10 Reasons Why School Attendance Is Important
Channing Bete

This booklet underscores that children with good attendance are more likely to do well in school, develop important skills, perform better on tests, enter college, and find a good job after school. Booklet presents a list of tips that link excessive absences with greater risk of dropping out of school, as well as behavioral and social problems.
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12 Ways To Support Homework Success
Channing Bete

This booklet underscores that strong homework habits are key to academic success at every level. Booklet provides a list of tips that outline strategies for motivating their child, improving study skills, and interacting with teachers and school administrators. Also urges parents to make homework part of a daily routine, set aside a study area, discuss homework every day, limit distractions, and work with teachers. Supports school goals required under ESEA and Title I funding.
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14 Ways To Encourage Reading At Home
Channing Bete

This booklet provides busy parents with creative suggestions about developing and supporting their child's interest in reading. Booklet presents a list of tips that include creating a home library, setting aside family reading time, reading aloud together, discussing reading material, playing word and board games, and telling stories.
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15 Tips For Your Child's School Success
Channing Bete

This booklet reminds parents that their involvement is key to their child's success in school. Booklet provides a list of tips that describe ways to encourage learning every day, including reading at home, finding daily opportunities to help a child practice his or her academic skills, teaching discipline and responsibility, promoting good study habits, helping a child set goals, limiting screen time, and attending school events.
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9 Tips For Helping Your Child Learn Math
Channing Bete

This booklet provides parents with easy-to-implement tips on helping their child learn and appreciate math, emphasizing the importance of math in school, at work, and in everyday life. Booklet presents a list of tips that encourage parents to keep a positive attitude, relate math to common tasks, discuss how people use math in their work, and explain how math helps solve problems. Also encourages families to work together and recognize that math can be fun.
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9 Ways Busy Parents Stay Involved In Their Child's Education
Channing Bete

This booklet provides creative ways for parents to take an active role in their child's education. Booklet presents a list of tips that encourage parents to maintain a family calendar to track important dates, monitor children's homework, regularly communicate with teachers, attend school events, talk with their child about school, and volunteer. Encourages parents to make time every day to show their child that they value education.
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Evidence-Based Practices at School: A Guide for Parents
Pacer

One way to help your child succeed is to know if the school is using effective teaching and intervention practices. But how can schools and parents know if a practice is effective? One method is to see if there is any research or "evidence" to prove that the practice works. This handout explains the meaning of "evidence-based practices" and why they are important.
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Help Your Child Be A Better Reader
Channing Bete

Even parents with basic reading skills can instill a love of reading in their child. This booklet shows them how -- by setting aside time each day to read together, choosing reading material that both parents and children can enjoy, and creating an at-home library of favorite books and magazines.
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Help Your Child With Writing
Channing Bete

Every child can learn to write well, and every parent can help! This easy-reading booklet encourages parents to involve their child in simple writing activities every day.
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Help Your Teen Make A Smooth Transition to High School: A Parent's Handbook
Channing Bete

This handbook helps parents of those transitioning to high school understand and cope with the challenges and opportunities ahead. Provides advice on helping their child select classes, address fears, set short- and long-term goals, and more. Discusses good organization, time management, and healthy habits; lists sources of support; and provides a checklist for tracking parent involvement.
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Help Your Teen Succeed In High School! Cling
Channing Bete

This bright and convenient cling gives parents tips to help their child succeed in high school. It encourages parents to create an at-home study space, talk to their child about important issues (like alcohol and other drugs), and much more. This cling can be wiped clean without removing, or moved and reapplied repeatedly to any smooth surface, like on the wall by a computer or on the refrigerator.
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Helping Your Child Do Well In School
Channing Bete

Parents learn that doing well in school is important to their child's self-esteem and to future success. Supportive text builds parents' confidence in their ability to help their child, and explains how to make the most of teaching opportunities at home that can enhance a child's school performance.
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Helping Your Child Prepare For School -- Tips For Success: A Parent's Handbook
Channing Bete

Step-by-step guide teaches parents what it means to be ready for school, strategies to enhance their child's education, and the importance of good health and physical well-being. Interactive exercises help parents develop their child's language and thinking skills, prepare their child emotionally and physically for school, and more.
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Helping Your Child with Homework: A Parent's Handbook
Channing Bete

This handbook explains how to set up a homework area, establish a study time, and help children develop effective study skills. Exercises prompt parents to write down homework goals, keep track of classes and after-school activities, and create a daily schedule. Also provides tips for modeling positive behavior, encouraging healthy habits, and getting involved in school activities; lists sources of additional help.
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How to Help Your Child With Homework
Channing Bete

Encourages parents to instill good study habits in their child by consistently showing interest in their child's schoolwork; setting up a study area for their child at home; and, most importantly, making sure their child understands the importance of learning.
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Improving Literacy Through Self-Regulation - On the 5's Resource Guide
NDDPI

On the 5's Resource Guide seeks to help parents and caregivers support their child's literacy skills with a quick, easy-to-use toolkit. These brain break activities are designed to be done in 5 minutes or less and help both you and your child. Although this resource guide effectively supports all learners, it is especially important for those children with a disability, trauma or drug/alcohol exposure.
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Kids Love To Learn -- Parents Can Help
Channing Bete

Parents with basic reading skills will appreciate the practical tips and advice this easy-to-read booklet offers. Simple activities such as attending school events, helping out at their child's school, reading together, and sharing household chores are ways that parents can demonstrate their belief in the value of education.
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Ways to Help Your Child with Math
Channing Bete

This booklet reassures parents that they don't have to be math wizards to help build a child's math skills. Simple everyday activities such as measuring recipe ingredients, estimating distances, and counting utensils introduce children to basic mathematical concepts.
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Homework anxiety: Why it happens and how to help
Understood

Does your child seem to spend more time worrying about homework than actually doing it? Homework anxiety can eat up a lot of time and energy. Stress or anxiety can block learning by shutting down the parts of the brain that need to do the work. Homework anxiety can start in the earliest years of grade school. It can affect anyone, but it can be an especially big issue for kids with learning and attention issues. Find out why some kids get so anxious about homework, and what parents can do to help.
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