Homework Help On-line Guide for Parents

Homework is a very important part of your child's education. Homework provides reinforcement for skills and concepts taught in the classroom and provides opportunities for your child to investigate things that interest him/her. The suggestions, links, and articles below are here to help you and your child complete homework in the most productive, painless way possible.

What are some things I can do to help my child with his/her homework?

• Make homework a priority. Try to include reading each day!
• Show an interest in what your child is learning. Make homework and learning at home a positive experience for you and your child.
• Agree on a plan for bringing home assignments each day. Your child can't complete homework if he/she can't remember the assignment! (Some teachers will send a weekly homework sheet or provide an assignment book.)
• Agree with your child on a set time for homework each night.
• Find a set place for your child to do homework every day. Make sure there is plenty of light, a comfortable chair with the proper size table or desk, and adequate supplies such as paper, pencils, and a dictionary.
• Discourage TV, radios, video games or other sources of noise that may be distracting to your child.
• Encourage your child to complete the most difficult assignment first.
• Provide help when needed or asked, but do not complete your child's homework for them.
• Check your child's homework each day and sign if required.

Links

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Homework Tips for Parents from the Learning Network has lots of suggestions on how to make homework easier for children and parents, and has specific grade level suggestions for homework K-8. (This site contains pop-up ads.)

Helping Your Child with Science gives parents guidelines for nurturing interest and fostering success for children in science. Helping Your Child with Math gives parents the similar information to foster success in math.

The Clearinghouse For Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education Homework Companion lists many sites to specifically help students with math and science homework.

The US Department of Education published a document called Helping your Child with Homework that details things you can do as a parent to help your child.

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Homework Help On-line is an initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation - Comprehensive Partnerships for Math and Science Achievement (NSF-CPMSA). For more information about this and other JPS-NSF initiatives, contact the NSF Project Director.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9625139. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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