Activities are intended to stimulate and bring out your child's gifts and talents in reading. Excellent resource for parents. Feelings can interfere with learning, so the author provides scenarios and tips for using language with students that encourages and supports rather than angers and suppresses. Cooperation, pitfalls of punishment, problem-solving, praise, and criticism are areas that are dealt with in an insightful way. Here's a wide variety of everyday ways you can strengthen a girl's sense of autonomy, instill pride in being female, and ensure confidence throughout her lifetime.
Concrete solutions support the uniqueness of girls from infancy to adolescence and beyond.
A teacher's guide is included to help facilitate group activities and encourage classroom use. This resource is filled with a thousand and one ideas to assist parents in understanding their child's need and improving their education. Use it as an encyclopedia of strategies for making school time more satisfying for your child. This book details how standards and assessment are affecting students, parents, and the school system. This is an enlightening treatise that provides a fairly balanced view of the pros and cons of school reform.