Help your child succeed!

If your child is falling behind in school, you know what heartache is —watching the struggle, feeling the frustration, yearning to help —but what can you do?

You can do a lot! In Overcoming Underachieving two nationally recognized experts in children's school problems show you how to become your child's advocate, coach, and guide through the educational process. Using numerous case examples, they help you pinpoint your child's unique learning patterns and the problems that interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement.

This information-packed book provides dozens of creative, parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties with reading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attention span, and many other problems that affect school success. With the help of Overcoming Underachieving, you can:

• Learn proven methods of assessing your child's patterns of learning and behaving
• Describe learning and behavior problems clearly to teachers and other educators
• Develop strategies that use strengths to overcome weaknesses
• Set goals your child really can achieve
• Find out how to improve your child's behavior and self-esteem

Emotional support is important, but you can give your son or daughter even more. Find out how in Overcoming Underachieving.

Contents

Introduction
Quick Solution Finder
Part I: Learning Problems and Your Child
Chapter 1: The Building Blocks of Learning
Chapter 2: Assessing Your Child’s Learning Skills
Part II: Foundational Blocks: The Learning Support System
Chapter 3: Attention and Impulse Control
Chapter 4: Emotions Behavior
Chapter 5: Self- Esteem
Chapter 6: The Learning Environment at School and at Home
Part III: The Building Blocks of Learning
Chapter 7: Your Child’s Motor Skills
Chapter 8: The Mechanics of Reading and Spelling
Chapter 9: Reading Comprehension and Writing
Chapter 10: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
Chapter 11: Math Problem Solving
Conclusion
Appendix A Resources
Appendix B D’Nealian Numbers and Letters
Appendix C Affixes
Appendix D 1,000 Instant Words
Notes
Index