Parent Resources

Skill Sharpeners Reading series contains engaging full-color stories followed by activity pages that practice a variety of reading skills. Skill Sharpeners Reading is designed to help your child improve his or her reading skills.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 32 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts and incorporate a variety of reading comprehension activities.

Daily instruction on reading strategies and skills needed to improve comprehension and raise test scores.

Give your students their own practice book for daily instruction on reading strategies and skills. The student book corresponds to the teacher’s edition, providing daily practice in reading comprehension. (No answer key)

Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills.

Give your first-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become strong and successful writers. Thanks to engaging art, topics, and activities, even beginning writers can practice the six traits of writing!

How to Write a Story makes it easy to develop confident, competent storywriters. There are lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story, reproducible planning forms, and guidelines for writing in six different genres.

Help your students turn simple sentences into super sentences! Writing forms, writing-center activities, and a trait-based writing guide help you provide students with structured and motivating writing practice.

This comprehensive teaching resource helps first grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards.

Students practice language skills covering punctuation, verb tense, conjunctions, word meaning, and more in ten- to fifteen-minute daily lessons. Daily Language Review is correlated to current standards.

Give your students their own Daily Language Review practice book, ideal for daily classwork or homework. The student book corresponds to the teacher’s edition, with language and vocabulary skills practice specifically developed to meet current standards. (No answer key.)

Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills.

Give your students their own Building Spelling Skills practice book, ideal for daily classwork or homework. The student book corresponds to the teacher’s edition, and includes spelling lists and practice pages. (No answer key.)

It has been proven that children benefit immensely when parents take an active role in their education. Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write provides grade-specific practice designed to keep written language skills sharp.

Help your grade 1 students develop the rich and diverse vocabulary they need for academic success! The 144 daily lessons in A Word a Day, Grade 1 use a variety of activities and approaches to provide students with a deep understanding of word meaning that goes past surface-level memorization.