Preparing Children for Success in School and Life

Author: Marcia L. Tate
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412988446
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Make sure your children grow dendrites! As children′s first teachers, parents need to provide a firm foundation for lifelong learning. In this new book, award-winning educator Marcia L. Tate provides a research-based road map for raising respectful, responsible children who achieve to their fullest potential. The best-selling author, mother, and grandmother shares brain-compatible strategies for guiding children toward personal, academic, and career success. Her latest book provides parents and caregivers with a wealth of practical tips and tools for: Creating a calm and brain-compatible home environment Incorporating positive physical contact and verbal communication Encouraging play that develops creativity and imagination Strengthening children′s auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, and visual modes of learning Preparing Children for Success in School and Lifeshows parents how to help children′s brains "grow dendrites" in everyday ways such as telling them stories, using music to enhance memory, turning homework time into fun time, and allowing them freedom to draw and write. From day one through graduation and beyond, you and your family will reap the benefits of the author′s 30+ years of experience with thousands of children.

The Children's Book of Success at School

Author: Sophie Giles
Publisher: Star Rewards - Life Skills for Kids
ISBN: 9781782700647
Category : Elementary schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Help your children to discover what they need to discover and understand what they need to know about starting and getting on well at school. Great re-usable stickers bring extra fun to every topic and encourage children to look at the pictures carefully, learn from the characters and see how important success is in their own lives. Use the gold stickers to praise and encourage your child's progress, and the special wipe-clean reward chart to record successes.

Success in School

Author: Colette O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957050501
Category : Attention in children
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
This book describes who anyone can help children to learn, either in school or during homework. It sets the record straight on nine commonly held beliefs about learning. Most adults, even those in education, assume at least one of these myths is true. Discovering the facts behind these myths can make teaching and learning more enjoyable and successful. Simple and effective ways to help kids concentrate on learning are explained, requiring no extra time or money. In fact they usually make life easier for both the adult and child.

School Success for Kids with ADHD

Author: Stephan Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
The ultimate guide to ensuring school success for kids with attention deficits. School Success for Kids With ADHD offers parents and teachers the support they need to ensure children with attention deficits build on their strengths, circumvent their weaknesses, and achieve to their fullest potential. With the growing number of children diagnosed with attention problems, parents and teachers need practical advice for helping these children succeed in school. Topics include recognizing the causes and types of attention deficits and how they appear in the school context, requesting school evaluations and diagnoses, understanding the laws regarding students with special needs, advocating for these students in the school environment, and coaching students with attention deficits to success. The authors also include a brief overview of research and medical perspectives on attention deficits, strategies used by teachers of children with ADHD, and helpful tools for parents and teachers to employ, such as homework checklists and self-advocacy charts.

My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World

Author: Malcolm Mitchell
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338633325
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
From Super Bowl champion and literacy crusader Malcolm Mitchell comes an exciting new story that shows even reluctant readers that there is a book out there for everyone! Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. When he's supposed to be reading, he would rather do anything else. But one day, he gets the scariest homework assignment in the world: find your favorite book to share with the class tomorrow.What's a kid to do? How can Henley find a story that speaks to everything inside of him?Malcolm Mitchell, best-selling author of The Magician's Hat, pulls from his own literary triumph to deliver another hilarous and empowering picture book for readers of all abilities. Through his advocacy and his books, Malcolm imparts the important message that every story has the potential to become a favorite.

Helping Children Succeed

Author: Paul Tough
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 147353836X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
In his international bestseller How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control and conscientiousness play a critical role in children’s success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, he outlines the practical steps that adults – from parents and teachers to policymakers and philanthropists – can take to improve the chances of every child, however adverse their circumstances. And he mines the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to show how creating the right environments, both at home and at school, can instil personal qualities vital for future success.

The Children's Book of Making Friends

Author: Sophie Giles
Publisher: Star Rewards - Life Skills for Kids
ISBN: 9781782701293
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
From the indispensable series that helps children to develop good habits that will stay with them throughout their lives. Each book includes a detachable wipe-clean chart and star stickers to encourage and reward learning. 'The Children's Book of Making Friends' covers typical social situations to help children develop the key skills that are so vital to well-being and progress in life - both to make friends, and to be a good friend. AGES: 6+ SELLING POINTS: * Each page shows consequences of good and bad habits and reinforcing learning * Sticker search to complete the pages * Activities and quizzes to reinforce learning * Collectable series Colour illustrations

How to Get Your Teacher Ready

Author: Jean Reagan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553538276
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
Learn how to get your teacher ready for back to school…from the first dayl to graduation! The kids are in charge in this hilarious classroom adventure--from the creators of the New York Times bestseller How to Babysit a Grandpa. This humorous new book in the beloved HOW TO . . . series takes readers through a fun and busy school year. Written in tongue-in-cheek instructional style, a class of adorable students gives tips and tricks for getting a teacher ready—for the first day of school, and all the events and milestones that will follow (picture day, holiday concert, the 100th day of school, field day!). And along the way, children will see that getting their teacher ready is really getting themselves ready. Filled with charming role-reversal humor, this is a playful and heartwarming celebration of teachers and students. A fun read-a-loud to prepare for first day jitters, back-to-school readiness or end of year celebrations.. The fun doesn't stop! Check out more HOW TO... picture books: How to Babysit a Grandpa How to Babysit a Grandma How to Catch Santa How to Get Your Teacher Ready How to Raise a Mom How to Read to a Grandma or Grandpa

School Success for Kids With Autism

Author: Andrew L. Egel, Ph.D.
Publisher: Prufrock Press
ISBN: 9781593637460
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
With the increasing numbers of children diagnosed with autism each year, parents need the valuable information provided in School Success for Kids With Autism to help ensure their children receive the educational programming they need and deserve. By outlining the best practices found in today's classrooms, School Success for Kids With Autism describes how parents and teachers can work together to create nurturing, supportive, and effective classroom environments from preschool to high school The book covers topics such as understanding how schools define autism; helping students make transitions between teachers, schools, and grade levels; finding the best instructional strategies and supports for inclusive classrooms; helping kids with homework; selecting curriculum; and providing interventions in the home to help develop needed skills. With practical tools and advice from leaders in the field of autism education, this book is sure to give these students, their parents, and their teachers guidance for success.

How Children Succeed

Author: Paul Tough
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547564651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories—and the stories of the children they are trying to help—Tough traces the links between childhood stress and life success. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do—and do not—prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in poverty. Early adversity, scientists have come to understand, not only affects the conditions of children’s lives, it can also alter the physical development of their brains. But innovative thinkers around the country are now using this knowledge to help children overcome the constraints of poverty. With the right support, as Tough’s extraordinary reporting makes clear, children who grow up in the most painful circumstances can go on to achieve amazing things. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book has the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net. It will not only inspire and engage readers, it will also change our understanding of childhood itself.