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What your first grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good first-grade education revised edition
Title:
What your first grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good first-grade education revised edition
ISBN:
9780553392388
Physical Description:
xxxv, 472 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
I. Language and literature. Learning to read : Reading is not a skill ; The knowledge connection -- First grade and your child : Listening and learning -- Common Core state standards and your child : A balance of fiction and nonfiction ; Explore the world through reading and listening ; A focus on evidence ; Academic vocabulary ; Coherence -- Building literacy at home : Read to your first grader ; Talk to your child ; Limit TV time ; Choose activities that build background knowledge ; Be a reader, raise a reader -- What to learn more? -- Literature : Read-aloud activities -- Poetry and rhymes -- Aesop's Fables -- Stories -- Drama -- Familiar sayings -- II. History and geography. World history and geography -- American history and geography -- III. Visual arts -- IV. Music -- V. Mathematics. Patterns and classifications -- Numbers and number sense -- Computation -- Money -- Geometry -- Measurement -- VI. Science. Living things and their habitats -- Oceans and undersea life -- The human body -- Electricity: an introduction to the shocking facts -- Astronomy: our solar system -- Our planet Earth.
Summary:
"A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, which provides Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, including achievement with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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