Jenny's Classroom - Terrific Teaching - Open-Ended Homework Tasks

Book 2 Middle Primary contents:
- Cover the lot

- Tongue twisters

- Interest inventory

- 30 days has September & looking for tens

- Speech

- Boxes

- Local library

- Reading survey

- Contraction hunt & four in a row

- Grams & matchstick madness

- Retelling

- Food for your family

- Air

- Acrostic poem & everything about 1000

- Memory game & number problems

- Make a word search

- Advance Australia Fair

- Time

- Story writing

- Survival signs & fingers

- Fairytale

- Make sense

- Averages & all equal 15

- The dictionary game & compound word puzzles

- Dream boredom & cirlces and dots

- Illustrated time line

- Nouns and verbs word search

- The best things for my holiday

- The Man from Snowy River

- Planning an information report

- Roman numerals

- Top and tail biography

- Choose a writing task

- Sight word search

- Number puzzle
- Jumbled sentences

- Making cards

Each of the 36 tasks in each book are varied to avoid boredom and open-ended to allow all students to complete the same task at their ability level. More capabale students are challenged and struggling students are not demeaned by work that is too hard or is different to the work set for the rest of the class.

As family participation is required, parents can observe their child's progress and students benefit from positive adult input. Many of the tasks do not require teacher marking as they are games to play at home or they require students to make a presentation to the class. There is usually very little to be corrected if parents are supporting their child. However, this mean that homework presentation time needs to be in the the timetable.