Author(s): Stella Chess, M.D.

Educational / Home Learning

An exciting new title in Black Dog's best-selling Get Ready for School series!For nearly a decade, and with over 730,000 copies in print, the Get Ready for School series has been a staple for parents seeking to prepare their children for the challenges of the upcoming school year. Each title in the series reinforces essential, age-appropriate skills, recognized by educators nationwide, through fun and engaging activities. Previous books in the series laid the foundation of early learning skills from pre-K through first grade. This new book takes kids into the next phase of learning. "Get Ready for Second Grade" builds on skills learned in first grade and covers reading, writing complete sentences, counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, adding and subtracting, shapes and measurements, time and money, cursive writing, weather, basic world geography, the solar system, and more. With more than 300 pages of activities and thousands of illustrations in each, these books will keep kids coming back for more over and over again.