parent participation

Principals, teachers, and parents offer tips, checklists, and other resources that can build strong collaborative relationships between parents and schools, which in turn improves students' performance in school.

Presents sixty reproducible poems and activities for Kindergarten through second-grade literacy programs, and contains reading logs, certificates and bookmarks, motivational stickers, advice on involving parents, and more.

A program to teach parents of children ages 5 through 9 how to help their children read at home.

Offers advice on how to diagnose Attention Deficit Disorder; discusses the strengths that often accompany the learning disorder; and describes teaching tools that may be effective in helping ADD children realize their potential.

Contains 101 story pages for recommended picture books, books for children in grades two to five, and books for children in grades four to six and up, each with a synopsis, questions about who, what, when, and why, conversation starters, quotes, and a list of similar titles; and features questions parents may use to start conversations with their children on a variety of subjects.

Offers parents and educators an overview of inclusion programs, with tools to help parents enhance their child's learning experience, both at home and in the classroom, and strategies for working with the education system to make the most of inclusive education.

Presents a practical approach to understanding learning patterns in children and includes advice for helping with homework, communicating with teachers, and improving the quality of their education.