Homework Help

Being an Efficient Homework Helper: Turning a Chore into a Challenge

(2008)

This article will help your child succeed doing homework. Read tips that can help kids with learning disabilities, ADHD, and dyslexia work faster and with focus. Set up a place for your child to work and give them the supplies they need. Teach them strategies, get them organized, and encourage them to succeed.

Options: Turn Them On for Learning

(2006)

This article provides brief research summaries on the benefits of providing students access to optional features in consumer electronics followed by practical suggestions on how to integrate these features into instruction and studying.

Independent Reading

(2005)

Suggestions for fostering independent reading include: (a) Give children books that are not too difficult. (b) Help them find books they will enjoy. (c) Encourage them to try many kinds of material. Although independent reading cannot substitute for teaching decoding, it improves reading comprehension and the habit of reading.

Tool Kit for Parents: Tips for Helping with Math Concepts and Homework

(2005)

Tool Kit for Parents: Making It Stick

(2004)

Tool Kit for Parents: Tips for Helping With Writing Tasks

(2004)

Over one hundred ideas on how you can help your child overcome their problems with writing caused by their learning disability. Help your child with POWER (Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, and Revise.)

Improving the Quality of Student Notes

(2004)

Much of classroom learning at the secondary and postsecondary levels depends on understanding and retaining information from lectures. In most cases, students are expected to take notes and to review them in preparation for testing of lecture material.

Learning Strategies

(2004)

Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Materials for the Inclusive Classroom

(2004)

When instructional materials present a barrier to student learning, teachers often adapt the materials to allow students greater access to the information to be taught. These adaptations may involve changing the content of the materials (the nature or amount of information to be learned) or changing the format of the materials (the way information is presented to the learner).

Parents Partnering with Tutors

(2003)

Work well with your tutor and get results. Learn good questions to ask. This short article will set your relationship on the right track.

Tool Kit for Parents: Tips for Understanding What You Read

(2003)

This article presents a variety of memory strategies. As parents, we need to pay attention to our child's reaction to the strategies and help our child select and use strategies that are comfortable and most closely match his or her preferred learning style.

Lazy Kid or Executive Dysfunction?

(2002)

Learn to help your students with executive dysfunction organize themselves to do their schoolwork. Learn how executive dysfunction impacts their daily lives. Read tips to help them manage their time, their space, their materials, and ultimately their education.

Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

(2001)

Many students with learning or reading disabilities find homework challenging. Here are five research-based strategies that teachers can use to help students.

Strategies That Work for Students Grade 9 to 12 with Dyslexia

(2001)

Five Guidelines for Learning to Spell and Six Ways to Practice Spelling

(1999)

Tips for Parents to Encourage Writing

(1999)

Helping Your Child to Better Handwriting

(1999)

Study Skills - A Handout for Parents

(1998)

Many capable children at all grade levels experience frustration and failure in school, not because they lack ability, but because they do not have adequate study skills. Good study habits are important for success in school, to foster feelings of competence, to develop positive attitudes, and to help children realize they can control how well they do in school and in life. Good study habits lay the groundwork for successful work habits as an adult.

Summer Reading Tips for Parents

(1997)

Summer shouldn't mean taking a break from learning, especially reading. Studies show that most students experience a loss of reading skills over the summer months, but children who continue to read actually gain skills.