To not give the 9year old the answer.

[Lonecatwithkitten]

Ahhhhh! Homework angst. Read a short passage answer four questions. The answer is clearly written in the passage. It is your homework not mine.

yanbu.

please do try not to bang your head on the desk though in frustation. i only gives you a headache and does not magically impart the answer into their head. [bitter experience]

Give child ruler. Tell him to cross out every passage which is clearly NOT the answer.

In pencil in case he screws it up.

Oh dear God, I thought it was only mine.

He's my eldest, and I was actually beginning to think he really didn't get it. He can read at the speed of light, and tell me all about what he's reading.

Pull out a couple of simple, copied verbatim from the text, answers and write them down? Nope.

Can you not just point out that if they answer by rewording each question they have already completed half the answer and the rest will be found in the passage.

I think that sometimes children just feel overwhelmed by actually starting the sentence to answer the question.

Have just done this with dd and she sailed through the bloody annoying homework in 10 minutes.

Treas the sentence was started it was just the critical term that was needed we have all the rewriting the sentence skills. At school this can become easily without asking the teacher, it is just at home that we have to go through oh mummy just tell me, no its not my homework stuff.

Me too maths here