Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
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ISBN: 9781645141556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Give your first grader a strong computer science foundation with Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities. Children will learn important coding concepts with engaging stories and practice activities. Based on the K-12 Computer Science Framework, this dynamic early learning series helps children understand coding concepts to develop a strong foundation in computer science, including computational thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking. Each full-color activity book is organized into eight themed units around one coding concept and includes: - Coding stories that demonstrate what coders do and include an audio read-aloud feature - Concept pages that connect coding concepts to real-world situations - Practice activities that reinforce important coding rules - Review pages for every coding concept practiced - Coding projects with print-based games and puzzles - Mini coding handbook with key terms Computer science concepts and skills help early learners become critical thinkers by practicing the building blocks of thinking such as: - Algorithms that design simple steps to solve problems - Decomposition that shows how to break down complex problems into smaller ones - Sequencing that demonstrates how the order of things is important - Pattern recognition that makes connections between similar problems Programming language concepts such as: - Debugging that shows how to look for mistakes and correct them - Loops that can be used to save time by instructing a computer to repeat an action - Conditionals that teach children how to create "if_then_" statements Children will also practice a variety of readiness skills such as print awareness, visual discrimination, following directions, and fine motor skills. *Includes answer key
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645141501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Give your child positive math experiences and strong math foundations with Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities. The colorful activities introduce math concepts in creative ways using math stories to help children recognize number relationships in the world around them. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities workbooks provide structured weekly activities to help children practice and learn numbers, counting, measurement, addition and subtraction, shape recognition, and graphing. Audio story read-alouds with colorful illustrations help students learn math concepts and make connections to the real world. Illustrated activities provide meaningful practice in a variety of formats, giving children multiple opportunities to achieve understanding. Math activities: - Provide strong math foundations that teach the most important math skills. - Include creative and fun lessons that help children create positive math connections. - Provide reward stickers to motivate children to complete the activities. - Include audio stories that incorporate reading comprehension and vocabulary to demonstrate how math works in the real world. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities is organized into weekly lessons around one math skill or strategy. Each unit begins with activities that have simple tasks that help children better understand the concept. Children gain confidence as they compete each activity and gradually progress to completing more difficult math tasks. Each unit includes: - Math stories: audio read-aloud stories help children experience math with real-world problem solving. - Math practice activities: introduce one skill/concept per week. - Write It! activities: build math vocabulary, beginning writing, and fine motor skills. Throughout this early learning series, children will practice essential foundational math skills, such as: - Beginning counting - Shapes - Patterns - Measurement - Addition and subtraction Includes answer key.
Author: Donald Bear
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780076795598
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The Reading/Writing Workshop provides students with powerful systematic support for the close reading of short complex texts with core lessons all in one place. Each volume introduces the week’s concept with photographs, interactive graphic organizers, videos, and more; teaches and models elements of close reading with shared short complex texts; allows for flexibility and efficient use of instructional time; and includes a grammar handbook in every volume starting at Grade 2.
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645141532
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Give your preschooler a strong computer science foundation with Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities. Children will learn important coding concepts with engaging stories and practice activities. Based on the K-12 Computer Science Framework, this dynamic early learning series helps children understand coding concepts to develop a strong foundation in computer science, including computational thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking. Each full-color activity book is organized into eight themed units around one coding concept and includes: - Coding stories that demonstrate what coders do and include an audio read-aloud feature - Concept pages that connect coding concepts to real-world situations - Practice activities that reinforce important coding rules - Review pages for every coding concept practiced - Coding projects with print-based games and puzzles - Mini coding handbook with key terms Computer science concepts and skills help early learners become critical thinkers by practicing the building blocks of thinking such as: - Algorithms that design simple steps to solve problems - Decomposition that shows how to break down complex problems into smaller ones - Sequencing that demonstrates how the order of things is important - Pattern recognition that makes connections between similar problems Programming language concepts such as: - Debugging that shows how to look for mistakes and correct them - Loops that can be used to save time by instructing a computer to repeat an action Children will also practice a variety of readiness skills such as print awareness, visual discrimination, following directions, and fine-motor skills. *Includes answer key
