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Language Smarts Book B
SKU
013916
ISBN
9780894558894
Grade 1
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Charlotte Mason
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Description
This workbook from The Critical Thinking Co. is filled with simple exercises, bright colors, and humor that make learning English skills much more enjoyable. The exercises improve skills in reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and thinking.
Level B (1st grade) starts with upper and lower case letters, introduces parts of speech, and begins touching on general writing skills.
Over 300 pgs, pb with answer keys.
Publisher's Description of Language Smarts Book B
This fun, colorful 352-page book can be used as a textbook or a comprehensive workbook with your textbook to teach reading, writing, grammar, and punctuation skills and concepts that students are expected to know in first grade. They also develop critical thinking, vocabulary, and several other skills and concepts normally taught in second grade.
The engaging lessons include easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts for visual learners—and there is no lesson preparation! Each lesson is followed by a variety of fun, colorful, mind-building activities that use different genres.
The engaging lessons include easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts for visual learners—and there is no lesson preparation! Each lesson is followed by a variety of fun, colorful, mind-building activities that use different genres.
Category Description for Language Smarts
Learning English skills isn't always fun, but these workbooks make it so with simple exercises, bright colors, and some humor. Pages are full-color with bright and captivating graphics. The exercises help students improve skills in reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and thinking. The worksheets can serve as the core curriculum for language arts or as a supplemental resource with plenty of extra practice. Exercise format varies through the books, but many of the activities require students to use critical thinking skills like convergent and divergent thinking as well as inductive and deductive reasoning. Examples of exercises are circling parts of speech in sentences, putting lists in alphabetical order, identifying errors in passages (like Editor in Chief, also from this publisher), punctuating sentences, changing singular to plural, using vowel digraphs to complete words, and much more. Each worksheet has up to 10 exercises, and instructions and explanations are simple and to the point. Topics and exercises become more advanced as the books progress, but they stay fun, colorful, and kid-friendly. The books are similar in format and content, but are tailored to specific grade levels. Level B (1st grade) starts with upper and lower case letters, introduces parts of speech, and begins touching on general writing skills. It has many more Editor in Chief exercises than Level C does. Level C (2nd grade) starts with the alphabet, covers parts of speech more in depth, and introduces more writing skills. Level D (3rd grade) covers blends, digraphs, diphthongs, grammar, punctuation, usage, literary elements, plot, using reference materials and more. Comprehensive in coverage, these books provide practice for all language arts skills needed at these levels. Over 300 pgs, pb with answer keys. ~ Rachel
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback Book |
|---|---|
| Grade: | 1 |
| Brand: | Critical Thinking Company |
| ISBN: | 9780894558894 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.75 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 2.4 |
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4 Ratings
4 Reviews
Rated 5 out of 5
Jul 5, 2020
Wonderful workbook. I use it as a supplement / test prep for language arts with my 1st grader. She enjoys the pages and is learning a lot.
Rated 5 out of 5
Sep 20, 2017
This book has been an imperative book in my children's education. It bridges any gaps they may have from traditional language arts curriculum.
Rated 5 out of 5
Sep 25, 2014
I wanted to try this after liking Critical Thinking Company's Mathematical Reasoning books so much I am not disappointed These are great I am using this with my son who is in 2nd grade and just starting to take off in reading I like the balance between activities that challenge him ones to make him feel confident and teaching new language skills in a fun way
Rated 5 out of 5
Jan 16, 2009
I bought Language Smarts Level B for my son who is working on 1st grade and he loves it! This was the only workbook I bought him for Language Arts this year and was hoping that it would have all the material in it that he would need for that subject We are almost halfway through the book and I have been very impressed! My son has learned about noun/verb agreement vowels possessive nouns and so much more! There are many puzzles throughout the book which make review time a lot of fun The instructions for the assignments are pretty self-explanatory but I like to go over them with my son anyway I have found that this book along with a writing journal and plenty of books to read has provided a well-balanced Language Arts Curriculum this year I will definitely be purchasing Language Smarts Level C for 2nd Grade next year!
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Does this book cover spelling adequately, or should I purchase a seperate spelling book?
I would purchase a separate spelling book. This is excellent for teaching grammar, but it does assume that your child has a solid grasp of reading. I personally waited until my girls were in 2nd grade to use it. Now that they can read pretty well, they are able to grasp this and we are flying through it. I really recommend this book. I hope that helps!
We have enjoyed this series with our kids. And, look forward to continuing to use it with them.
I like the critical thinking woven into the typical grammar content.
It was recommended by our Global Village School's Education Specialist for our son.
It will help supplement my child's Language Arts Program.