This book is a comprehensive study guide for the memoir: Cheaper by the Dozen written by Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Earnestine Gilbreth Carey. It reinforces the following English language skills: compare and contrast, vocabulary, characters, plot, setting, main idea and supporting ideas, problem solving, predictions and inferences, parts of speech - nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, drawing conclusions, sequencing, cause and effect, synonyms, and antonyms. It can be used to supplement a literature/language arts curriculum for 6th - 8th graders or it can be used with other study guides in this series as a complete language arts curriculum. Note: The Kindle format has separate Study Guide and Answer Key. The paperback is reproducible and contains both.