Product Description

This Big First Grade Workbook combines popular 32-page School Zone workbooks into one convenient 320-page volume. Child-friendly exercises and full-color illustrations make learning fun. Use Big Workbooks to reinforce or review grade-level skills or prepare for the upcoming school year. Contents include: First Grade Enrichment, Beginning Phonics, Manuscript Writing, Story Problems, Time, Money & Fractions, First Grade Math, and First Grade Scholar.

(Ages 5-6)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #614918 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
School Zone Publishing Company began as The School Zone Learning Center in 1972. The Learning Center was a retail teachers' supply outlet, specializing in sales to teachers, with two stores in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

About 1974, schools instituted changes in educational methods that affected the home and schools. Changes included introducing new teaching methods in math and English and eliminating workbooks provided on a shared basis for home use. With these changes, parents experienced difficulty finding educational material for use at home.

Local parents turned to the Learning Centers, requesting workbooks and other at-home teaching aids. In response, the Centers formulated six workbooks and printed 1,000 copies of each. The books sold out in six months. An expanded workbook series was developed and received equally enthusiastic acceptance.

School Zone Publishing Company was incorporated in 1979. A new line of workbooks had been written and illustrated by late 1979. In January 1980, the line was printed and School Zone began operations. Market response was extremely favorable. The product line has expanded yearly and currently includes almost two hundred educational products.

Customer Reviews

not suitable for homeschool but get as supplemental workbook
If you were intending to use this workbook as a homeschool curriculum you will be disappointed. If your child doesn't have background knowledge such as an understanding of historical occurrences such as the pilgrim voyage than they will be lost on some pages. The workbook provides a few sentences of background info on some topics such as mammals but it is obviously meant to expand current knowledge and not provide the lesson itself. Another `flaw' is that these workbooks tend to be 1 grade or more behind. I recommend buying one a grade or two above the level at which your child works.

summer homework
I bought this book for my son who will be starting first grade in the fall - I am very pleased with the content. I bought the book so he could keep up with his learning through the summer and get a head start in the areas he was not taught in kindergarten.It is the perfect book for the purpose intended. I will continue to do the same every summer with the next levels of this book.

Great for some kids, too easy for others
This fabulous series of books helps parents be proactive in their kids' education. However, this 1st Grade edition may be too easy for kids who had an excellent kindergarten that taught basics such as reading, phonics, simple math, etc. I've found it to be a good review of what my son learned in kindergarten, but am going to buy the 2nd grade level to prepare him for 1st grade in his school.