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Parents: Practical Homework Help

Library Unit Support Pages (LibGuides)

The Library creates Unit Support Pages to help students find resources for completing assignments and preparing for exams. These Unit Support Pages are a great place to start when helping your child with their homework or preparing for an assignment. For any questions regarding Library Support pages, finding resources for assignments, getting information on accessing databases and referencing (citation), please contact the Library - library@redlands.qld.edu.au  
NOTE: Login with school email and password to access the Middle/Senior Unit Support Pages & Online Databases. 

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy offers a huge range of amazing online resources for students, teachers and parents.

Raising Children Network

Raising Children Network provides some helpful tips and resources to help parents with their children's homework. 

ITC Thinkdrive

ITC Thinkdrive provides graphic organisers for note taking with a focus on the cognitive verbs used in most assignments (example: analysing, evaluating, comparing and contrasting, etc.). Definitions of cognitive verbs are provided as well as sentence starters, videos and examples of writing for tasks. This is an excellent tool that is very helpful in responding to effectively to task criteria. 
Login is available to students and staff using their school email and password. 

Weblinks & Articles - Parent and Homework Help

 

How to help your child with homework at high school (NSW Government - Education Department). 

Homework: children and teenagers (Raising Children Network). 

Helping with Homework: A Parent's Guide (Learning Skills). 

Mathematics Hub for Parents & Carers (Mathematics Hub) - Resources to help you support your child with learning mathematics and developing their numeracy skills and understanding.

Literacy Hub for Families (Literacy Hub) - Parents, siblings, grandparents and carers have a vital role to play in helping young children build literacy skills. In the first years of school, learning to read is one of a child’s greatest achievements. This page provides links to resources to help your child improve their literacy. 

Oxford Learning Resource Centre Blog (Oxford Learning). 

Enchanted Learning - Education, crafts, and games for the K-6 set. Minimal to no ads.

"My Child Refuses to Do Homework" - How to Stop the Nightly Struggle Over Schoolwork (Lehman, 2025). 

Strategies to Make Homework Go More Smoothly (Dawson, 2025) - Child Mind Institute.

Common Sense Media

Are you looking for child-friendly media (Movies, TV Shows, etc.)? Look no further! Common Sense media is an American nonprofit organization that reviews and provides ratings for media and technology with the goal of providing information on their suitability for children.

IMDb

Looking for family-friendly entertainment (movies, TV shows, etc.), IMDb is a great place to find out all the information on media, including ratings, summaries, trailers, etc.. 

TV4Education

180,000+ educational videos, curated by educators for educators, on all curriculum topics. TV4Education sources videos from thousands of sources world-wide, moderating each video to ensure copyright compliancy and maximum student engagement. Simply login, stream and begin learning.  Login is available to students and staff using their school email and password. 

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