Saxon Math 1, Home Study Kit

The Math One Home Study Kit teaches children to skip count by one's, two's, five's and ten's, identify ordinal position to tenth, master all basic addition and subtraction facts, measure using inches, feet, and centimeters. Also teaches how to add quarters, draw polygons, and observe information from real graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs.

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Saxon Mathematics Homeschool Manipulatives Kit

The key to math success for your irrepressible hands-on learners! Designed to complement Saxon Math programs for grades K to 3, this home study kit includes a set of 55 dominoes, 100 "color tiles," 2 geoboards with rubber bands, 2 plastic clocks, assorted tangrams and colorful plastic shapes, 2 standard rulers, a student balance, teddy bear counters, and more. From ETA Cuisenaire.

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Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers

Can you teach your children to read in just 10 minutes a day? Yes, with this acclaimed phonics program! Progressive lessons present each letter of the alphabet by its sound and then blend letter sounds to form basic words. More advanced exercises introduce whole sentences. Includes teacher's manual and lesson plans. Nonconsumable. Grades K to 4. 168 pages, spiralbound softcover from Paradigm.

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Ted and Friends

Created in consultation with a language expert, these books are part of the engaging phonics-based series, especially written to help your child learn to read. The stories not only take into account recent research on the most effective ways of teaching reading, but are also great fun. Stephen Cartwright's delightful illustrations complement the text and are designed to stimulate further interest. Foldout pages add to the enjoyment. Contained in this book are Ted's Shed, Fat Cat on a Mat, Toad Makes a Road and Sam Sheep Can't Sleep.

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Learning Language Arts Through Literature Kit Grade 1

Now, an integrated reading program for first graders that's truly unique! Instead of canned sentences, they use passages from famous literary works - along with a bookful of learning materials - to help you teach phonics, reading, spelling, handwriting, grammar, and thinking skills for an entire 180-day school year.

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MCP Spelling Workout Level A (Gr. 1) Student Workbook

Spelling Workout uses a sports theme that gives you and your students the tools you need to be an unbeatable team! Capitalizing on the close tie between spelling and phonics, the program leads students from simple sound-letter relationships to more complex spelling patterns. Softcover, 192 pages.

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MCP Spelling Workout Level A (Gr. 1) Teacher's Edition

Spelling Workout uses a sports theme that gives you and your students the tools you need to be an unbeatable team! Capitalizing on the close tie between spelling and phonics, the program leads students from simple sound-letter relationships to more complex spelling patterns.

Features: Provides detailed lesson plans for either a 3-day or 5-day plan; offers strategy activities for reinforcing and analyzing spelling patterns; includes dictation sentences for a pre-test and final replay test; suggests tips for meeting the needs of ESL students; and features Take-It-Home masters to help foster home involvement. Softcover, 156 pages. Grade 1.

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Italic Handwriting: Book B

Italic is a modern handwriting system based on enduring letterforms that are highly suited to rapid and legible writing. Italic conforms to natural, rhythmic hand movements. Italic builds on previously learned concepts and the letter shapes remain the same from basic to cursive, eliminating the abrupt leap from "ball and stick" to looped cursive. Self-assessment is an integral part of the program.

Note: This workbook would replace the book below, Handwriting Skills Simplified

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Handwriting Skills Simplified Level A: Learning Manuscript Writing

Handwriting skills are needed in every facet of life, not just in the classroom! Children will be taught legible handwriting through practice and more practice! Handwriting Skills Simplified provides a direct, easyto do, "trace and write" method. Each page provides tracing and writing practice for each letter of the alphabet, along with individual words and sentences. Basic strokes, hand position, tracing, and the alphabet are also addressed. . Soon your students will have achieved legible cursive handwriting! 64 pages, reproducible for classroom use. Grade 1, manuscript. This book features the new simplified Zaner-Bloser alphabet models.

Note: This workbook would replace the book above, Italic Handwriting.

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Adventures at Sea Curriculum

Ten Terrific Weeks is a program that pairs a 10 week guide full of fun educational activities with a themed set of Usborne books. As your children read the books and participate in the interactive program, they will learn and retain more information about each subject. You will be amazed at the results!

This program is perfect for parents, teachers, home educators, day care providers, grandparents... anybody looking for a fun way to keep children learning!

What does each set include?

• Themed set of books


• Educational activities for 10 weeks, 5 days a week


• What to read


• Topics for discussion


• Additional correlated activities


• Any necessary worksheets, supply lists


• List of additional titles to complement each set including younger reader participation titles


• A certificate of completion to reinforce the accomplishment

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Social Studies Made Simple, Grade 1

This easy-to-use series is packed with interesting activities and projects that are designed to reinforce the knowledge, skills, and values children need to become informed and involved citizens. Teacher pages guide you through activities that cover culture, national identity, map and globe skills, citizenship, communication systems, transportation, charts, graphs, critical thinking, and much more. Student pages will spark their interest and imagination as they explore the worlds of civics, the creative arts, economics, geography, history, and language arts. Reproducible. 80 pages, softcover.

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Maps Workbook, Grade 1

Topics include: Globes Cardinal Directions Map Keys and Symbols Map Grids Landforms and Bodies of Water City Maps U.S. Maps World Maps Road Maps and lots more!

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