Includes index.

Contents: Paragraphs and essays: What your child needs to know -- Implications -- Skills practice -- Top of the class -- Book reports: What your child needs to know -- Implications -- Skills practice -- Top of the class -- Research reports: What your child needs to know -- Implications -- Skills practice -- Top of the class -- Writer's handbook: A sample social studies essay test -- Spelling rules and tips -- Avoiding sexist language -- How to read a dictionary entry -- How to read a thesaurus entry -- Using the library -- Tables of weights and measures -- States of the Union -- Countries of the world -- Presidents of the United States -- Useful web sites -- Preamble to the Constitution of the United States -- Bill of rights -- Declaration of independence -- Project-scheduling forms -- Self-evaluation of student writing.