Weekly Reader: Summer Express (Between Grades 2 & 3) Workbook Paperback – January 1, 2017

Perfect for summer after 2nd grade! Spot on for the exact skills learned from the past year, and just enough challenge without being too difficult.I'm a former elementary special education teacher, so I'm super picky about what workbooks I get every summer for my kids. These are definitely winners! Bought 3 levels this summer, and I have a feeling that we'll be buying this brand for a while now. I love that it has 1 front and back page per day, and keeps track with a sticker chart every week. Much more manageable and feels like you're making progress, rather than the whole-summer chapter-divided chart type in the back of the other brand book, that we've been buying. More academics and less fluff compared to that one also, which is what we need here!They come up with plenty of fun things to do on their own, so we didn't need the random science and other community type idea stuff for school practice in the summer, which was a big part of the old brand of workbooks I bought. Just need to keep the math and reading skills sharp, which this does perfectly!

Excellent for my gboys!

This was exactly what I was looking for. Something to keep my 7-year-old engaged and close any gaps that the summer break might bring. There is a nice variety of exercises and the bright colors and pictures keep things from getting boring. My little scholar enjoys doing the daily exercises.

Gift for grandkids

I think that the Summer Series is one of the best home workbooks to get.We like making working with it fun.

We use these every summer to prevent summer slump. Last year my daughter got annoyed with all of the reviewing at the beginning of the school year because "she already knew everything". The instructions are minimal, so there is more independent work. It covers all of the subjects. There is no science section, but the reading topics are science oriented to keep up with vocabulary and concepts. I'm not sure what we will do when the kids move on to middle school.

Very helpful. I'm so glad I got it.

Scholastic has created an attractive and smartly written workbook that manages to dumb down a student’s ability to sustain their school-based learning over the 10-week summer break.The 50-page workbook (the 100 curriculum-based pages in the Product Description refers to 50 double-sided worksheets, not 100 distinct two-sided pages of work) features lessons in math, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. Traditional puzzles like skip counting mazes and math problem riddles, as well as fill-in-the-blank word exercises and reading comprehension Q&A's fill these pages. Each page is color coded according to the week, and is illustrated with a mix of cartoony graphics and real-life photos. It’s a clean, colorful, and comprehensive presentation of material.My problem with this work is the concept behind its execution - that one worksheet a day is sufficient for stemming the documented academic “brain drain” that is reflected in student performance at the beginning of each new school year. I guess the title “Summer Express” should have been my cue that this was a workbook of hit-and-run type of learning. Bottom line: Scholastic is pitching the page-a-day structure of this workbook as being better than nothing.If you did five pages a day out of this book, you’d complete it within two weeks. It's a worthwhile but incomplete investment. Up your child’s ante and either/also purchase reading and math workbooks that take your child's learning effort seriously.