parent participation

Provides advice for parents on helping their children learn to read and enjoy reading, covering such areas as phonics, reading stages, myths about learning, and choosing good children's books; and includes "do's" and "don'ts" for reading with one's child.

Provides parents with tips and advice designed to help them successfully guide their children through their senior year of high school through the beginning years of college, discussing some of the most common challenges teens face during that period.

A resource book that provides parents and non-parents with the information they need to become involved with public schools.

A guide for parents who want to help their children learn to read, discussing the controversy between the whole language and phonics approaches to teaching reading; taking a grade-by-grade look at how to help children in preschool through third grade; and providing information about reading difficulties and disabilities.

Contains essays from authors and artists such as Maurice Sendak, Katherine Paterson, Jon Scieszka, and other selected critics that provide tips and advice for parents on literature for children and young adult readers.