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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS's teacher this year has started sending him back to his desk when he turns something in, then having him count to 10 and double check his work.
Honestly, I don't think it's helping.  His "double check" is basically just to look at everything again.
It's a struggle.
(It's also why I laugh at the recommended accommodation of providing extra time on tests.  He doesn't need extra time. He needs to actually use the time he has!)[/quote]

We had this issue with our son too, and part of what helped was teaching him strategies for how to double check his work (which vary depending on the type of work it is) so that he could use those to actually double check instead of skimming over what he did to look for obvious errors. For math it was often ways to work backwards from his answer to the starting question (which forced him to actually think about the problem differently). For narrative answers, the check included reading his answer backwards word by word to check spelling and legibility (most people don't readily recall something they just wrote backwards, so it forces him to actually read words instead of just skimming from memory and fitting in the rest from context). Etc.[/quote]

I'm PP - thanks!  We've been working on the math double checking (ie, doing the multiplication for a division problem) like you suggested, but I hadn't thought of reading things backwards.  I really like that!  Legibility and spelling are big problems, and I think that might really help - even in math with all the "explain your answer" questions.[/quote]

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