Making the Grade Basic Skills for Kindergarten provides everything you need to support your child's early learning at home. Following state learning standards, it includes: opposites, classifying, alphabet letters and sounds, early math skills, and patterns and shapes. Using a simple approach, this early learning book for parents will help your child learn, practice, apply, and master essential skills for school readiness. These basic skills language arts and math workbooks will appeal to your child with engaging, colorful activities while providing quick practice that your child can complete independently. With the Making the Grade series, you can easily choose the right workbook to reinforce the skills your child is learning in the classroom. Each workbook in the series includes 48 pages of standards-based activities with easy-to-follow instructions and an answer key. The series offers grade-specific titles for these main school subject areas: Reading (PK–Grade 5), Math (PK–Grade 5), Basic Skills (PK–Grade 2), and Handwriting (K–Grade 5)