High-interest activities for home and school. A wide range of activities that focus on essential grade-level skills and strategies. These activities are shaped and influenced by current research findings in literacy instruction grounded in the Reading First Initiative. Each 112-page activity book is divided into 5 units with reading selections in each unit that all center around a common theme. Each unit features the following skill strands: Phonemic awareness (Gr. K-2 only) phonics/structiural word analysis vocabulary fluency comprehension. From the Series: Advantage Variety Pack Gr. 2.