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Family's Guide
Family members play an important role in their children's attitudes toward, and
success with, mathematics. This award-winning guide summarizes what today's
mathematics classroom is like, offers tips on how family members can help their
children have a positive attitude and enjoy mathematics, and presents practical
ways to discuss and do math at home together during everyday situations.
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Atlas
Hundreds of maps at your fingergips, for viewing or printing, with names and
borders on or off. Great test-prep resources, as well as reference materials.
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Beyond
the Classroom
Virtual Field Trips. Book Clubs. Recipe Creation. These are a few of the
engaging activities and challenging online games and tools to do with children
and teens.
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Children's
Choices booklist
Who better to ask about which books are great than children themselves! This
booklist reflects the opinions of 10,000 children and is a perfect place to
start when encouraging kids to read for pleasure.
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Free
Course: Selecting and Sharing Books (Part I)
There are so many children's books at the library and in bookstores. How do you
know which ones your child will enjoy? Learn how important the right book is
and strategies to help you decide which to choose in this 45-60 minute course.
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Free
Course: Talking About Stories
Reading together is fun and important. What if you could make this experience
even more helpful to your child? Learn some easy techniques, using questions to
talk about books with your child. This 40-60 minute course can help you support
your child's early reading development .
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Literacy
Activities for a Month!
Are you looking for fun ways to support your child's early literacy? This
calendar can help. It gives you 31 simple activities you can try in your
everyday routine.
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Literary
Glossary
Stumped by your child's language arts homework? Flip through this glossary of
literary terms for help.
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NCTE
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Find outstanding nonfiction for children to enjoy.
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Podcast
Series on Talking About Stories
Listen to four-minute podcasts that describe activities you can do with your
child before, during and after reading specific books, like The Little Engine
That Could, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Alphabet Under Construction.
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Young
Adults' Choices
Who better to ask about which books are great than teenagers themselves! This
booklist reflects the opinions of 4,500 teenagers and is a perfect place to
start when encouraging teens to read for pleasure.
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Teachers' Choices
Since 1989, the Teachers' Choices project has developed an annual annotated reading list of new books that will encourage young people to read. These are books that kids will enjoy-and that contribute to learning across the curriculum.
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Learning
About Letters - Names and Sounds
Here are some ways to help your child learn the alphabet and the sounds of
letters. Read or print these activities.
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