Homework is best

Why do schools give homework? Because they know students benefit from one-on-one instruction and parent involvement in their learning. This is the number one predictor of success. It is even the predictor before they enter school. Students who have vocabularies of 10,000 words when entering kindergarten are much more successful long term than children with smaller vocabularies. Children build their vocabularies by being read to, talked to, and played with by their parents. The amount of time does matter. The 10,000 word vocabularies are found in children who have spent an hour a day reading. And growth is exponential. The larger a vocabulary, the more it grows. It is truly exciting!