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645140870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Accelerate children''s reading skills by helping them learn to read sight words and high-frequency words!The ability to read sight words and high-frequency words is necessary for fluent reading and is one of the most important components of language learning! Since many sight words and high-frequency words are not phonetic, children need repeated practice to recognize these words on sight. The stories and activities in this book help children read Dolch Sight Words and high-frequency words quickly and accurately.Each full-color Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words activity book guides young children in practicing and learning important sight words from the Dolch Sight Word List as well as the most commonly used high-frequency words.Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words:* Provides strong reading foundations: 18 units build high-frequency and sight word identification and increase reading fluency.* Creative and fun lessons: Entertain your child while he or she learns important foundational reading tools.* Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities.Accelerate children''s reading skills by helping them learn to read sight words and high-frequency words! The ability to read sight words and high-frequency words is necessary for fluent reading and is one of the most important components of language learning! Since many sight words and high-frequency words are not phonetic, children need repeated practice to recognize these words on sight. The stories and activities in this book help children read Dolch Sight Words and high-frequency words quickly and accurately. Each full-color Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words activity book guides young children in practicing and learning important sight words from the Dolch Sight Word List as well as the most commonly used high-frequency words. Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words:* Provides strong reading foundations: 18 units build high-frequency and sight word identification and increase reading fluency. * Creative and fun lessons: Entertain your child while he or she learns important foundational reading tools.* Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities.* Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child and model correct pronunciation. Each unit''s story provides specific practice of carefully chosen words children have practiced and learned in previous units.Each unit provides structured activities to help children practice and learn "must-know" sight words and high-frequency words. The carefully controlled vocabulary within each unit provides: * Learn New Words: Introduction to new words* Practice New Words: Practice activities to reinforce children''s learning* Story: Audio read-aloud story to model fluency * Review: Word-list practice sliders to help children review words at any timePractice important kindergarten sight words and high-frequency words such as: * Sight Words and High-Frequency Words: farm, going, hill, live, more, top, when, brother, from, give, know, put, sister, your* Story Vocabulary: grass, sheep, box, dog, rain, snow, sun, windPerfect for language learners and early learners, these activities provide a strong foundation for reading and recognizing common English words.Pair Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words with Smart Start: Read and Write and turn your child into a successful reader. Includes answer key.* Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child and model correct pronunciation.Each unit''s story provides specific practice of carefully chosen words children have practiced and learned in previous units. Each unit provides structured activities to help children practice and learn "must-know" sight words and high-frequency words. The carefully controlled vocabulary within each unit provides:* Learn New Words: Introduction to new words* Practice New Words: Practice activities to reinforce children''s learning* Story: Audio read-aloud story to model fluency* Review: Word-list practice sliders to help children review words at any timePractice important kindergarten sight words and high-frequency words such as:* Sight Words and High-Frequency Words: farm, going, hill, live, more, top, when, brother, from, give, know, put, sister, your* Story Vocabulary: grass, sheep, box, dog, rain, snow, sun, windPerfect for language learners and early learners, these activities provide a strong foundation for reading and recognizing common English words.Pair Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words with Smart Start: Read and Write and turn your child into a successful reader. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.Includes answer key.
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645141525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Help your first grader build strong math foundations with Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities. Developed by teachers, the colorful activities introduce math skills in creative ways. Each unit introduces important math vocabulary and helps children recognize math in the world around them. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities workbooks provide structured weekly activities to help children practice and learn numbers, counting, measurement, addition and subtraction, shape recognition, and graphing. Audio story read-alouds with colorful illustrations help students learn math concepts and make connections to the real world. Illustrated activities provide meaningful practice in a variety of formats, giving children multiple opportunities to achieve understanding. Math activities: - Provide strong math foundations that teach the most important math skills. - Include creative and fun lessons that help children create positive math connections. - Use reward stickers to motivate children to complete the activities. - Include audio stories that incorporate reading comprehension and vocabulary to demonstrate how math works in the real world. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities is organized into weekly lessons around one math skill or strategy. Each unit begins with activities that have simple tasks that help children better understand the concept. Children gain confidence as they compete each activity and gradually progress to completing more difficult math tasks. Each unit includes: - Math stories: audio read-aloud stories help children experience math with real-world problem solving. - Math practice activities: introduce one skill/concept per week. - Write It! activities: build math vocabulary, beginning writing, and fine motor skills. Throughout this early learning series, children will practice essential foundation math skills, such as: - Skip counting - Fractions - Graphing - Addition and subtraction - Measurement Includes answer key.
