Best Children's Handwriting Books
Workbooks in the popular Brighter Child series are packed with plenty of fun activities that teach a variety of essential school skills. With Brighter Child Handwriting: Printing, you can help your child master basic writing skills for school success.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"1st section is the letters of the alphabet, 2nd section has words starting from each letter of the alphabet and 3rd section has sentences."
"One of the things she struggles with is getting her letters in uniform sizes with correct spacing ."
"Great workbook but make sure to make COPIES before using it because theres only one sheet for each letter."
"Each page in the first section has the upper and lower case letter on the first row and then 5-6 more rows that are blank for practice. The second section has 4 words per letter per page to practice."
"The font size in this book is just right and really helps to master the letters and clean up what otherwise are squiggly lines and blotches of ink."
"Good old fashioned writing line book for practising letter formation."
"I'm hung up on M. That's the dumbest way to teach a kid how to write big M!!!"
"Looks like a great book but came cut on the bottom!"
For the mother and son who crave a rule-free, creative way to connect with each other. Katie Clemons is a storycatcher and award-winning journal crafter.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I am a homeschooling parent who tries to work journaling into our studies at least once per week. Last school year, we did the traditional composition books with space for a picture at the top."
"I am so grateful I have beautiful amazing friends to grow wise with, as we wing this Mom gig together. I realized my son's love language is what I needed to KNOW and LIVE OUT if I wanted to reach him. Katie Clemons, a brilliant author and mom herself, created this journal so Mom and Child can record memories together, swap stories, compare perspectives and explore common and unique interests. Letters back and forth and interactive lists invite you both to reflect, write, and doodle about topics timely to your life as your son builds self-confidence. I love that Katie writes, "...boys can also feel uncomfortable or embarrassed to share intimate things aloud --like "hey Mom, I have armpit hair now!" I laughed and imagined that type of randomness out of my son making its way into our journal...which of course, I would be totally open to! Besides the writing itself, my son's other favorite part of this is that we get to pick a special spot (read: no little brother meddling) where we place the journal in order to pass it back and forth when we're done with our entries. We decided that when he finishes writing his page he places it in between the stack of books on my night stand. When I finish reading what he wrote and replying, I place it in between the stack of books next to his bed, too! Yes, since my last stress crisis, I had definitely slowed down from the frantic scheduling and accomplishment-driven mode in hyper academics, volunteering commitments, and everything else in between, BUT I had NOT taken that very same energy and determination to focus on the heart matters. I get to write the best funniest, fun, loving, and treasured memories about her to my son who was so little when she went to Heaven. My opinions here are truly because we love this and the additional emotional connection and bonding it has provided my son and me. Now here is the page of our journal I am able to share with you because it was funny and I only teared up a little bit as I smiled writing it to him."
"Taking one star because of questions of mom asking the son for his internet and social media usernames - If the child is doing this book, yet old enough to be on social media, the parent should already know it."
"This is such a wonderful bonding tool!"
"Bought for 14 yr old son and mom to do."
"Bought as a gift."
"great stuff!"
"I love this journal!"
Help your child master key sight words, and watch as their confidence with their reading and writing skills soars, with this fun and effective wipe-clean workbook. Roger Priddy 's passion for educating children through fun, informative and engaging books has led him to create some of publishing's most enduring and successful nonfiction early learning books.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is somewhat helpful in helping my daughter learn sight words, but I would love to see a resource that covered all 180 sight words (maybe in two volumes?)."
"I read some reviews where they said the dry erase marker doesn’t work well and I’m happy to say that our marker works perfectly fine."
"This had been a wonderful learning tool for my almost kindergartener."
"Love this wipe and clean book and also has flash cards of the sight words in book but in addition comes with around 20 blank flash cards for you to add."
"I feel it covers the sight words well with the illustrations provided and has ample writing space."
"Great product but the pen that comes with it has a fine tip a little hard for my kindergartner to stay on the lines when tracing."
"Priddy books are amazing."
"Great book for my 4 year old son."
