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Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed
This page provides tips for you as a parent to help your child succeed.
Chicago public school students are required to read or be read to a minimum
of 100 minutes each week. Students are also required to read a minimum
of 25 books each year.
It is important that schools form partnerships with parents to promote
the social, emotional, and academic growth of children. It is the responsibility
of all of us-parents, teachers, community members, and students-to work
together to help every child succeed. Children benefit greatly from loving,
supportive relationships at home and at school. Research says family involvement
in education makes a difference. You can make a significant difference
in your child's achievement at school and in life.
Parents are their children's first teachers. You provide the foundation
upon which all learning is built. We must invest time in helping our children
grow into good citizens who live a life of purpose. Together we can help
our children succeed. All tasks are made easier when shared. Let's
strengthen our partnership.
Tips for Grades K-3
Ways you can help your child succeed
- Read to your child.
- Have your child read to you.
- Talk, sing, and play with your child.
- Have your child write in a "journal.
- Add new and interesting books to your home library.
- Include your child in family "storytelling times.
- Ask your child to read recipe directions to prepare a meal and help
him or her measure the ingredients for that recipe.
- Take your child grocery shopping, and have him or her "estimate
the cost of purchases.
- Use flashcards to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division facts at home.
- Encourage your child to read biographies.
- Ask your child to think about life without electricity, and discuss
his/her responses.
- Discuss with your child that the family is like a team whose members
share and work together for everyone's good.
- Discuss different kinds of jobs and careers in the community.
- Share with your child interesting newspaper and magazine articles.
- Show your child, on a map, places the family has visited or will visit.
- Have clay, crayons, paint, paintbrushes, blocks, puzzles, and paper
available at home for your child.
- Visit, as a family, museums, zoos, and art exhibits throughout the
city. Discuss with your child what he/she sees when viewing the
animals or exhibits.
- Listen to music together.
- Walk, hike, or bike together, to the library or to other places of
interest.
- Encourage your child to join an organized activity (baseball, cheerleading,
basketball, etc.).
- Check with your local park district or other community resources for
after-school activities.
- Help your child identify and set fitness goals.
- Teach your child the difference between foods that are healthy for
him/her and those that are not.
Working Together
For assistance with homework questions, call "NBC - 5 Homework Hotline" at: 312-645-5555 between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. or watch the "CPS Homework
Show" Chicago Television Station Channel 23 UHF (without cable) Monday-Friday
3:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
To contact the library for information, call Chicago Public Libraries
312.747.4780 Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-7 p.m, Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-5
p.m.
Free passes (for 6 - 8 people) to most museums in the city are available
at your local library.
For further information on "Tips for Parents" click on the "Search our
Site" button located at the top left navigation bar of this page, and
type in "Parent Tips." Tips for each core subject in grade levels K-12
are available.
Becoming Partners
- Talk to your child about the importance of education and homework.
- Meet with your child's teachers early in the school year.
- Attend parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and report card pick-up
days.
- Compliment and display your child's work. Praise his/her effort.
- Set a regular place and time for your child to read and do homework.
- Take your child to the library to get a library card. Encourage your
child to visit the library often.
- Talk with your child regularly about his/her interests and activities.
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Tips for Grades 4-6
Ways you can help your child succeed
- Pack books when you go on trips with your child.
- Have your child keep a journal on family vacations.
- Select words from a story your child has read and have him/her write
a paragraph using those words.
- Read poems together and ask your child to identify the words that
rhyme.
- Talk to your child about a book he/she is reading; have your child
talk about the main characters.
- Use grocery store ads to do comparative shopping.
- Ask your child to explain steps in solving a mathematics homework
problem.
- Talk to your child about neighborhood places that offer physical activities
that he/she can join.
- Visit a Chicago Public Library regularly.
- Share, with your child, a newspaper article about current topics in
the news.
- Play board games, do puzzles, and build models with your child.
- Help your child calculate his/her favorite players (basketball, baseball,
soccer, hockey) sports averages.
- Encourage your child to read many books on a variety of subjects.
- Encourage your child to research a project to be entered into the
school's Science Fair or History Fair.
