Marilynn G Barr

"35 FolderGames for Numbers," Vol. 1 of 2 of our Readiness Games series, presents activities to enrich beginning math skills for young learners in easy-to-make-and-use file folder set-ups. The folders can be used with individual children, small cooperative groups, in learning centers, or with families at home.The activities in "35 FolderGames for Numbers" help to motivate and strengthen early math concepts and skills in an enjoyable and stimulating format. Games assist children in mastering basic math skills. The activities focus on helping children to understand the relationship between number sets and numerals, to work on time-telling skills, and to count from small quantities up to 100. Children will practice recognizing number words, counting number sets, and sequencing number sets and numerals. A variety of hands-on responses, including placing objects, clipping on clothespins, and connecting the dots, keep the children actively engaged.Each FolderGames activity includes the file folder layout and the activity to be duplicated, easy directions for assembly, and simple directions for use. "35 FolderGames for Numbers" is one of a two-part series which includes "37 FolderGames for Letters," another Readiness Games title for early learners.

"37 FolderGames for Letters," Vol. 2 of 2 in our Readiness Games series, presents activities to enrich early reading readiness skills for young learners in easy-to-make-and-use file folder set-ups. The folders can be used with individual children, small cooperative groups, in learning centers, or with families at home.The activities in "37 FolderGames for Letters" help to reinforce pre-reading and beginning-reading learning in an enjoyable and stimulating format. The activities range from alphabet identification to matching uppercase and lowercase letters to recognizing vowels and consonants. A variety of hands-on responses, including placing objects, clipping on clothespins, and connecting the dots, keep the children actively engaged.Each FolderGames activity includes the file folder layout and the activity to be duplicated, easy directions for assembly, and simple directions for use. "37 FolderGames for Letters" is one of a two-book series which includes "37 FolderGames for Numbers," another Readiness Games title for early learners.

The Pattern Libary(TM)-is a two-volume treasury of large, black line illustrations in printable, pattern formats. This, Volume One contains patterns for letters A through H. It's a rich collection of illustrations from our image libraries and an invaluable resource for children, parents, teachers, crafters and anyone who requires blackline images for an infinite number or projects.

"About Early Writing" includes writing practice boards, cards, charts, a game, achievement awards, and take-home notes. Writing boards feature letter specific characters and objects with manuscript lines and dotted letters for each letter of the alphabet. Writing practice cards include two cards for each letter of the alphabet. These cards are designed to offer letter sound recognition as well as letter formation and sequence writing practice to form words. Writing practice charts provide individual letter formation practice. The "Trace-a-Letter Race" write-in game includes four game boards and alphabet picture cards for picture, sound, and letter recognition as well as writing practice. "About Early Writing" is volume 2 in a four-book series which includes: "About Early Colors & Shapes," "About Early Math," and "About Early Reading."

"About Early Reading" makes early reading skills practice lots of fun. Patterns include Reading Rabbit, Reading Raccoon, Sentence Snail, Sentence Snake, Word Walrus, and Word Whale sentence boards and sentence strips designed to fit on each board. Over 100 beginning, ending, vowel sound, and sight word cards provide children with multiple sentence writing and reading opportunities. Also included are Word of the Day Badges; Ready, Set, Read game; Awards; Take-Home Notes; and My Word List chart for children to keep track of new words. "About Early Reading" is volume 3 in a four-book series which includes: "About Early Colors & Shapes," "About Early Math," and "About Early Writing."

One Dancing Elephant, Five Funny Monkeys, Twelve Tiny Turtles and nine more delightful creatures provide plenty of early math skills practice for little ones. About Early Math includes number charts, match boards, a clock form, and number charts for numbers 1-12. Number set cards are designed for use with both match boards and math problem boards. Add or Take Away, a trail game, provides early addition and subtraction skills practice for numbers 0-10. Counters are also included for children to practice counting to 100. "About Early Math" is volume 4 in a four-book series which includes: "About Early Colors & Shapes," "About Early Reading," and "About Early Writing."

