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The best way to nurture your child's reading and writing abilities is to provide rich literary experiences and find frequent and varied opportunities to work and play with language. By the end of second grade, children have developed a reading vocabulary of familiar words and can decode the letter-sound patterns of many unfamiliar one- and two- syllable words. During third grade, as they increase their knowledge about words (including the concepts...
Series
Core knowledge volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"A revised and updated version of What your [first] grader needs to know, which provides fundamentals of a good [first]-grade education, including achievement with readings and activities in literature, mathematics, history, science, and the arts"--
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Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Description
This book answers important questions about what children should be learning at school and at home, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American sixth graders.
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Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Updated with new material, this guide outlines the elements a parent or educator should look for in a good kindergarten program and introduces activities that can help children take their first steps in learning to read and write.
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Publisher
Mango
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Over 4.1 million kids enter public high school a year - most of whom are clueless as to what awaits. Study with Jess, her YouTube channel, demystifies everything students need to succeed from effective study tips, test taking techniques, and how to navigate all too harrowing social dynamics. Includes workbook exercises, self evaluation goals, and progress timelines. Perfect parent purchase.
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know How can you help your child at home? This book answers that important question and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fourth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum,...
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Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Description
Now completely revised, this guide covers the basics of language arts, history and geography, visual arts, music, math, and science for fifth-grade students. A collection of American speeches, tales from around the world, math problems, and biographies of famous scientists add to the book's usefulness.
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Hungry Minds
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Approximately 1.5 million American students are currently taught at home. This essential guide offers both new and experienced homeschoolers useful information and insight about the basics of day-to-day homeschooling life and explains the hows and whys of this exciting new alternative to traditional classroom schooling. The book Helps select appropriate curriculum and gives advice on how to help kids survive the not-getting-on-the-yellow-schoolbus-at-the-corner...
11) Home learning year by year: how to design a homeschool curriculum from preschool through high school
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschookling experts.
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Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability....
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"A powerful, eagerly anticipated exploration (past and present) of white supremacy in the teachings of our national education system, its depth, breadth, and persistence-and how, through generations of our nation's most esteemed educators and textbooks, racism has been insidiously fostered-North and South-at all levels of learning.In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated...
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A New York Times–bestselling author looks at mathematics education in America-when it's worthwhile, and when it's not.
Why do we inflict a full menu of mathematics-algebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculus-on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? While Andrew Hacker has been a professor of mathematics himself, and extols the glories of the subject, he also questions some widely held assumptions in this thought-provoking...
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