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LEARNING & READING
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Understanding Baby's Body
Language
During the first weeks of
life, your baby will seem to
be sending out a lot of
signals. From birth, he will
turn his head when you touch
his cheek and extend his
arms and legs and cry when
he's startled. He'll also
take a step forward when his
feet touch a flat surface
and grasp your finger when
you stroke his palm...
more
[Parenthood]
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Teaching Social Studies with
the Internet
Social studies educators are
living and working in the
middle of a revolution --
the emergence of the
Internet as an integral part
of education. This Digest
summarizes ways that
classroom teachers can
combine the Internet with
other instructional
resources and methods. It is
a basic guide for the novice
and a checklist for the more
experienced Internet user.
The web sites and ERIC
resources cited in this
Digest and included in the
references provide the "next
steps" for exploration and
implementation...
more
[Kid Source]
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Fire Safety Training: A
Lesson for Life
Would your child know what
to do if he detected a fire
in your home? The right
answer could save his
life...
more
[Children Today]
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Parents As Partners In
Children's Learning
Parents and
teachers may look at young
children's learning from
different perspectives, but
they share a common goal:
making sure that children
receive the best possible
education. Mutual respect
and communication between
programs and families takes
advantage of both
perspectives to provide
children with the kind of
care...
more [Kid
Source]
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Reading Begins at Home
All parents
want their children to
succeed, and high on
everyone’s list of essential
skills is reading. Your
child is learning to read
until she reaches the end of
third grade, according to
the experts...
more [Parenthood]
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Is Your Home
Reader-Friendly?
Recently,
read-aloud-with-children
guru Jim Trelease reported
findings from a University
of Southern California study
which found that "the child
growing up in an environment
brimming...
more [Parenthood]
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Eight Ways to Help Your
Child Learn to Read
"Sounding words out," is an
important reading strategy.
But, it is only one of the
strategies your child will
need to practice in order to
become a fluent reader. Here
are some ways to...
more [Parents
Soup]
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Talking to Your Child's
Preschool Teacher
Enrolling
your toddler in preschool
can be a time filled with
many questions: how well
will my child adjust to
preschool? Will he make
friends? Will the teacher
understand...
more [Kids
Health]
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A New Attitude Towards Test
Anxiety
If you are hiking in the
woods and suddenly encounter
a bear, every part of you
will be instantly on guard
against the danger staring
you in the face. Your body
will be prepared to...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Making Math Fun
Mathematical concepts become a part of everyday life
when introduced to children while they're young. Today's mathematics involves
more than just counting and memorizing...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Helping Students With Homework In Science And Math
Teachers assign homework for a variety of reasons: to help students review,
apply, and integrate what has been learned in class; to help them prepare for
the next...
more [Kid Source]
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Homework: How Involved Should Parents Be?
I just was wondering how much input, time, hovering, etc. should parents expend
on their children's homework. Should you let them do it all on their own with a brief...
more [Parent Soup]
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Helping Your Gradeschooler with Homework
Homework is your child's responsibility, so you should just stay out of the way,
right? Wrong. With a little help from you, homework can be a positive experience
for your child...
more [Kids Health]
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Transition Points: Helping Students Start, Change, and Move Through the Grades
As children progress through different grades in school they
face different challenges. In addition to changing academic and social demands,
students also experience...
more [AACAP]
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How Can You Help Your Child with Homework?
Use the following suggestions, plus your own, to help your child learn to do homework efficiently and
independently. Goal: To help my child with schoolwork at home...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Meeting the Homework Challenge
When a child is struggling with homework, it's easy for parents to want to step in and help. However, there is a fine line between
helping and taking over. "Helping" does...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Learning Modalities
Learning modalities, learning styles, or multiple intelligences - these word
labels emphasize the different ways children and adults learn best. Just as a
single shoe size doesn't fit...
more [Teacher Source]
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Reading with Your Child
Reading is an important skill for anyone--grown-ups or children. We try to give
children experiences with books during their time with us. It's a good way to
help them get ready to learn...
