Highlights brings Fun with a Purpose to essential learning activities for first-graders. Our award-winning content blends skills practice with puzzles and humor, which makes learning enjoyable and reduces anxiety. Each book focuses on a single subject, so kids can concentrate on one thing at a time, to build understanding. Every page has a school standard listed at the bottom, so you know exactly what aspect of the subject your child is learning. There's also a fun Achievement Certificate at the back of the book. Highlights Learning books have won the Family Choice Award, the PAL (Play Advances Language) Award, and the Parents' Choice Recommended Book award. • READING & WRITING – handwriting, opinion writing, narrative writing, grammar, vocabulary, rhyming and phonics • PHONICS AND SPELLING –blends, digraphs, vowel sounds, spelling patterns, decoding skills and more • ADDITION – single- and double-digit addition, skip counting, fact families, and strategies like counting on a number line and using ten-frames • SUBTRACTION – multiples of 10, fact families, and strategies like counting backward on a number line and understanding place value