Mastering first grade phonics and spelling is fun and exciting with this book that combines language arts activities with puzzles and humor to lower the barriers to learning and build essential skills.

Phonics and spelling are important building blocks for future learning, and Highlights(TM) brings Fun with a Purpose® into these essential activities for first graders. Our award-winning content blends important language skills with puzzles, humor, and playful art, which makes learning exciting and fun. Students will learn blends, digraphs, vowel sounds, spelling patterns, decoding skills,and more--all designed to help them to improve and build confidence in the classroom.

Each book in this series individually focuses on a single subject area that is key to a child’s school success. This narrowed focus is in demand in the marketplace. With 8 published titles and 12 more on the way, this series has sold 100,000 units in less than a year. Highlights Learning content has won the Teachers’ Choice and Parents’ Choice Awards, among others.