Achieving Success at School: How to Help Your Child With Reading, Spelling, Writing and Math: Positive Parenting, #6

By Katrina Kahler and Karen Campbell

Did you know that you as a parent can actually be the difference between your child succeeding and failing at school? If your child is struggling in Elementary School or Primary School, then you can help them to grasp the basic essential skills in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Math and Scientific Processes.

Over the past 30 years Karen Campbell and Katrina Kahler (both expert teachers and parenting advisors) have assisted hundreds of parents who wanted to help their child, but just didn't know how. This ebook will give you the strategies and activities that will definitely make a difference to your child's learning and future education.

This is Book 6 of a series of books on how you can help your child, not only academically, but with personal and social skills, early teaching of infants, communicating with your kids, puberty education (without all the heavy sex stuff that young kids don't need to know about), how to make and keep friends, how to change your child's behavior today and how to raise a confident, positive, resilient and focused child.

All of these books are combined in 'The Parenting Trap', a must read for all parents.

Karen and Katrina are on a mission to share their knowledge and experience with parents worldwide. They want to show you how to help your child to achieve their full potential and lead happy and successful lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katrina Kahler
• Release date: Aug 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201306106

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Achieving Success

At School

Positive Parenting Book 6

Help Your Elementary-Aged Child

With Reading, Spelling,

Writing and Math

Karen Campbell and Katrina Kahler

Copyright © KC Global Enterprises

All Rights Reserved

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: School Readiness

Chapter 2:  Being Organized With Homework

Chapter 3:  Reading: Teach Your Child To Be A Better Reader

Chapter 4:  How to Help Your Child to be a Better Writer

Chapter 5:  Help Your Child To Improve Their Spelling

Chapter 6:  Activities To Involve Your Child In Math

Chapter 7:  The Essential Mathematical Skill That Kids Must Have Before Entering High School

Chapter 8:  How To Teach Your Child To Tell The Time

Chapter 10: How To Help Your Child Cope With Exam Stress

Chapter 11: How To Get Along With Your Child’s Teacher

6 Ways To Show That You Value Their School

Chapter 12: Getting Ready for the School Year

Chapter 13: Messy Handwriting!

Chapter 14: Boys and Education – How To Help Your Son

Chapter 15: Stimulating the Gifted Child

Conclusion

Introduction

The biggest gift you as a parent can give your child is the gift of self-belief and confidence. While the biggest mistake you can make is to put your child down, tell them that they probably will not be successful, and criticize them.

We want to tell you a story about a little 7-year-old boy called Dan (not his real name). He came to our class with a huge attitude. He told us he hated school, hated teachers, hated the kids in his class, and hated the principal. He told us that he was dumb and would never learn to read or do maths and that we may as well give up trying. We persisted with him, showed him kindness, and made him feel liked and respected. As his attitude towards us changed, so did his behavior and his classmates started to play with him and let him play with them during lunch breaks.

Dan didn’t like to be given special attention. He didn’t like to stand out from everyone else. So, we had to be careful to quietly praise him and not single him out for extra help with support staff or parents. Gradually he started to read. He was at least two years behind, but he was reading.

One Friday afternoon, he quietly asked us for reading books to take home so he could practice. He wanted to show his Mum how much he had improved. We couldn’t wait for the weekend to pass to see his sweet smile. Monday morning came around, and he was late for class. He had a scowl on his forehead and looked really cranky. He walked over to the bookshelf and tossed the books on top. Then he sat down, got his book out, picked up his ruler, and broke it in half. Obviously, something was wrong.

When we started group work, we took him aside and asked how his weekend was. He just grunted and said, Bad. At first break time, we called him aside and asked what was so bad about his weekend. He told us that he tried to read the books to his Mum on Friday night, and she told him that he was a very bad reader, that he should have been able to read baby books in preschool and that she was too busy to listen to him.

Our hearts bled for Dan. All of our efforts to build his self-esteem had come crashing down in a two-minute conversation with his mother. We told him that we didn’t agree with his mother, that he had made more progress than any other child in the classroom. We pulled out his writing book and compared his writing from the beginning of the year to now (4 months later). He replied that he could see that his writing had improved, but he was still dumb, and he didn’t want to read anymore. We found the leveled readers he had started on and compared them with the level he was now reading at. He had jumped six levels in a very short time. This lifted his spirits a little, and his mood lifted also.

We phoned Dan’s mother and asked for an interview to discuss his progress. Her words were very negative. She wanted to know what he had done wrong. We told her nothing. In fact, we were thrilled with his progress.

The next morning before school, Dan and his mother came in for an interview. Dan looked very nervous, and his mother looked quite uncomfortable. She started the conversation by saying that she was dumb in school and still couldn’t read very well. Dan takes after me. He’ll never learn. The sooner he can get out of school, the better.

Dan’s Mum was passing on her negative experience of school and her poor opinion of herself to her son. We sent Dan out to play and talked to her about how much progress he had made that year. We also told her about how excited he was to take the books home to show her how he had improved and how upset he was upon returning to school. She didn’t really know what to say.

We talked about the types of things we