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Expanded Parent Guide to Summer 2014! 1275 1674 admin

Expanded Parent Guide to Summer 2014!

ThinkStretch has expanded the Parent Guide to Summer to include the needs of families with pre-schoolers and middle schoolers.  As the ThinkStretch Summer Learning series has expanded, we’ve recognized the need to offer more parent support for our new families. The Pre-school transition to Kindergarten can be fraught with both fear and excitement.  I remember…

ThinkStretch: A Summer Learning Kit for Groups and Parents 231 300 admin

ThinkStretch: A Summer Learning Kit for Groups and Parents

ThinkStretch offers schools and parent groups the opportunity to sell the ThinkStretch Summer Learning Program to their parents at a 15% discount.  The ThinkStretch Summer Learning Kit Sale allows schools and parent groups to submit one bulk order to be shipped directly to the school and distributed to students.  A summer learning kit sale offers…

ThinkStretch: A School Wide Summer Learning Program for Every Student 231 300 admin

ThinkStretch: A School Wide Summer Learning Program for Every Student

ThinkStretch is designed to be a school wide summer learning program.  The original and sustaining vision of ThinkStretch is to give every student in an elementary school the opportunity to keep all of the learning they have worked so hard to achieve over the long summer months. Rooted in research, parent interviews, teacher feedback and…

The Importance of Family Involvement in Education 283 207 admin

The Importance of Family Involvement in Education

How can we know if a child will succeed in school? One of the most accurate predictors of a student’s success is how involved his family is in his education. As a parent, I know I have struggled with what the phrase “family involvement” in education really means. Does involved mean a helicopter parent or…

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The Importance of Family Involvement in Education 283 207 admin

The Importance of Family Involvement in Education

How can we know if a child will succeed in school? One of the most accurate predictors of a student’s success is how involved his family is in his education. As a parent, I know I have struggled with what the phrase “family involvement” in education really means. Does involved mean a helicopter parent or…

Make Sure Your School Stands Out 300 161 admin

Make Sure Your School Stands Out

At the forefront of innovative leadership are schools and school districts that are implementing school-wide summer review programs.  These districts are ensuring that every student returns in the fall confident and prepared to learn.   And they are getting noticed – Star International Academy in Dearborn MI, a ThinkStretch Summer Learning Program school, earned the top spot in…

Setting Up A Summer Reading Program 436 275 admin

Setting Up A Summer Reading Program

Most educators are all too familiar with the problem of summer learning loss that occurs each year. A good deal of each fall is spent reviewing old material before teaching anything new is even considered. Summer reading is one of the best ways to minimize such loss and to help students remain active and continual…

NEW! ThinkStretch Summer Reading Challenge 208 246 admin

NEW! ThinkStretch Summer Reading Challenge

ThinkStretch is proud to introduce our newest feature for schools and families – the online ThinkStretch Summer Reading Challenge. Supporting the ThinkStretch Summer Learning book series, the online reading challenge offers another way to engage students and families over the summer time in fun, exploratory summer learning activities.  Logging reading minutes is just the beginning. Students…

NEW! ‘Talk to Me!’ Activities for Kindergarten to 2nd graders 424 283 admin

NEW! ‘Talk to Me!’ Activities for Kindergarten to 2nd graders

ThinkStretch is proud to introduce a new feature for Kindergarten through 2nd grade students summer review books that encourages parents and children to discuss the weekly reading activities.  “Talk to Me!” offers simple topics in each weekly lesson that help parents to build reading comprehension skills in elementary school students. The activities reinforce vital reading…

NEW! BrainGain Questions Improve Reading Comprehension for 3rd to 5th Graders 375 375 admin

NEW! BrainGain Questions Improve Reading Comprehension for 3rd to 5th Graders

NEW! Weekly BrainGain Questions for 3rd to 5th graders Improving reading comprehension skills can be a tricky task to tackle over the summer for upper elementary students.  ThinkStretch is innovating in this area with our new BrainGain questions for 3rd to 5th graders. Supported by the Parent Guide to Summer, weekly BrainGain reading comprehension activities are…

The Personal Aspect of Parent Involvement in Schools 424 283 admin

The Personal Aspect of Parent Involvement in Schools

Simply put, students succeed when families are engaged. There are tons of ideas to increase parent involvement out there, but how effective are they? While students benefit from family engagement so to do teachers and schools. Researchers tell us that when parents are engaged in their student’s education, students complete more homework, score higher on…

UPDATED! Our Spanish Parent Guide to Summer 300 390 admin

UPDATED! Our Spanish Parent Guide to Summer

An updated Spanish language Parent Guide to Summer is making waves this summer.  Offered at no additional charge, our expanded Spanish language Parent Guide, La Guía para los Padres, includes translated instructions and answer keys for every ThinkStretch workbook from Pre-K to 7th grade. Increasing family engagement with ESL and ELL families is a challenge facing many…