The reading process is developmental and language arts helps children build skills to learn HOW to read and write, and WHAT to read and write. Smart Me Language Arts and Reading Skills is GREAT practice and review at the end of first grade to help children strengthen skills in phonics and phonetic awareness, spelling grade-appropriate three- and four- letter words correctly, identifying and creating contractions, alphabetizing words, as well as developing reading comprehension skills (types of sentences, parts of speech, etc.) and writing and grammar skills (forming basic sentence structure with correct capitalization, punctuation, etc.). An awesome book of skills to master!