Reply #10: I had 'homework' in kindergarten and then in first grade

[Breeze54]

we had lots of reading and writing homework in a notebook journal.

We just got more and more, every year, until we graduated. Hell yes!

90 minutes is nothing but I guess you're right that would be a lot for a first grader unless
it takes that long because she's dawdling! Most kids do 3 hours or more of homework in high
school or should be studying that much in high school!

They add it on, year after year. She'll figure it out. ;) It's called discipline.

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Amount of homework required

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homework

A review of over 60 research studies showed that there is a positive correlation between the amount of homework done and student achievement. The research synthesis also showed that too much homework could be extremely counterproductive. Homework overload can cause kids to "burn out". The research supports the "10-minute rule", the commonly accepted practice of assigning 10-minutes of homework per day per grade-level. For example, under this system, 1st-graders would receive 10-minutes of homework per night, while 5th-graders would get 50-minutes worth, 9th-graders 90-minutes of homework, etc. Some students, however, receive up to, or more than, five times that on some days.<3>

Many schools exceed these recommendations or do not count assigned reading in the time limit.<4>

Homework strategies....

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One approach for minimizing the amount of homework a student has to do at home is for the student to complete as much of it as possible while still at school....