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Give your child a running start into kindergarten! "Deborah helps parents see how simple, experiential, even play-based activities that are easily woven into a child's and parent's day can help make a difference." - Rae Pica, cofounder of BAM Radio Network: The Education Station and author of A Running Start: How Play, Physical Activity, and Free Time Create a Successful Child It's time to prepare your child for kindergarten success! An essential guide to the upcoming school year, Ready for Kindergarten! provides you ways to help your son or daughter start off on the right foot. Filled with hundreds of fun activities to practice throughout the day, this book helps you gain valuable insight into your child's capabilities as well as foster the behaviors and skills she needs to have before the big day. From reciting his home address and communicating his feelings to learning how to display good sportsmanship, each activity will boost your child's confidence and set him up for a happy and successful kindergarten experience. With Ready for Kindergarten!, you will not only prepare your child for school, but you will also be able to confidently choose an education path that fits his or her needs.
Build a kindergartener’s writing skills with this collection of activities from the Ready to Learn series—great for kids ages 4 to 6. Bolster fundamental writing skills for kids ages 4 to 6, and get them ready for school with Ready to Learn: Kindergarten Writing Workbook. Fun activities and lessons vetted by early education specialists will strengthen students’ ability to differentiate between and write uppercase and lowercase letters, to recognize sight words, and to write sentences. Kids will even learn the basics of composition: how to brainstorm ideas and write simple stories. Helps children learn to write ABCs. Introduces the concept of word choice and sentence construction. 64 full-color and illustrated pages. Answer key at the end of the book. Meets Common Core State Standards. Includes a Certification of Achievement to celebrate completion. Get to know the Ready to Learn series! Developed for kids entering pre-kindergarten all the way through third grade, Silver Dolphin’s Ready to Learn series of educational and engaging workbooks, workpads, write & wipe formats, and flash cards will put young learners on the path to success. Focusing on three key subjects—reading, writing, and math—each grade level is vetted by experts in early education to adhere to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Foundational, buildable skills are introduced, developed, and reinforced with colorful illustrations and familiar learning formats that will encourage learning confidence as kids benefit from extra educational opportunities outside the classroom.
Be your child's best advocate! Children with special needs who succeed in school have one thing in common--their parents are passionate and effective advocates. It's not an easy job, but with The Everything Parent's Guide to Special Education, you will learn how to evaluate, prepare, organize, and get quality services, no matter what your child's disability. This valuable handbook gives you the tools you need to navigate the complex world of special education and services, with information on: Assessment and evaluation Educational needs for different disabilities, including multiple disabilities Current law, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Working within the school system to create an IEP The importance of keeping detailed records Dealing with parent-school conflict With worksheets, forms, and sample documents and letters, you can be assured that you'll have all you need to help your child thrive--in school and in life!
Giant Workbook: Get Ready for Pre-K is designed to provide plenty of practice for children getting ready to go to school for the first time. A strong start helps ensure a child is able to benefit from the learning opportunities available at preschool. This giant workbook includes practice in important pre-K learning areas such as the alphabet, pen control, sorting, and counting. The bright colorful pages with a delightful blend of photographs and illustrations make this workbook some of the most eye-catching and engaging available. Includes 24 pages of stickers Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too
Prepare young learners for preschool and beyond with our Preschool Skills series. Designed to build a solid foundation for learning, each book in the series introduces an important early-learning concept. The series includes Alphabet, Numbers, Colors and Shapes, Same and Different, Ready for School, and Beginning Sounds—everything your child needs to get a jump start on preschool! This Alphabet workbook contains matching activities, hidden pictures, and exercises with uppercase and lowercase letters to give your child lots of practice with the alphabet. Each book contains 64 pages full of age-appropriate activities such as: coloring and matching activities, counting games, hidden pictures, dot-to-dot activities, patterning exercises, mazes and more!
Play is serious business. Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading), negotiating the rules for a game (speaking and listening), or collaborating over building blocks (college and career readiness and STEM), Kristi Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl Tyler see every day how play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-their-seat instruction alone can't do. And not just during playtimes. "We believe there is play in work and work in play," they write. "It helps to have practical ways to carry that mindset into all aspects of the curriculum." In Purposeful Play, they share ways to: optimize and balance different types of play to deepen regular classroom learning teach into play to foster social-emotional skills and a growth mindset bring the impact of play into all your lessons across the day. "We believe that play is one type of environment where children can be rigorous in their learning," Kristi, Alison, and Cheryl write. So they provide a host of lessons, suggestions for classroom setups, helpful tools and charts, curriculum connections, teaching points, and teaching language to help you foster mature play that makes every moment in your classroom instructional. Play doesn't only happen when work is over. Children show us time and time again that play is the way they work. In Purposeful Play, you'll find research-driven methods for making play an engine for rigorous learning in your classroom.
Dr. James L. Casale, both a state and national award winning educator, has authored his second parenting guide. Family Pledge is unique in that it consists of 40 individual essays that can be read in any order. Choose a topic that interests you and read that first. Select How to Say No and Mean It, or A Holocaust Survivor’s Lesson to His Grandchild, or Empty Lots and Building Forts: Why Electronic Devices Suck, or Is it the Gorilla’s Fault the Kid Fell into the Zoo Enclosure? or Why is School Reform Mission Impossible? These and many more essays and are designed to inform, encourage and inspire parents to accept their solemn responsibility to act as their child’s first teachers and role models. Raising life-long learners and good citizens requires a loyal and devoted commitment to establish a culture of learning at home. The key components are acquiring accurate information, creating a family mission statement, and devising a plan of action that all family members adhere to. As with his first book, Wise Up and Be the Solution, readers will enjoy a jargon free, no nonsense, parent friendly journey filled with practical suggestions and important information.
Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based framework for preventing and addressing challenging behaviors in the classroom; it has shown to be effective from preschool through high school. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports for Preschool and Kindergarten will provide specific information for preschool and kindergarten teachers on creating and implementing a classroom-wide behavior management system, as well as research-based interventions for addressing challenging behaviors. Anecdotes and real-world examples illustrate the concepts presented by Dr. Marla J. Lohmann.
Packed with important information for today's parents and professionals, this new edition of a groundbreaking work presents the latest research on how visually impaired children learn and develop at different ages and in the various developmental domains: sensory development, communication, movement, manipulation, and comprehension. Clear, practical, and reassuring, and full of suggested activities, this book provides a guide to teaching young visually impaired children the important life skills they need to know--skills that other children may learn simply by observation and imitation--and preparing them to enter school ready to learn with their peers. From early intervention services to the full range of educational placements, Reach Out and Teach is the ultimate guide to helping a visually impaired child learn and grow.
