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Help your child succeed in school with the Kindergarten Reading and Math Activities book, a brightly colored, oversize flip pad filled with puzzles, games, mazes, and other challenges. The activities offer a positive and exciting learning experience for eager-to-learn kindergartners, introducing them to basic math and reading skills.

Designed for children ages 4 and older, the Kindergarten Reading and Math Activities pad features 200 activities. Each focuses on a different math or reading skill and provides plenty of opportunities to practice that skill. The activities are arranged in order of difficulty, beginning with the most basic skills, to build a child's confidence. Kids will enjoy activities such as matching objects, solving puzzles, and identifying missing letters. Children will have fun as they reinforce these reading and math skills:

• Sight words
• Letter formation
• Phonics
• Word families
• Adding and subtracting
• Rote counting to 100
• Counting money

Every activity explains the kindergarten math or reading skill being taught and is labeled with a skills key to help parents identify skills that children may need to practice. Answer pages are included at the back of the book. Many pages suggest additional hands-on activities to help reinforce skills. Featuring colorful, 11x16-inch worksheets and a sturdy cardboard backing, the Kindergarten Reading and Math Activities book can help kindergartners get a head start in school.

The book is part of a learning series that also includes the Preschool Reading and Math Activities pad and the First Grade Reading and Math Activities pad.

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This comprehensive program with systematic and explicit phonics and word analysis instruction provides a fresh, new approach for all types of learners. Color-coded, interlocking Reading Rods and engaging Student Activity Books will keep students focused on key literacy skills. Each Teacher's Guide offers easy-to-use lessons and creative extension ideas. Reading Rods Phonics will supplement any basal program or can be used alone to build a solid foundation for reading success. View the Reading Rods Phonics Kit Each Grade-Level Reading Rods Phonics Program Contains:Reading Rods--Four sets each of three different hands-on kits, Twenty-four full-color, 160-page Student Activity Books, Comprehensive 160-page Teacher's Guide, FREE Implementation DVD, FREE Implementation and Assessment Guide, Colorful Game Boards, Color-coded Pocket Chart Cards, Reading Rods Overhead Tiles for whole-class demonstrations, Four Reading Rods Activity Trays, Unique VersaTote Learning and Storage Center Intervention Packages, Includes 6 Student Activity Books and all the materials listed above. Reading Rods Phonics Add-On Rods Sets, Kindergarten Add-On Set Includes one set each of Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness, Initial Consonants and Word Families, and Simple Sentences rods, each packaged in a VersaTote Storage Container. Grade 1 Add-On Set Includes one set each of Short Vowel Word Families, Phonics Word-Building, and Simple Sentences rods, each packaged in a VersaTote Storage Container. Grade 2 Add-On Set Includes one set each of Phonics Word-Building; Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words; and Simple Sentences rods, each packaged in a VersaTote Storage Container. Grade 3 Add-On Set Includes one set each of Phonics Word-Building; Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words; and Sentence-Construction rods, each packaged in a VersaTote Storage Container. ... Read more

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Reading Activities A to Z presents a detailed lesson plan format of open-ended reading activities. The activities are easy-to-understand and follow. Each section will assist users in finding reading activities for a theme based curriculum, to incorporate a letter of the week, or provide a spur of the moment filler activity. ... Read more

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A gradual progression in activity formats helps build confidence and independence for early readers. The book is divided into six areas:· Following Directions (art projects use simple instructions and visual cues)· Sequencing Directions (order pictures and text to sequence steps for simple, familiar tasks) · Draw?Then Write (follow simple directions to create a picture, then write about)· Read, Think, Cut & Paste (use critical thinking and reading skills to sequence story events)· All About Me Children (activities that help develop self-concept)· Who? What? Where? When? (children focus on nouns, verbs, and prepositions in an age-appropriate approach) ... Read more

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Help kids extend and deepen their reading experiences with these delightful, comprehension-boosting graphic organizers. Designed for use with fiction and nonfiction books, the simple formats help young readers really think about what they read and record their thoughts in an organized, meaningful way. Topics include identifying story elements, sequencing events, drawing conclusions, summarizing, making connections, examining words, and more. Encourages critical and creative thinking! For use with Grades K–2. ... Read more

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SUPERB!easy to use!
I use ALL the worksheets in this book throughout the year. !I teach a multi-level class ranging from K-2nd grade abilities. The worksheets are GREAT!Its not your boring "main idea" or "summary" page. Worksheets are for word study, vocabulary, non-fiction reading and personal reflection.I have thrown out many paper files because its much easier to use this one "GO TO"book!

