Tips & Advice
How to Get Kids Into a Learning Mindset at Home
This fall, it may help to think of distance learning as the epitome of growth mindset in action. Let’s set our students up for learning success with a growth mindset perspective, good organization, plenty of technology practice, and, most of all, empathy.
Tips & Advice
Tips on Balancing Virtual Learning and Work for Parents
Julie Bogart, author of The Brave Learner, offers parents advice on how to balance working from home and virtual learning — based on her experience homeschooling her five children for 17 years.
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Growing Reader
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Teen
Books To Help Kids Understand What It’s Like To Be a Refugee
Stories can facilitate dialogue and promote healthy communication around this difficult topic, and help to foster empathy and understanding.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Level 2 Readers for Growing Bookworms
Featuring rhyming text, short sentences, and subtle clues to help your child sound out new words, Level 2 readers provide a surefire way to keep your child engaged and progressing.
Teen
Books on Growing Up for Teens
In a lot of ways, every young adult book is about growing up — finding yourself, finding love, leaving childhood, and its innocence, behind. But these nine books put the experience of growing up center stage.
Tween
Books on Growing Up for Kids Ages 9 – 12
Kids can use all the help they can get as they navigate this transitional time, and books that address all the complexities of their lives provide a great refuge from the confusion and frustration of middle school.
Growing Reader
Books on Growing Up for Kids Ages 6 – 8
These eight books on growing up are a great way to show kids ages 6 to 8 the magic of this journey, while also letting them know that growing pains are totally normal.
Pre-K
Books on Growing Up for Kids Ages 3 – 5
Kids between the ages of 3 and 5 are building so many skills. It’s a wonderful time of development that you can aid with enriching, relevant picture books that will support all the ways they’re growing.
Baby & Toddler
Books on Growing Up for Kids Ages 0 – 2
From immobile, squawky newborn to busy, opinionated toddler, ages 0 to 2 are full of nothing but growing. All along the way, of course, are plenty of snuggly opportunities to celebrate both the everyday and the momentous milestones through sharing books together.
Grown-Up Reads
The Best Grown-Up Reads of July 2020
July’s best new reads feature a stellar debut set in a Bachelor-adjacent world, the latest from two powerhouses of suspense, an appearance from the one and only Jim Carrey, and more.