The Academic Achievement Series Booklets

    It is never too late for parents to make a difference! This fact has never been truer than when parents use the Academic Achievement Series. These booklets help parents make learning come alive at home in order to tap their children's natural curiosity, stimulate their interest and build skills in each of six subject areas. Parents will learn secrets to encouraging children's interest in the world around them—and how to harness that interest at home to help them do better at school.

How to Use: These booklets are perfect for parents of children of all ages. Children of all abilities, including the gifted, love learning activities and will benefit from a more hands-on approach with their parents. Each booklet suggests home activities that include a variety of learning approaches—ideal for children for whom learning in traditional ways is often an unpleasant chore.

What Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students With Reading

Reading is a key to success in school for students of all ages. This booklet is designed to help parents help their child develop a love of reading, make reading fun for students of all ages and master the skills that can make any child a better reader—especially those for whom reading is often an unpleasant chore. The ideas, games and activities in this booklet will help parents help their children develop a healthy interest in reading, an appreciation of why reading is so important and a positive attitude about reading in and out of school. Stock #315A (Spanish #415A)

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What Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students With Math

This booklet will help parents tap their children's natural curiosity, stimulate their interest in math and build math skills—simultaneously. With ideas and activities for use with children of all ages, parents will be able to help children build a solid foundation of math knowledge and help children see how math is directly applicable to their everyday lives. Activities include using manipulatives at home, using "mental math" to estimate answers, secrets to solving word problems, having fun with fractions and decimals, overcoming math anxiety, using sports statistics to build math interest and more. Stock #316A (Spanish #416A)

What Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students With Science

This booklet lets parents in on some secrets to encouraging children's interest in the world around them—and how to harness that interest to help them do better in school. The emphasis is on using everyday experiences and materials around the home to spark children's interest in science, practice the scientific method and understand the real and useful role science plays in our lives. Specific activities for children of all ages include educational "science-in-the-sink" experiments; a "scavenger hunt in the skies" to find the North star, visible planets, man-made objects in space . . . and lots more! Stock #317A (Spanish #417A)

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What Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students With Writing

This booklet provides parents with interesting activities to encourage and improve their children's writing abilities—and help them do better in school. A simple, step-by-step method for organizing ideas and writing nearly anything is included. Activities of interest to children of all ages are also suggested including transcribing tape-recorded interviews children make, a game of making drawings from instructions someone else has written, keeping a daily journal, recording and analyzing sports results, corresponding with a pen pal or another child with similar interests, and more! Stock #318A (Spanish #418A)

What Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students With Vocabulary

Learning depends on good speech, reading, writing and communication skills. Thus, improving a child's vocabulary has the benefit of improving school performance in every subject area. This booklet provides specific, easy-to-implement ideas parents can use at home to build the vocabulary of their children and the entire family. Suggestions include helping children use context to understand new words, challenging children to use synonyms and antonyms, making a word web, truing a newspaper scavenger hunt to find interesting words, using word roots to figure out the meaning of new words, collecting a list of "Words I Could Use . . . " in a future job and more! Stock #319A (Spanish #419A)

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What Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students With Social Studies

One of the best ways to reinforce school lessons and make social studies come alive is for students and parents to discuss current events at home with children of all ages. This booklet suggests ways parents can ignite their children's awareness and interest in what is going on around them. From dinner table discussions and Internet exploration to trips to the library, the ideas are sure to build student understanding of social studies—and increase healthy parent involvement at the same time. Simple games, quizzes, "investigative reporter" exercises, TV watching assignments for the whole family and more all make for stimulating home exploration—and ensure greater student interest in social studies at school. Stock #320A (Spanish #420A)

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