Second Grade Phonics and Spelling (Highlights Learning Fun Workbooks) Paperback – February 4, 2020

Big Fun Workbooks

These award-winning workbooks feature a fresh approach to developing skills for school readiness and success. With over 250 pages of fun, puzzle-based activities, including Hidden Pictures and That’s Silly! puzzles, kids will practice a variety of skills in subjects like reading and math through exercises that will boost their confidence and supplement what they’re learning in their homes or classrooms.

Learning Fun Workbooks

With the focus on a single subject area, such as math, reading, writing, and phonics, these 48 page workbooks help build skills through age-appropriate puzzles, practical activities, and humor. STEAM-based learning joins our single-subject workbook line with two new workbooks that feature hands-on experiments, projects, and activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.

Learn on the Go Practice Pads

Created for busy kids, each full-color pad promotes fine-motor skills, hand-eye coordination, letter and number recognition, alphabet knowledge, critical-thinking, and logic, with Hidden Pictures and That's Silly! puzzles.

Handwriting Practice Pads

Created with the handwriting experts at Zaner-Bloser (a Highlights company), leaders for more than 125 years in teaching kids to write, these pads help kids develop improved legibility, higher-quality writing, and lifelong positive attitudes toward writing. Each pad blends handwriting practice with fun activities and includes bonus digital handwriting tutorials with easy-to-scan QR codes throughout each book.

Write-On Wipe-Off Fun to Learn Activity Books

The lay-flat, reusable write-on wipe-off pages and wipe-clean marker provide endless hours of learning fun with puzzles and activities that help build skills and lifelong learning confidence. Vibrant art and engaging prompts, as well as Hidden Pictures and That’s Silly! puzzles, reinforce the learning fun again and again.

Big Fun Practice Pads

A companion to our flagship Big Fun Workbooks, these compact 6 x 9, chunky pads with tear-off pages provide practice in essential skills for preschool age children. Each pad includes a page of motivational reward stickers as well as bonus STEAM pages featuring crafts, experiments, recipes, and games, all curated to foster creativity and a love of learning.

Hidden Pictures Sticker Learning Fun

The fun of stickers meets learning activities in this new series with more than 290 full-color stickers to solve Hidden Pictures puzzles and other teacher-approved educational activities. Our award-winning content blends important letter and number writing skills with sticker puzzles, humor, and playful art, which makes learning exciting and helps kids develop a lifelong love of language

My First Write-On Wipe-Off Board Books

Early concepts and write-on wipe-off fun come together in each of these wipe-clean board books that include a marker in a convenient, reusable storage tray. For the youngest learner, kids will learn practical skills in writing letters and numbers, counting, and drawing, and then do it over and over again.

Teachers' Choice Award

Family Choice Award

PAL (Play Advances Language) Award

Top 10 PAL Picks

The Benefits of Puzzling

Research shows that puzzles reinforce:

• Focus and concentration
• Flexible thinking: using multiple strategies to solve a problem
• Attention to detail
• Curiosity and open-mindednesstoward new challenges

The Highlights Learning Difference

• Each page focuses on multiple skills
• Humor reduces learning anxiety and makes kids want to complete the exercise

• Vibrant, full-page artwork draws kids into the activity
• Combining puzzles with skill-building activities encourages deeper thinking and learning

• Open-ended questions engage the whole child and encourage social-emotional development.