Education Everywhere: My Expanded High School Library: Grade 9/10 (B&N Exclusive)

Building Academic Skills, Critical Thinking, and Independence — with Your Support!

High school is an exciting time when students build independence and develop key skills for success. This workbook for 9th and 10th graders is designed to help your teen sharpen their literacy, critical thinking, and life skills — with meaningful opportunities for family involvement along the way.

The Parent and Family Guide pages offer caregivers helpful tips for supporting a teen’s academic growth, emotional wellness, and organization:

• Encourage College and Career Readiness: Help your teen reflect on their strengths and explore how their interests might shape their future. Activities like goal-setting, career quizzes, and connecting schoolwork to real-life goals can prepare them for future success.
• Support Writing and Language Skills: Your teen will explore creative writing with activities like crafting nature poems, building mind maps for essays, and practicing subject-verb agreement. They’ll also analyze poems like "Wayward Tree" to expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.
• Promote Critical Thinking: Activities such as analyzing cause-and-effect relationships, interpreting figurative language, and solving logic puzzles (like the "Picnic Planning" challenge) strengthen problem-solving skills.
• Encourage Emotional Growth: Family storytelling, journaling, and reflective writing activities help students express feelings, manage stress, and build self-awareness.
• Foster Healthy Routines: The workbook encourages discussions on positive habits like regular exercise, healthy eating, and managing social media distractions to improve focus and well-being.

From writing rhyming poems to designing awards for family members, your teen will build creativity, empathy, and confidence. They’ll also practice real-world skills like interpreting text structures, synthesizing information, and improving grammar.

By working through these engaging activities together, you’ll help your child strengthen important skills, gain confidence, and prepare for success in high school — and beyond.