Supporting your child at home
Prepare your child for school and lifelong success
Learning styles and study needs are personal and different for each individual child. Take note of your child's study preferences: where they prefer to work, acceptable noise levels, break times, and lighting. It is important to encourage consistency with the developed preferences, so talk with your child's teacher about how you can both support and encourage your child's achievement. Below are a few suggestions from AdLit.org about how you can help your child at home with homework and other curricular-related activities, decisions, and planning.
You know that reading is important and you want to make sure that your teenager grows into adulthood with all the skills he or she needs to succeed. The following list offers suggestions for encouraging your teens to read.
1. Set an example. Let your kids see you reading for pleasure.
2. Furnish your home with a variety of reading materials. Leave books, magazines, and newspapers around. Check to see what disappears for a clue to what interests your teenager.
3. Give teens an opportunity to choose their own books . When you and your teen are out together, browse in a bookstore or library. Go your separate ways and make your own selections. A bookstore gift certificate is a nice way of saying, "You choose".
4. Build on your teen's interests. Look for books and articles that feature their favorite sports teams, rock stars, hobbies, or TV shows. Give a gift subscription to a special interest magazine.
5. View pleasure reading as a value in itself. Almost anything your youngsters read — including the Sunday comics — helps build reading skills.
6. Read some books written for teens. Young adult novels can give you valuable insights into the concerns and pressures felt by teenagers. You may find that these books provide a neutral ground on which to talk about sensitive subjects.
7. Make reading aloud a natural part of family life. Share an article you clipped from the paper, a poem, a letter, or a random page from an encyclopedia — without turning it into a lesson.
8. Acknowledge your teen's mature interests. Look for ways to acknowledge the emerging adult in your teens by suggesting some adult reading you think they can handle.
9. Keep the big picture in mind. For all sorts of reasons, some teenagers go through periods without showing much interest in reading. Don't panic! Time, and a few tips from this brochure, may help rekindle their interest.
For more information, visit:
http://www.peel.edu.on.ca/parents/tips/documents/tip-literacysec.pdf
https://secure.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Books/Sample/39349chap01_x.pdf
http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/tpc/6?x-t=smu.readingroom.viewhttp://www.peel.edu.on.ca/parents/tips/documents/tip-literacysec.pdf
Learning styles and study needs are personal and different for each individual child. Take note of your child's study preferences: where they prefer to work, acceptable noise levels, break times, and lighting. It is important to encourage consistency with the developed preferences, so talk with your child's teacher about how you can both support and encourage your child's achievement. Below are a few suggestions from AdLit.org about how you can help your child at home with homework and other curricular-related activities, decisions, and planning.
- Know how to support, encourage, and help student at home each year by being in communication with the school and teachers
- Have discussions of school, class work, and homework
- Maintain an understanding of the instructional program each year, and what child is learning in each subject
- Gain a sense of awareness of your child as learner- know their strengths and weaknesses and how you can support them
You know that reading is important and you want to make sure that your teenager grows into adulthood with all the skills he or she needs to succeed. The following list offers suggestions for encouraging your teens to read.
1. Set an example. Let your kids see you reading for pleasure.
2. Furnish your home with a variety of reading materials. Leave books, magazines, and newspapers around. Check to see what disappears for a clue to what interests your teenager.
3. Give teens an opportunity to choose their own books . When you and your teen are out together, browse in a bookstore or library. Go your separate ways and make your own selections. A bookstore gift certificate is a nice way of saying, "You choose".
4. Build on your teen's interests. Look for books and articles that feature their favorite sports teams, rock stars, hobbies, or TV shows. Give a gift subscription to a special interest magazine.
5. View pleasure reading as a value in itself. Almost anything your youngsters read — including the Sunday comics — helps build reading skills.
6. Read some books written for teens. Young adult novels can give you valuable insights into the concerns and pressures felt by teenagers. You may find that these books provide a neutral ground on which to talk about sensitive subjects.
7. Make reading aloud a natural part of family life. Share an article you clipped from the paper, a poem, a letter, or a random page from an encyclopedia — without turning it into a lesson.
8. Acknowledge your teen's mature interests. Look for ways to acknowledge the emerging adult in your teens by suggesting some adult reading you think they can handle.
9. Keep the big picture in mind. For all sorts of reasons, some teenagers go through periods without showing much interest in reading. Don't panic! Time, and a few tips from this brochure, may help rekindle their interest.
For more information, visit:
http://www.peel.edu.on.ca/parents/tips/documents/tip-literacysec.pdf
https://secure.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Books/Sample/39349chap01_x.pdf
http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/tpc/6?x-t=smu.readingroom.viewhttp://www.peel.edu.on.ca/parents/tips/documents/tip-literacysec.pdf
