popular Skills for Scholars Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English & grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is designed for students who need intervention or enrichment and gives them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!
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