This course is designed to start at the beginning of first grade. The 170 lessons are bound into 2 workbooks of 176 pages each, with 1 tear-out sheet for each lesson. First graders can more easily write on one sheet rather than in a thick workbook, and the tear-out pages also make checking more convenient.
No unit or chapter divisions are given. Money, measures, place value, fractions, and so forth are taught throughout the year while addition and subtraction facts are being drilled.
One hardcover teacher's manual of 392 pages covers the whole course. This manual is essential for this course. Directions are given to guide the teacher in class time to assure that important concepts are taught and drilled.
Pupil's pages are shown at a reduced size with colored answers filled in. White areas show what the pupil's workbook is like, and shaded areas indicate teacher instructions.
In the Teacher's Manual, each lesson is outlined under three main headings: Before Class, Class Time, and After Class. Before Class lists the things to do before school in the morning. Class Time contains the core of the lesson and tells you what to do during your teaching session. After Class gives further practice with new material, and it also previews concepts that are taught in succeeding lessons. Thus, new material is introduced by stages: first in After Class, then in Class Time, and finally in the pupil's lesson. A pupil is usually exposed to a new concept several times before he actually uses it in a written assignment.
A separate 8.25" x 5.25" tablet with tear-out pages has 72 speed drills that provide timed practice of addition and subtraction facts. These drills begin at Lesson 28 and continue through Lesson 170. Speed drills are to be given every other day.
Additional practice is provided by a boxed set of 410 blackline masters for teachers to reproduce as needed. Blacklines are not essential for an average or above average student, but the practice they provide helps to rivet facts and number concepts in the minds of each pupil.
The Teacher's Manual lists the blacklines that correlate with each lesson in the order of importance and most blacklines indicate which lesson(s) they are to be used for. The blacklines include a set forms and twenty-five skill sets. The set of forms is used repeatedly throughout the course. The following is a listing of the twenty-five skill sets in the order they are introduced in the course. Writing Practice, Scrambled Numbers, Count and Write, Draw and Count, Dot-to-Dot, After Numbers, Random Counting, Between Numbers, Fact Houses, Number Facts, More Numbers, Less Numbers, Before Numbers, Number Order, Missing Numbers, Money, Number Children, Before and After, Skip Counting, Clocks, Place Value, Measures, Number Words, Story Problems, Shapes.
The 410 sheets have holes punched in them for easy filing in a 3-ring, loose-leaf binder (binder not included). A booklet is included that shows reduced-in-size blacklines with the answers in red.
The 208 flash cards for this course are intended only for Grade 1. Thy include number flash cards (for recognition), number pattern cards (counting with dots), cards that give practice in numbers before, after, and between other numbers, number order cards, cards that give practice in the more or less concept, and vertical addition and subtraction facts through sums of ten.
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