Even reluctant readers love these exciting and entertaining activities that teach grammar rules, expand vocabularies, promote reading comprehension, and much more. A big, creative collection that will surely help boost standardized test scores, this instructor book features 50 motivating reproducibles that reach and teach every learner. Grades: 3-6.

Learn from home with kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 1st grade reading success! This colorful workbook is jam-packed with fun games and exercises—perfect for first-graders tackling early reading. Good reading skills are essential for success in 1st grade and beyond. This 128-page workbook is full of engaging activities that strengthen an early reader’s ability to recognize and understand a variety of words and text, from phonics to sentences to stories. Each activity focuses on a skill needed to become a superstar reader, such as: • letter sounds • short & long vowels • compound words • contractions • syllables • reading comprehension • plurals ... and much more! With vibrant pages full of games and puzzles, 1st Grade Reading Skill Builders Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.

15 reproducible, kid-pleasing stories that are perfect for building essential reading skills such as predicting, making inferences, summarizing, and more.

Short story writing activities designed to help children use their creativity while communicating their ideas.

Prompts are organized by the 10 months of the school year and many relate to holidays or anniversaries of famous events.