Over 1.7 million Highlights Big Fun Workbooks sold! Jumpstart learning with this award-winning 2nd grade workbook from the kid experts at Highlights. Developed with teachers and aligned with curriculum standards, this workbook will get kids excited for second grade! Jam-packed with 256 pages of puzzle-based activities — including ever-popular Hidden Pictures, mazes, matching games and scavenger hunts — there’s something for every learning style. Expertly crafted, age-appropriate activities mix and match skills and puzzle types to create a fresh approach to school readiness, helping kids build skills in: · Language Arts: reading, phonics, vocabulary, grammar, cursive · Math: place value, addition, subtraction, fractions, time · Social studies, map skills and science topics In addition to imaginative puzzles, silly poems and colorful illustrations, this 256-page second grade workbook also features: · Simple tips to help parents maximize learning · A Certificate of Achievement to celebrate kids’ hard work · Links to more online learning activities The Highlights Second Grade Big Fun Workbook is the winner of the Family Choice Award, Play Advances Language (PAL) Award, PAL Top Ten Pick and the 2020 National Parenting Seal of Approval.

Get ready for preschool! Designed for children who need reinforcement or are motivated to learn more, this 192-page chunky learning pad is packed with fun preschool activities that help develop math readiness skills. It uses puzzles, humor and reward stickers to lower the barriers to learning and encourage open-mindedness toward new challenges. A companion to the award-winning Highlights Preschool Big Fun Workbook, this substantial pad provides kids with extra practice in numbers, counting, shapes, patterns, sorting, ordering, and a bonus section of STEAM activities. The pad also teaches important "non-academic" skills that will last a lifetime, such as focus, attention to detail, and using multiple strategies to solve a problem. Plus, it's sized to easily tuck in a backpack or purse for learning anywhere.

From the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported. - Lillian G. Katz Coauthor of Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express - they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher like you to recognize the writer at work within them. All you need to help them is Already Ready. Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, Already Ready shows you how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. Providing numerous, helpful examples of early writing - complete with transcriptions - they demonstrate how to: make sense of children's writing and interpret how they represent sounds, ideas, and images see important developmental signs in writers that you can use to help them grow further recognize the thinking young children engage in and discover that it's the same thinking more experienced writers use to craft purposeful, thoughtful pieces. Then Ray and Glover show you how little ones can develop powerful understandings about: texts and their characteristics the writing process what it means to be a writer. You'll learn how to support your writers' quest to make meaning, as they grow their abilities and refine their thinking about writing through teaching strategies such as: reading aloud working side by side with writers sharing children's writing. Writing is just one part of a busy early childhood classroom, but even in little doses, a nurturing approach can work wonders and help children connect the natural writer inside them to a life of expressing themselves on paper. Find that approach, share it with your students, and you'll discover that you don't have to get students ready to write - they're Already Ready.

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The long-awaited new edition of NAEYC's book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs is here, fully revised and updated! Since the first edition in 1987, it has been an essential resource for the early childhood education field. Early childhood educators have a professional responsibility to plan and implement intentional, developmentally appropriate learning experiences that promote the social and emotional development, physical development and health, cognitive development, and general learning competencies of each child served. But what is developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)? DAP is a framework designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development through a strengths-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. As educators make decisions to support each child's learning and development, they consider what they know about (1) commonality in children's development and learning, (2) each child as an individual (within the context of their family and community), and (3) everything discernible about the social and cultural contexts for each child, each educator, and the program as a whole. This latest edition of the book is fully revised to underscore the critical role social and cultural contexts play in child development and learning, including new research about implicit bias and teachers' own context and consideration of advances in neuroscience. Educators implement developmentally appropriate practice by recognizing the many assets all young children bring to the early learning program as individuals and as members of families and communities. They also develop an awareness of their own context. Building on each child's strengths, educators design and implement learning settings to help each child achieve their full potential across all domains of development and across all content areas.

Over 100 simple preschool activities that use everyday materials. You don't need to invest a lot of money to teach your child at home. Activities are short, with minimal prep so you can fit some learning into your day The book is organized into nine categories of learning; literacy, math, science, sensory, art, fine motor, gross motor, social-emotional, and bedtime reading tips. Activities have been created using various state standards for PreK and have tips for making activities easier or harder to fit your child. An Appendix filled with links to free printables, song lyrics, nursery rhymes, my favorite playdough recipe, and more.

Get ready for preschool! Designed for children who need reinforcement or are motivated to learn more, this 192-page chunky learning pad is packed with fun preschool activities that help develop reading and writing readiness skills. It uses puzzles, humor and reward stickers to lower the barriers to learning and encourage open-mindedness toward new challenges. A companion to the award-winning Highlights Preschool Big Fun Workbook, this substantial pad provides kids with extra practice in the alphabet, sight words, and important prewriting fine-motor skills through tracing, cutting, and a bonus section of STEAM activities. The pad also teaches important "non-academic" skills that will last a lifetime, such as focus, attention to detail, and using multiple strategies to solve a problem. Plus, it's sized to easily tuck in a backpack or purse for learning anywhere.

Are you looking for a fun workbook to help you teach your child to write? Then you are in the right place! Take your child on an exciting journey through the entire ABC and all the numbers from 0 to 30 with: Letter And Number Tracing Book For Kids Ages 3-5: A Fun Practice Workbook To Learn The Alphabet And Numbers From 0 To 30 For Preschoolers And Kindergarten Kids! This exercise book introduces your child to writing letters and numbers in a playful and age-appropriate manner that will help him or her get to know the alphabet and the numbers 0 to 30. In this way, children are guided and optimally prepared for pre-school and primary school. The book is divided into sections: numbers and letters. The learning process is guided as follows: Letters Every letter is new territory for your child. The first step is to get to know the letter and practice through the correct pen guidance by simply tracing it. This is followed by a word containing the letter you have just learned. So your child learns to put the letter in a word. Encourage your child to read the word aloud to directly practice the corresponding sound. Finally, your child learns to write the letter freely and independently. Numbers To understand the meaning of numbers, your child starts counting picture elements. Then, just as with letters, he or she will have to trace the numbers. As soon as they become more confident, free writing follows the number you have just learned, with guidelines ensuring that the number is placed at the correct height. In both areas, learning takes place in a meaningful and reliable structure that gives your child security and constantly encourages them to see their own progress. Parents can help their children work through this exercise book and provide the necessary support. After all, writing is not easy for every child. Parents should keep a special eye on the correct pen position and hand guidance and celebrate every milestone with their child. For both numbers and letters, encourage your child to speak out loud about what he or she has learned. The more senses are involved in the learning process, the faster and easier it is to learn. By completing this exercise book, your child will be able to write the lower and upper case letters from A to Z, as well as the numbers 0 to 30. It is especially important that your child can work and learn at their own pace. This is the only way to keep the fun and become more confident in writing from letter to letter, or from number to number. A quick look at the most important facts of the book: Suitable for children from ages 3 to 5 Sensible structure that optimally accompanies the learning process Great preparation for pre-school and kindergarten A fun way to learn the numbers from 0 to 30 and the letters A to Z Designed and sensibly structured to suit children Promotes correct pen management and concentration Lots of space for free practice Lovely designs Combine play with learning. Benefit from "Letter And Number Tracing Book For Kids Ages 3-5" and accompany your child within a meaningful structure on the way to writing letters and numbers! Get this book NOW!