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How Your Child Learns Best: Brain-Friendly Strategies You Can Use to Ignite Your Child's Learning and Increase School Success

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Judy Willis, foreword by Goldie Hawn

  • How Your Child Learns Best
  • How Your Child Learns Best
    Discover how to help your child increase academic focus and success, lower test stress while increasing test scores, increase class participation, foster creativity, and improve attention span, memory, and higher-level thinking.

308 pages
Interest Age: 3 to 12
2008
ISBN: 9781402213465

How Your Child Learns Best is a groundbreaking guide for parents that combines the latest brain research with the best classroom practices to reveal scientifically savvy ways to improve your child's success in school.

Written by Judy Willis, MD, MEd, a board-certified neurologist who is also a full-time classroom teacher, How Your Child Learns Best shows you not only how to help your child learn schoolwork, but also how to capitalise on the way your child's brain learns best in order to enrich education wherever you are, from the grocery store to the car - a necessity in today's "teach to the test" world.

By using everyday household items and enjoyable activities, parents of children ages three to twelve can apply targeted strategies (based on age and learning strength) in key academic areas, including: Reading comprehension Math word problems Test preparation Fractions and decimals Oral reading Reports and projects Science and history Reading motivation Vocabulary

Discover how to help your child increase academic focus and success, lower test stress while increasing test scores, increase class participation, foster creativity, and improve attention span, memory, and higher-level thinking.

How Your Child Learns Best shows how to maximise your child's brain potential and offers something for every parent who wants the best for his or her child. ""At last we parents now have a reference that will help guide us in assisting our children's growth and flowering. This book is what parents have been searching for and need now more than ever."

Table of Contents

Table of Contents.

Foreword by Goldie Hawn

Introduction

How to Use This Book

PART I. Building Better Brains

  1. The Science behind Better Learning
  2. Your Child's Learning Strengths. Discovering Intelligence and Learning Styles

PART II. Reading

  1. Laying the Foundation for Reading Success (Ages 3-8)
  2. Strategies for Oral Reading Success (Ages 4-8)
  3. Building and Enriching Vocabulary (Ages 7-11)
  4. Reading Comprehension (Ages 7-11)
  5. Reading Motivation Strategies (Ages 7-11)
  6. Test Preparation Strategies. Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension (Ages 7-12)

PART III. Math

  1. Your Child Can Thrive Despite a Failing Math System (All Ages)
  2. Targeting Your Child's Math Readiness Level (All Ages)
  3. Brain-Based Solutions for Math Challenges (All Ages)
  4. Building Math Mastery. Key Topics (All Ages)
  5. Math Motivation Strategies (All Ages)
  6. Test Preparation Strategies. Math (All Ages)

PART IV. Social Studies and Science

  1. Igniting Interest in Science and Social Studies (All Ages)
  2. Social Studies beyond the Classroom (All Ages)
  3. Science beyond the Classroom (All Ages)
  4. Strengthen Study Skills in Science and Social Studies (Ages 8-12)
  5. Long-Term Report and Project Planning in Science and History (Ages 8-12)
  6. Brain-Friendly Strategies for Test Preparation (All Ages)

Conclusion

Glossary

Resources

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author