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Different Learners.
Jane Healy, $20.00
Identifying, preventing and treating
your child's learning problems. Positive and empowering, DIFFERENT LEARNERS
gives parents and teachers the tools they need to improve every child's ability
to learn. |
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How Can My Kid Succeed in School? What
Parents and Teachers Can Do to Conquer Learning Problems. Craig
Pohlman, $23.95
This practical resource for parents and
teachers explains how to understand a child's complete learning profile — an inventory of his or her unique strengths
and weaknesses — and provides helpful strategies that can be
used at school and at home to get the child on a path to success. The
book walks readers through the process of gathering clues about the
child's learning style and provides guidelines for selecting the most
appropriate learning strategies that will help spell success in school
and life. Pohlman shows how parents and teachers can collaborate to
help kids become successful learners, and also guides readers through
the process of getting an educational assessment, for those students
with particularly challenging issues. |
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I Hate School:
How to Help Your Child Love Learning. Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, $17.50
'One-size fits all' schooling leaves many children, parents and teachers
feeling frustrated. By understanding and respecting a child's personal
and unique learning style you can help them learn to minimize weaknesses
and maximize their gifts. Cynthia Ulrich Tobias shows how parents
and teachers can work together to provide learning opportunities for
all students. |
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Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner
Find Success in School and Life. Pam Withers &
Cynthia Gill, $19.95
Everyone knows that boys are falling
behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys,
who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall
somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged,
and disaffected. There are lots of books on underachieving boys, but most
parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the
footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely
to educators. What about the average guilt-ridden, frustrated mother or father
of an underachieving boy? JUMP-STARTING BOYS empowers parents, helping them
reclaim the duties and rewards of raising their children and navigate the
influences of school and media. Filled with reassurance and support, the
authors turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence. Through easy tips and
action list sidebars, this is the most practical, readable book on the topic. |
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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: a Parents'
Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning. Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Laurie Dietzel, $29.95
Executive functions are the cognitive
skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak
executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but
forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose
things, or have a room that looks like a dump! The good news is that parents
can do a lot to support and train their children to manage these frustrating
and stressful weaknesses. |
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The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to
Turning On the Tuned-Out Child. Richard Lavoie, Book $19.99;
DVD $52.95 (90 minutes)
Motivation is the key to learning.
But very few parents and teachers have an effective arsenal of techniques
at their disposal. Acclaimed author Rick Lavoie arms all those who
deal with children with proven, effective tools and strategies they
can use to encourage any child to learn and achieve success. Lavoie
explores motivational styles, presenting proven techniques, strategies,
and scripts that can be used in the classroom and at home to break
through a child's apathy and discouragement and inspire him/her
to succeed and achieve. Along the way, Lavoie explodes some common
myths about motivation: for instance, he demonstrates that rewards,
punishment, and competition are not effective motivational tools.
He gives specific advice throughout for parents and teachers of
children with learning disabilities and provides detailed instructions
for how to create a motivated classroom. |
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Organizing the Disorganized
Child: Simple Strategies to Succeed in School. Martin Kutscher
& Marcella Moran, $15.99
Is your child disorganized? Is it making you crazy? This book
is your new best friend. |
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Overcoming School
Anxiety: How to Help Your Child Deal with Separation, Tests, Homework,
Bullies, Math Phobia, and Other Worries. Diane Peters Mayer,
$18.95
School should be rewarding, not terrifying. This unique guide shows parents how to make their child's learning experience a positive one.
Filled with real-life examples as well as proven advice for working with teachers, principals, and counselors, this is the only comprehensive guide that will enable every parent to help a child cope, build confidence, and succeed in school. |
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Pressured
Parents, Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Competition While Raising
a Successful Child. Wendy Grolnick & Kathy Seal, $23.50
Reassuring and empathic, authors Grolnick and Seal show parents
how to avoid the burn-out—in both parents and children—that afflicts
so many in our highly competitive society, while raising children
who thrive and excel. |
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School Struggles: a Guide to Your
Shut-Down Learner’s Success. Richard Selznick,
$17.95
Dr. Selznick explores reading and
writing issues, behavioral problems, difficulties with organization, social
skills, medication, parents’ interactions with teachers, excessive use of
technology, the importance of patience, and more. The practical, down-to-earth
tone and helpful, easily applicable tools make this book a godsend for parents
staying awake at night worrying about their child’s learning and school
experience. His understanding that each child is unique has helped many parents
and children navigate over a rough road safely. |
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That Crumpled Paper Was
Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed
in School and Life. Ana Homayoun, $20.00
Top academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics, starting with a simple fact: most boys need to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals.
Much more than a study guide, this insightful, user-friendly book provides a roadmap for the success. |
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Booklist
Bright Minds, Poor Grades: Understanding
and Motivating Your Underachieving Child. Michael Whitley, $16.95
Could Do Better: Why Children Underachieve
and What to Do About It. Harvey Mandel & Sander Marcus, $23.95
Different Learners. Jane Healy, $20.00
Helping Your Child to Overcome Separation
Anxiety or School Refusal: a Step-by-Step Guide for Parents. A. Eisen & Laura
Engler, $18.95
How Can My Kid Succeed in School? What
Parents and Teachers Can Do to Conquer Learning Problems. Craig Pohlman, $23.95
I Hate School: How to Help Your Child Love
Learning. Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, $14.50
Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner
Find Success in School and Life. Pam Withers &
Cynthia Gill, $19.95
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: a Parents'
Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning. Joyce Cooper-Kahn &
Laurie Dietzel, $29.95
A Mind at a Time: How Every Child Can
Succeed. Mel Levine, $20.00
The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to
Turning On the Tuned-Out Child. Richard Lavoie, Book $19.99; DVD $52.95 (90
minutes)
My New School: a Workbook to Help Students
Transition to a New School. Melissa Trautman, $21.95
Organizing the Disorganized Child: Simple
Strategies to Succeed in School. Martin Kutscher & Marcella Moran, $15.99
Overcoming School Anxiety: How to Help Your
Child Deal with Separation, Tests, Homework, Bullies, Math Phobia, and Other
Worries. Diane Peters Mayer, $18.00
Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids:
Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child. Wendy Grolnick &
Kathy Seal, $23.50
School Struggles: a Guide to Your Shut-Down
Learner’s Success. Richard Selznick, $17.95
The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your
Academically Discouraged Child. Richard Selznick, $17.95
That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week:
Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life. Ana
Homayoun, $20.00
The Trouble with Boys: a Surprising Report
Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School and What Parents and Educators Must
Do. Peg Tyre, $18.95
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