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What your first grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good first-grade education
Title:
What your first grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good first-grade education
Publication Date as Range:
2014
ISBN:
9780553392388
Edition:
Revised edition, 2014 Bantam Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Description:
xxxv, 472 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm.
Series:
Core knowledge series
General Note:
"Support Common Core achievement with readings and activites in literature, mathematics, science, the arts." --cover
Contents:
Language and literature. Learning to read ; First grade and your child ; Common core state standards and your child ; Building literacy at home ; Want to learn more? ; Literature ; Poetry and rhymes ; Aesop's fables ; Stories ; Drama ; Familiar sayings -- History and geography. World history and geography ; American history and geography -- Visual arts -- Music -- Mathematics. Patterns and classifications ; Numbers and number sense ; Computation ; Money ; Geometry ; Measurement -- Science. Living things and their habitats ; Oceans and undersea life ; The human body ; Electricity: an introduction to the shocking facts ; Astronomy: our solar system ; Our planet Earth.
Abstract:
Offers a guide to the first-grade education curriculum, presenting the knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education, including reading comprehension, American history, visual arts, music, math, and science.
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