Total Basic Skills Series

These bright workbooks offer colorful illustrations, clear directions, and interesting activities to attract students and help them strengthen their basic skills. Developed with an emphasis on building skills necessary for standardized tests, each workbook holds 300 pages of perforated activity sheets organized by content areas within the general categories of math and language arts. Though you may not find as many exercises per page as some other titles at the earliest levels, this may be a benefit for the student with a shorter attention span or one who may get overwhelmed by a crowded worksheet. I'm looking at workbooks PK-2, and by grades 1 and especially 2, exercises are filling out and the amount per page seems appropriate. Answer sheets are included at the back, and a bonus section at the end of the PK workbook includes teaching suggestions, fingerplays, early math activities, and memory games. Steph