Ten Things Your Child Should Know about Reading, Writing, and Math: Pre-K - 5th Grade

This highly practical and user-friendly book offers parents a fantastic tool with which to oversee their child's educational development. This hands-on, user-friendly guide offers: * Easy-to-read lists of reading, writing, and math skills for each grade * Everyday activities parents can do at home * Practical ways of helping your child, early on, in math * Writing tips and techniques * Reading strategies for developing independent readers * A list of questions, for each grade, that can be asked during parent-teacher conferences. * Take notes right in the book! Relying on Smith's Five Key Principles, parents will quickly learn how to expose children to educational concepts in the home and how to foster a healthy environment for learning. Take this book one chapter at a time and it can be a resource to you for years!