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Annie is really smart, but she needs a plan for focusing on her work at school and getting her homework done and turned in. Annie's Plan presents a10-Point Schoolwork Plan and a 10-Point Homework Plan that help her master the organizational and study skills needed for school success..
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How can schools take an active role in moral education without digressing from their academic mission? In this timely book, Katherine Simon analyzes the ways teachers address or avoid moral issues that arise in middle and high school classrooms, then explains how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a diverse democracy. She offers many practical tips to help teachers explore deeply important questions with their students..
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The new edition of one of the most successful titles in the Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices series, Modifying Schoolwork, presents straightforward information on how teachers can develop modifications and accommodations to schoolwork so students with disabilities can participate in the inclusive classroom. The book is centered around three types of adaptations - curricular, instructional, and environmental - and two stages of planning adaptations for students with a broad range of learning and developmental disabilities. Features such as Student Snapshots, Voices from the Classroom, and What the Research Says make this book easy to read for the busy educator..
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Kids and computers go well together But too often the relationship ends up mere fun and games. If you bought a home computer hoping it would be used to help your children learn and do homework, you need this new book by Jim Lengel and Diane Kendall, experienced parents and educators. In working with their own kids and hundreds of families, they found that most parents don't know where to begin to help their children get the full benefits of a home computer beyond computer games.

This book is for all involved parents with children in the third through eighth grades. The authors show how to use standard software programs like Kid Pix, The Sim series, Microsoft Word, ClarisWorks, and Grolier's Encyclopedia (on a Macintosh or Windows computer) to complete a wide variety of school assignments in new and engaging ways. Along the way they provide detailed guidelines for equipping your computer to support the needs of your favorite student. Soon you'll find schoolwork can be a learning adventure for all, as you and your kids begin to transform book reports, science projects, essays, and maps into impressive multimedia presentations.

inside you'll find:
-- Sample projects based on real school assignments
-- Tips for using the latest CD-ROMs to become a knowledge navigator
-- Techniques for adding pictures, sound, animation, and video to reports
-- Steps for creating and presenting a computer slide show
-- An introduction to the best Internet and online services for kids
-- Information about appropriate software and computer products.
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This easy-to-use source book offers the help children need to get the most out of school. Using the valuable insights and information provided here, you will not only be able to identify the obstacles hindering your child's educational growth, you'll discover how to overcome them! Improving Your Child's Schoolwork is the key to understanding and resolving whatever scholastic difficulties your child may encounter, whether due to attitude, attention span, visual memory, dyslexia, or other common problems.

Learn how to:
• Improve your child's study time, classroom participation, and overall success in school
• Work with teachers and tutors to get results
• Improve your child's preformance on tests
• Make sure homework gets the attention it deserves
• Help your child bounce back from setbacks and learn from mistakes
• Approach problems and goals in a manner consistent with your parenting style
• Provide your child the opportunity to pursue talents and develop skills


Improving Your Child's Schoolwork doesn't have to be read cover-to-cover. Use it as you would an encyclopedia: simply look up the problem or issue you are concerned about and explore the suggested strategies together with your child. If you want additional or related information, refer to the many cross-referenced entries. You don't have to be a teacher to use those techniques—any parent can use these constructive, supportive, and loving means to help a child succeed in school.

About the Author

Lawrence J. Greene has over twenty years of experience helping children learn. He is the founder and executive director of the Developmental Learning Center in San Jose, California, where he and his staff have treated more than 12,000 learning disabled and underachieving children. He speaks to schools and parent-teacher groups nationwide, and is the author of a number of parenting books, including The Life Smart Kid and Getting Smarter..
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