Homework
- Create a distraction free work area.
- Create homework routines
- Homework should be done in the same place and at the same time everyday.
- Have homework supplies on hand
- Highlight important words in the directions
- Read directions aloud
- Do the hardest thing first
- Allow child to move around
- Allow child to take breaks
- Create a homework checklist including:
- Unpack backpack, get pencils, put name on page, do work, return to backpack.
- Create a challenge to boring homework
- How fast can they do 5 problems?
- How much can they accomplish in 5 minutes?
Long Term Projects
- Talk your child through the project in detail.
- Have them explain what they are expected to produce
- Have them explain all relevant due dates
- Put final and interim due dates on their calendar
- Have them explain to you what steps they need to do to accomplish the project.
- Break up the project into individual steps
- Purchase supplies, do research, record results, break up large reading assignments, etc.
- Help them estimate how long each step of the project will take, add extra time, it ALWAYS takes longer than you think it will.
- Work backwards from the due date until the present to see when they need to start each step of the project
- Schedule time on their calendar/white board to do each step of the project.
- Make sure that you honor the time that they scheduled — Allow them to do their work and be available to them for assistance.
Getting Materials Between Home & School
- Young child: one 2-pocket homework folder
- One side labeled “Things to go home”
- One side labeled: “Things to go to school”
- Older child: 1 loose-leaf binder with all subjects with plastic cover around it.
- Everything goes in the one binder. Homework assignments get listed on a sheet kept in the back cover!
- Spiral bound multi-colored folder notebook, use one color for each subject.
- Go through your child’s backpack with them regularly.
- Have an extra set of textbooks at home.
- Give your child time to pack their backpack at night.
- When doing homework put a brightly colored tab on everything that needs to be turned in to school. Put those sheets away in a folder/binder etc so that the tabs show. At the end of the day there should be no tabs left showing.
by Carrie Greene, ACC, CarrieThru, LLC, ADHD Coaching & Organizing Services.
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