homework about me

All About Me Worksheets (Free PDF Printables)

Posted on Last updated: February 12, 2024

Create a personal connection in your classroom with these 30 all-about-me worksheets, available to download and print for free. These sheets are an excellent resource for teachers to learn more about their students, fostering a deeper understanding of each child’s unique personality.

This collection includes a range of activities, from filling out favorite hobbies and family details to drawing self-portraits and mapping out personal goals. Each worksheet is designed to encourage students to share aspects of their lives, promoting a sense of self-awareness and community in the classroom!

To use any of these free printables, you can click on any of the below images or links to open the high-resolution PDF on a new page. From there, you can freely download or print to your heart’s content!

Selfie All About Me Printable Worksheet

Elementary All About Me Printable Worksheet

All About Me Coloring and Drawing Template

Adorable Kindergarten All About Me Worksheet

Cute All About Me Printable Worksheet

Coloring In All About Me Worksheet For Elementary Students

Toddler All About Me Printable Worksheet

Printable All About Me Workshet and Template

Printable All About Me Worksheet for Students

Middle School All About Me Worksheet

Kindergarten Coloring All About Me Printable

Interesting High school Get To Know Me Printable Worksheet

Grade 1 All About Me Printable Worksheet

Get To Know Me Worksheet For Kindergarten

Get To Know Me Worksheet For High School

Get To Know Me Printable Worksheet For Middle School and High School Students

Fun All About Me Worksheet For Middle School

Free Printable All About Me Worksheet

Get To Know Me Printable Template

Fun Get To Know Me Printable Worksheet for Middle School Students

First Week of School All About Me Worksheet

Coloring and Drawing Free Printable Worksheet for Elementary Students

All About Me worksheet high school

All About Me Worksheet For The First Week of School

All About Me Printable Elementary

All About Me Coloring Page Printable

All About Me Printable Worksheet for Middle School

All About Me Printable Worksheet for Grade 2

All About Me Printable Worksheet for Grade 1

All About Me Printable Template

Notify me of follow-up comments by email.

Notify me of new posts by email.

Friday 16th of August 2024

I truly love the coloring pages and the printables. There is always something available to accommodate all ages and learners.

Monday Mandala Team

Tuesday 20th of August 2024

Thank you so much Donita! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoy the coloring pages and printables. It's wonderful to know they're working well for all ages and learners – that's exactly what we aim for! 😊

Thursday 15th of August 2024

I love to use these when it's the first week of school. I have them speak up to the class and read them out loud. It's a great start for building relationships!

Maria Elena Kancheff Mota

I appreciate your kindness in sharing these great pages, my students will love them! Thanks a lot!

You're so welcome! I'm thrilled to hear that your students will enjoy them. Thanks for the kind words! 😊

Wednesday 14th of August 2024

Thank you so much for making these free! I run a reading ministry for underserved students. The kids call us Book Grandmas and Book Grandpas because we give them books every month. Being able to know a bit about them before we start is fun! and gives us a hint as to what books they might enjoy reading. Thanks again!

What a wonderful ministry you run! We love that the kids have such a sweet name for you all. It’s amazing to hear how these worksheets are helping you get to know them better and choose the perfect books. Thank you for all the incredible work you do! ❤️

Friday 28th of June 2024

This was awesome! Thanks for making it so easy.

Glad they came in handy Christine!

• Skip to primary navigation
• Skip to main content
• Skip to primary sidebar

All About Me Worksheets

August 4, 2021 by Printabulls Team 30 Comments

The beginning of a new school year is very exciting for both teachers and students. Each looks forward to getting to know one another. But with the number of students in each class, it can take a while for teachers to learn everyone’s favorite things, their likes and dislikes, and their background. We try to make it easy for teachers to get that information by creating 50 “getting to know me” worksheets to have students complete. Each has a different layout and varying questions or fill-in-the-blanks so your students can fill you in on everything you need to know. It’s always interesting to see what everyone has to say about themselves and is a great way to connect with each child.

We’ve also made 20 About Me worksheets for older students and adults as a quick way to get to know an older audience or simply to use as an icebreaker! See the “ All About Me Worksheets For Older Students & Adults” section towards the bottom of this post!