Best Children's Composition & Creative Writing Books
"Yes" and "No" questions; fill-in-the-blanks; images to complete, and simple writing activities, My Book About Me, By ME, Myself is an ideal gift for elementary school children and one that will become a cherished keepsake for parents. It's a simple idea, but with a surprising amount of educational value--getting children to name their home country, to recognize and draw in the color of their own eyes, learn their telephone number and address, to name favorite clothes, foods, and colors, and more. Eastman of Are You My Mother and the mainstream Seuss of Cat in the Hat and Thidwick: The Big-Hearted Moose .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We've collected every single Seuss children's book, but there are three books in particular that we've now ordered four copies of, because they can be personalized by the grandkids to make them truly "their own"! This is somewhat along the lines of a baby book you'd receive as a baby shower gift, with pages where your child can trace his hand and foot, etc, but there's oh so much more in the way of fun facts for him/her to fill in to help them remember "where their head was at" at that age, with a little help from Dr. Seuss and many bright, colorful illustrations!"
"I purchased 3 of these this year to give to my oldest grand-children for Christmas."
"I bought this book years ago for my son and now my daughter wants one."
"Bought one for each of my kiddos for the holidays, I had the same book 30 years ago."
"I can't wait to compare what he writes to what I wrote!"
"My hubby had one of these as a child."
"Item is printed upside down in relation to cover and back."
"The whole thing is printed upside down."
Best Children's Grammar Books
Over the last 50 years, Price Stern Sloan has published hundreds and hundreds of Mad Libs stories. Before co-founding Price Stern Sloan with Roger Price (Sloan came later), Stern was a successful television writer. Recently, Stern published A Martian Wouldn't Say That , which compiled weird and wacky memos written by people in the entertainment industry.Currently, Stern serves as a senior vice president of Price Stern Sloan, where he still writes those hilarious Mad Libs .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"What I wish I would have known when I ordered this-- this is not a small stocking-stuffer size."
"Large and diverse!"
"Purchased as a filler gift for my son for Christmas..he has been having fun with it with his friends...If you like mad libs, you'll get more than your fill with this book."
"Bought this for my god son who just turned 7."
"Gave this book of Mad Libs to my twin nephews for their 8th birthday."
"Bought this for my 9 year old granddaughter who loves mad libs."
"He loved this and played it when we were on a long car ride."
"This is a HUGE book!"
Best Children's Journal Writing
With design-savvy, yet completely kid-friendly illustrations, they’re asked to draw or write about a bunch of interesting things — like what their hair looks like, what their band name would be, what they’d bring to outer space, and how they feel about lightning, lizards and pickles. WEE SOCIETY is an award-winning creative studio that believes you’re never too young to develop an eye for design.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My granddaughter loved this book."
"My 7 year old absolutely loved this book."
"My son loves his book of all about him."
"Kids enjoy using this."
"Can't wait until my daughter is old enough to use this!"
"My 7 year old went through it pretty quickly."
"It’s a cute book."
"My 6-year-old grandson loved it!"
Best Children's Vocabulary & Spelling Books
Packed with amazing facts and photographs of trains around the world, The Big Book of Trains covers the history of trains and train travel. The gigantic format is totally appropriate for this book about the huge, powerful, rushing trains that transport people and freight by steam, diesel, and electricity on rails around the world. In each case, there are captions and small chunks of information about size, weight, stations, tracks, speed, mileage, maintenance, etc., with special focus on the roles of human drivers and computers. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGO® books.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is an oversized book but looked great and the school kids I donated the books to loved it."
"The little man LOVES this book!"
"Awesome book for my little trainiac."
"Wonderful big pictures of trains."
"Pros: - Oversized, high-gloss pages with big, detailed pictures. - Appropriately detailed captions/descriptions; probably at a 6th grade reading level but easily paraphrased for younger kids. - Nice coverage of types of trains: vintage vs. modern, specialty vs. general purpose."
"Was a gift and was liked."
"But I would only recommend it to another "train loving tot" as its really for older kids, young adults or even adults."
"Beautiful pictures."