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629384030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Children get a Smart Start with colorful activities that practice science, math, reading, geography, and thinking skills. Fun art projects provide opportunities for hands-on activities such as cutting, gluing, coloring, and more! Children practice foundational skills such as following directions, using picture clues, and problem solving. There are six certificates for children to display and a full sheet of stickers to mark their achievements!
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9781629389837
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Help your child become a reader and writer with Smart Start: Read and Write! Developed by teachers, the colorful activities provide the perfect combination of fun and practice to give your child the foundation needed for academic success. The grade 1 Smart Start: Read and Write workbook helps your child identify word family spelling patterns, practice rhyming words, and read and write simple sentences. Accelerate your child's reading progress: 20 easy-to-follow weekly lessons help your child increase reading and vocabulary with word families. Creative and fun lessons: Keep your child entertained while learning. Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities. Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child. The activity book is organized into weekly lessons around word families such as "an" and "at" and "ig" and "in." Activities focus on practicing two different word family patterns a week. Every themed unit follows a similar format and includes: Alphabet stories: Introduce two word family patterns and include an audio read-aloud option. Spell It! activities: Focus on writing and vocabulary. Write It! activities: Provide practice reading and writing simple sentences. Read It! activities: Provide reading and reading comprehension practice. Find It! activities: Provide fun word searches around the word families of the week. Let's Review! activities: This simple review activity helps you evaluate your child's understanding of word families and provides additional practice. Practice important first grade skills in Smart Start: Read and Write, such as: Writing and reading simple words and sentences Identifying word family patterns Reading comprehension Vocabulary Following directions Fine motor skills Includes answer key. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
Author: Connie Juel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461242827
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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When a fourth-grade student, Jenny, was asked about reading, she stated: "I love to read, you get real neat ideas. I really like books about animals and biographies. I'm writing my autobiography now. Oh, I also really like Judy Blume books. " Her enthusiasm for reading is evident as she tells you about the Judy Blume book she just read, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970). Jenny reads almost every night at home. Jenny's classmate through 4 years of elementary school, Anna. responds, when asked about reading: "I hate to read; it's boring. " Anna says she never reads at home. She says she'd rather watch television or play with friends. Anna would even rather clean her room than read. She explains, "I'd rather clean my room because it makes the room look neat. Reading makes my head hurt because it's so boring and no fun. " Jenny and Anna attended a large neighborhood elementary school in Austin, Texas. The school is located in a lower socioeconomic status (SES) area of small houses, duplexes, mld apartments. About 45% of the children at the school are Hispanic, 35% are African-American, and 20% are Anglo. The school consistently ranks mnong the lowest schools in the district on standardized reading achievement tests. Upon entering first grade, neither Jenny nor Anna could read the words that were to appear in their first preprimer reader.
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9781629389820
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Help your child become a reader and writer with Smart Start: Read and Write! Developed by teachers, the colorful activities provide the perfect combination of fun and practice to give your child the foundation needed for academic success. The kindergarten Smart Start: Read and Write workbook helps your child connect letters to beginning and ending sounds, print upper- and lowercase letters, read simple sentences, and practice story comprehension skills Accelerate your child's reading progress: 20 easy-to-follow weekly lessons build alphabet awareness and develop reading readiness skills. Creative and fun lessons: Keep your child entertained while learning. Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities. Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child. The activity book is organized into weekly lessons around story themes such as "Bear Cub Cave" and "Pete Sheep." Activities focus on beginning and ending letter sounds in simple words. Every themed unit follows a similar format and includes: Alphabet stories: Focus on one letter sound and alphabet character and include an audio read-aloud option. Listen for It! activities: Focus on identifying beginning and ending letter sounds. Read It! activities: Provide reading practice around the sound of the week and reading simple sentences. Let's Review! activities: This simple review activity helps you evaluate your child's understanding of each alphabet letter and beginning sound. I Know It! activities: Provides review activities that practice beginning and ending sounds, writing letters, and reading simple sentences. Beginning and Ending Sound Game! activities: This fun card game helps your child match beginning and ending sounds. Practice important kindergarten skills in Smart Start: Read and Write, such as: Writing uppercase and lowercase letters and beginning words Identifying beginning and ending sounds Visual discrimination Following directions Fine motor skills Sequencing Includes answer key. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