While these are a wonderful resource for teachers, they are also perfect for interviews with your own children at the beginning of the year. Have your child fill out their worksheet at the beginning of each school year and again at the end of the year to see how they’ve changed! And the best part of all is that they’re 100% free to print from the comfort of your own home. All you need to do is select which one(s) you like from the options below, click to download the PDF file to your computer, and print! It really is as easy as that!

And don’t forget, after you’re finished having your child fill in their sheet to have them pose for their “first day of school” picture holding one of these free printable  First Day of School Signs  – there are SO many options to choose from and even a few editable versions. You are sure to find one you love!

P.S. If you’re a teacher or a parent (or both!) to any preschool- or kindergarten-aged children, you’ll want to check out our free printable  Letter A Worksheets . We have 50 free worksheets and activities to get your child well on their way to learning the first letter of the alphabet! You might also like our free printable Student Information Sheets as a way to gather information about your students and their homes.

All About Me Worksheets For Toddlers, Preschool, & Children

All About Me Worksheets For Older Students & Adults

Reader Interactions

February 23, 2022 at 8:45 am

Love, love, love your printabulls!! Super fun and unique!! Thank you for sharing!!

February 25, 2022 at 12:02 pm

You’re welcome and our pleasure! 🙂

April 3, 2022 at 10:55 am

I absolutely love this website! I am truly on here daily printing out things for my family!

April 4, 2022 at 6:38 am

We’re so happy to hear we’re making life easier for you, Melissa! Glad you’re enjoying the printables. LOTS more to come!! 🙂

August 18, 2022 at 11:46 am

I Thank you Kindly for the free printables. These worksheets are helpful and fun.

August 18, 2022 at 1:38 pm

Our pleasure, Jennifer! 🙂

August 30, 2022 at 9:51 am

Thanks for sharing everything is so lovely.

August 30, 2022 at 10:48 am

Our pleasure and thank you! 🙂

November 5, 2023 at 8:37 pm

November 7, 2023 at 9:39 am

Our pleasure! 🙂

September 10, 2022 at 2:21 pm

WOW !!! Thank you so very much for making this accessible to teachers!!!

September 12, 2022 at 6:35 am

Our pleasure, Theresa! 🙂

January 1, 2023 at 11:58 am

I want to thank you for these, and all of your printables! You have helped me out with a lot of my homeschool needs <3

January 3, 2023 at 9:48 am

Happy to hear it, Nicci! Our pleasure. 🙂

January 11, 2023 at 11:58 am

Hello does anyone know where i can find that printable of bee cones with title 31days off…. Id really apreciate if youd find it

January 11, 2023 at 1:59 pm

That one is here: https://www.printabulls.com/self-improvement-and-care/habit-trackers/ 🙂

February 5, 2023 at 2:25 am

This site is AMAZING and so easy to access things. thank you. looking for a self portrait page…

February 6, 2023 at 8:45 am

Our pleasure! 🙂 Hope you found one of the ones that allow them to draw a self-portrait!

June 8, 2023 at 9:15 am

These are wonderful! I really appreciate that you have so many varieties available! Thank for sharing!

June 9, 2023 at 10:41 am

September 2, 2023 at 3:36 pm

Thanks so much for this first day of school activity sheet. It is appreciated!

September 5, 2023 at 9:59 am

Our pleasure, Christine! 🙂

September 4, 2023 at 12:25 pm

September 5, 2023 at 10:00 am

September 4, 2023 at 1:19 pm

I had an idea for my students and these worksheets are just what I was looking for. Cut my work in half. Thank you so much for these.

Our pleasure, Aszure. Glad they were helpful! 🙂

September 12, 2023 at 4:48 pm

Best worksheets ever !!!

September 13, 2023 at 6:18 am

August 1, 2024 at 5:18 pm

Love your printabulls

August 6, 2024 at 9:45 am

Thanks, Lana! 🙂

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

All About Me Printable Worksheets (Free PDF Printables)

Share with friends!

In the world of education, personalized learning has become a cornerstone for engaging students and fostering their growth. Few concepts are as essential and exciting as the “All About Me” printable theme. These customizable worksheets offer a unique opportunity for children to explore themselves, their interests, and their aspirations, all while having fun with coloring and creative activities.

NOTE: This post may contain affiliate links. Read the disclosure for details.

Our “All About Me” printable options are powerful tools for educators and parents. These sheets, adorned with playful designs and engaging prompts, encourage children to explore their identities, interests, and aspirations.

