¡Veo veo! (Eye Spy!)

The overall concept of money usually comes easily to young learners who curiously watch the exchange of money for goods from an early age. However, noticing the distinguishing characteristics of different kinds of money, such as coins and paper notes, is a bit trickier. This helpful and engaging book is an excellent companion for those who are learning to discern the different types of money. It also touches on the valuable skills of sorting and classifying, which are important concepts in early elementary math curricula.

I spy the color...red! There is no more effective learning strategy than to make the review of colors into a game. This vibrant volume helps beginning readers assess their understanding of all the colors of the rainbow and practice their emerging reading skills. They are asked to locate a familiar object of a certain color among other brightly colored objects. The entertaining images were specially selected to encourage vocabulary acquisition, reader motivation, and to cause amusement.

Shape recognition is a fundamental part of pre-K and kindergarten classrooms. This fun book, with its appealing photographs, provides an entertaining way for young learners to practice their reading skills and hone their understanding of an important math standard. Throughout the accessible narrative, readers are asked to identify various shapes, such as triangles, rectangles, circles, and ovals, among multiple images, allowing many opportunities for assessment. Early readers will enjoy a feeling of accomplishment for mastering this crucial concept.

Numbers are everywhere, and adults recognize them and count objects without even thinking about it. The youngest mathematicians, however, need practice to achieve this level of proficiency. This clever volume helps readers "spy" numbers among several colorful images that they'll recognize from their everyday lives. As they complete these activities, they will learn which numbers they may need to review more and which they have mastered. They will also practice their reading skills through simple, achievable text supported by the visual clues.

Identifying attributes of objects is a staple of early elementary education, and one of these attributes is size. This valuable volume provides an excellent opportunity for review and assessment of the appropriate use of size words, such as big, small, large, and little, along with other vocabulary that young readers should become familiar with. The at-level text is specially crafted to be achievable for beginning readers. They will find plenty of visual cues in the bright photographs featured throughout this engaging book.

Learning to recite the alphabet is an important step to reading. This beneficial book builds on that crucial step, asking readers to locate letters of the alphabet among a variety of colorful images that begin with those letters. They'll review their knowledge of what different letters look like and how they differ from other letters while honing their reading fluency with simple sentences. Emerging readers will love the appealing pictures and find the activity of spying letters motivating and rewarding.

Identifying attributes of objects is a staple of early elementary education, and one of these attributes is size. This valuable volume provides an excellent opportunity for review and assessment of the appropriate use of size words, such as big, small, large, and little, along with other vocabulary that young readers should become familiar with. The at-level text is specially crafted to be achievable for beginning readers. They will find plenty of visual cues in the bright photographs featured throughout this engaging book.