Avoid, the scans are bad, and semi-blurry; not a relaxing and enjoyable book. I purchased it with high hopes, since I am a history teacher but was totally dispointed.

The difference to my childrens handwriting was amazing!!

When it came planning our educational adventures for the new school year I needed a little help gather all of my ideas into one place. This is just the perfect product to help me do so! It is very simple in design, but super cute!

When you download the item you can chose which pages you want to print. This makes it the perfect planner for your needs. You chose what will be most useful to your family and leave out the rest. We love the way this is laid out for home school families! I love the fact that these are black and white pages. Students can color them in as they see fit. It also saving on ink cost!

I like this product for the following reasons:

1. It breaks each story down into bite-sized portions for the students.
2. The print is clear and student-friendly. The students like the look of it.
3. The vocabulary word list is comprehensive but relevent.
4. The comprehension questions are not just factual...they ask for inference and making connections.
5. The Looking Closer page after each section is very interesting to the students.

Here are some improvements that could be made:

1. The ability to print it as a booklet. it had that option, but some of the pages printed upside down.
2. Suggestions for application of the vocabulary words. (I had students highlight 5 vocabulary words in the story that were new to them and illustrate them.)
3. An Extension Activity to go with each Looking closer page. (For "The Blue Carbuncle" Looking Cloer page about the goose, I had students write a short narrative showing the goose's reaction to having the carbuncle shoved down his throat.)

My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed the Shakespeare: Methinks I'll Read Julius Caesar play. I have been intimidated to dive into Shakespeare in our homeschool. This made it much simpler than I could have imagined. We would co-read (we picked which characters we would each read) for about 20 minutes and then do one of the assignments provided. We enjoyed that the assignments were adaptable and doable. Our favorite part was when we would read a scene , discuss what we thought it all meant and then read the summary that's provided to see if what we thought was happening was accurate. This is great to use in a homeschool or even a co-op. I would highly recommend this for anyone wanted to introduce Shakespeare to their children.

I got this for my daughter to have 'someone else' give her the directions. They were easy to follow and once she got one done, she had a great time creating her own designs.

My kids didn't have as much fun with this one "How to Draw a Snowflake". They found it to be boring. They drew the snowflakes according to the directions but were very unhappy that they looked so plain.

A great resource, easy to use. Students loved the story.

This was fun and really helpful fot those students who need to practice writing. Thanks!

We are really enjoying this different approach to writing. Even my older kids have chosen to do it along with the younger ones.

As a first real reading comprehension course my daughter has done,we are finding the chapters a short good read,the questions thought provoking,the spelling words a good challenge,and best of all,she has been really inspired by the writing up of the chapter synopsis.The way the layout of the product is given,has enabled her to create her own workbook in the format of a series of piratical scrolls....so it is fun and good English practice,in many ways.

I am amazed at the creativity of this activity. I have been looking for more handwriting practice for my 8 yr old son. He has been asking to learn cursive. This is a perfect blend of activities that will match his love of drawing with my desire to improve his handwriting. I only with there was one that went with simple print style in addition to the cursive. Definitely worth the price. I may even do this myself!