They promote self-awareness, boosting children’s confidence and self-esteem. Moreover, they create a sense of belonging, helping kids understand their place in the world.

Ideas for Using “All About Me” Printables

• Icebreaker Activities: Start the school year with an “All About Me” printable session. Students can fill out sheets detailing their favorite hobbies, foods, and dreams, providing a delightful way for classmates to get to know each other.
• Personalized Storybooks: Encourage children to transform their “All About Me” sheets into imaginative storybooks. They can illustrate their lives, creating characters based on their own experiences. This not only enhances storytelling skills but also strengthens their sense of identity.
• Family Engagement Projects: Extend the learning experience beyond the classroom by involving families. Encourage children to interview their family members, creating a collaborative “All About Me” collage that celebrates their heritage, traditions, and unique family dynamics.
• Goal Setting Worksheets: Modify the printables to focus on goal setting. Kids can jot down their short-term and long-term goals, encouraging them to visualize their future and develop planning skills.
• Classroom or Home Wall Display: Create a vibrant display showcasing completed “All About Me” sheets in different variations. This visual feast brightens the learning space and reinforces a sense of community among the students.
• Interactive Journaling: Incorporate the printables into daily journaling activities. Encourage children to reflect on their day, expressing their emotions and experiences through colorful illustrations and heartfelt words.

Do your littles or students love Squishmallows? Don’t miss out on our adorable Squishmallow Activity Mats!

Keepsake idea.

Document your child’s growth and transformation from one year to the next. These worksheets, carefully filled out by the child at the beginning and end of each school year, can serve as time capsules capturing their evolving personalities, interests, and aspirations.

At the start of the academic year, young learners excitedly jot down their favorite colors, hobbies, and what they aspire to become.

As the year progresses, these worksheets become living documents, reflecting their changing preferences, newfound skills, and the challenges they’ve overcome. When revisiting the worksheets at the year’s end, parents, teachers, and the children themselves can marvel at the visible progression.

Have you downloaded our reader’s favorite Mandala Alphabet Pages?

Comparing the initial and final sheets illuminates not just the physical growth but also the cognitive and emotional development of the child. It’s a tangible reminder of their journey, allowing them to celebrate achievements and set new goals.

These “All About Me” worksheets thus become cherished keepsakes, not only highlighting the child’s academic progress but also encapsulating their unique personalities as they blossom from one school year to the next.

The “All About Me” printables are more than just educational tools; they are windows into a child’s soul. They empower children to embrace their uniqueness, fostering a positive self-image that lasts a lifetime.

By integrating these printables into your educational toolkit, you’re not just teaching; you’re guiding young minds on a journey of self-discovery and confidence. So, let the creativity flow, and watch as your students and children flourish, one colorful sheet at a time.

You might also find our other education printables useful in your home or school classroom:

• Assignment Trackers
• Bubble Letters
• Reading Logs
• To-Do Lists
• Heart Templates
• Go to the list of all our educational resources

How to Get Started

To download any of the printables below is as easy as 1-2-3:

• Download: Choose the printable design that resonates with you. Click on the image.
• Print: The PDF file will automatically open. Print the PDF file on your printer.
• Start creating and/or using the PDF printable . Enjoy!

Each PDF download is created for standard US letter size; however, they also fit perfectly onto A4 paper sizes.

Terms of Use:  Our coloring pages and printables are for personal use only. Print as many copies as you need for your kids, students, after-school group, church group, etc. To share, please share a link to this page.  Please do not sell, email, share digital copies online, or distribute them for any other purpose. Thank you!

Free All About Me Printable Worksheets (PDF Ready to Print)

Love to color? Check out our full library with thousands of coloring pages!

Looking for more fun learning printable activities? Check out our Assignment Trackers!

While you’re here check out our Reading Log Printables!

While you’re here, grab these readers’ favorite coloring pages!

Go to the full library of printables

You Might Also Like

19 Blank Calendars (Free PDF Printables)

13 To-Do List Printables (Free PDF Printables)

12 Undated Calendars (Free PDF Printables)

Weekly To-Do Lists (Free PDF Printables)

18 Reading Log Printables (Free PDF Printables)

31 Bookmarks (Free PDF Printables Ready to Use, Coloring, and Templates)

Start coloring.

