Brighter Child Basic Skills Helpers provides children in grade 1 additional instruction in basic skills necessary for the school year ahead. Offering 80 pages of full-color activities, easy-to-follow directions, and complete answer key, children will have fun learning basic skills. Features activities that teach: -Short and long vowel sounds -Consonant blends -Compound words -Reading comprehension strategies -Predicting and making inferences -Following directions -Classifying -Sequencing -Nouns, verbs, and adjectives -Synonyms and antonyms -Kinds of sentences and punctuation -Addition and subtraction -Place value and fractions -Counting by fives and tens -Time and money -Measurement The popular "Brighter Child Workbook series" offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in 51 subject-specific workbooks. Encompassing preschool to grade 6, this series covers key subjects including basic skills, English and grammar, math, phonics, reading, science, and Spanish. This series is helping prepare children by giving them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom