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Middle School Parent Tips

Page history last edited by Beth Dounane 10 years, 11 months ago
  • Encourage your son/ daughter to check off assignments as they complete them in their assignment notebooks this will help them with time management and a feeling that they have accomplished something.

 

  • Use the assignment notebook as a planner, plan out when your son/ daughter will study, and also help them to break up large projects into smaller manageable parts.

 

  • Check teachers' websites often to check for extra information on homework, projects and upcoming tests.

 

  • If your son/ daughter begins a pattern of forgetting assignments and books at school, and you have to drive them to school to get items out of their locker, have them owe you a chore. This will help them learn responsibility.

 

  • Set up a quiet area for studying and homework with all needed materials such as pens, highlighters, calculator and a dictionary.

 

  • Have a consistent time of day that your son/ daughter does their homework, so it is just part of their routine.

 

  • Sneak more reading into your child's day by playing family games such as Apple to Apples® , Trivia Pursuit®, Scrabble® and Boggle® to name just a few.

 

  • Play freerice.com as a family. This is a website where the more vocabulary words you know, the more rice will be donated to a 3rd world country.

 

  • Another way to sneak more reading into your child's day is to turn the volume way down on the TV, and put on closed captioning. This will force your child to read more and increase their fluency.

 

  • Make studying for tests more fun by incorporating a game into it. For example use Jenga® to quiz your child. If they get the question correct, they get to remove a Jenga® piece.

 

 

  • Be very positive and patient. Students that enter the middle school struggling with reading have very often developed many avoidance behaviors over the years (going to the bathroom or sharpening a pencil to avoid reading). They very often report feeling, "stupid" when in actuality they are often intelligent. Reading expectations need to be increased not decreased for these students, so that they can enter high school with self-confidence.

 

  • Encourage your child to be involved in at least one extra-curricular activity.

 

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