Kindergarten Readiness
In this 20-minute interview Linda Bevilacqua, President of the Core Knowledge Foundation, outlines indicators of kindergarten readiness and activities that you can do to help prepare your child for kindergarten. More…
What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Spanish Translation
All files are available for download here, in Adobe PDF format, at no charge. Simply click on the links below to view and download the documents. Note that many of these files are rather large; please allow sufficient time to download.
Illustrations are not included in the translations. Please use the page number references in the margin to find the pictures in the English book.
I. Language and Literature
- Reading, Writing, and Your Second Grader
- Literature
- Poetry
- Stories
- American Tall Tales
- Myths From Ancient Greece
- Learning About Language
- Familiar Sayings
II. History and Geography
- Introduction
- World History & Geography
- Civilizations in Asia
- Ancient Greece
- American History and Geography
- Our Constitution
- The War of 1812
- Westward Ho!
- The Civil War
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Civil Rights: Liberty and Justice for All
- Geography of the Americas
III. Visual Arts
IV. Music
V. Mathematics
- Introduction, Working with Numbers to 100
- Working with Numbers to 1,000
- Money
- Word Problems
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Multiplication
VI. Science
- Introduction, The Cycle of Life and the Seasons
- The Water Cycle
- Insects
- The Human Body
- Magnetism
- Simple Machines
- Stories About Scientists