96 Cool Amphibian Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

51 Frog Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

27 Axolotl Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

51 Bear Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

41 Cute Unicorn Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

Tadpole Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

Looking for calendars, learning activities, and other fun printables we’ve got you covered, browse our coloring pages, calendars, and printables library by clicking the image below.

We’re a printables site, so of course, we have a favorite printer our team uses daily!  Check it out here!

Meet the Simply Love Coloring Team

Great things happen when a work team grows into a friendship, and minds come together! Read more about us here.

We’re on an unstoppable mission to build the world’s most prominent website of free coloring pages and printables!

Want a quick note when we add new printables and coloring pages? Get on the email list here to know when new free downloads are ready!

15 Best Self-Esteem Worksheets and Activities (Incl. PDF)

It’s a part of being human. However, if you find yourself having these kinds of negative thoughts frequently or letting these feelings get in the way of living a healthy and happy life, it may be time to do something about it.

Luckily, there are many ways to increase your sense of self-worth. It probably won’t be easy, but it can certainly be done.

Building self-esteem can be a difficult, though rewarding, journey in adulthood. It’s much easier to develop this characteristic at a young age and to foster it while growing up. If you are a parent, child therapist , teacher, or any other valued adult in the life of a child,  you can use these tools to begin cultivating a healthy sense of self-esteem in the children in your life.

We’ll provide several methods and activities for building self-esteem, starting with self-esteem worksheets for young children and ending with self-esteem worksheets for adults.

Before you read on, we thought you might like to download our three Self-Compassion Exercises for free . These detailed, science-based exercises will not only help you show more compassion and kindness towards yourself but will also give you the tools to help your children, young clients or students learn how to practice self-compassion and develop healthy self-esteem.

This Article Contains:

Self-esteem worksheets for kids in primary school, 5 self-esteem activities for teens in middle or high school, exercises for building self-esteem in college students and adults, tips for overcoming low self-esteem and low self-worth, ten days to self-esteem improvement: an action plan, a take-home message.

Primary or elementary school is a fantastic time to start helping a child develop self-esteem. A child’s mind is generally much more flexible and open than an adult’s, so it’s ideal to begin planting the seeds of healthy self-esteem at an early age.

The worksheet and activities listed below are some of the ways you can help a child develop the self-esteem that will act as a buffer against some of life’s most difficult obstacles and challenges.

Something About Me: Self-Esteem Sentence Completion

This is an activity that both children and adults can get engaged with, although this worksheet is geared toward children. A similar worksheet for adults is included later in this article.

This “Something About Me” worksheet is intended to help children identify their own positive traits and characteristics and to recognize their accomplishments.

It’s a simple worksheet with six sentence prompts and space for a child to fill in the blanks.

• My friends think I’m awesome because…
• My classmates say I’m great at…
• I feel very happy when I…
• Something that I’m really proud of is…
• I make my family happy when I…
• One unique thing about me is…

These sentences are constructed with clear and uncomplicated language that most elementary school students should understand, but it may help to go over this worksheet with your child. Encourage your child to think about each sentence and not to rush.

Completing this activity can help children build the foundations of an authentic and healthy self-esteem that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Click to see the Something About Me Worksheet .

Things I Like About Me Worksheet

This worksheet was created to help young children learn how uniqueness makes a person beautiful. This worksheet should be completed with a parent or other trusted adult to help explain the distinction between inner beauty and outer beauty.

The worksheet includes the following instructions:

“You are beautiful because you are unique, both on the inside and on the outside. Look inside and outside at your personality, what you can do, how you treat others, and who you are, then write down some things that you like about you on this mirror.”

Also included is the prompt “Things that make me beautiful” and space to write five things. It’s okay to write something external, like “my hair” or “my eyes,” but make sure your child writes at least one or two inner traits or qualities in addition to the external qualities.

It’s never too early to start combatting the extreme focus society places on external beauty, and this worksheet is a great start. Of course, it can also be used with boys to help them learn the same lesson.

Click to download the  Things I Like About Me Worksheet and give it a try.

“I’m Great Because…” Worksheet

This worksheet can be an excellent way for young children to explore what makes them good and likable people, and to help them build a foundation of healthy self-esteem. The instructions are to print it out and complete the statements—without worrying too much if the user can’t complete them all—and keeping the worksheet handy for the next time the user experiences feelings of low self-esteem.

