12 full-color centers cover the following standards-correlated skills:

1. Contractions Match-Up
Students sort contractions into groups with the same contracted part.

2. Sequencing
Students use signal words to sequence a nonfiction story and a "how to" passage.

3. Fantasy or Reality?
Students distinguish between fantasy and reality in text.

4. Antonyms
Students match two words with opposite meanings and identify them as antonyms.

5. Synonyms
Students match two words with similar meanings and identify them as synonyms.

6. Homophones
Students identify which homophone correctly completes a sentence.

7. Plurals
Students identify rules for making a singular noun a plural noun.

8. Alphabetical Order
Students alphabetize words in a group to the third or fourth letter.

9. Main Idea and Details
Students organize a paragraph into a main idea and details.

10. Prefixes
Students form new words containing a prefix and a base word, demonstrate understanding of the meanings.

11. Suffixes
Students form new words containing a base word and a suffix, demonstrate understanding of the meanings.

12. Similes
Students use similes to compare two things.