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Helping Your Children Establish High Standards for Their Schoolwork

There's lots of research evidence showing that students who know the standards for good work themselves are best able to produce good work. Asking questions like the following can help a child begin to learn these standards. When your children begin working on their own tasks, they may ask themselves the same kind of questions.

• Explain how you figured that problem out.
  
• How do you know that's correct?
  
  
• Why do you think that? Write your thinking down.
  
  
• Can both of these things be true?
  
  
• Can you find a better way to convince the reader of
  your answer?
  
  
• Can you make a drawing that shows what you mean?
  
  
• Have you labeled your drawing?
  
  
• Did you describe the units correctly? (inches, milliliters, meters, teaspoons, etc.)
  
  
• How is this similar to what you did in class?
  
  
• What part is hard for you? How could we make that part easier?
  
  
• If a child has an incorrect solution, suggest two or three other solutions and ask her to compare them.
  
• Does one look more correct than the others?

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