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Resources for Parents

The following are resources in the school office available to parents and teachers for check out.

BOOKS

The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine
Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

PAMPLETS

Parents as Partners: Helping Your Child’s Literacy and Language Development

VIDEOS and CD’s

Strategies for Professional series by Century Learning
-Literacy in the Secondary Classroom
-Writing excellence
-High Yield Strategies for Teaching Math
-Technology Tools
-What Every Teacher Should Know About Teaching Reading
-Differential Instruction
-Basic Math Skills
-Pre-Algebra/Algebra in the Secondary Classroom

WEB RESOURCES
As with any resource, please make sure the material is appropriate for your family

Nutrition

-http://www.kidnectic.com --Interactive web site designed for 9-13 year olds and their families. It communicates healthy eating and staying active. Parent pages are designed to help families talk about healthy living.

-http://www.cdc.gov/powerfulbones/index2.html osteoporosis prevention site aimed at middle school girls.

-http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/familyhealth --Lawrence Hall of Science, Family Health Program, university of California, Berkeley. Activities families can do together at home:Vital Signs, Sugar Sleuths, Story Snacks

BOOKS(Available at libraries, bookstores)

• The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease

• Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson

• How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

• Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide For Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Persistent, Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

• Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

• Normal Children Have Problems, Too: How Parents Can Understand and Help by Stanley Turecki, Sarah Wenick

• Parenting Well in a Media Age By Gloria DeGaetano

• Raising Self-Reliant children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People by H. Stephen Glenn

• Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson

• Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons

• Not Much Chillin’: The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein

• The Seven Year Stretch: How Families Work Together to Grow Though Adolescence by Laura Scribner Kastner , Jennifer F. Wyatt(Currently out of print, but worthwhile if you locate a copy)