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	• The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond Donna Goldberg Fireside, 2005 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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Excellent option for home schooling

I thought this was an excellent tool when I was home schooling my teenager. I have taught Study Skills at the college level and I wish I had been exposed to the ideas presented in this book. It is written in a way that is not offensive to the student or parent. i loaned my copy to a fellow parent. I recently ordered the book to help some employees with organizational issues.

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The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond

I thought this book contained good information and was easy to understand and follow. It wasn't anything earthshakingly new. I feel I could get the same information from the internet and talking with my sons teachers. I do like referring to it for ideas when we need it. It provides pictures that were extremely helpful for my visual son.

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Not bad, but not very good either

The book is readable, and it has nice hints about physical space, surroundings, etc. Unfortunately it is a little too commonsense and basic - do we really need pictures of office supplies to show us what they are? I am a bit disappointed.

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Truly Helpful

This is the second time I bought this book, because I loaned it to a friend and never got it back. That's how much she liked it, too. Practical and straight forward. I bought it to help organize my 4th grader who habitually forgot to bring homework home, or bring back to school. This book is aimed at parents rather than kids, and does an excellent job describing the deficiencies in adolescent Executive Function and how we, as parents, can help compensate. Highly recommend.

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Thank heavens we found this book

This book could have been written just for my family and my son. Things I loved:
1. The book took all of the blame out of the organization process, and focused on solutions.
2. The book had several sets of questions to help us identify which of its many solutions were the right ones for us.
3. The book helped me see that it was my job to help set my son up for success and teach him how to use that set-up.
4. The book showed me that the school was dead wrong when it told me just to dump the problem in my son's lap and let him struggle.

Sure the book is mostly common sense. But not everybody has the ability to crystallize the information so succinctly or help tailor it to one's own family situation.

The school year is still young, but we're light years ahead of where we were last year thanks to this book. I've recommended it to everyone I know who is struggling with disorganized middle-schoolers.

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Hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for school success!

The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn't know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart. Even the academically successful child will start to falter if she misses deadlines, loses textbooks, or can't get to class on time.

This practical book is full of hands-on strategies for helping parents identify and teach organizational skills. Educational consultant Donna Goldberg has developed these methods by working with hundreds of students and in this book she provides:

Assessments to gather information about your child's learning style, study habits, and school requirements

Guidelines for taming that overstuffed binder and keeping it under control

PACK -- a four-step plan for purging and reassembling a backpack or locker

Instructions for organizing an at-home work space for the child who studies at a desk or the child who studies all over the house

Ways to help your child graduate from telling time to managing time

Special tips for kids with learning disabilities and kids who have two homes...and more

The Organized Student is a must for any parent who has heard the words, "I can't find my homework!"

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