Evan-Moor Skill Sharpeners Reading PreK/Grade K/Grade 1/Grade 2/Grade3
Evan-Moor Skill Sharpeners Reading PreK/Grade K/Grade 1/Grade 2/Grade3
Skill Sharpeners Reading PreK contains 21 units each of which introduces a consonant letter. Each unit contains a cut-and-paste activity that introduces a consonant sound and three activity pages that reinforce reading readiness skills. There is one Test Your Skills assessment page for every four consonants introduced. Reading readiness skills practiced include the following: Phonemic awareness
Vocabulary
Fluency
Comprehension
Visual discrimination
Children also develop their fine motor skills by completing the fun activities. Examples of the types of activities are: Listen for the Sound
Rhyming
Trace and Match
Same or Different?
Cut and Paste
Dot-to-Dot
What Will Happen Next?
Browse the other award-winning Skill Sharpeners books to help prepare your child for preschool and kindergarten.
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Skill Sharpeners Reading Grade K( Kindergarten) provides a one-page story for each letter of the alphabet. For example : A--Any Ants?
D--Digging
G--Good and Bad
N--The New One
P--In a Puddle
W--Waffle Wagon Activity pages include listening for beginning sounds matching words and pictures cut-and-paste activities sentence completion and following directions. Browse the other award-winning Skill Sharpeners books to help prepare your child for preschool and kindergarten.
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Skill Sharpeners Reading Grade 1 provides 14 motivating stories. For example: Dad and I
Who Can Fix It?
The Missing Mitten
George Washingtons Barn
Activity pages include a comprehension page and a word family page for each story; rhyming sequencing beginning and ending sounds; word meaning; word searches; crossword puzzles; and other appropriate skills.
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Skill Sharpeners Reading Grade 2 provides 15 motivating stories. For example: Peanut Butter
The Case of the Missing Apples
The Ugly Duckling
Elephants
A Visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Activity pages include: comprehension questions
a vocabulary exercise
a sequencing activity for every story
Other skills addressed include the following: word families
phonetic elements
synonyms & antonyms
alphabetical order
contractions
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Skill Sharpeners Reading Grade 3 provides 17 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example: Fiction Stories: Shea and the Leprechaun
A Mouse Adventure
The Story of Little Sparrow
Nonfiction Stories: Inuit People of the Far North
Bats
Harriet Tubman
Activity pages include the following: comprehension questions
a vocabulary exercise
a sequencing activity for every story
Other skills addressed include: main idea
parts of speech
synonyms & antonyms
alphabetical order
contractions
