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Your Child, Ages 12-18

Dear Parents,

With the school year in full swing, our skill-builders can help your teen gain an academic edge. Help your child with reading and language arts by revisiting the basics of sentence structure, learning how to incorporate poetic language into prose, and discovering how to write an effective persuasive essay.

Our science skill-builders can help your child excel across a range of scientific disciplines, including biology, physics, and laboratory testing.

Finally, our printable math skill-builders can reinforce important concepts such as fractions, algebra, and geometry.

From the Editors at FamilyEducation.com

Reading and Language Arts Skill-Builders
Literacy is the foundation for a good education.

Paragraph Writing: Similarities and Differences
How to Write a Successful Persuasive Essay (Part 1)
How to Write a Successful Persuasive Essay (Part 2)
Poetic Language
Seeing Logic in Analogies
Sentence Structure Rubric
Practicing Point of View
More Reading and Language Arts Skill-Builders

Science Skill-Builders
Science helps people make sense of the world around them.

Analyzing Elements of a Scientific Method
List of Inventions and Discoveries
Main Divisions of the Brain
Performing a Scientific Experiment
Build an Arch Bridge
Resistors in a Circuit
Developing a Classification System
Classifying the Great Apes
More Science Skill-Builders

Math Skill-Builders
Help keep your child from falling behind in math with these printables.

Formulas for Perimeter, Area, and Volume
Measuring Angles
Coordinate Planes
Pascal's Triangles
Equations and Inequalities
Relations, Functions, and Graphs
Table of Measures
Real Numbers, Algebra, and Problem Solving
Fraction Models
More Math Skill-Builders

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  interesting.
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