AD/HD Homework Challenges Transformed! Creative Ways to Achieve Focus and Attention by Building on AD/HD Traits. Harriet Hope Green, $16.95

Homework time can be an ordeal for children with AD/HD. After a long day at school, the child often struggles to concentrate and becomes restless, and the parent is left feeling helpless. With the right strategies, homework can be made a more tolerable and even enjoyable experience for both parent and child.

This is a book filled with inspiring methods to motivate children with AD/HD at homework time. Common techniques such as enforcing restrictions and rigid timing techniques can stifle the joy of learning. This book focuses on empowering and enabling the child, acknowledges the characteristics of AD/HD and engages the positive side of these traits. Encouraging movement and creativity, the chapters are brimming with great ideas such as scavenger hunts, singing spelling games and jumping math quizzes that hold the child's attention and make learning fun.

By adopting these simple strategies into the daily routine of a child with AD/HD, parents and teachers can take the tears and tantrums out of homework time and pave the way for academic success.

The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Sara Bennett & Nancy Kalish, $17.95

Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children’s achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change.

Complete Canadian Curriculum: Math / Language / Social Studies / Science. $19.95 each

Complete Canadian Curriculum covers the four key subject areas currently taught in Canadian schools: Math, Language, Social Studies and Science. These curriculum-based units are designed to ensure that your child understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills for grades 1 through 6. With vivid illustrations and interesting activities, your child will find working through Complete Canadian Curriculum both fun and rewarding.

Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade One. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Two. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Three. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Four. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Five. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Six. $19.95

Complete Summer Smart, K to 1. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 1 to 2. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 2 to 3. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 3 to 4. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 4 to 5. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 5 to 6. $16.95

By reviewing the essentials covered in the previous academic year, Complete Summer Smart prepares your child for the grade ahead. Each book includes fun summer activities in English, math, science, social studies, arts & crafts and more.

FrenchSmart: Making Learning French Fun! Andrea Philp Berlin & Christine Chinpokoi, Grades 4 to 8, $12.95 each

FrenchSmart helps supplement and consolidate French language skills in a systematic way. The engaging activities cover the major areas in language learning: vocabulary building, grammar, reading and usage. Illustrations in English are included for reference. Each volume, grades four to eight, follows standard curriculum, $12.95 each.

Guided Imagery with Children: Successful Techniques to Improve School Performance and Self-Esteem. Sarah Berkovits, $32.95

A remarkable resource for parents and teachers. Guided visualization with children is a new approach that brings proven results. Children who see themselves as failures are guided to transform negative images into positive ones. In this way they can successfully reverse many years of discouragement and disillusionment. Guided visualization takes little time to learn, and results are seen almost immediately. Just minutes a day can make a major improvement in the classroom or at home.

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing. Alfie Kohn, $18.00

A compelling exposé of homework — how it fails our children, why it’s so widely accepted, and what we can do about it.

In The Homework Myth, Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework — that it promotes higher achievement, “reinforces” learning, teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience … Kohn’s incisive analysis reveals how a mistrust of children, a set of misconceptions about learning, and a misguided focus on competitiveness have all left our kids with less free time and our families with more conflict. Pointing to parents who have fought back — and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework — Kohn shows how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children’s love of learning.

Homework Talk! The Art of Effective Communication About Your Child's Homework. Cheli Cerra & Ruth Jacoby, $17.99

HOMEWORK TALK provides parents with simple and practical advice to help them deal with the many issues that can come up surrounding their children's homework with tips, strategies, and activities for handling each of them. This easy-to-use and practical book gives parents the tools they need to start working with their child and the child's teacher(s) and make homework a simple and productive process for everyone.

How to Tutor Your Own Child. Marina Koestler Ruben, $15.99

Boost grades and inspire a lifelong love of learning — without paying for a professional tutor.

Light Up Your Child’s Mind. Joseph Renzulli  & Sally Reis, $28.99

Light Up Your Child’s Mind presents a practical program to help children fire up a love of learning to last a lifetime. The book helps parents uncover the hidden potential of daydreamers, rebels, and one-track minds, and argues that gifted behavior — basic smarts, high levels of task commitment and creativity — can be fostered in bright children, even unmotivated ones.

Meet the Teacher: How to Help Your Child Navigate Elementary School, a Common Sense Guide for Parents. Betty Borowski & Laura Mayne, $19.95

Practical advice parents need to help their child thrive at school.

Megaskills: Building Our Children’s Character and Achievement for School and Life, 5th Edition.  Dorothy Rich, $12.35

Specially designed for school-aged children, this cornerstone guide provides you with hands-on techniques and kid-friendly activities to teach children the MegaSkills that are essential to success in school and life. Along with the age-specific activities, this guide contains academic objectives for each MegaSkill; tips for getting the best from technology; research notes, and a wealth of additional resources.

School Power: Study Skill Strategies for Succeeding in School. Jeanne Shay Schumm, $20.95

This handbook is a lively, inviting introduction to the basic study skills all students need to succeed in school. Step-by-step instructions, practical advice, and insider tips from real students cover every conceivable topic, from how to get organized and create a study space to how to take notes, write papers, prepare speeches, follow directions, set goals, handle long-range assignments, and much more.

Kids and teens learn proven ways to be better readers, spellers, and writers, master new vocabulary, remember what they study, prepare for tests, and conquer test anxiety—and those are just for starters.

The revised and updated edition features new sections on the benefits of using computers, the Internet, and email to help with school projects and research. The exciting graphics and straight-talk style welcome kids in and hold their attention.

Sharing the Secrets: Teach Your Child to Spell. Ruth McQuirter Scott & Sharon Siamon, $26.75

Sharing the Secrets is designed for parents who are concerned about their child’s progress in spelling. This popular learn-to-spell program is designed to help spellers from grade 3 to Junior High in just 15 minutes a day. These short, easy-to-manage sessions help children learn to recognize common spelling patterns that often baffle students and to gain a skill that will last a lifetime.

Test Success: Test-Taking and Study Strategies for All Students, Including Those with ADD and LD. Blythe Grossberg, $24.95

Test Success provides sure-fire ways to improve study strategies and test performance of students in middle school, high school, and first-year college students.

Test Talk! Understanding the Stakes and Helping Your Children Do Their Best. Cheli Cerra & Ruth Jacoby, $17.99

Learn how to become a ‘test savvy’ parent and how to help your child by making studying and testing a simpler, calmer and more productive process.

Yoga for the Brain helps writers of all ages, 12 through adult, learn to write more freely, take risks, and experiment and play with language. Far too many people have come to look at writing as a chore, something to be graded or picked apart. Yoga for the Brain quickly helps dispel that notion with 365 daily writing prompts that are interesting, playful, lighthearted, challenging, quirky — or all of the above! Yoga for the Brain can be used by writers on their own or in a classroom setting. Either way, they will sharpen their minds — and their creativity.