Making the Grade: Everything Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know
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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.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.241
EAN: 9780764124778
ISBN: 0764124773
Label: Barron's Educational Series
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-02
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Studio: Barron's Educational Series
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SIMILAR ITEMS:
• Making the Grade: Everything Your 1st Grader Needs to Know
• Making the Grade: Everything Your Third Grader Needs to Know
• Making the Grade: Everything Your 4th Grader Needs to Know
• Making the Grade: Everything Your Kindergartener Needs to Know
• What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second Grade Education Revised (The Core Knowledge Series)
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Summary: Good basic info for homeschoolers or anyone who wants to keep up...
Comment: 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.
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Summary: If you buy only one book- this is the one.
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It was ok
Comment: 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.
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