The Working Together Series Booklets

With The Working Together Series booklets, you can help parents get more meaningfully involved with their children’s education right at home. The booklets provide a wonderful addition to your other parent involvement activities! Here’s how: Children love activities, accomplishing things and keeping score. You can use these booklets to encourage students to get their parents involved in working together! Each booklet is full of activities parents and children can work on together to build responsibility, self-esteem, talking and listening, reading, motivation and learning at home. And, because each activity can be done at different times, parents can pick and choose the activities to work on with their children.The booklets also provide a built-in reward system! Each booklet’s inside cover includes a "Certificate of Achievement" suitable for framing, stating that the child and cooperating adult have worked together to complete the activities included in that particular booklet. There’s even a place for a date and signatures of the child and adult! The booklets do not mention school awarded prizes or recognition for completing one or all of the booklets. But, if you choose, you can add that spark to the program yourself. What a great way for your school/district to promote parent involvement in their children’s education at home! Available in both English and Spanish, each of the 16-paged Working Together Series Booklets is designed to supplement the popular Parenting Series Booklets on the same vital topics.

Parents and Children Can Work Together on Self Esteem...to Help Children Do Better in School

Self-esteem is so important to everyone—especially children. And, not just the type of self-esteem where children "feel good" about themselves, but the kind of self-esteem that comes from the inside—from being successful. This booklet provides school leaders a way to give parents and children practical activities they can work on together at home to build the child’s self-esteem. These meaningful activities can help develop the confidence every child needs to be productive in school and in life. They, will help to establish a life-long habit of working together for the betterment of children’s education. Stock #341A (Spanish #441A)

Parents and Children Can Work Together on Reading...to Help Children Do Better in School

Learning to read is one of the single most important education skills a child can ever learn. Sadly, many parents take this important skill for granted—or never think about it at all. Even those parents who know reading is important often do not know how they can help children practice and improve at home. Parents and children must work together on reading at home. This booklet provides parents and children with exciting activities they can work on together at home to develop the child’s reading skills and promote the love of reading. Parents want to help their children. Now, you can show them exactly what to do! Stock #342A (Spanish booklet discontinued.)

Parents and Children Can Work Together on Responsibility...to Help Children Do Better in School

Parents taking responsibility for their child’s learning and behavior is one of the top concerns of school leaders in a recent nationwide survey of school administrators. And, what better way to address this huge issue, than providing successful ways parents and children can work together at home to build responsibility? The booklet provides example after example of wonderful ways parents can help children build responsibility. It helps set forth the parents’ expectations on responsibility to their child and, will also underscore the importance to parents of the school’s expectations for responsibility. When parents and children are both responsible for the child’s learning and behavior, teamwork between home and school will grow. And the child, teacher, school, and district can become more successful. Stock #343A (Spanish booklet discontinued.)

Parents and Children Can Work Together on Talking and Listening...to Help Children Do Better in School

Communication—specifically talking and listening—are skills essential to learning and working with others. Communicating is one of the brain’s hardest and most complicated tasks. Parents can help children practice and develop their ability to talk and listen at home. This booklet helps parents explain the importance of talking and listening. It provides practical activities parents and children can work on together at home to help the child focus, listen to the others, organize his/her thoughts, and express them effectively in response. With some practice at home, parents can help build children’s communication skills and performance in school. Stock #344A (Spanish #444A)

Parents and Children Can Work Together on Motivation...to Help Children Do Better in School

Motivation is a critical key to doing anything from assembling a model airplane to building a rocket engine. If a child is not motivated, he will not learn despite wonderful teachers and schools. But, parents can work together with their children to motivate them and build the self-motivation so important to their school work and future. This booklet helps parents see that the most powerful motivation for any child starts at home. It includes activities parents and children can work on together at home to build the motivation to learn. Emphasis is placed on helping children develop inner motivation, a job best done by parents at home. Stock #345A (Spanish #445A)

Parents and Children Can Work Together on Learning at Home...to Help Children Do Better in School

How often have we heard concerned parents say, "I want to help my child but I don’t know what to do!" And, how many times have we wished we could hear those same words from the hard-to-reach parents? Now, there’s help! This booklet shows parents why it is important to help children learn. It also provides easy ways parents can work together with their child on learning at home. When home becomes a learning place, it positively impacts learning habits at school work. By helping parents help their children learn at home, everyone benefits! Stock #346A (Spanish booklet discontinued.)

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