- Visit zoos, conservatories, and botanic gardens together.
- Attend concerts and fine arts performances with your child.
- Take your child to the Art Institute and art galleries.
- Subscribe to children's magazines in your child's name.
- Collect data about vehicles that pass you on the road.
- Sing songs with your child.
- Visit the CPS website: www.chicagostudentsciencefair.org
- Shop at museum stores for exciting gifts.
- Fly kites together. Research kite designs and make variations for
better efficiency.
- Monitor your child's TV viewing.
- Watch television programs and videos together.
- Help your child follow instructions.
Working Together
For assistance with homework questions, call "NBC - 5 Homework Hotline" at: 312-645-5555 between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. or watch the "CPS Homework
Show" Chicago Television Station Channel 23 UHF (without cable) Monday-Friday
3:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
To contact the library for information, call Chicago Public Libraries
312.747.4780 Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-7 p.m, Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-5
p.m.
Free passes (for 6 - 8 people) to most museums in the city are available
at your local library.
For further information on "Tips for Parents" click on the "Search our
Site" button located at the top left navigation bar of this page, and
type in "Parent Tips." Tips for each core subject in grade levels K-12
are available.
Becoming Partners
- Talk to your child about the importance of education and homework.
- Meet with your child's teachers early in the school year.
- Attend parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and report card pick-up
days.
- Compliment and display your child's work. Praise his/her effort.
- Set a regular place and time for your child to read and do homework.
- Take your child to the library to get a library card. Encourage your
child to visit the library often.
- Talk with your child regularly about his/her interests and activities.
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Tips for Grades 7-8
Ways you can help your child succeed
- Encourage your child to follow instructions enclosed with toys, games,
or items that require assembly.
- Talk with your child about current issues.
- Help your child complete sample college and job applications.
- Select one stock and follow its daily increases or decreases for a
week.
- Have discussions with your child about careers that require specialized
training and identify high school courses needed for that field.
- Read books about various cultures and identify similarities and differences.
- Model sound spending and saving practices.
- Discuss how supply and demand affect life styles.
- Help your child understand both sides of a current issue, and encourage
him/her to do research to find out more about the issue.
- Discuss advertisements and how they influence purchase choices.
- Have your child interview someone who lived through an historical
event.
- Encourage your child to watch TV shows and videos related to biography,
history, and science.
- Share with your child musical lyrics, and explain how they reflect
the times.
- Support your child's membership in organizations.
- Assist your child in studying the U.S. and Illinois Constitutions.
- Encourage your child to participate in school and/or park district
sports activities.
- Expose your child to the fine arts.
- Visit government buildings, financial centers, and ethnic neighborhoods
in Chicago.
- Give educational gifts, such as model-making kits, globes, maps, science
toys, games, puzzles, microscopes, and telescopes, to your child.
- Encourage your child to work on independent science and history research.
For science, see www.chicagostudentsciencefair.org.
- Encourage your child to read a variety of literature (fiction, nonfiction,
science fiction, and historical fiction).
- Do a home energy audit with your child.
- Take your child to a restaurant and have him/her determine the tip
- Have your child use newspaper ads to determine the amount saved on
discounted items.
Working Together
For assistance with homework questions, call "NBC - 5 Homework Hotline" at: 312-645-5555 between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. or watch the "CPS Homework
Show" Chicago Television Station Channel 23 UHF (without cable) Monday-Friday
3:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
To contact the library for information, call Chicago Public Libraries
312.747.4780 Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-7 p.m, Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-5
p.m.
Free passes (for 6 - 8 people) to most museums in the city are available
at your local library.
For further information on "Tips for Parents" click on the "Search our
Site" button located at the top left navigation bar of this page, and
type in "Parent Tips." Tips for each core subject in grade levels K-12
are available.
Becoming Partners
- Talk to your child about the importance of education and homework.
- Meet with your child's teachers early in the school year.
- Attend parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and report card pick-up
days.
- Compliment and display your child's work. Praise his/her effort.
- Set a regular place and time for your child to read and do homework.
- Take your child to the library to get a library card. Encourage your
child to visit the library often.
- Talk with your child regularly about his/her interests and activities.
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