Product Description

A brand-new title in this important series gives parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children who are starting in the second grade. It's a combination manual and advice book, suitable both for parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard classroom settings, and for home schoolers, where parents take direct control of their child's studies. Making the Grade books are not textbooks, but practical curriculum guides. Written by authorities in elementary education, they advise parents on books, software, and other teaching tools. Each book presents guiding principles for teaching reading, writing, math, social studies, and science. Pages are perforated for multipurpose use. Each title in the series contains four curriculum sections:

* Promoting literacy-reading, writing, listening, and speaking

* Math-number patterns, problem solving, and other math-related concepts

* Science-life, earth, and physical sciences

* Social Studies-history, geography, economics, and culture

Each section outlines subject matter to be covered, augmented with planning and implementation strategies for parents and teachers. Advice includes ways to explain difficult concepts to children, suggestions for interactive learning in music and art, activities to promote hands-on learning experiences, and more. Sections titled In Your Community describe ways to integrate local cultural affairs, business activities, environmental concerns, and government functions with a child's education. Though written primarily for parents, this book will appeal to second grade teachers looking for new ideas and methods. It features maps, photos, and illustrations, many in color.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103163 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02
• Released on: 2003-12-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764124778
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
“In colorful, fun, engaging formats, these books have found a way to keep your hungry student learning and engaged in his or her education process. Every test comes with discussion and explanation sections, and the book has a style that lends itself more to having a good time rather than beating kids over the head with knowledge.”


—Parents Express, September 2004



“…a great supplement to your curriculum…”


—Sharon Fooshe and Mary Pride, Practical Homeschooling, July/August 2004







From the reviews:


“These titles for Gr. K-6 will help parents and educators give their children a smart start and keep them up to speed with today’s standards-based learning.”


—Tidings, May/June 2004

From the Back Cover
back cover
Making the Grade
Books in this important new series give parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children, whether as parents cooperating with their child’s teachers in standard classroom settings, or as home schoolers taking direct control of a child’s studies. Separate titles are available focusing on different grade levels.

Everything your second grader needs to know

Customer Reviews

If you buy only one book- this is the one.
I bought this book, Making the Grade: Everything Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know just recently and am so happy with the book. I am going to switch to just this book as the main lesson plan for teaching my 1rst & 2nd graders since it is so well organized while covering everything that they need to know in a easy to understand format that is also fun!

For home-schooler or home-base charter school parents, this book is great to use because of the bulleted skills learned checklist at the end of each section. This tells you what you need to report as having covered. Then there are the assessments at the end of the book that you can submit on the various subjects, along with the answers.

I have used the Hirsch series of books (What Your First Grader Needs to Know), and own serveral, but am listing them elsewhere online since they aren't nearly as good as these.

Good basic info for homeschoolers or anyone who wants to keep up...
Good basic subjects to keep up on grade level. Don't expect to have this book help your child excel, it's really more for making sure you don't miss anything obvious so it's good for homeschoolers.

It was ok
Our daughters have English as a 2nd language and so sometimes struggle with school work. We thought this might be helpful to us to help them at home. Some of it is useful but what is in the book doesn't necessarily jive with what they are learning in school.I think it would be more helpful for homeschoolers who are doing their own curriculum. Bottom line is I wished I'd previewed it at the library first.