Foster your third grader’s critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practice.

 The variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child

Skill Sharpeners Math, Grade 1 Age 6 and up The Skill Sharpeners series offers parents a wonderful opportunity to support what happens in the classroom, inspiring a child’s desire to learn. The skills and concepts presented in Skill Sharpeners are grade appropriate and are aligned to national and state standards.

Skill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 2

Skill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 2  provides 15 motivating stories. 

Activity pages include:

- comprehension questions

- a vocabulary exercise

- a sequencing activity for every story

Other skills addressed include the following:

- word families

- phonetic elements

- synonyms & antonyms

- alphabetical order

- contractions

Skill Sharpeners Reading, Kindergarten

The Skill Sharpeners series offers parents a wonderful opportunity to support what happens in the classroom, inspiring a child's desire to learn. The skills and concepts presented in Skill Sharpeners are grade appropriate and are aligned to national and state standards.

Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write, Grade 2

Grade 2

Age 7 and up

Each of 12 units is based on a fun theme and includes:

- a story or article

- a spelling list

- spelling activities

- grammar and punctuation exersices

- writing skills

- test practice