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Helping Your Child With Homework

Homework is an opportunity for students to learn and for parents to be involved in their children's education. A parent's interest can spark enthusiasm in a child and help teach the most important lesson of all--that learning can be fun and is well worth the effort. This book includes practical ideas for helping children complete homework assignments successfully. Even though this article is written for elementary and junior high school-aged children, some of the ideas in this book may also be helpful for high school students.

Ten Homework Tips

Research shows that when parents become involved in their children's schoolwork, the children do better in school. One way you can get involved is by helping your child with homework. It will benefit both your child's school work and self-esteem.

Learning Partners -- Let's Do Homework

Homework can help students learn and can help parents be involved in their children's education. When parents show an interest in their child's schoolwork, they teach an important lesson--that learning is fun and worth the effort. Children who do more homework, on average, do better in school. And, as children move up through the grades, homework becomes even more important to school success.

Ten Homework Tips

Research shows that when parents become involved in their children's schoolwork, the children do better in school. One way you can get involved is by helping your child with homework. It will benefit both your child's school work and self-esteem.

How Important Is Homework?

Research in the last decade has begun to focus on the relationship between homework and student achievement and has greatly strengthened the case for homework. Studies generally have found homework assignments to be most helpful if they are carefully planned by the teachers and have direct meaning to students. This article provides suggestions about how parents can be more involved with their children's homework and includes suggestions for how much time students should spend on homework by grade level.

Helping With Homework: A Parent's Guide

Helping with Homework: A Parent's Guide to Information Problem-Solving, is based on the Big Six Skills problem-solving approach. The Big Six Skills apply to any problem or activity that requires a solution or result based on information. An abundance of information is available from many sources, and the Big Six can help parents effectively deal with that information to guide their youngsters through school assignments.