Easy to Use - Just photocopy pages!
This book is well worth the money.It is very easy to use, just photocopy the reproducible pages and use them in your classroom.Some of the response activity sheets in this book could be used for up to grade 3. ... Read more

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This text provides classroom teachers and education students with successful, class-tested activities that are valuable for developing and implementing a literature-based reading program. Literature-Based Reading Activities is distinguished by discussion of the theoretical and research bases supporting all activities. Numerous activities and examples of their application to a variety of genres are provided. One of the text's strengths is that activities are generic in nature so that they may be applied and adapted to a variety of books. It also provides guidelines so that teachers and students learn how to be effective decision-makers in planning literature instruction for their K-8 students. ... Read more

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Very Practical
Out of the KAGILIAN education books I've bought in the past decade or so, this one is so practical.The examples given are useful for almost any age and are broken down in 3 categories (pre-reading, during reading, post-reading).This book has really good ideas.

Excellent Product & Prompt Delivery
This book arrived very quickly and was exactly as described in the item description. I would definitely recommend the book and this seller to everyone.

A Wonderful Resource for Elementary Teachers
This book is a required text for an Elementary Literacy course I'm taking. It contains a variety of reading activities with excellent examples, and it would make a terrific resource for teachers who want to make reading more engaging, improve comprehension, and encourage stimulating discussions. I will definitely be using this book often in the classroom. ... Read more

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Includes a $10 discount coupon off your child’s Skills Assessment at a Sylvan Learning Center.

Sylvan’s Kindergarten Reading Readiness workbook will help your child learn the basic skills needed to read in a fun and engaging way. It is full of curriculum-based activities that strengthen an emerging reader’s ability to recognize and understand basic words and text. Each activity focuses on a skill needed to become a superstar reader.

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Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a 2009 Honors Award from the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. The NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources, and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents.

Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research.  Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools.  Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential.  Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning. ... Read more

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My 4 Year Old is Happily Learning
My 4 year old loves the "challenges" of this workbook. It presents a systematic approach to learning sounds of consonants and vowels which my little one finds fun and absorbing. However, some of the pictures are not clear. For example, the mouse and the rat were very similar. A mop puzzled him: "What's this? Spaghetti at the bottom of a stick?"

Four-year old excited
I purcahsed this book for a four-year old!Her Mom says she completed the workbook in three days!Remarkable!Her Mom is very pleased with the Reading Readiness! ... Read more

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Here are 50 engaging activities that help teach young children to read. The book developes phonemic awareness, helps kids master the alphabet, empowers kids with phonics skills, and tunes kids into the exciting world of print. ... Read more

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Reading, Writing Activities
This book is a pre-k teacher and pre-k mom must have.It is packed with truely great ideas.

All you need to teach reading -- while having fun!
When I picked up this book, I did not expect it to be so comprehensive in teaching reading and writing. This a small, but powerful book. I expected a few activities as a supplement to other methods. The activities use all five senses and are fun. They incorporate dancing, singing, and sometimes eating. As another reviewer wrote, this may be the only book you may ever need to teach reading!

I have a Masters Degree in Education, with focus on literacy and learning disabilities. I have read many books on whole language vs. phonics instruction, but none that incorporated both as well as this one does.

The book is divided into 7 sections, each one building on the other as they master it. Within each section, is a list of supplies needed for the activities. This is the only book that I have read that I really have all the supplies necessary to start right away. Then, the actual activities. At the edge of each activity page, there is a box that the author has given some more wonderful information. She has a Reading Zone with books to read to the child to expand on the activities. There is Teaching Time that explains the concept development that the activities focus on. The last, but very important item the author included, is State Standards Say which tells what most states expect of children to know when they are tested in reading at school.

Here are the 7 sections (just a small sample of activities included):

Let's Talk About It (prereading skills)
make a collage, make a sequence crown
teaches to identify and sort words, extend vocabulary, following directions, connect to real life experiences

Start with Sounds
rhyme time, treasure hunt, monster munch
recite and produce rhyming words, listen for phonemes in words

Print Power!
rainbow writing, autograph book, word necklace
distinguish letters from words, learn that print provide information in everyday setting

Now I Know My ABC's
eating the alphabet, milk-cap mania, alpha-pet
learning upper and lower case alphabet, sequencing letters

Phonics Fun
alphabet crowns, word puzzlers, phonics gizmos
learning consonant and vowel sounds, as words change so do sounds

Write On!
office signs, business cards, stationery, it's in the mail, spell-a-phone
identify types of everyday printed materials

Beyond the Tale
dazzling diagrams, wonder webs, teeny-tiny theater
learn to use fiction and non-fiction material, retell stories

Fun book Full of Great Activities!
This book is so cute is it filled with really fun learning activites.We use it for Kindergarten homeschool.Very fun and educational!