The worksheet lists 20 sentence-completion prompts that children fill out with something positive about themselves. A reason, in other words, that they are great. These prompts include the following:

• I like who I am because…
• I’m super at…
• I feel good about my…
• My friends think I have an awesome…
• Somewhere I feel happy is…
• I mean a lot to…
• Others reckon I’m a great…
• I think I’m a pretty good…
• Something I really enjoy is…
• I really admire myself for…
• My future goals are…
• I know I can achieve them because I’m…
• I’m naturally gifted at…
• Others often praise my…

Completing this worksheet will give your child an opportunity to list all of the good things about himself or herself without fear of being overly proud or self-absorbed.

It’s good to be both realistic and positive about yourself, and this is a good way to begin a habit of positive realism. Children may need an adult’s help in completing this worksheet, but try to let them come up with their own ideas about the traits and characteristics they like about themselves.

Try this  I’m Great Because… Worksheet for yourself.

Friendship Ingredients

This is a great worksheet for helping children learn about what makes them good friends and what they should look for in a friend. Completing this worksheet will likely take some guidance from an adult, but it can be a positive way for children to start thinking about what kind of people they want to be.

It’s a simple activity with only one short set of instructions:

“Making friends is like making a cake. List the traits that are important for making friends”

Next, it provides spaces for the child to write down five traits—or friendship “ingredients”—and explain why they are important in a friend. The simple nature of this worksheet allows children to put their imagination to good use.

They might need some help from an adult, but they should be able to come up with several traits that they find important in a friend.

Download 3 Free Self-Compassion Exercises (PDF)

These detailed, science-based exercises will equip you to help others create a kinder and more nurturing relationship with themselves.

Download 3 Free Self-Compassion Tools Pack (PDF)

By filling out your name and email address below.

Self-Esteem Journal For Kids

This activity is great for any age, but this template is meant specifically for young children. We’ll explore an adult version later in the article.

Keeping a self-esteem journal is a great way for children to begin thinking about the good things that they do and experience, setting them up for a positive outlook on life. This worksheet lists three-sentence completion prompts for each day of the week, starting with Monday.

The prompts include “ One thing I did great at today… ,” “ Today it was interesting when…, ” and “ I made someone smile when… ”

Completing these prompts every night for a week should help your child feel more optimistic and begin focusing on the good things that happen instead of the bad. Follow this link to download and use this  Self-Esteem Journal Worksheet with your child.

While it’s best to start self-esteem building young, there is still tons of room for growth and development in this area for middle- and high-schoolers.

The activities and worksheets below can help your teenager start or continue to build a healthy sense of self-esteem.

Designing Affirmations Worksheet

Affirmations are a popular way to help combat low self-esteem in both adults and adolescents (Bloch & Merritt, 1993; Lynch & Graham-Bermann, 2000).

This worksheet will guide adolescents through one of the most popular, tactical approaches to designing affirmations. You’ll find instructions on how to create effective affirmations, as well as example goals, affirmations, and tips to help you.

In a nutshell:

• Affirmations start with the words “I am…”;
• Affirmations are positive. Never use the word “not” in an affirmation. For example, instead of writing “I am not afraid to express myself,” you could write, “I am confidently sharing my opinion”;
• Affirmations are short;
• Affirmations are specific. For example, instead of writing, “I am driving a new car,” you would write, “I am driving a new black Range Rover”;
• Affirmations are in the present tense and include a word that ends in “-ing”;
• Affirmations have a “feeling” word in them. Examples include “confidently,” “successfully,” or “gracefully”;
• Affirmations are about yourself. They should be about your own behavior, never someone else’s.

When you have a set of affirmations ready to put to use, you can try these tips for using them:

• Use positive self-talk;
• Set big goals and stay mindful of your goals (write them down and place them somewhere you can see them every day);
• Say and visualize your affirmations every day;
• Take time to see yourself accomplishing the goals you’ve set;
• Think about how good it will feel once you have accomplished your goals.

To get into the habit, try to start by sticking with a schedule—for example, you might try repeating your affirmations:

• When you wake up
• On your break at school or work
• Before going to sleep

Visualizing and planning for success makes it much more likely that you will achieve your goals. If needed, give your child guidance and support when coming up with affirmations, but allow them to take ownership of this activity and see the amazing results of their commitment.

