Don't Give Up On Your Child's Learning

 Accept a word of encouragement: learning may hit a flat spot, but improvement will happen. Keep going! I've been a teacher and a mom...hang in there!

 This is a very thorough link with excellent ideas for reading improvement. Keep at it, don't give up!

1. Strategies to Improve Reading Skills at Home or School

Reading Improvement Strategies

http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/instructionalmaterials/a/actvtoimprvread.htm

Keeps your math thinking clear.

This next link is for math improvement. Although it is clearly written by a math person for upper grades, I really appreciate the advice for visual learners and this can be useful for lower grades. It is so wise to write your work carefully. If possible, it is also smart to use appropriatesized graph paper for scratch paper and block out each section you've used for each problem so you can so back over and check your work, which is the method of high achievers. 

2. Top 10 Strategies to Improve Your Math Grades

http://www.mathgoodies.com/articles/improve_your_grades.html 

 Communication always so important. Here's is another great site for ideas.

3. Foster Language, Reading, and Writing Improvement at Home

http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/parents/living-with-dyslexia/home/foster-language-reading-writing-improvement-home 

Plan fun things, doesn't have to be a crisis.

Communication in the family can help, too. Creating a comfortable, caring, creative learning environment is a family affair.

4. Family Councils: The Key Is Communication

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/GH6641 

 

Don't Give Up On Your Child's Learning

 Accept a word of encouragement: learning may hit a flat spot, but improvement will happen. Keep going! I've been a teacher and a mom...hang in there!

 This is a very thorough link with excellent ideas for reading improvement. Keep at it, don't give up!

Wow, love this book.

1. Strategies to Improve Reading Skills at Home or School

Reading Improvement Strategies

http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/instructionalmaterials/a/actvtoimprvread.htm

Keeps your math thinking clear.

This next link is for math improvement. Although it is clearly written by a math person for upper grades, I really appreciate the advice for visual learners and this can be useful for lower grades. It is so wise to write your work carefully. If possible, it is also smart to use appropriatesized graph paper for scratch paper and block out each section you've used for each problem so you can so back over and check your work, which is the method of high achievers. 

2. Top 10 Strategies to Improve Your Math Grades

http://www.mathgoodies.com/articles/improve_your_grades.html 

 Communication always so important. Here's is another great site for ideas.

3. Foster Language, Reading, and Writing Improvement at Home

http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/parents/living-with-dyslexia/home/foster-language-reading-writing-improvement-home 

Plan fun things, doesn't have to be a crisis.

Communication in the family can help, too. Creating a comfortable, caring, creative learning environment is a family affair.

4. Family Councils: The Key Is Communication

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/GH6641 

 

Reading Improvement Tweets of the Day 6/8/13

 

1. Struggling Readers Need to Learn to Read with Fluency

http://thisreadingmama.com/2011/07/19/struggling-readers-need-part-5/ 

2. 2013 Big Summer Read

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/summer/2013/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia 

3. Reading Tips to Go

 http://www.startwithabook.org/sms

4. The Lost Art of Teaching Soundly Structured Lessons

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2013/06/04/fp_schmoker_lessons.html 

5. June 2013: Summer Science Opportunities

https://www.magnetmail.net/Actions/email_web_version.cfm?publish=newsletter&user_id=NSTA&message_id=2667459

6. Crickets, Books, and Bach: Develop a Summer Listening Program

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/15904/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia 

7. 6 Emerging Technologies in K-12 Education

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/6-Emerging-Technologies-in-K-12-Education.html 

 

 

Play Ball! And Other Learning Incentives Tweets of the Day 2/17/13

You're safe!

School Academic Success and Athletic Commitment Boost Each Other, Study Finds

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2013/02/school_academic_success_and_at.html 

Finding Students' Hidden Strengths and Passions

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/students-strengths-passions-maurice-elias 

CHAT: Understanding Neurodiversity to Build a Strengths-Based Classroom 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2013/02/chat-understanding-neurodiversity-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

At the very least, they're good for a laugh.

Can Your Friends Make You Smarter?

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/02/can-your-friends-make-you-smarter/?utm_source=rss&utm_http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1441644043303616609#editor/target=post;postID=1206619968793327072medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-your-friends-make-you-smarter 

How to Fuel Students’ Learning Through Their Interests

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/02/how-to-fuel-students-learning-through-their-interests/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

Creating Social Stories for Students with Autism & Behavior Disorders 

http://www.teachhub.com/social-stories-autistic-students 

Creating Confident Readers Out of Struggling and Reluctant Readers

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2013/02/creating-confident-readers-out-of-struggling-and-reluctant-readers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

 

 

 

Don't Give Up On Your Child's Learning

 

 Accept a word of encouragement: learning may hit a flat spot, but improvement will happen. Keep going! I've been a teacher and a mom...hang in there!

 This is a very thorough link with excellent ideas for reading improvement. Keep at it, don't give up!

Wow, love this book.

1. Strategies to Improve Reading Skills at Home or School

Reading Improvement Strategies

http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/instructionalmaterials/a/actvtoimprvread.htm

Keeps your math thinking clear.

This next link is for math improvement. Although it is clearly written by a math person for upper grades, I really appreciate the advice for visual learners and this can be useful for lower grades. It is so wise to write your work carefully. If possible, it is also smart to use appropriatesized graph paper for scratch paper and block out each section you've used for each problem so you can so back over and check your work, which is the method of high achievers. 

2. Top 10 Strategies to Improve Your Math Grades

http://www.mathgoodies.com/articles/improve_your_grades.html 

 Communication always so important. Here's is another great site for ideas.

3. Foster Language, Reading, and Writing Improvement at Home

http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/parents/living-with-dyslexia/home/foster-language-reading-writing-improvement-home 

Plan fun things, doesn't have to be a crisis.

Communication in the family can help, too. Creating a comfortable, caring, creative learning environment is a family affair.

4. Family Councils: The Key Is Communication

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/GH6641