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Learning Enrichment at Home

Ideas for Supporting Your Child's Achievement in School

by Kimberly L. Keith
for About.com

Make your home a rich environment for learning. Dinner conversations, trips, games, reading time, family sports, appropriate supervision, home organization, and daily routines all contribute to your child’s academic achievement at school.

Utilize resources in your community to provide enrichment activities for your child. Experiential learning through museum trips, music, dance, and art lessons, sports programs, libraries, and colleges' community outreach education will enrich your child’s store of knowledge and stimulate a lifelong learning habit.

Use your computer to enrich and support your child’s educational achievement. Start with understanding what your child is learning at school and what her learning strengths and needs are. Look through her textbooks and familiarize yourself with her test scores to get clues for finding the best online resources and software to enhance her understanding of the academic material and remediate where she has deficits.

Use these resources to enrich your child’s education at home:

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