I saw that my child had a worksheet with questions from a text book on it. I knew she did not write the answers and asked how she got the answers. She said another child was instructed to read the chapter to her and this child read quietly to my child because other students said not to read loudly, so my child did not hear, and my child copied this student’s paper. My child got a 3 out of a possible 4 on this assignment. I am wondering what other alternatives there are for this situation because right now it seems like my child probably did not get much out of this assignment and probably did not see anything wrong with copying which is getting close to cheating and I am assuming the teacher knows they both had the same answers since she had that child help her.
textbook alternative...
Your child is in elementary school?? For my middle schooler, I joined RFBD(reading for the blind and dyslexic) and got his textbook on tape(also available on CD) for him to listen to the chapters himself and do the homework himself. Well worth the $75 to join. The tapes are free. For older kids you can buy used textbooks online very cheaply for home use.
re:alternatives for answering text book questions?
You might also want to see if the textbooks are available on CD, most are now or will be required to be soon and you can use a text reading program to read the text to her on the computer- something that might help later in school
One alternative would be to borrow or buy a copy of the textbook yourself and you read it outloud to your child in the evenings. The teacher is likely at a loss to know what to do in this situation. Having another child read the textbook outloud to your daughter is not going to work in your daughter’s best learning interest even though it may be very well-intentioned on the teacher’s part. Textbooks are hard enough for children to understand and it can only be harder when one child is reading the book outloud to another. Ask the teacher to borrow a copy of the textbook or find out which company publishes the book and buy a copy from them yourself.
Ideally there should also be some activites occurring in the classroom that serve to teach the concepts in the textbook.