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A Parent's Guide to Chess
So your child has discovered Chess. You've probably heard the good news from teachers and other parents: kids who play Chess do better in school and learn self-reliance and analytical skills. It's great that your kid is interested in an activity that offers such lifelong benefits and provides so many chances to learn real life lessons - and it is so much fun!
A Parent's Guide to Chess
Catalog Code: B0007OB
Regular Price: $14.95
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Chess for Kids and Parents
It is widely accepted that learning chess has a very positive effect on children. Many parents want to help their children to study chess, but don't know how to do it. This book is the solution. It is a practical handbook that teaches the mysteries of chess with a light touch.
Chess for Kids and Parents
Catalog Code: B0004QT
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Chess Handbook for Parents and Coaches
The Chess Handbook for Parents and Coaches provides a proven method of teaching chess to kids. Whether you know how to play or not, this book guides you through the process of teaching chess to a child. In sixteen clear, and easy to follow lessons, Part One - Teaching Chess, shows what and how to teach all the way from learning the pieces names to checkmate, including the rules your player(s) will need to know. Part Two - The Chess World, explains what goes on in chess, how tournaments work, how to coach players, from new to advanced, how to coach kids who are playing older kids, who the famous chess players are, and much more.
Chess Handbook for Parents and Coaches
Catalog Code: B0044OB
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Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU!
Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Catalog Code: B0087EU
Our Price: $19.95
Children and Chess
A Guide for Educators
A Guide for Educators
Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. The relationship of chess to academic and humanistic educational goals is convincingly illustrated as curriculum and psychological theories from John D. McNeil, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Howard Gardner.
Children and Chess
A Guide for Educators
Catalog Code: B0020OB
Our Price: $24.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 1
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 1
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 2
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 2
Catalog Code: B0002KNSB
Our Price: $9.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 3
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 3
Catalog Code: B0003KNSB
Our Price: $9.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 4
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 4
Catalog Code: B0004KNSB
Our Price: $9.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 5
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - STUDENT WORKBOOK 5
Catalog Code: B0005KNSB
Our Price: $9.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 1
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world"; and it is now available in the United States.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 1
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 2
Developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation(KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world"; and it is now available in the United States.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 2
Catalog Code: B0007KNSB
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Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 3
Developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation(KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world"; and it is now available in the United States.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 3
Catalog Code: B0008KNSB
Our Price: $19.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 4
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world"; and it is now available in the United States.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 4
Catalog Code: B0009KNSB
Our Price: $19.95
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 5
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world"; and it is now available in the United States.
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course - TEACHER MANUAL 5
Catalog Code: B0010KNSB
Our Price: $19.95
Pawn and Queen and In Between - MANUAL
Queen and in Between is 72 page instruction manual for the game of chess. It starts with volume 1 number 1 and continues through volume 1 number 18.
Pawn and Queen and In Between - MANUAL
Pawn and Queen and In Between - WORKBOOK
Queen and in Between is 72 page instruction manual for the game of chess. It starts with volume 1 number 1 and continues through volume 1 number 18.
Pawn and Queen and In Between - WORKBOOK
People, Places, Checkmate
Teaching Social Studies with Chess
Teaching Social Studies with Chess
Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology.
People, Places, Checkmate
Teaching Social Studies with Chess
Catalog Code: B0035OB
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Read, Write, Checkmate
Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities
Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities
Read, Write, Checkmate both teaches chess to students and provides educators with an outline for a classroom literacy project. Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game.
Read, Write, Checkmate
Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities
Catalog Code: B0022OB
Our Price: $24.95
Science, Math, Checkmate
32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving
32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving
Chess captivates children. Connect their interest to education with Science, Math, Checkmate, an activity book and teacher resource for grades 3-8. Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard. The 16 pawn activities require no chess knowledge, 14 of the piece activities build on students' growing familiarity with chess, and the two king activities challenge budding chess experts.
Science, Math, Checkmate
32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving
Catalog Code: B0021OB
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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Activities - BOOK 3
The activities in third book in the series are the fun way to reinforce the rules and principles of good chess. Full color cartoon characters, are combined with pages that the young student can color, all designed to help the student understand the rules, principles and even the etiquette of the game of chess.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Activities - BOOK 3
Catalog Code: B0049RE
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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
This book is designed to be a companion of Book 1, Teaching Chess Step by Step Teacher's Manual. It contains a series of exercises designed to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher's presentations in the classroom. The exercises were designed for K-12 beginners and require a minimum of explanation. The solution may be written in chess notation or drawn on the board.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Teacher's Manual - BOOK 1
The most thorough and complete curriculum for teaching chess!
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Teacher's Manual - BOOK 1
Catalog Code: B0047RE
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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - The Complete Collection
Includes All 3 Books
Includes All 3 Books
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - The Complete Collection
Includes All 3 Books
Catalog Code: B0000RE1
Our Price: $48.95
Teaching Chess in the 21st Century
Strategies and Connections to a Standards-Based World
Strategies and Connections to a Standards-Based World
A beginner chess book for teachers, chess club sponsors, or parents with young children. An elementary school teacher can use this book as a textbook to incorporate chess into their standards-based math program incorporating National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards. Also included are exemplars and rubrics and teacher tips about how to handle situations that frequently occur while students are playing chess. Tried and true tested analogies that children will relate to are incorporated so that young children can learn chess in an effective and fun way.
Teaching Chess in the 21st Century
Strategies and Connections to a Standards-Based World
Catalog Code: B0005OB
Our Price: $19.95
The Chess Instructor 2009
The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
The Chess Instructor 2009 is the first publication to give comprehensive answers to all questions of chess teachers and parents. It provides tools and methodologies for beginners as well as for more advanced coaching. With ready-to-use teaching exercises for all levels.
The Chess Instructor 2009
The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
Catalog Code: B0054NIC
Our Price: $26.95
The Complete KNSB Dutch Scholastic Chess Course
Includes All 10 Books
Includes All 10 Books
Developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation(KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world"; and it is now available in the United States.
The Complete KNSB Dutch Scholastic Chess Course
Includes All 10 Books
Catalog Code: B0000KNSB
Our Price: $150.00
The Living Chess Game
Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14
Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14
>Living chess games have been referenced in works from classic authors such as Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut; this theater art was also mentioned in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. With The Living Chess Game: Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14, any parent, librarian, teacher, or after-school instructor can successfully stage an educational and entertaining living chess game.
The Living Chess Game
Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14
Catalog Code: B0045OB
Our Price: $29.95
Thinking with Chess
Teaching Children Ages 5-14
Teaching Children Ages 5-14
In Thinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, creating, and predicting.
Thinking with Chess
Teaching Children Ages 5-14
Catalog Code: B0090EU
Our Price: $15.95
