Have a daily study time. Set a timer for at least 30 minutes and dedicate this time for educational enrichment. Encourage your child to write in a journal during this time or read an article from an appropriate magazine. Magazines like "American Girl," "Highlights" and "Ranger Rick" offer entertaining articles and activities that sharpen various educational skills without making your student feel like they're learning.
Tell your child to write a letter. Grandparents and out-of-town cousins can be reliable pen pals, at least twice a month have your child send a correspondence. Not only is this a good way of communicating with the important people in his life, but it will help him develop his grammar and penmanship skills.
Connect education lessons to everyday life. Students have to learn the importance of education in relation to the world around them. When a child knows that learning mathematical skills, for example, will help her in money transactions, then math begins to have a purpose to her. Look over your student's agenda and find ways to explain how the lesson she's learning can help her in an everyday situation; role play if possible.
Teach perseverance. Help him to replace phrases like: "it's too hard," "I'll never get it" and "I give up" with "let me try again" and "I can do this." Learning is not a spectator sport, and it requires "learning coaches" who can help a student keep trying and keep pushing even when the lesson is tough.
Review completed school assignments. Read her school reports, discuss her graded math test and go over her general schoolwork. When you look at what the teacher sees and how it is graded, you are able to help her address struggle areas and celebrate the subjects she's good in.