How Well Does Your Child Read, Write, and Do Math?: Step-by-Step Methods for Parents to Assess and Develop their Child's Skills by Ann Cook

by Ann Cook

This threefold, multi-grade guidebook provides a combination of easy-to-use evaluating tools for successfully measuring a child's skill. Ann Cook's concise guide will allow parents to discover which areas in their child's world of reading, writing, and math need extra attention, and will give parents specific methods and advice for improving those areas. In addition, an extensive list of on-line resources is featured in the appendix.Tools and topics included in How Well Does Your Child Read? are a pre-test to determine a child's learning style; phonics and reading assessments with scoring; grade level guidelines; a National Assessment of reading standards; and frequent reading troubles and their solutions.How Well Does Your Child Write? offers solutions to common writing problems, featuring a skills test, assessment, and scoring for grades Kindergarten through 5; a National Assessment of writing standards; a review and explanation of the components of writing such as outlining, idea flow, formatting, and presentation; and grade level guidelines.How Well Does Your Child Do Math? features a special assessment focusing on shapes, numbers, and counting for Kindergartners; a pre-test; test-taking tips and tricks; a National Assessment of math standards, testing the knowledge of time and money; and a useful overview for parents, to help them refresh their own knowledge of basic math concepts.How Well Does Your Child Write? offers solutions to common writing problems, featuring a skills test, assessment, and scoring for grades Kindergarten through 5; a National Assessment of writing standards; a review and explanation of the components of writing such as outlining, idea flow, formatting, and presentation; and grade level guidelines.How Well Does Your Child Do Math? features a special assessment focusing on shapes, numbers, and counting for Kindergartners; a pre-test; test-taking tips and tricks; a National Assessment of math standards testing the knowledge of time and money; and a useful overview for parents to help them refresh their own knowledge of basic math concepts.

Hardcover

First published September 28, 2004

About the author

Ann Cook is the author of the best-selling American Accent Training text, published by Barron's in 1991, 2000 and 2012. (Also published in China, Japan, Korea and India.) Her speciality is tailoring and expanding materials for specific situations, as in her three books for parents of elementary-age students, How Well Does Your Child Read? How Well Does Your Child Write? How Well Does Your Child Do Math?

Cook studied Spanish Literature at the California State University at Los Angeles, spent a year at the Institut d'Études Françaises in Aix-en-Provence, a month studying Spanish with the Peace Corps language program in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and five years in Japan at the Japanese Culture and Language Institute in Tokyo.

In addition to her regular teacher training, Cook has trained a dozen Americans to teach in Korea, and hundreds of Korean high school students who came to the US for her program. Her company, American Accent Training, Inc., has provided training for numerous heads of corporations, post-graduate students, engineers and IT personnel. American Accent Training is used around the world at public and private schools, universities and corporate training programs.

Cook also developed an online learning program for the American accent and culture for blended learning in the overseas call center market, including assessments, industry-specific modules, sales modules, and general cultural information, delivered via a Moodle platform.

American Accent Training, Inc., founded in 1986 and incorporated in 1997, is a virtual language training company with instructors across the United States. All AAT instructors have a masters degree or PhD and are intensively trained in-house, specifically for second accent acquisition.

The phrase "American Accent Training" is trademarked.

Reviews

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

lots of tests and ways to check your child's progress in learning.