The perfect Early Literacy resource
As a librarian working with parents to help their preschoolers develop pre-reading skills, I have recommended this book hundreds of times.The activities in this book are fun, easy, inexpensive ways to develop all the essential skills children need to master before they can learn to read.Activities include letter knowledge, rhyming, word families, recognizing environmental print, and other important pre-reading skills.Most can be done with no special materials, or with paper plates, magazine pictures, and other materials you probably have lying around the house.Hauser is tuned in to how children learn and how they play; activities are age-appropriate and avoid the "drill & kill" approach by keeping activities fun and filled with child appeal.The first (and possibly only) resource you need to raise a child who's ready to read.

Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum.
Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum. This book gave me wonderful ideas on teaching little ones to read. This book helped me plan lessons for my home toddler/preschool daycare. This book is a MUST HAVE for home daycare providers and home schooling parents. ... Read more

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Children love to pretend, and dramatic play is the perfect environment for children to practice and apply literacy concepts. Whether they decide to be firefighters, to open a pet store, or to have a tea party, children will increase their vocabulary, communicate with their peers, and learn to recognize environmental print--all important skills for prereaders. Literacy Play is chock-full of creative dramatic play activities that teach important pre-reading skills while bringing children's imaginations to life!

Amy Cox has been a supervising teacher in the Melba S. Lehner Children's School at Weber State University for the past nine years.

Sherrie West is a mentor teacher for Head Start at the Ogden Area Community Action Agency.

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love it
love it; great ideas for dramatic play and literacy activities; my preschooler loves doing them and it's time well spent;the best learning takes place when kids don't feel they're being "schooled" and this definitely fits the bill

This book had great ideas and printables!!!!
This book had great ideas for any dramatic play area.
I have used quite a few in my dramatic play area at school.
I also enjoyed the printables in the back of the book. ... Read more

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Get solid learning results with phonics! Teach students in Grades K-1 the basics of phonemic awareness to increase reading skills.·These lessons include playful story hour rhymes and activities to provide direct instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness targeted to get solid learning results·The lessons are easy-to-implement and correlated to national standards. They are a perfect resource for helping your students make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)·Included in the book are original, instructional, reproducible black line masters!No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has raised national awareness of student reading proficiency. This new resource offers hands-on help with teaching phonics and phonemic awareness. These easy-to-follow lessons on letter and sound recognition will help educators build the foundation for an effective reading program in the classroom and library. Use this book to teach phonics and improve your students' reading scores! ... Read more

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I'm cheating a bit because this is my own book and I'm proud of it. (You may disregard my rating--winks). Not only does "ABC, Follow Me!" help children with the sounds of letters (phonemic awareness), but it also helps them recognize and differentiate letter symbols. The crafts are included not just for their fun value, but also because they help children get a kinetic feel for letter shapes--something that can be very useful for dyslexic learners. For example, one craft suggests that children cut out large letters and then place a sheet of paper over the cut-out and make a rubbing. Also included are playground activities using letter chants, dramatic play suggestions, ideas for related creative art projects, and bibliographies of additional useful resources.

For all K & Grade 1 Teachers
Every kindergarten and first grade teacher needs this book! Fun rhymes teach and reinforce phonemic awareness. Crafts are age-appropriate and inexpensive, created with materials most teachers have on hand. Craft patterns are included, as well as photos of the finished product. The lessons offered are great ways to engage children in learning. ... Read more

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Help Students develop literacy and language skills through research-based, student-centered reading activities. A Teacher Resource CD is provided that contains all of the activities in full color. 176pp.+ CD. ... Read more

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B> With an emphasis being placed on teaching K-3 reading skills development, teachers have less time to spend on teaching how literature relates to the content areas. This text encourages emergent literacy as well as reading of literature on the content fields. This book functions as an overview of Literacy, Learning, and Literature, followed by chapter-long, specific introductions to content areas.This book analyzes and describes 125 literature books, each with follow-up activities that teachers can use to teach science, mathematics, and social studies to emergent readers. Early childhood educators, child care workers, parents, or others who may be helping young readers improve their literacy. ... Read more