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 enlarge | Author: E.d. Jr Hirsch
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
Buy Used: $4.29
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 3898
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 366
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0385336268
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780385336260
ASIN: 0385336268
Publication Date: May 28, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: pback with bent corners; has a few small tears on different areas on cover; front cover also has some dents; shipped with tracking
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 a book of enrichment October 26, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. I read many chapters for my son before bed. We both like them very much. They broaden his knowledge and enrich his mind like nothing else. My son's school does not provide this much content. We would have missed significant literature, history, and geography without it. The authors have done an important and nice job!
I do see the math section is too easy for 3rd graders nowadays. We use BeeStar online math instead. Its free weekly exercises are about right and very helpful. Overall, this is an outstanding book loaded with fine content. I highly recommend it.
A wonderful book July 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is great if you homeschool or want to help your child during the summer. If you want to use it for homeschool, Hirsch has made a teacher handbook. The Teacher Handbooks provide background about language arts, history and geography, visual arts, music, mathematics, and science. Each handbook has been written to look like the Core Knowledge Sequence. For each section in the Sequence, there is a matching section in the handbooks.
Great book! December 15, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a homeschooling parent of a 10 year old and this book has helped me narrow my teaching down to include some important things ( even some I was missing!) Every 3rd grade teacher should at least look at this book. All kids should be learning the same things regardless of school or home state. Half of the things in this book were never even mentioned in my child's previous school's curriculum plan. A great guidebook to make sure you are including important subjects in your child's learning plan.
Core Knowledge Books a great bulding block for all students. October 4, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I loved the core knowledge curriculum. The reason I switched my children to a charter school is that they started out teaching CK. I also switched them back to the public school when the principal got away from CK and made it just like a public school.
I agree that a teacher should supplement what is in the CK books to give their students a better understanding of the material. Teaching the information exactly how it is presented in the books would be very dry.
However CK is a great outline of what should be taught. It covers a tremendous amount of knowledge including the fight for civil rights, all religious ideology, multicultural literature and more. If there is a problem with the books, it is that many children would not be motivated to learn the wide variety of topics covered. For many it would be too much. Also weak teachers would be overwhelmed trying to cover everything.
Hence, anyone claiming that CK supports a racist philosophy has never read the books. Also I want to point out that the reviewer who called the books racist misspelled the word. It is not spelled rasist. I also find it disturbing that the reviewer is supposedly a teacher. When attending school, maybe that teacher would have benefited from a core knowledge foundation.
Great resource for parents December 21, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book contains such a comprehensive overview that it is invaluable as resource for parents of public schooled children.
If you are not sure about what your children should be learning, buy this book. No book contains every aspect of education and it doesn't address how to tailor to individual learning styles or needs but it is very well rounded. My daughter uses it as pleasure reading at bedtime. Also, as a parent, you will be surprised what you've forgotten in a few areas. Highly recommend as a teaching at home resource.
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