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Reading words. T-r-a-c-i-n-g words. Writing “color” words. Then following color directions! With each of the 26 lessons in this unit, students will have oodles of fun exercising their artistic abilities as they develop reading, writing, and thinking skills. Colors featured and images portrayed run the gamut from making “a head of lettuce green,” “a puff of clouds gray,” “a bunch of grapes purple,” and “a flamingo pink!”

Putting things in order! This 21-lesson book is an outstanding introduction to sequential ordering. With each activity, students are challenged to cut out three or four related pictures and paste them in their logical order. Visual illustrations depict a wide range of activities from “a boy feeding his fish” and “girl diving into a pool” to “a young man flying a kite.” The final two exercises in this book are creative connect-the-dot drawings that test the sequential ordering of letters and numbers. Fun while learning is sure to be had by all.

An introduction to basic shapes! The tracing, coloring, drawing, and cut-and-paste activities found in this 20-lesson unit will introduce young learners to basic shapes as well as the words that describe them. Creative illustrations make learning about circles, squares, rectangles, and ovals even more fun and visually informative.

Improve eye-hand coordination and executing verbal directions. Students will use pencil and paper - as well as scissors and glue - to complete the 22 creatively illustrated lessons in this unit. Activities include cutting and pasting pieces of a pictures together, connecting the dots to create an image, finishing incomplete drawings, making it through mazes, and tracing shapes. Even young students are sure to improve their fine motor skills.

Improve eye-hand coordination! Students will get plenty of practice honing their fine motor skills with the 22 creative tracing exercises in this book. Whether tracing zigzag lines through a maze, completing interesting pictures, or outlining letters of the alphabet and words like “fish” and “good,” children are sure to have fun while learning.

Fundamental thinking skills. As students work through the 20 visual exercises in this book, they learn to classify everything from “ocean creatures” to “things that fly.” Matching and coloring activities give students further practice grouping similar and dissimilar objects. The creative illustrations featured make the learning fun.

Learning their letters the fun way! This book is an inventive and inspiring vehicle for children to make their way through the alphabet. Each coloring exercise sports a different letter - literally from A to Z.Students are asked to distinguish upper case from lower case by use of color. Illustrations range from baseballs to gum balls and apples to grapes. Each object is monogrammed with an upper or lower case letter. A few summary puzzles are included, as is a connect-the-letters in order illustration on the final page.

Learning words by sight takes practice, practice, practice. This book provides children a fun way to do just that. Working from the standard Dolch List this book emphasizes 54 popular sight words - from mother to read and oodles of everyday words in between. All totaled, there are 29 different sight word activities in this book, including exercises to finish writing words, to unscramble words from blocks of letters and even completing sentences.

Exploring similar and opposite meanings. This 21-lesson unit is packed with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to synonyms and antonyms. Puzzles, word searches, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals of identifying and understanding words of like meanings (close/shut) and opposing meanings (over/under). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

Build basic skills with this 21-lesson unit! Activities introduce children to appropriate capitalization and basic punctuation. Students are taught to upper case the initial letter of names, months, titles, holidays, and more. Punctuation lessons focus on the use of question marks and periods. These step-by-step activities are sure to improve essential language and writing skills. Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice capitalizing words and punctuating sentences.

Improve visual perception! Matching up images and letter-pairs that are “similar” and “different” is the primary activity of the 22 lessons in this unit. As students work these coloring and following direction activities, they will improve visual perception and fine motor skills.

This fancifully illustrated book is filled with 25 pages of exercises designed to teach beginning consonants. What better way to start learning their B, C, D's than with images of familiar things. From drawings of a Bumblebee, a Cake, and a Door, to a Web, an Egg Yoke, and a Zebra, the highly visual lessons in this book help children put consonant sounds together with words and images. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary. All in all, this book is a great way for children to practice beginning consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association - all skills needed for reading success.

Building basic skills with this 21-lesson unit. These language-building activities introduce children to compound words and contractions. Word searches, puzzles, and color coding exercises are all utilized to teach the fundamentals. Skills reinforced by these activities include recognizing and forming basic compounds (tooth + brush = toothbrush), and understanding and writing contractions (what’s = what is). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

Diverse direction exercises! Example: Draw an owl on the cactus. If ducks have 4 feet, cross out the S'sPacked with puzzles and drawing exercises designed to make following directions fun, this creatively illustrated book is sure to boost basic comprehension and direction skills. With 20 lessons in all, exercises are sure to keep students interested as they learn.

Purposeful listening! This 24-lesson learning unit is packed with hands-on coloring activities designed to improve fine motor skills, visual perception, following directions, and more. Students follow rebus/picture directions that instruct them how to specifically color each segment of the accompanying illustration. Creative visual subjects range from “boxing kangaroos” and “a pig on a picnic” to “a giraffe hanging laundry on a clothesline.”

The building blocks of reading! This 20-lesson unit is brimming with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to verbs and adjectives. Word searches, puzzles, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals. As students progress, they are able to identify and understand that “verbs” describe an action or mode of being, and that “adjectives” offer enlightening and colorful descriptions. Skills reinforced by these activities include recognizing verbs, understanding “present” and “past” tenses, learning about adjectives that “compare,” using adjectives to “tell how things look,” and more. Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

Purposeful listening! This 24-lesson learning unit is packed with artistic, hands-on activities designed to improve fine motor skills, visual perception, following directions, and more. Students follow short written directions to complete the creative illustrations. “Connect the dots from 1 to 5.” “Draw a patch over one of the pirate’s eyes.”Visual subjects range from “a horse wearing a hat and boots” to “a bunny rabbit gardener.”

Hot/Cold. Happy/Sad. Open/Close. Many/Few. These are just a few of the 20 opposites explored in this book. With each exercise, students read a vocabulary word, practice tracing it, then color two of the three images that it describes. As students progress, they will improve their vocabulary, reading, handwriting, fine motor, and critical thinking skills.

Learning how a word ends is one more step toward successful reading. Utilizing drawings of everything from a craB to a mailboX, this book calls on images of familiar things to teach word closure. This creatively illustrated book is filled with 20 pages of exercises specifically designed to teach ending consonants. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary. Overall, this book is an outstanding way for children to practice ending consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association.

From “biggest” to “smallest” and “shortest” to “longest,” the 19 lessons in this book will develop students’ size comparison skills from good, to better, to the best! Children will have loads of fun tracing, coloring, and comparing everything from “snakes” and “worms” to “jump ropes” and “shoe laces.” Example: “The road to the city is long. The road to the ocean is longer. The road to the forest is longest.” Color the shortest road blue.Sizes include small, tall, little, long, and large. A pre/post test is included.