Weekly Reader: Summer Express (Between Grades 4 & 5) [Paperback]

Give children a head start in school! This colorful, fun-filled workbook is designed to reinforce skills through engaging activities. With more than 100 curriculum-based pages—arranged in a progressive, 10-week format—targeting vocabulary, reading, writing, spelling, phonics, grammar, math, and more this book will help prepare fourth graders for fifth grade. A summer’s worth of great learning from the trusted editors ofWeekly Reader.

Fun and engaging activity pages that reinforce reading, writing, spelling, phonics, grammar, math skills, and more, and prepare fourth graders for fifth grade! From the editors of Weekly Reader.

"I get my children workbooks every summer. I believe that if you don't keep practicing the things you learned in school over the past year you're at a disadvantage at the start of the next school year. I honestly think this is one of the better books I've found for them. It is not a large book, which makes the son this is intended for not feel like this is ""too much"" to do in the summer.

The book is fairly straightforward. It has 100 pages, divided into 10 weeks. That gives you two pages to do each day. The daily pages are done as front and back, but I wish they were done side to side (so you're looking at both pages to do at once). I know it's a strange distinction to make, but I feel like if you're looking at the page spread you're not as likely to worry about what's next. You don't see the next pages and therefore you don't want to go on and do more work. You see all you have to do all at once.

The book has a weekly chart for the child. The back of the book has stickers that you put on the chart each day when you do the work, in the bottom of that chart has a weekly certificate. There is a full certificate in the back for the entire book being finished. There's also several pages at the front of the book to hlƒ]