Making the Grade Basic Skills for Grade 1 gives your child the perfect practice to support essential skills at home. Following state learning standards, the book covers these skills: consonant blends, long vowel sounds, addition and subtraction, and telling time. Using an easy-to-follow approach, this early learning book for parents will help your child create the strong foundation he or she needs to learn, practice, and apply basic school skills. These basic skills language arts and math books will engage your child with appealing, colorful activities while providing practice activities that your child can complete on his own. Each workbook in the Making the Grade series includes 48 pages that are full of standards-based activities featuring simple 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). With the Making the Grade series, you can be confident that you’ll choose the right workbook to reinforce the skills your child is learning in class.