Regular practice is the best way to reinforce concepts and allow students to gain confidence and mastery of skills. With Helping your Child Learn to Read you get reading and critical thinking exercises for students for every day of the school year. Presented in a consistent format from week to week, the activities in Helping your Child Learn to Read allow students to progress in reading comprehension and word study skills, and makes diagnostics and assessment easy for parents and educators. Through both fiction and nonfiction reading exercises, students get purposeful practice in engaging with diverse texts appropriate for their grade level. Ideal for after school study, intervention, or homework, Helping your Child Learn to Read is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards. In addition to reading passages, data-driven assessment tips as well as digital versions of the assessment analysis tools are provided. With text passages that advance in complexity throughout the year, student learning is enriched by developing and honing skills of reading comprehension, interpretation of symbols, making logical inference, summarizing and responding to literature, and more. Boost your child's reading skills in a hurry with the easy-to-use activities in Helping your Child Learn to Read.

Eric Reese is an African American author, blogger and community organizer from the heart of inner-city Philadelphia. The man they call "E" has traveled the world meeting scholars of religion, education and social justice. He has a distinct love for writing on social issues, urban culture, black history in fiction and nonfiction genres.