You can access the  Designing Affirmations Worksheet here.

Understanding Self-Confidence Worksheet

This worksheet can be completed by adolescents who wish to build up their self-esteem and self-confidence. The completed worksheet can be kept handy for the next time you’re feeling low in self-esteem and need a boost.

You can always your worksheet and be reminded of your personal power, and use it to transform situations in which you feel less confident.

The worksheet is divided into three parts:

Part A involves thinking of a situation in which you felt confident and experienced a sense of self-worth, and answering the following questions:

• What is the situation?
• What do you say to yourself about the situation (self-talk)? How do you feel physically?
• What sensations and feelings do you have in your body?
• What do you do as a result of this?

Part B involves thinking of a recent situation in which you felt lacking in self-confidence and answering the same four questions listed above.

In Part C, you are instructed to look at your answers to Parts A and B, then use that information to answer these questions:

• What positive statement could I say to myself to be reminded of my power?
• What could I do that would help me feel differently? (For example, create a visualization in which you remember how you felt in Part One.)
• What could I do differently next time I am in this situation? What actions would empower me?

Completing this worksheet will help adolescents explore their feelings in two very different situations, analyze their responses to these situations, and come up with an action plan for the next time they experience low self-esteem. This exercise will help them take control of their development and give them a sense of ownership in their own wellbeing, a trait that will serve them well in the future.

Click this link to see the Understanding Self-Confidence Worksheet .

You, At Your Best Worksheet

This worksheet is a great way to help clients reflect on the personal character strengths that define them at their best. The exercise aims to use narrative and storytelling; clients are asked to identify their unique strengths by writing a story about a past experience where they were “at their best”.

It takes them through four stages:

• Start by asking your client to recall a specific occasion during which they were at their very best. It could be a problem or difficult time that they overcame successfully, or where they accomplished something they were proud of. It should be a situation in which they felt energized, positive, and proud, and they will create a (true) story about it.
• They then write the story, emphasizing their own character strengths and personal values in the narrative. Using descriptive language, this second step is about recounting what happened, what they brought to the situation, the emotions they felt, and/or the ways they helped others.
• Your client’s story should be structured with a start, middle, and a powerful ending. Writing the narrative might be easier if they try to vividly reconstruct the experience in their minds while doing so.
• This handout/homework worksheet then instructs the client to go back over their story, circling or highlighting keywords and phrases that they feel relate to their personal strengths.

This subjective, feelings-based exercise is a useful way for you or your client to reflect on their unique character strengths and qualities, helping to enhance their self-esteem.

Find the You, At Your Best Worksheet in our Positive Psychology Toolkit©.

This activity is especially great for kids and younger teens who are crafty and creative, although people of all ages and talents can take part.

The My Wins Worksheet is an artistic prompt for you or your child to draw, paint, or otherwise represent the things—their achievements and qualities—about themselves that are important to them. You may wish to use a theme for this activity or for each ‘win’, like “family,” but it’s okay to engage in this activity with no specific theme in mind as well.

This is a simple worksheet that has only the outline of different certificates. In each, your child can represent the personal qualities, achievements, and traits that they value.

For example, if your child is dealing with self-esteem issues, he or she can use the theme “What Makes Me Great” and focus on filling the frames with reasons why he or she is a good friend, a good child, a good student, and a good person in general.

Before You Die

This activity uses a very basic technique that you can build upon as needed. The point of this activity is to help your client identify meaningful goals that are connected with their personal values.

Striving toward and achieving one’s goals is an important way to build self-esteem. You build the most solid foundation of self-esteem and self-confidence with the building blocks of positive experience and success. The more individuals recognize their ability to meet the goals they set for themselves, the more likely they are to feel confident and worthy.

This ‘ Before You Die’ Bucketlist Worksheet provides more information on the theory behind goal-setting, motivation, and positive behavior change, as well as an applied framework that will guide your client through the process.

• The first column of the table provided is for specifying the goal that your client would like to accomplish ‘before they die’. Try to make these as specific as possible, regardless of whether or not they are practical. A useful question to ask when filling out this column is, what would I like to accomplish if I had only one year to live?
• In the second column, the client is encouraged to dig a bit deeper into the personal motivations for this particular goal. Why is it important to them? How might it enhance the meaning in their life?
• Use the final column to rate the meaningfulness of these items on a scale of zero to ten, where 0 = not at all meaningful, and 10 is extremely meaningful.

