What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know All the books in this series are basic textbooks covering the Core Knowledge content, written in age-appropriate language. Stories include Cinderella, Goldilocks, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Velveteen Rabbit. Science, history and math are also covered.
	What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education Stories include Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Rapunzel. History topics include ancient Egypt, Columbus and the American Revolution. Science topics include basic electricity, astronomy and geology.
	What Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second Grade Education Stories include: Charlotte's Web, Greek myths, and The Emperor's New Clothes. Grammar topics include regular and irregular plurals, capitalization rules, and using apostrophes for contractions. Math topics include three-digit addition and subtraction, basic multiplication and basic geometry.
	What Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education Stories include Norse mythology, William Tell and selections from The Arabian Nights. History topics include Ancient Rome, the Vikings, and the Colonial period. Science topics include animal classification, the skeletal system, and optics.
	What Your 4th Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fourth-Grade Education Stories include Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Math topics include fractions and decimals, multiplication and division review, and geometry. Music topics include vocal ranges, Gregorian chant, and biographies of Handel, Haydn and Mozart.
	What Your 5th Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-Grade Education Language Arts topics include The Gettysburg Address and the poetry of Longfellow, Tennyson, and Frost. History topics include the Maya, Inca and Aztec Civilizations, the Renaissance and Feudal Japan. Visual Arts topics include Renaissance Art, 19th-Century American Art and traditional Japanese Art.
	What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education Language Arts topics include Latin and Greek vocabulary roots, and writing persuasive essays, research essays and business letters. Math topics include geometric area formulas, probability and statistics, and pre- algebra. Science topics include basic phyics (speed, force, work, energy and power), heat and energy transfer, and the circulatory, lymphatic and immune systems.