Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 5 [Paperback]

American Education Publishing (Compiler)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2001 | ISBN-10: 1561893722 | ISBN-13: 978-1561893720 | Edition: Workbook

Offering an entire grade 5 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 tool

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: American Education Publishing; Workbook edition (January 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561893722
• ISBN-13: 978-1561893720
• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 3.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive? NOT!, March 7, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 5 (Paperback)

"Comprehensive" Curriculum is kind of a misnomer here. These books lack a lot of information and tend to concentrate on the "topics de jour" rather than either depth or breadth of subject.

Homeschoolers should not be mislead into thinking that they can use these books as a basis of a complete curriculum.

Some children enjoy these worksheets. Sometimes mom is burnt out from devising meaningful lessons and just wants to hand the kids something to keep them busy and quiet. Sometimes a homeschooler will forget how boring public school is. These are all good times to assign a few pages of Comprehensive Curriculum.

My kids found the worksheets to be boring. I found some of the assignments incomprehensible. Significant numbers of the assignments to be of the "fuzzy, feel-good" variety without real academic merit.

There is inadequate math practice for a year long homeschool program.

There is inadequate history

The science concentrates on ecology, politically correct issues such as waste and the ozone and gives too little attention to the basics of physical science or biology.

The tone of the writing is patronizing. The author tells the children what they should think and feel. The vocabulary is dummied down. Ideas are simplistic. There is a definite "politically correct" bias in both subject choice and presentation.

In conclusion, this book could be used (sparingly) as a supplement to a complete curriculum but cannot by any stretch of imagination (except the publisher's) be called a "comprehensive" curriculum.

Karen Crowthe

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A little extra homework, April 5, 2000

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Tina McCullar (Califonia, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 5 (Paperback)

This is a good book to use with homework assignments. My son does a page a day along with his homework and I see a difference in his grades. Great practice for the State Grade Tests. If your child needs to sharpen his basic skills, this is the book.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Reference, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 5 (Paperback)

This book would be best used as reference index to supplement a variety of publications. It has a diversity of material that can help point to areas of specific interest for further research. The core areas of interest to the teacher and student can then be studied in more depth using publications that are specific to that area.

Despite the claims of the editor/publisher, it is unrealistic to expect that a single volume can be "comprehensive" in sufficient detail to satisfy all questions and demands for knowledge. As described in the promotional text on the back cover, this book limits itself to the "Basic Skills". It is up to the teacher and student to pursue knowledge in other areas of interest.

A useful addition to most educational library collections.