At the end of this exercise, the user should have a list—or at least the beginnings of a list—which features meaningful life goals, a stepping stone toward confidence, self-worth, and self-esteem. You can access the worksheet by subscribing to the Positive Psychology Toolkit© , with over 400 exercises.

Again, while building self-esteem is a practice best started young, it’s never too late to begin investing in your own self-worth.

Self-Esteem Sentence Stems Worksheet

This worksheet leads the reader through a sentence completion exercise for adults. This exercise is exactly what it sounds like: It includes prompts with space for you to complete the sentence in the way that feels right to you.

Completing this exercise can help you explore your thoughts and feelings, and to open up and share them with others. For users of this worksheet, this exercise will help them become more comfortable sharing their thoughts and feelings with others, making it easier to work through their self-esteem issues.

Next, it instructs users to set aside 5-10 minutes several times a week to complete the worksheet. After two weeks of completing the worksheet, users can review their responses to get an idea of their general outlooks on life and see how things have changed since they began.

The intended result is for the answers to become more positive over time.

After the instructions, the sentence prompts are listed, including:

• I have always wanted to…
• I’m secretly afraid of…
• This week I would enjoy doing…
• I often look forward to…
• I feel something that the future holds for me is…
• I get my strength from…
• One person couldn’t live without is…
• I would never…
• It made me feel great when…
• I love when…
• I find it hard to…
• My dream is to one day that…
• It makes me angry when…
• I sometimes fear that…
• This week is going to be…
• Something I deeply desire is…
• I flourish when…
• This week I hope to…
• Something I do secretly…
• I find it hard to admit…

Answering these questions can give you helpful insight into yourself, what makes you happy, and what you struggle with. If you’re a therapist, you can introduce this exercise to clients by filling out a few prompts together.

This allows you to communicate important messages to your client and to help them feel comfortable with the exercise. For example, you can finish the prompt “Right now, I’m happy that…” with “my favorite hockey team won last night.” This can be a good way to defuse tension and start off with an easy and relatively harmless example.

Download and work through this Self-Esteem Sentence Stems Worksheet .

World’s Largest Positive Psychology Resource

The Positive Psychology Toolkit© is a groundbreaking practitioner resource containing over 500 science-based exercises , activities, interventions, questionnaires, and assessments created by experts using the latest positive psychology research.

Updated monthly. 100% Science-based.

“The best positive psychology resource out there!” — Emiliya Zhivotovskaya , Flourishing Center CEO

Self-Esteem Journal Template

For those of you who have heard of or kept a gratitude journal, this exercise might feel familiar. Not only can journaling help you find more things in your life to be grateful for, but it can also give you the opportunity to reflect on your own thoughts and feelings, leading to discovery and understanding of the self (Kaczmarek et al., 2015).

The worksheet begins with a short paragraph about the potential benefits of journaling , including improved self-esteem and wellbeing. Users are encouraged to use this template to reflect on the meaningful moments of their days and review the changes in their emotions and general outlooks over time.

Next, there are five tables set up with prompts and space to write. The first table includes the following prompts:

• 5 things that made me feel peaceful today:
• I felt proud of myself when:

The prompts in the second table are:

• My family admire me for my:
• 5 small successes I had today were:
• The highlight of my day was:

The third table includes:

• My best attribute is:
• 3 unique things about me are:
• I feel most proud of myself when:

In the fourth table, the prompts are:

• I’m excited for:
• 5 things or people I feel thankful for are:
• I am in my element when:

The final table lists these three prompts:

• 5 ways my life is awesome:
• My biggest success this week was:
• I feel best about myself when:

You have probably noticed that these prompts are intended to provoke positive responses. The positive focus of this exercise is what sets it apart from ordinary journaling or writing in a diary. Even when you’ve had a rough day, these prompts can help you find the good things in your life and remind you that no matter how hard things have been, you’ve survived them.

If you are a therapist providing this worksheet to your client(s), encourage them to think critically about what their answers reveal. This exercise can be a quick and short-term mood boost, or, with commitment and effort, it can facilitate positive growth and development.

Click the link for this Self-Esteem Journal For Adults Worksheet .

