Some Ways To Help Your Child Learn
\nReading
\n\u2022 Set a good example by reading yourself in your child\u2019s presence
\n\u2022 Visit the public library to browse and choose books
\n\u2022 Set limitations on television watching and search out better programs…discuss the programs
\n\u2022 Encouraging the writing and addressing of letters, greeting cards, thank-you notes, writing grocery
\nlists
\n\u2022 Word games can help increase your child\u2019s vocabulary and improve spelling…junior versions of
\nScrabble, Password, and other such games
\n\u2022 Listen to your child read…or have him\/her read to a younger child
\n\u2022 If at any age your child seems \u201cturned off\u201d by reading, don\u2019t make an issue of it…casually leave
\n\u201cirresistible\u201d books around \u2013books on whatever your child\u2019s current interests are
\nMath
\n\u2022 Give your child practical experience using math at home…encourage help when you bake. Mention
\nthings like quarts, pints, gallons, inches, yards, feet, pounds, ounces, miles, etc. (use metrics
\nalso)
\n\u2022 Shopping experiences such as:
\nchild reads newspaper ads for item prices
\ncompares containers as to best buy
\nchild purchases item and figures change
\nfold under total on grocery tape and let child re-add it
\nmanage allowance…saving toward goal
\n\u2022 Encourage your child to read the time from a non digital clock…include reading the minute, a.m.
\nand p.m.
\n\u2022 Buy or make flashcards for any basic facts that are proving difficult…USE THEM ON A REGULAR
\nBASIS
\nOther
\n\u2022 Encourage curiosity about geography, maps, and weather
\n\u2022 Encourage use of dictionary, atlas, globe, encyclopedia, road maps
\n\u2022 Encourage your child to be a \u201ccollector\u201d. Provide a place for collections…box, shelf, drawer…an
\ninexpensive picture frame or box lid can show off leaves, flowers, stamps or even insects.
\nSee to it that your child has enough sleep and a nutritious breakfast each day.
\nDoes your child \u201cdislike\u201d a certain subject? Find out why. Your child may need extra help. Seek
\nthe reason behind the dislike, then enlist the teacher\u2019s help so that you can work together.
\nREMEMBER! Listen with interest, encourage and ask questions, be generous with
\nPRAISE, ENTHUSIASM and SYMPATHY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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