School Day Skills for grade 1 is a comprehensive resource that offers daily activities to support learning and help students build confidence. The book provides engaging practice with essential concepts such as grammar, vocabulary, addition, subtraction, place value, telling time, and more. School Day Skills features five lessons for each week of the school year for a total of 135 lessons. Each lesson includes standards-based practice in math and language arts to help your child improve basic skills. A great way to stay organized during the year, this book includes pages labeled by season, week, and day. While these daily lessons only take a few minutes to complete, they quickly build skills for school success.

Have you researched Charlotte Mason's philosophy of education but discounted it as old-fashioned and overtly religious? Then this is the book you need to read. In A Literary Education, Emily Cook lays out how she has brought Miss Mason's ideology into the modern age for secular homeschoolers. In conversational prose she discusses the key tenants used in Charlotte Mason homeschooling and explains how to make them work for your family. You'll read about:� Living books and how to use them� Reading aloud: the why and the how� Nature study in the 21st century� How to inspire creativity in your children� How to get the most out of the preschool years� How to combine children of multiple ages� And much more!In A Literary Education, Emily shares her 14 year homeschool journey and how she has learned to take Charlotte Mason's method of home education into the 21st century to give her children a beautiful living books education.

This resource contains six sections: Vocabulary Development, Identifying Important Information, Character Analysis, Summarizing & Sequencing Events, Reasoning & Critical Thinking, and Creativity & Design. Each section begins with a Teacher's Notes page that will provide suggestions to help you to introduce the sections and to obtain the best results from your students. One of the first steps for appropriate literacy development in young children is to provide meaningful activities that will prepare them for successful and enjoyable reading experiences. Book reports allow the young reader to share their thoughts about the stories they have heard or have read themselves. As well, students need the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the materials.