Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 2 [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: December 29, 2000 | Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up

Offering an entire grade 2 curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized by subject area with lessons in reading, writing, spelling, math, citizenship, and science.

Perfect as a home schooling resource or as a supplement to school-based learning, this comprehensive workbook helps ensure students success across key curriculum areas.

Featuring:

•Sequential organization for ease of use

•Tips on study skills

•Special section of teaching suggestions

•Thorough index

•Review and assessment tools

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: American Education Publishing; Workbook edition (December 29, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561893692
• ISBN-13: 978-1561893690
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I DO NOT recommend this book to other homeschoolers!, May 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 2 (Paperback)

This is far from a comprehensive curriculum,and it is an extremely misleading title.

It is simply a huge book of worksheets,and poor quality worksheets at that. They claim that the advantage of these worksheets is that they are all in color,but what they fail to mention is that the graphics are just plain ugly, very unappealing to the eye.

They state that all subjects are covered,and again this is a stretch of the truth.

While subjects are covered,they are extremely light,mostly touching on a subject with no comprehension. Math skills are few and far between. Mostly this is a book filled with grammer worksheets,and it is literally overkill on this subject. I am sorry that I wasted my money on this item.

If you are looking for a truly comprehensive curriculum,I highly suggest a curric with the title - Home Education Curriculum : Grade 2 You can purchase this through amazon as well,and it is truly a wonderful curriculum! We are using the second grade level now,and I plan to buy each grade level for our homeschool. You can click on the about me page beside my name at the top of this review,and read my detailed review on Home Education Curriculum : Grade 2

Happy Homeschooling :)

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lots of pages for the money, but disorganized, June 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 2 (Paperback)

These pages are broken up into daily assignments, I think. For instance, there will be a page of math, a page of reading comprehension, a page of spelling, a page of social studies, and a page of science. Then another of math, reading again, spelling... etc.

I think the parent is supposed to give the kid 5 pages in a row, and think, "well, he studied every subject today."

This is VERY impractical, for the simple reason that no 2 children are alike in their studies. For instance, the math was WAY too easy for my 2nd grader. But the reading comprehension was a bit difficult. It would have been easier if ALL the math was together in one place in the book, and we could just pick the pages that were at her level. Instead, I had to spend a great deal of time picking through the book to find the correct pages for her.

Another thing that didn't make sense is the way the phonics lessons are thrown in there. The kids are supposed to do reading comprehension pages at a much higher level than the phonics pages.

The other real problem I had with these books is the social studies. They seem to have a definite political "lean" to them, and I was not comfortable with that. One day I went through and tore all these pages out and shredded them.

On the upside, the pages are very pretty, not too much per page, nice pictures, and lots of colors. It's rather inexpensive for the number of pages, too.

Other American Education Publishing workbooks are much better, and I've been pleased with them, but I would skip this series next time.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unit Study Supplement, May 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 2 (Paperback)

This is a great workbook to supplement the unit study or thematic approach to homeschooling. Especially if your child loves worksheets!