This list of top summer learning workbooks for kids provides something for every type of learner. Tailor summer learning to fit your child’s personality and interests with activities and a format that works for your family.
Evan-Moor’s wide selection of colorful activity books provides learning activities that support the most current standards, while sparking children’s curiosity with interesting themes and topics. You can find skill-specific books to provide review or to challenge your child, or cross-curricular practice that is already paced for summer learning fun! Evan-Moor workbooks have clear directions and follow a consistent format, which makes it easy for children to complete independently.
Check out the best summer learning workbooks below to keep your children learning and growing all summer long.
#1 Recommendation for Summer Learning—Only 15 Minutes a Day
Daily Summer Activities
is a great summer learning solution if you are looking for consistent daily practice in just 10–15 minutes a day. These colorful workbooks help your child transition to the next grade level with daily activities that review essential skills across subject areas, including reading, math, writing, spelling, and geography.
With just one or two activities per day over a 10-week period, Daily Summer Activities helps to keep skills sharp without getting in the way of vacation time. And, a weekly reading log will motivate your child to read during the summer. Fun reward stickers are included for grades PreK–5.
Take the guesswork out of summer learning with the paced practice in Daily Summer Activities! Grades PreK–8
Daily Summer Activities books won the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.
Download free sample units for Daily Summer Activities here.
The Jumbo Workbook for Summer Review
Top Student
jumbo workbooks for grades PreK–6 provide more than 350 pages of activities to keep kids challenged and excited as they strengthen their skills in every subject area. These books work great as summer review and include these topics: math, science, reading, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, writing, social studies, computer science, SEL, and STEM. Select the grade level that your child just completed, for practice and review of skills all summer long!
Top Student provides an in-depth review of skills that complements Daily Summer Activities. Click here to see a suggested “Week-at-a-Glance” for incorporating Top Student activities in a summer learning schedule.
Top Student activity books won the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.
Brain Games For Kids
Brain Games and Activities 
provides screen-free fun to boost critical and creative thinking skills! Keep kids engaged with activities that include logic and reasoning, language and word play, and more. Each book includes: sticker activities, audio support for problem solving, and over 80 brain games. Games include: puzzles, mazes, graphs, hidden pictures, tongue twisters, and more!
Skill-Specific Practice for Grades PreK–6
Whether you’re looking to support your child in a specific skill area or to accelerate learning, the Skill Sharpeners workbook series for grades PreK–6 provides the perfect combination of skill practice and fun to spark kids’ interest! Select a topic in your children’s favorite subject area or an area they could use some extra practice, and watch their skills grow. Each Skill Sharpeners workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional lessons and teaching tips to enrich your child’s learning home.
Skill Sharpeners: Math workbooks encourage children to practice and review math concepts they have already learned. The creative activities practice important grade-level math concepts and improve children’s math fluency, number sense, and reasoning skills. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional hands-on activities and teaching tips for learning at home.
Skill Sharpeners: Spell and Write
workbooks help children build confidence in writing. The colorful activities support written language skills. Activities include practice of grammar and punctuation, vocabulary, creative writing, and spelling. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.
Skill Sharpeners: STEAM
activity books integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math to create meaningful learning opportunities for kids! The real-world topics in these STEAM workbooks connect learning to the environment, earth, people, and cultures, and inspire children to solve real problems related to sun safety, water conservation, wildlife, and more! If your child prefers hands-on learning, these books are a great fit. The open-ended questions and problem solving capture children’s interest and keep them thinking and learning long after the activities are over. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.
Download free sample units for Skill Sharpeners: STEAM here.
Skill Sharpeners: Geography is the winner of the Mom’s Choice Gold Seal Award for the best family-friendly products! These colorful activity books excite children to learn about the world around them and practice cross-curricular skills that integrate current geography standards. Each geography topic includes nonfiction reading selections, comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, writing prompts, and authentic activities that bring the concepts to life.
Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation
helps children improve their writing while learning important grammar and punctuation rules. These colorful activity books make language skill practice fun with interesting themes, a variety of activities, and word games!
Real-World Writing for Today’s Kids 
includes nine creative writing units that help children practice real-world writing. Plus, each unit includes engaging art and hands-on activities that demonstrate how writing is used to solve problems, express ideas, inspire, and help people. The colorful illustrations provide fun and simple writing exercises to show children how diverse and innovative writing in today’s world can be.
Learning Line: Cursive Writing 
provides 32 pages of colorful cursive practice. The quick activities keep young learners focused as they practice important concepts such as writing and reading cursive letters, words, and sentences, and practicing alphabetical order.
Learning Line: Learning About Money 
includes 32 colorful pages of fun activities that keep young learners focused as they practice important concepts such as identifying coins, counting sums of money, solving money-related problems, and more!
Little Learner’s Delight: For PreK–1 Students to Develop Fundamental Skills
Listen and Learn Alphabet includes fun alphabet stories and activities that help children learn to read! This colorful workbook supports early reading skills with audio read-alouds and phonics games that practice alphabet letters and sounds. Creative activities, art projects, and stickers get children excited to practice and learn alphabet letters.
Smart Start: Read and Write is a wonderful activity book to help young children learn to read. The activities review important alphabet letters and sounds. The audio read-aloud stories and activities introduce short sentences and provide fun practice activities to help early learners learn their letters and numbers. Recipient of the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids, the Smart Start: Read and Write series provides engaging reading experiences that encourage children to become life-long readers. Grades PreK–1
Smart Start: Math Stories and Activities is a great workbook to help your child learn and practice counting and writing numbers. Colorful activities help children practice patterns, measurement, shapes, addition and subtraction, and more. The audio read-aloud stories included in every unit help children recognize math in the world around them with real-life examples. Grades PreK–1
Smart Start: Phonics and Spelling 
gives early learners a reading boost with colorful activities, audio stories, and stickers. Recipient of a 2023 National Parenting Product Award, these engaging activity books help children build positive early learning experiences with beginning reading. Children will practice beginning letter sounds, learn important spelling patterns, and read short stories with beginning word families.
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Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.