Reference Desk
- Is My Child On Track?
- Kindergarten Readiness
- Learning To Read
- Types of Schools
- Learning Personalities
- Standards and Testing
- Gifted Children
- The Early Years (3-5)
- The Middle Years (6-12)
- The Teen Years (13-18)
- Parent-School Connection
- Your Parenting Style
- Keeping Your Kids Healthy
- Extracurricular Activities
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- Thinking About College
- Special Needs
Parent-School Connection
Parents constantly struggle to find a balance between supporting their children’s efforts with homework and taking over. What do parents need to know in order to facilitate a successful homework experience? Read on for tips and tricks to guide your child through the grades on all things homework.
Too Much Homework?
Creating a Positive Homework Space in the Home
Tips for Helping Your Child With Homework
- Helping Your Child Get the Most Out of Homework (A Better Child)
- 10 Ways to Help Your Child Get Organized (A Better Child)
- Good Study Habits = Gppd Grades (A Better Child)
- Homework Help Tip Sheet
- Homework Tips and Information for Parents
- Helping Your Child With Homework
- How to Help Your Child With Homework
- Helping Your Child with Homework
- Homework Trials and Tribulations
- Research-Based Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Homework (Center for Public Education)
- How to Help: Monitor Assignments -- Helping Your Child With Homework
- How to Help: Provide Guidance -- Helping Your Child With Homework
- Homework Basics
- Honoring a Child's Learning Style
- School Projects: A Survival Guide
- No Homework: A Growing Trend?
- Enriching Children's Out-of-School Time
- Kids Pass Up Creative Play, Homework, and Family Time in Favor of TV
- Empowering Students Through Accelerated Learning
Elementary
Middle and High School
- Helping Your Teen With Homework
- 9 Ways to Support Your Teen At Home
- A Secret Weapon for 6th Graders
- Tackling Theme in Literature
- When Your Child Hates the Textbook
- Is Your Middle Schooler a Reluctant Reader?
- Introducing the Five-Paragraph Essay
- Online Education: Study Shows Social Networking a Boon for Education
Reading Enrichment and Activities Ideas
- Homework Tips on Reading: What Parents Can Do
- Raising Readers and Writers
- Can TV Teach Your Kid to Read?
- Alphabet Match-up
- Start a Kids' Book Club
- Reading: Getting the Main Point
- Join a Reading Community...Online!
- Beyond the Happy Ending
- The Zoo Stories: A fun writing activity
- The Write Stuff
- What's the Word?
- A Collaborative Writing Experience
- Driving to Knowledge
- What's a Zipper? A writing Game
- Make a Nonsense Book!
Math Enrichment and Activities Ideas
- Let's Do Math (U.S. Department of Education)
- Math Homework Tips for Parents
- Helping Your Child Learning Mathematics: Activities: For the Fun of it (U.S. Department of Education)
- Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics - Activities: Mathematics in the Home
- Home Activities for Learning Mathematics: Grades 3-5
- Home Activities for Learning Mathematics: Grades 1 & 2
- Home Activities for Learning Mathematics: Preschool through Grade 1
- A Math-Boosting Hunt
- Tick-tack-toe with an Added twist
- Egg-cellent_Counting_Game
- Turn Your Child onto Science and Math
- It's Math Month
- Math Magic
- Calculator Riddles
- The Guess-timation Game
Science Enrichment and Activities
- Home Activities for Helping Your Child Learn Science: Preschool and Up
- Teaching Science with Flowers
- Make A Soda Bottle Greenhouse
- Build a Fossil!
- Bring Ancient History to Life
- Turn Your Child onto Science and Math
- Blast Off!
- Balloon Science
- Teaching Density
- Crystal Lollipop
- Diamond in the Rough
- Make Your Own Cloud
- Mechanics 101
- Where Does Wind Come From?
- Wheels and Axles
- Make Your Own Rainbow
- Digging for Discovery
- Make Your Own Butter
- Pop Bottle Science
- Exploding Marshmallows!
- Compost Science!
- In-Egg-splicable
- Build a Fossil!
