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

by Willis, Judy

• ISBN13: 9781402213465
• ISBN10: 1402213468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc

Summary

Brain-Based Strategies You Can Use Today to Enhance Your Child's Love of Learning 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 capitalize 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 maximize 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." - from the foreword by Goldie Hawn

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
How to Use This Book	p. xxi
Building Better Brains
The Science behind Better Learning	p. 3
Your Child's Learning Strengths: Discovering Intelligence and Learning Styles	p. 15
Reading
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success (Ages 3-8)	p. 31
Strategies for Oral Reading Success (Ages 4-8)	p. 55
Building and Enriching Vocabulary (Ages 7-11)	p. 63
Reading Comprehension (Ages 7-11)	p. 79
Reading Motivation Strategies (Ages 7-11)	p. 95
Test Preparation Strategies: Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension (Ages 7-12)	p. 103
Math
Your Child Can Thrive Despite a Failing Math System (All Ages)	p. 111
Targeting Your Child's Math Readiness Level (All Ages)	p. 127
Brain-Based Solutions for Math Challenges (All Ages)	p. 137
Building Math Mastery: Key Topics (All Ages)	p. 151
Math Motivation Strategies (All Ages)	p. 175
Test Preparation Strategies: Math (All Ages)	p. 195
Social Studies and Science
Igniting Interest in Science and Social Studies (All Ages)	p. 201
Social Studies beyond the Classroom (All Ages)	p. 217
Science beyond the Classroom (All Ages)	p. 227
Strengthen Study Skills in Science and Social Studies (Ages 8-12)	p. 237
Long-Term Report and Project Planning in Science and History (Ages 8-12)	p. 251
Brain-Friendly Strategies for Test Preparation (All Ages)	p. 257
Conclusion	p. 275
Glossary	p. 277
Resources	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 297
Index	p. 299
About the Author	p. 307
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