Spectrum First Grade Writing Workbook, Ages 6 to 7, Grade 1 Writing, Informative, Opinion, Letters, and Story Writing Prompts, Writing Practice for Kids - 112 Pages Paperback – August 15, 2014

Perfect for practie for first graders or kindergaten students in transition.

Spectrum has a complete series for Language Arts. This has been a great fit for our homeschooling family as a complete curriculum (more on that below). However, the series would also be immensely valuable as stand-alone books in different situations. As stand alone books they would be great for the child who is struggling with only one aspect of language arts to get some extra assistance, for summer review, or to help advance a child who is bored in school with a specific aspect of language arts. While the books together make a complete curriculum, they do not reference back-and-forth within each other, so each book can easily be used on its own.This Writing book starts off with a section on writing basics which includes naming things ("I see a __________"), feelings, describing, sentences and questions. It then has three sections on writing - Writing a Story, Writing to Inform, and Writing an Opinion. There is a post-test at the end of each of the four sections which is a nice review of what was learned. This book is very thorough in covering many different types of writing and establishing a good foundation for future writing skills. There is a sufficient amount of space to write in the book. It is a good balance of teaching, and doing. There are a total of 32 lessons. Given the fact that there are usually about 36 weeks in a school year, this is a perfect fit and allows a few extra weeks in case someone is sick, you go on vacation, you want to spend extra time on a lesson, or just to have some fun creative writing at the end. Don't let looks fool you - it looks small, but there is a lot in there!In order to make a complete curriculum you will want to have the following books:- Language Arts (instruction in parts of speech, grammar, and sentence structure)- Reading (this is not helping a child learn to read, this is reading comprehension - reading short stories or passages and then answering questions related to what the child just read)- Phonics (learning to read)- Spelling (weekly spelling lists with different modalities to learn grade appropriate spelling words)- Writing (a great progression in how to write - stories, letters, directions, informative, etc.)For homeschooling purposes this has been wonderful as a complete curriculum. Many other language arts curriculums are an all-in-one deal. 1st grade language arts means 1st grade across the board. However, if your child is a more advanced reader, that means phonics, reading, and maybe spelling will be far too easy at a 1st grade level. Having all the parts in different books allows you to move up or down in grade level(s) to tailor the language arts to fit your child best (they are not connected so that you HAVE to do all on the same level). We do 1st grade language arts and writing, 2nd grade spelling, 3rd grade reading and phonics. I could never do this with an all-in-one without spending a fortune getting all the different levels and then mixing it up. Having separate books also seems to be easier on my child because they feel like they are doing something new when we pull another book out and it gives us the flexibility to do some in the morning, some after lunch, and some on another day without feeling like there are loose ends.OVERALL, I highly recommend the entire Spectrum language arts series of books, and this Writing book in particular is definitely worth the money and is very comprehensive for 1st grade.

This is my first time purchasing a workbook from this brand, and it looks better than I expected. I had hesitated to buy it, thinking the content might be too heavy because of the clean and formal packaging, but the activities are surprisingly engaging for kids.

I can’t advocate for purchasing these educational books enough. The large improvement in the previous months since we started doing one page extra per night is very much paying off. If your child needs a little extra help, buy the series of math, reading, and writing for their age level.

This book gives a lot of practice! It will ease your child into more difficult concepts, but there are plenty of practice questions. My daughter enjoys this. The tests are not too challenging for her. She is happy to complete three or four pages a day.

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Our child loves our spectrum books. We purchased Math, Reading, and Writing for first grade. All three are books are perfect challenging levels for our son.

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