As a first grade teacher...

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	• What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education (The Core Knowledge Series) E.D. Jr Hirsch Delta, 1998 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A surprise gem

I didn't have time to read this book and I was going to return it but before I put it in the package I started thumbing through it. It wasn't at all what I expected--another dry instructional book--instead it turned out to be a spark for my childs imagination. I read a few passages aloud and he couldn't stop asking me questions. I was amazed how interested he was in the content. I'm very glad I didn't return this book it is a good supplement to his curriculum and it is fun to read it to your child it sparks many interesting fancifull conversations.

Great series

This book is great if you homeschool or want to help your child during the summer. If you want to use it for homeschool, Hirsch has made a teacher handbook. The Teacher Handbooks provide background about language arts, history and geography, visual arts, music, mathematics, and science. Each handbook has been written to look like the Core Knowledge Sequence. For each section in the Sequence, there is a matching section in the handbooks

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I think if you really want to know what your first grader needs to learn, find the website for your state's department of education. Then download the Content Standards and GLEs. (Grade-Level Expectations)

Outstanding

This is an outstanding book. I read many passages for my son. He likes them very much. They enrich him like nothing else. My son's school does not provide this much content. We would miss a lot literature, history, and geography without this book. Thanks to the authors. I do see the math part is too easy for first graders. For math, we use Beestar (a nice web site www.beestar.org). Its free weekly exercises are about right and very helpful. Overall, this is an outstanding book loaded with fine content. I highly recommend it.

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