Recognizing shapes is the basic foundation of geometry skills. Being able to draw shapes helps children develop fine motor skills and also learn the basic strokes used in letter formation. Recognizing and creating patterns is a key math skill. Exploring patterns gives children lots of practice with visual discrimination and with colors and shapes. Topics covered: — Identifying shapes; — Understanding patterns; — Problem solving For use with Grades K-1.

Help your child make meaning out of what they read. Introduce your child to a variety of words. Many of the words may already be familiar and some may be new. These words will help your child to begin building vocabulary skills and become a fluent reader. Topics covered: — Sequencing stories; — Recognizing similarities and differences; — Identifying cause and effect; — Mastering sight words For use with Grades K-2.

Recognizing shapes helps children develop geometry skills. Your child will learn to identify the sequence of objects in patterns and to anticipate which object comes next in the pattern. Topics covered: — Identifying shapes; — Understanding patterns; — Problem solving For use with Grades K-2.

DISCOVER MORE: DINOSAURS is a guide to dinosaurs, bursting with awesome images and cool facts where every day brings a new dinosaur discovery. This guide is packed with dinosaur pictures and facts, based on the very latest information and research and includes specially commissioned digital images of dinosaurs. Children ca meet hundreds of dinosaurs, from tiny Microraptor to super huge rgentinosaurus, watch fierce fights, savage hunts, and dinosaur babies being born. They can also examine fossils and decide for themselves how dinosaurs lived.

Allie returns with new rules in the sixth book of the acclaimed series! Allie's excited about her class field trip. Sure, it's to a historic one-room schoolhouse, built back before there was the Internet or even cell phones, and Allie's teacher is encouraging everyone to dress up in old-timey costumes, which some of Allie's friends are actually doing. GAH! But at least she gets to ride on a bus, which she's never gets to do, living so close to school that she actually has to walk there every day! But then Mrs. Hunter announces that every student in Room 209 has been assigned a buddy for the day — from Allie's old 4th grade class at Walnut Knolls Elementary School, with whom Pine Heights Elementary is pairing up for the trip. And Allie's buddy just happens to be her ex-best friend Mary Kay, who betrayed Allie right before she moved! Allie is going to have to spend a whole day sharing an old-timey desk with a big crybaby!

I get a big SHOCK when Delia appears without her sunglasses on. But that's nothing compared with the surprise Dad has in store for me with his new found fitness regime. Meanwhile, Derek and I kep practicing in DOGZOMBIES — you never know, we might even get to play another gig But right now, I'm still wondering how Amy Porter managed to talk me into auditioning for the SCHOOL PLAY While Marcus Meldrew is being extra smug because he's only gone and got the lead role...

Back to school, but it's not all bad. Sport's Day, the School Fair and my birthday are coming up so this term's going to be amazing; mostly, because Delia's not invited to any of these. There's only one small problem with my birthday, Granny Mavis says she's going to make my cake... uh oh! Oh and Mr Keen's asked Dogzombies to perform.

This is the Horrible Geography Flags of the World sticker book, crammed full with Horrible facts and stats about the world around us. It includes stickers of flags of the world.

This series of three books deals with confusing words, for example, 'access' and 'excess', 'waste' and 'wastage'. Each unit explains a pair of confusing words in a clear and concise manner with example sentences. In addition, it contains a short story in pictures that will help learners see how the words are used in context.

Idioms In Action is a three-book series, with each book presenting 60 common idioms clearly explained with a definition, example sentences, and a humorous contextual cartoon in plain everyday English. This unique approach promotes reading and deepens understanding, making the learning of what can be a tricky topic fun and effective for students of all levels.

Put young children on the road to learning success with this collection of fun, reproducible skill-building practice pages. Perfect for home or school, these age-appropriate activities teach and reinforce key skills, such as alphabet and number recognition, colors and shapes, visual perception, classifying, fine-motor skills, and so much more. For use with Grade PreK.

Put young children on the road to learning success with this collection of fun, reproducible skill-building practice pages. Perfect for home or school, these age-appropriate activities teach and reinforce key skills, such as alphabet and number recognition, colors and shapes, visual perception, classifying, fine-motor skills, and so much more. For use with Grade PreK.

A Christmas activity book based on the bestselling book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Colouring, dot-to-dot, simple activities (e.g. make-your-own advent calendar; make Stick Man paperchains) and stickers. With activities geared to the pre-school market, this is an activity book that will keep Stick Man's youngest fans occupied for hours.

he fabulous and utterly original story of Stick Man, by the creators of The Gruffalo, is now available in this fantastic read-alone format. This Early Reader edition contains the complete classic story and pictures, but in a pocket-book format, and with a clearer typeface and layout to support children who are gaining confidence in reading.

Reading Skills Builder provides practice in the three essential strategies for learning to read — phonics, word families and sight words. The understanding of phonics sound patterns leads to knowledge of word families. Knowledge of word families enhances your child's abilities to recognize words. Quick recognition of sight words leads to faster decoding, which in turn leads to increased fluency and better comprehension. Your child practices these reading strategies in fun, meaningful ways while improving fluency and comprehension. For use with Grades K-2.

Reading Skills Builder Levels 1 to 3 lets your child practice essential reading strategies in meaningful ways while improving fluency and comprehension. Phonics knowledge has a positive effect on your child's ability to decode words and is a reliable predictor of later skill in reading comprehension. Sight word knowledge is also necessary for reading fluency and comprehension. As your child learns to recognize sight words with accuracy and automaticity, he reads more smoothly and at a faster rate. For use with Grades K-1.

Reading Skills Builder Levels 1 to 3 lets your child practice essential reading strategies in meaningful ways while improving fluency and comprehension. Phonics knowledge has a positive effect on your child's ability to decode words and is a reliable predictor of later skill in reading comprehension. Sight word knowledge is also necessary for reading fluency and comprehension. As your child learns to recognize sight words with accuracy and automaticity, he reads more smoothly and at a faster rate. For use with Grades K-3.

There's more than meets the eye to Granny Hogsflesh and her pickling empire, but even Barnaby couldn't have guessed how much more. Nor could he possibly have imagined what actually happened to his dad, who, burping and slurping, mysteriously disappeared into the night... What has Granny done? Enter the hilarious and disgusting world of boggles and pickling with a delightfully eccentric cast and deliciously dark humour.

A history of dark knights and dingy castles. It takes the readers charging back to the days of chivalry, when knights clanked about in shining armour waving weird weapons and peasants cleaned up the mess afterwards.