Tips to Help Your Child

Planning Tips to Help Your Child Learn

Find out more about your child's academic abilities

An assessment test, such as MobyMax or EdReady, can help, and the results are also helpful for determining monthly and yearly progress. For information about these resources and others, check the Assessments page.

Consider needs and preferences

What has worked well for your child in the past and what hasn’t? Think about challenges, values, interests, and motivations. Consider them for yourself as well. With self-evaluation, careful planning and the right resources, you can meet many needs.

Determine goals

Educational standards are one of several important factors to consider when planning learning goals. See the Goals & Standards page for more information.

Explore resources & strategies

• Full academic year programs – In addition to providing a full year’s worth of subject content, these core programs usually cover a topic for a particular age or level in a clear and logical way, supporting students with instruction that builds progressively from one lesson to the next. This can be helpful in all subject areas, but is most important for math. See Math Programs by Grade Level for specific resources.

• Supplemental resources - No one program or resource is perfect. Supplemental resources can fill gaps in instruction, review concepts, present ideas in a different way, introduce variety, and add fun. For math, see the Supplemental Math page.

• Educational strategies – Educational strategies can provide specific techniques for instruction, learning, and problem solving. For math see the Math Strategies page.

Consider the Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA)

The SBA is Washington State's math and English language arts testing system for students in grades 3 through 8 and high school. Taking the SBA supports our program and helps prepare students for graduation. Please check the Assessments page for more information.

Keep a positive attitude

Model a growth mindset and encourage your child to have one too! It can makes a difference: "Parents’ Beliefs about Math Change Their Children’s Achievement."