If your child becomes frustrated, put the assignment away for awhile and return later. Check your child's work for neatness, spelling, sentence fragments, and organization. It is not necessary to check all the answers. Just a spot check will do. Provide a wide variety of reading materials at home.
Children learn by example.
Seeing you read can motivate your child to feel that reading is important. The following formula will help your child better understand and remember the information in textbook chapters. This formula is called SQ3R which stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review. In this step, the child looks at the title, the headings, the pictures, the boldface print, and reads the first and last paragraph in the chapter. In this step, the child reads the questions that are to be answered before reading the chapter.