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Help your child thrive academically with the engaging Learning At Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle. The easy-to-use activity books provide valuable skill practice at home and include a parent guide with teaching tips and fun learning activities!
Perfect for children who need additional practice or want to advance their skills, these activity books help children practice important grade-level skills and stay on track while they are learning at home. The colorful and clever activities motivate children to engage with the lesson and become active learners!
Each at-home-learning bundle is aligned to current standards and includes:
- Four full-color Skill Sharpeners activity books that practice essential subjects such as math, reading, language, and science. (144 full-color pages each)
- A downloadable parent guide packed with tips and teaching support, including organizing a daily schedule, fun hands-on activity ideas, reading strategies, math models, and suggestions for helping children manage stress and share their feelings.
- Assessment pages to build test-taking skills and confidence. (27 pages)
The Learning at Home Skill Sharpeners Bundle, grade 4, includes:
Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 4
Each unit focuses on a wonderfully illustrated text selection that is followed by a variety of activities to help children practice fluency, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, structural analysis, phonics, and writing. Skill Sharpeners: Reading provides 16 motivating stories to capture readers’ attention. For example:
Fiction Stories:
- “Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Cat”
- “The Three Sillies”
- “An Oregon Trail Diary”
Nonfiction Stories:
- “Penguins, Pelicans, and Puffins”
- “Grandma Moses”
- “Go Fly a Kite”
Skill Sharpeners: Math, Grade 4
Theme-based math units practice foundational skills! Each unit ends with a “Test Your Skills” activity that gives children a feeling of accomplishment. Designed to practice skills that have already been introduced and mastered, the grade 4 lessons include:
- add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit numbers
- divide with remainders
- add and subtract decimals
- compose and decompose numbers
- analyze and extend patterns
- time intervals
- logical thinking
- convert measurement
- estimate weight, length, capacity, and time
- round large numbers
- compare decimals
- compare and sequence numbers to 10,000
- describe shapes by types of lines and angles
- find factors and multiples
Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 4
This visually engaging activity book makes learning grammar and punctuation fun! Each theme-based unit includes reading selections, activities, and word games that will motivate your child to practice and learn essential grammar and punctuation skills. Plus, a Language Handbook provides you with a quick reference of the concepts covered.
The concepts and skills practiced include:
- singular and plural nouns
- adjectives and adverbs
- singular pronouns
- verb tenses
- subject-verb agreement
- sentence fragments
- subordinating conjunctions
- use of commas
- apostrophes
- use of quotation marks
- titles
Skill Sharpeners: Science, Grade 4
Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects motivate children to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards. The simple hands-on activities help fourth grade students understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way.
Each lesson includes interesting reading selections and activities that focus on one science concept, covering the following fourth grade topics:
- Our Bodies and Senses: Muscles and Bones, Skin, Eyesight, Hearing
- Shaping the Earth: Weathering and Erosion, Glaciers, Earthquakes, Volcanoes
- Waves: What Is a Wave?, Waves in the Water, Sound Waves, Digital Waves
- Energy: What Is Energy?, Heat Energy, Electrical Energy, Light Energy
