The Skill Sharpeners: Reading series contains engaging full-color stories followed by activity pages that cover a variety of reading skills. Colorful illustrations and activity pages are bright and cheery; stories are fun and cross genres. Through reading, children will learn about reading with accuracy, recalling story details, drawing conclusions, sequencing story events, understanding word meanings, synonyms and antonyms, adding ing, rhyming words, writing a sentence, building and identifying compound words, using alphabetical order, create plural forms, and more. 144 non-reproducible pages, softcover. Answer key included with reduced full-color student pages with the correct answers overlaid. Grade 2.