Help Your Child to Succeed at School: A Teach Yourself Guide

Give your child the best possible start at school

Help Your Child to Succeed at School will help you aid your child become an able reader, confident with numbers, and give him or her the skills to shine both socially and academically through a series of fun games and simple exercises that all the family can enjoy.

• One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
• Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience.
• Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
• Extra online articles at teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of how to help your child succeed at school.
• Packed with hands-on exercises and suggestions.
• Designed to give performance boosting support for every stage and subject in a child’s early years education.

Topics include:
Getting Ready for School: Preparing children to be brilliant; Your Child’s Brainpower, and How to Activate it; Engaging with Learning; Working with Others; Putting your Child in Control; Key Thinking and Learning Skills; In School: Helping children meet all the challenges of primary education; Words and Numbers; Knowledge and Skills; Rules, Roles and Responsibilities; Out Of School: Adapting home life to support your child's educational success; Healthy Families, Healthy Minds; The End of Primary--and Beyond; Afterword