Intervention Strategies
Ways to help your child during the school year:
1. Create a homework space complete with privacy, school supplies and ample room to open books and use a notebook as well.
2. Assess the homework atmosphere - is the TV on? Are there interruptions causing your child to work slowly and presenting signs of distraction?
3. Make Homework a positive experience: making learning fun is half the battle, but make sure your child understand that completing homework is a "must do" not a "may do" meaning that it must be finished before other free choice activities may be done. Your child might work better is allowed to play for a while after school before settling in to do HW. Set a timer and stick to the HW rules. It will make for a more productive, less challenging experience. Use the class website and other resources to help supplement learning.
4. Encourage reading daily towards 40 Book Club: students will grow significantly in their reading level IF they take a daily active role in reading practice. This means that although your child is older and make not need to be read to, interacting with your child about their book by asking questions about the chapter after its read. You may choose t ask your child to read one chapter out loud so you can ask clarifying questions about what was read.
5. Stay in touch with your child's teacher(s): contacting your child's teacher when there are questions is essential to keeping the lines of communication open. Checking your child's weekly homework calendar for project due dates and other important information is a successful strategy.
6. Practice math facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division regularly using fun websites.
Here is a recommended list of ways to support your child's learning over summer:
1. Purchase a skills reinforcement workbook and do a few pages a day. Review these with your child and check for their understanding of concepts. I use Summer Bridge for my daughters.
2. Assign daily reading time with a minimum of 30-40 minutes. Most books have a reading level assigned to them and your child can use their last score on the STAR Reading Test to find their level.
3. Use computers for skills reinforcement. There is Spang Gang, www.mathplayground.com, www.aplusmath.com, etc. that provides hours of math reinforcement.
4. Become a writer by brainstorming and publishing several types of writing including personal narrative, biographies, an autobiography, a fiction piece, a poetry piece, etc.
5. Write your own reader's theater plays - the children have done several plays this year, help them design their own with characters, set directions, a setting, and a plot.
6. Weave learning into dinner using measurement and math facts. Have your child figure out change from the grocery store and to have them estimate the total grocery bill (they will be surprised, I am sure!)
1. Create a homework space complete with privacy, school supplies and ample room to open books and use a notebook as well.
2. Assess the homework atmosphere - is the TV on? Are there interruptions causing your child to work slowly and presenting signs of distraction?
3. Make Homework a positive experience: making learning fun is half the battle, but make sure your child understand that completing homework is a "must do" not a "may do" meaning that it must be finished before other free choice activities may be done. Your child might work better is allowed to play for a while after school before settling in to do HW. Set a timer and stick to the HW rules. It will make for a more productive, less challenging experience. Use the class website and other resources to help supplement learning.
4. Encourage reading daily towards 40 Book Club: students will grow significantly in their reading level IF they take a daily active role in reading practice. This means that although your child is older and make not need to be read to, interacting with your child about their book by asking questions about the chapter after its read. You may choose t ask your child to read one chapter out loud so you can ask clarifying questions about what was read.
5. Stay in touch with your child's teacher(s): contacting your child's teacher when there are questions is essential to keeping the lines of communication open. Checking your child's weekly homework calendar for project due dates and other important information is a successful strategy.
6. Practice math facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division regularly using fun websites.
Here is a recommended list of ways to support your child's learning over summer:
1. Purchase a skills reinforcement workbook and do a few pages a day. Review these with your child and check for their understanding of concepts. I use Summer Bridge for my daughters.
2. Assign daily reading time with a minimum of 30-40 minutes. Most books have a reading level assigned to them and your child can use their last score on the STAR Reading Test to find their level.
3. Use computers for skills reinforcement. There is Spang Gang, www.mathplayground.com, www.aplusmath.com, etc. that provides hours of math reinforcement.
4. Become a writer by brainstorming and publishing several types of writing including personal narrative, biographies, an autobiography, a fiction piece, a poetry piece, etc.
5. Write your own reader's theater plays - the children have done several plays this year, help them design their own with characters, set directions, a setting, and a plot.
6. Weave learning into dinner using measurement and math facts. Have your child figure out change from the grocery store and to have them estimate the total grocery bill (they will be surprised, I am sure!)