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Sixth Grade Reading and Writing: What to Expect
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Sixth Grade Reading and Writing: What to Expect
English Language Arts becomes especially important in middle school. Here's what happens in reading, writing, and vocabulary in English class.
6th grade
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Courses for College: What Kids Need
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Courses for College: What Kids Need
What do kids need to make their college dreams a reality? Advice for parents on what to do and what not to do, in high school to help them gain admission.
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How to Talk to Your Kindergartener
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How to Talk to Your Kindergartener
Are you having difficulty talking to your kindergartener? Here's expert parenting advice to make it a little easier for both you and your child.
kindergarten
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5th Grade Math: What Happens
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5th Grade Math: What Happens
Wondering what will happen in your fifth grader's math curriculum? Here's a guide to what your child's academic life will be like.
5th grade
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Lead Scare: What Parents Should Know
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Lead Scare: What Parents Should Know
Looking around at the toys your child has scattered across the living room floor, you may not realize that 8 out of 10 are made in China. Those became noteworthy figures last week when Fisher-Price recalled almost a million toys because their paint, applied by a company in China, contained high amounts of lead.
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5th Grade Language Arts: What Happens
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5th Grade Language Arts: What Happens
Wondering what will happen in your fifth grader's language arts curriculum? Here's a guide to what your child's academic life will be like.
5th grade
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How to Talk to a Teenager
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How to Talk to a Teenager
Are you having difficulty talking to your teenager? Here's expert parenting advice to make it a little easier for both you and your child.
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Geocaching: A High-Tech Treasure Hunt
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Geocaching: A High-Tech Treasure Hunt
If your teen has a taste for treasure, technology, or just a love of adventure, then "geocaching" might be just the thing.
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5th Grade Science: What Happens
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5th Grade Science: What Happens
Wondering what will happen in your fifth grader's science curriculum? Here's a guide to what your child's academic life will be like.
5th grade
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5th Grade Social Studies: What Happens
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5th Grade Social Studies: What Happens
Wondering what will happen in your fifth grader's social studies curriculum? Here's a guide to what your child's academic life will be like.
5th grade
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From Script to Screen: How to Read Movies
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From Script to Screen: How to Read Movies
Watching a film adapted from a book is odd: we hope to see the world we imagined in our heads. Sometimes we're disappointed; sometimes pleasantly surprised.
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Introducing the Five-Paragraph Essay
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Introducing the Five-Paragraph Essay
In middle school, students are expected to organize, synthesize, and take real ownership of their essays. Here's what parents can do to help.
Middle school
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Help for Speech Development: Preschool
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Help for Speech Development: Preschool
An expert parenting guide to understanding your preschooler's speech development.
preschool
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Speech Development in Kindergarten: What's Normal?
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Speech Development in Kindergarten: What's Normal?
An expert parenting guide to understanding your kindergartener's speech development.
kindergarten
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Help for Speech Development: 1st Grade
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Help for Speech Development: 1st Grade
An expert parenting guide to understanding your first grader's speech development.
1st grade
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Snap! Crackle! Pop! Fireworks and Special Needs Kids
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Snap! Crackle! Pop! Fireworks and Special Needs Kids
Watching fireworks is an American family tradition. What if the special needs of a child makes this classic stressful or even impossible?
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Tackling Theme in Literature
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Tackling Theme in Literature
A theme is an idea or message about life, society, or human nature. And it is often the most hardest element for a middle schooler to identify in a book.
Middle school
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Reading: Getting the Main Point
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Reading: Getting the Main Point
A middle school writing aide's perspective on how to get students to see the "big picture."
Middle school
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Keeping Your Teen Out of Trouble
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Keeping Your Teen Out of Trouble
Teens and trouble: think they go together like bread and butter? Well, you may be wrong. Parenting tips on setting limits for your teen.
High school
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The College Tour: What You Need to Know
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The College Tour: What You Need to Know
Navigating the college tour: expert advice from a former Stanford University tour guide.
High school
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Your Middle Schooler's Social Life
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Your Middle Schooler's Social Life
Wondering about your fifth grader's social life? Here's a guide to what's going on.
Middle school
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How Your Middle Schooler Thinks
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How Your Middle Schooler Thinks
Middle schoolers are officially in the realm of the "young adult." Though your child does think mostly like an adult, there will be exceptions. What are they?
Middle school
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The Parent's Guide to Every Grade
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The Parent's Guide to Every Grade
Children don't come with an instruction manual, but now their grades in school do! Expert advice on understanding your child at every stage of development.
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The 100 Deadliest Days of Driving: How to Protect Your Teen
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The 100 Deadliest Days of Driving: How to Protect Your Teen
Here are some tips to keep your teen safe on the road this summer.
High school
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Gender Differences: Middle School
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Gender Differences: Middle School
Here is a thorough parenting guide to understanding gender differences in middle school.
Middle school
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