The Advantage Math Series helps prepare students to better understand mathematics and acquire and apply the skills they need to solve problems they encounter in their daily lives. Students will receive instruction and practice in key skills for all strands of the national curriculum math standards, including:

• numeration and number theory
• operations
• geometry
• measurement, patterns, functions, and algebra
• data analysis and probability
• problem solving

The series offers strong skill instruction along with motivational features in an easy-to-use format.

The Advantage Reading Series helps prepare children to become lifelong readers. It offers strong skill instruction along with motivational features in an easy-to-use format. As outlined in the federally mandated No Child Left Behind Act, a research-based reading curriculum should include five key components:

• phonemic awareness
• phonics
• vocabulary development
• reading fluency
• reading comprehension

This series addresses each of these essential components while offering students opportunities to read and interact with a variety of reading genres, including both fiction and nonfiction.

The Advantage Test Prep Series helps prepare students to perform better on tests by familiarizing them with test formats, question types, and content. Each Test Prep workbook provides instruction in the four key areas tested nationwide-reading, writing, language, and mathematics. The formats, reading passages, and questions are all modeled after national standardized and proficiency tests. Each practice skill page includes these features:

• Know the Skill: explains and defines the skill
• During the Test: provides answer-selection strategies
• Test Example: provides practice using the skill
• Think About the Answer: helps students think through their reasoning
• Now You Try It: provides sample challenges
• Get Testwise: includes dozens of test-taking tips

The Advantage Grammar Series helps prepare students to communicate effectively as writers. Students learn how to craft sentences and paragraphs for various purposes and to edit their own work. They receive instruction and ample practice in key writing skills including:

• grammar
• punctuation
• capitalization
• spelling
• sentence combining and expanding
• paragraph structure

The content of each lesson is strongly linked to the content area curriculum for the grade level, so students learn about science, social studies, and literature as they learn to write. The series will also prepare students to perform successfully on language and writing sections of proficiency and standardized tests.

Skill Review and Reinforcement
If you choose a grade-level book equal to the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

• reinforce skills being taught in the classroom throughout the year
• keep your child's skills fresh over the summer

Extra Challenge and Enrichment
If you choose a grade level book beyond the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to: