parent participation

Offers advice, strategies, and techniques parents can use to help their children, ages six through thirteen, set up a schedule for doing homework, make good use of technology, prepare for standardized tests, improve skills in all subject areas, and get homework done. Includes handouts and forms.

Examines the role of parents as educators, suggesting ways to support a child's early reading and writing attempts, describing methods to decipher math expectations, and offering advice on what teachers want to see in children's book reports; and including advice on home-based instruction in imagination and manners.

Presents several real-world activities parents can use to help their children's development in math.

A guide to integrative learning and how to promote it in any learning environment and in learners of any age.

An instructional book helps parents and educators distinguish between needless worry and reasonable concern over their children's education and development to more effectively aid young ones in becoming successful learners.

Offers advice to parents on how to secure good educations for their children from early childhood through the eighth grade, reminding parents of their own responsibilities in educating their children, providing guidelines for determining whether a school is doing a good job, and outlining what a well-educated child knows and can do.

Describes principles for creating and maintaining a healthy environment of support and challenge for children at home, which in turn equips them to effectively handle the pressures of school, and prepares them to learn.

Explains a reading program that may be used to teach children with Down syndrome to read, providing background information, advice on how to get started, reading units, and references.