Finally, your child may have other serious learning difficulties and may be overwhelmed by a series of assignments. Discuss homework question before your child reads the chapter. Discuss and talk about the questions before your child begins reading the assignment. These comprehension strategies will also help your child in some test taking situations. Check small groups of problems at a time.
Many children benefit from immediate gratification.
Have your child do five problems and then come back to you for checking. Remember to focus on the correct ones. In this way the child gets immediate feedback, and the necessary motivation for the next set of problems. Also, if your child is doing the assignment incorrectly, the error can be detected and explained, preventing the child from having to redo the entire assignment. Check completed homework assignments.