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Ideas on the GO!
Audio Booklets:

Academic Achievement Series

Imagine how helpful it would be for a parent to hear practical, motivational parenting ideas directly from the publisher and editors who have produced all the parenting materials for The Parent Institute! With the Ideas on the GO! CDs, that's exactly what parents can do! Editors discuss the best ways to help students at home in a conversational, easy-to-understand and appealing way that parents can listen to as they run errands in the car or while multi-tasking at home.

Suggestions for use: Create an Ideas on the GO! Lending Library for parents who are too busy to read. They love the convenience and the great ideas. School leaders love that parents are learning what to do at home to boost student achievement!

Based on the information in the popular Academic Achievement Series booklets with the emphasis on simple, actionable, ideas-that-work. Each 21 to 25 minute CD is broken down into bite-sized three to five minute tracks on different topics.

Reading CD

Reading: What Busy Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students

Tips parents can use at home to make reading fun for students of all ages and master the skills that help any child do better in school.

Mix & Match Pricing

Electronic Pricing

Listen to samples from this CD!

  1. Read aloud. Hear the excitement.
  2. Questions. Practice reading aloud.
  3. Letter sounds. Late readers. Looking for books.
  4. Reading in bed. Male readers. ‘Serious’ books. 20-minute miracle.
  5. TV. Reluctant readers.
  6. ‘Active reading.’ Make sense.
  7. Book club. Family activity.
  8. Positive attitude.

English: Stock #215U
Spanish: Stock #215US

 

 
Math CD

Math: What Busy Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students

Ideas and activities parents can use at home with students of all ages to build a solid foundation of math knowledge and understanding that math is really useful in their everyday lives.

Mix & Match Pricing

Electronic Pricing

Listen to samples from this CD!

  1. Math walk. Silly question. More than one way.
  2. Manipulatives. Mental math.
  3. Word problems.
  4. Thinking games. Scavenger hunt.
  5. Card games. Fractions and decimals. License plates.
  6. ‘Math anxiety.’ Sports statistics.
  7. When you need help.

English: Stock #216U
Spanish: Stock #216US

 

 
Science CD

Science: What Busy Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students

Suggests experiences parents can create with ordinary household materials to spark students' interest in science and practice the scientific method.

Mix & Match Pricing

Electronic Pricing

Listen to samples from this CD!

  1. Scientific approach. Be a good observer.
  2. Scientific method. Science in the sink.
  3. Egg-speriments. Oil and water. See how things work. Third eye.
  4. Micro hike. Magnets. Symbols.
  5. Weather watchers. Scavenger Hunt. Garden.
  6. Science fair.
  7. Science homework.

English: Stock #217U
Spanish: Stock #217US

 

 
Writing CD

Writing: What Busy Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students

Interesting activities parents can do at home to encourage and improve their children's writing abilities.

Mix & Match Pricing

Electronic Pricing

Listen to samples from this CD!

  1. Written speech. Making writing easy. Involve your child. Secret code.
  2. Directions. Game. Phone.
  3. Sentence a day. Picture story. Shared story. Write notes.
  4. Step-by-step process (1-2)
  5. Step-by-step process, continued (3-4)
  6. Step-by-step process, continued (5-6)
  7. Email. Persuasive essay. Preserve memories. Research paper. Don’t write for your child.

English: Stock #218U
Spanish: Stock #218US

 

 
Vocabulary CD

Vocabulary: What Busy Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students

Specific, easy-to-implement ideas parents can use at home to build students' vocabulary.

Mix & Match Pricing

Electronic Pricing

Listen to samples from this CD!

  1. Context. Synonyms and antonyms.
  2. Word of the day. Dictionary.Word web.
  3. Index cards. Scavenger hunt. TV time.
  4. Specialized words. Tests.
  5. Clues. Borrowed words.
  6. Dictionary.
  7. Related words.

English: Stock #219U
Spanish: Stock #219US

 
Social Studies CD

Social Studies: What Busy Parents Can Do at Home to Help Students

Ideas parents can use at home to ignite their children's awareness of and interest in what is going on around them.

Mix & Match Pricing

Electronic Pricing

Listen to samples from this CD!

  1. Family history. History affects today’s news.
  2. Current events. Personal time line.
  3. Time in a bottle. Gallery of heroes.
  4. Make geography come alive. Use a compass. Travel abroad at home.
  5. Link words to places. Getting involved.
  6. ‘In Depth’ and ‘In Breadth.’
  7. SQ3R.

English: Stock #220U
Spanish: Stock #220US

 

 

 

Four Convenient Ways to Order!

1. Yearly Electronic Subscriptions

Get to the complete set of CDs, the complete set of coordinating Academic Achievement Series booklets, or a specially priced combination set of both for a full year!

 

  6 CD Set 6 Booklet Set 6 CDs / 6 Booklet Combination Set
Type Price Price Price
  1st Language 2nd Language 1st Language 2nd Language 1st Language 2nd Language
School Building $59 $39 $179 $99 $219 $119
Small School District-
Up to 2,500 students
 $99 $59 $289 $139 $339 $159
Medium School District-
Up to 25,000 students
 $149 $79 $439 $189 $499 $239

Large School District-
Over 25,000 students

 $199 $109 $569 $259 $179 $359
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Service Agency / PIRC
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2. Order Super Saver Sets (Lending Library CDs & Printed Booklets).

You'll get our best price on a complete set of CDs, and you can also order 50, 100 or 500 printed copies of each Academic Achievement Series booklet with your CD Sets at special discounted pricing.

Lending Library Super Saver Set Prices

CD Set: One each of all six CDs for $99 (save $10!)

English: Stock #221U
Spanish: Stock #221US

CD Sets + 50: Three lending copies each of all six CDs plus 50 printed copies of each booklet in the series (18 CDs plus 300 booklets) for $399 (save $27!)

English: Stock #222UC
Spanish: Stock #222UCS

CD Sets + 100: Six lending copies each of all six CDs plus 100 printed copies of each booklet in the series (36 CDs plus 600 booklets) for $599 (save $80!)

English: Stock #223UC
Spanish: Stock #223UCS

CD Sets + 500: 30 lending copies each of all six CDs plus 500 printed copies of each booklet in the series (180 CDs plus 3000 booklets) for $1999 (save $482!)

English: Stock #224UC
Spanish: Stock #224UCS

 

3. Order with Reproduction Rights.

Make as many copies of the CDs as you need to give to parents with our cost-effective reproduction rights option!

6-CD Set: with school building reproduction rights in English or Spanish for $299

English: Stock #221URB
Spanish: Stock #221USRB

12-CD Sets: Both English and Spanish CDs with school building reproduction rights for $429

Combined Stock #225URB

*Call 1-800-756-5525 for information and rates on Reproduction Rights for both Single CD titles and District Rates

4. Order Lending Library copies of individual titles with Mix and Match Pricing

Number of CDs
(10 CD minimum)		 Price per disc
10-20 $10.49 each
21-30 $8.49 each
31-50 $6.29 each
51-100 $5.29 each
101-250 $4.19 each
251 or more $3.09 each

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