"About Early Colors & Shapes" offers plenty of shape and color recognition, sorting, and matching, as well as fine motor skills practice such as coloring, cutting, pasting, and lacing. The patterns and charts featured include Shape Charts, Shape Tags, Headband Strips, Match-a-Shape Treasure Chest (a match board game), Lacing Cards, Color Boards, Tangrams, Color of the Day Badges, Awards, Take-Home Notes, a More Colors and Shapes chart, and Piglet Paint patterns. "About Early Colors & Shapes" is volume 1 in a four-book series which includes: "About Early Writing," "About Early Math," and "About Early Reading."

ABC Mini Books is volume 4 in the Hands-on ABC series (ABC Scissor Skills, ABC Art, and ABC Games) designed to provide alphabet skills practice for early learners. Children practice recognizing letters and letter sounds, associating letters with alphabet pictures, and letter writin

ABC Scissor Skills is volume 2 in the Hands-on ABC series (ABC Art, ABC MiniBooks, and ABC Games) designed to provide alphabet skills practice for early learners. Children practice recognizing letters and letter sounds and associating letters with alphabet pictures while developing fine motor skills such as coloring, cutting, and gluing. Activities also offer sorting, counting, sequencing, and writing skills practice while fostering individual creativity

ABC Games is volume 2 in the Hands-on ABC series (ABC Scissor Skills, ABC Mini Books, and ABC Art) designed to provide alphabet skills practice activities for early learners. Children develop social and fair play skills as they practice recognizing letters and letter sounds and associating letters with alphabet pictures. ABC Games also offers matching, following directions, coloring, cutting, gluing, and memory skills practice.

ABC Art is one of four Hands-on ABC books (ABC Scissor Skills, ABC Mini Books, and ABC Games) designed to provide alphabet skills practice activities for early learners. Children practice recognizing letters and letter sounds and associating letters with alphabet pictures. These activities also offer early skills practice such as coloring, cutting, gluing, folding, and lacing while fostering individual creativity

Children enjoy plenty of color, shape, and pattern matching practice with the ready-to-use beginning games featured in A Tisket A Tasket. Players learn to follow directions, practice fair-play, and develop readiness, fine-motor, and memory skills. Game formats include trail games, match boards, clothespin games, and stackers. Every game includes a game board and programmed playing pieces. Volume 1 of four titles in the "Beginning Games" series, which includes "Alphabet Soup," "Once Upon a Time," and "Tea for Two."

Reinforce alphabet skills with the ready-to-use beginning games featured in Alphabet Soup. Children practice recognizing the letters and matching pictures as they play trail, match boards, clothespin, and stacker games. Every game includes a game board and programmed playing pieces. Game formats also offer following directions, fair-play, fine-motor, and memory skills practice. Volume 2 of four titles in the "Beginning Games" series, which includes "Tea for Two," "Once Upon a Time," and "A Tisket A Tasket."

Children receive plenty of practice matching numerals, number words, and number sets with the ready-to-use beginning games featured in Tea For Two, Vol. 3 in the Beginning Games 4 volume series. Players learn to follow directions, practice fair-play, and develop readiness, fine-motor, and memory skills. Game formats include trail games, match boards, clothespin games, and stackers. Every game includes a game board and programmed playing pieces. Little ones match numerals and number sets on trail games such as Bones for Bongo, Turtles Races, and Tea For Two. Boots For Bunny, Birds of a Feather, and Tiger Truck Tires clothespin games offer number recognition skills practice as well as fine motor skills development. Children clip matching clothespin game cards to bunnies, a peacock, and tiger trucks. Toast and Jelly, Polar Bear Patches, and Cheep Cheep match board games provide numeral and number word recognition. Players match jelly, patches, and chicks cutout game cards to the correct spaces on each game board. Number Box Stackers offers self-checking multi-dimensional skills practice as children identify and stack matching box game cards.

Introduce early learners to reading with the ready-to-use beginning games featured in Once Upon a Time. Children practice recognizing and matching beginning sounds to alphabet pictures as they play trail, match board, clothespin, and stacker games. Every game includes a two-page game board and programmed playing pieces. Game formats also offer fair-play, fine-motor, and memory skills practice. Vol. 4 in the "Beginning Games" 4 volume series, which includes "Alphabet Soup," "Tea For Two," and "A Tisket A Tasket."