more [PBS Kids]
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Raise Good Readers All Year Long
So much emphasis is placed on the importance of children continuing to read over the summer that it's easy to forget that
pleasure reading - picking up a book for the sheer...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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How Individual Learning Styles Affect School Success
In second grade your child made a topical map of the U.S. and could name every state capital without pause. In fifth grade the
history teacher wrote a poem featuring all the...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Motivation Principles That Drive Learning
The environment can be used to focus a student's attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers
who create warm and accepting, yet studious, atmospheres will promote...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Sneaky Ways to Teach Your Child Math
As parents, we know that
math skills are essential
and invade every aspect of
our daily lives. It is this
pervasiveness that allows us
to turn the tables on our
own children and use...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Make a Mathematical Connection to Children's Academic Success
While I can't say it's ever been proven, I think most people agree that students
tend to excel in subjects that naturally interest them. We automatically expect,
for example, that...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Transform Leisure Time Into Learning Time
When it comes to reading and writing, there is absolutely no doubt that good
schools, with skilled and highly motivated teachers, are critical for ensuring
that every child has the...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Helping Your Child to Pay Attention
Teachers and parents often tell children to "pay attention" because they realize that students will not remember information
unless they stay focused on the task at hand. The ability...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Your Home is Your Child's First School
Parents are their children's first teachers and the keys to learning are first developed at home. Your child's ability to learn and
benefit from his or her school experience will depend...
more [Huntington Learning Center]
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Helping Your Child Learn to
Read
There is probably no more important activity for preparing your child to succeed
as a reader than reading aloud together. Fill your story times with a variety of
books. Be consistent, be patient...
more [Parents Talk]
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The Working Parent’s Guide to Reading and Kids
After work, you dash by the daycare or after school, pick up the kids, hurry
home, throw together something resembling a meal, make sure the homework's
started, get baths and tuck your...
more [Parenthood]
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Raising Readers: Action Steps for Parents
There are a number of steps that parents can take to help prepare their young
children to become readers and to support the reading habit once they are in school. These include...
more [Parenthood]
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10 Ways to Raise a Strong Reader
One of the most significant discoveries in recent reading research has been the
importance of providing children with a language-rich environment right from the
start. The following...
more [Parenthood]
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Improve Kids' Reading
Parents want their children to be strong readers. They see reading ability as
the ticket to a good college and a successful life. The first problem, however,
may be getting children to...
more [Parenthood]
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How do Kids Learn to Read?
Phonics? Whole language? Some of each? As we discovered, learning to read is a
complex process and adherence to just one instruction method, either phonics or
whole language...
more [Parenthood]
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Scary Stories: Are They Good for Your Child?
Your daughter loves scary stories and insists on saving her allowance
for the latest addition to the thrilling, chilling Goosebumps series. Plus, with summer
finally here, it’s camp time...
more [Parenthood]
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Scary Stories: When the Horror is Real
What if your child’s assigned reading for the summer includes stories
that are frightening but are – or could be – real, such as The Diary of Anne Frank or To
Kill A Mockingbird? How can you...
more [Parenthood]
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Know What Your Child is Reading
Not every book is right for every child. Here are some tips on guiding your child’s reading
choices: Allow your child to explore the public library and remember that...
more [Parenthood]
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How Music Benefits Children
"It's our time to sing together. Sing Hello, Hello!" A group of bright-faced
of toddlers sits mesmerized as their moms clap...
more [Parenthood]
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Homeschooling: Is It Right for Your Child?
believe that homeschooling is an excellent choice for many families. But it
doesn't work for everyone. Here are some of my observations. I hope they help
with your decision making...
more [Parent Soup]
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The Advantages of Home Schooling
When we first meet someone new and tell them we homeschool our children, they
say, "doesn't that take so much time," or "what a big
commitment." We respond with...
more [Parent Soup]
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Helping Your Child With Homework
Families play a vital role in educating America's children. What families
do is more important to student success than whether they are rich or
poor, whether parents have finished high school...
more [Parenthood]
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Using Psychological Strategies
to Help Your Child Read More
In mid 1998, when our daughter, Christine,
turned six years old, she struggled to read books. We knew six-years-olds who
read easily, but Christine did not, and we felt worried...
more [UNE Psychology]
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