Meet yourself: a user’s guide to building self-esteem – Niko Everett

Gratitude Worksheet and Journal Template

If you are not familiar with the gratitude journal technique, this worksheet is an excellent way to give it a try. Research has linked gratitude to a multitude of positive outcomes, like increasing wellbeing (Wood, Froh, & Geraghty, 2010), improving relationships (Algoe, Haidt, & Gable, 2008), increasing optimism (Dickens, 2019), and helping people find meaning in their work (Waters, 2012).

Gratitude journaling is one of the best ways to inject more gratitude into your daily life, and it can be done in just a few minutes a day. The gratitude journal worksheet opens with some tips to help you journal effectively, including recording at least five things you are grateful for each day, aiming for one new thing to be grateful for each day, and reading through old entries to see how far you have come since you began.

The template is simple, with space for the date, and two prompts below.

• Alongside Blessings in the second row, list things that you feel thankfulness for. Examples might be an encouraging friend, particular capabilities or qualities that you possess, or even just being alive.
• The second prompt, Reflections , encourage you to elaborate on them. Research suggests that this reflection builds on the positive impacts of simply listing things that you’re grateful for, by focusing your thoughts on them in detail. For instance, you might use this last row to consider what things might look like if you didn’t have that supportive partner or that ability to be patient.

It’s a good idea to fill in the journal once or twice a week, thinking of something that you have not yet expressed gratitude for. More examples include a teacher who profoundly affected your development whom you never thanked or something you may take for granted, like good general health. There are many ways to set up and complete a gratitude journal, but this is a great way to begin.

This Gratitude Journal is included in the Positive Psychology Toolkit© , but this simplistic PDF can also guide you.

Reframing Critical Self-Talk Worksheet

This exercise is a great way to address negative automatic thoughts and self-talk, challenges that people with low self-esteem and/or mental health issues often face. It’s not surprising that talking down to yourself will lead to and exacerbate self-esteem problems, but the good news is that it is not an unsolvable problem.

Challenging negative self-talk is a core technique in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a type of therapy that has proven effective in helping a wide range of conditions, diagnoses, and problems. CBT helps clients discover some of their most deeply held, often unconscious, beliefs, allowing them to evaluate these beliefs and challenge those that are not useful.

This reframing worksheet opens with an explanation of negative self-talk and how you can identify and confront it.

Next, the tool is described. It includes two main steps intended to help you understand where your critical thoughts are coming from and what they feel or sound like.

• Increasing your awareness of self-critical talk: To begin tapping into your self-awareness, take some deep breaths. When you realize that your inner critic is doing the talking inside your head—perhaps when you are unsuccessful at something—pay attention to what that self-talk sounds like. Are there specific core phrases that you tend to say to yourself? How does that negative voice sound?
• Taking action to soften your self-critical voice: Once you’ve become aware of when you’re criticizing yourself, it’s time to try self-compassion instead. In these instances, the worksheet suggests, consider what you might say to someone you care about if they were in the same scenario.Try changing the mental tone you’re using and take on a more positive one you might use when you’re feeling good about who you are. Finally, try to come to terms with what exactly it is that you’re being self-critical about. Is there something you might learn from this criticism if it were presented more constructively instead?

This tried-and-true technique will help you or your client recognize self-directed criticism and challenge it on the spot, leading to greater self-esteem and peace with oneself.

If one of your clients is having trouble coming up with positive responses to their self-critical thoughts, encourage them to consider what they would say to a dear friend or loved one who was struggling with these thoughts, as the sheet suggests. Sometimes it’s easier to be kind to others than to ourselves, but that is something that can be remedied with time and practice.

The full version of this worksheet can be downloaded from the Positive Psychology Toolkit© .

Unconditional self-acceptance and self-esteem are often confused or even considered identical. Let’s address this misconception by considering some fundamental differences in their nature and consequences.

• Self-esteem is based on evaluating the self, rating one’s behaviors and qualities as positive or negative, which results in defining the self as worthy or non-worthy (Ellis, 1994). Self-acceptance , however, is how the individual relates to the self, in a way that allows the self to be as it is. Acceptance is neither positive nor negative; it embraces all aspects and experiences of the self (Ellis, 1976).
• Self-esteem relies on comparisons to evaluate the self and ‘decide’ its worth. Self-acceptance , however, stems from the realization that there is no objective basis for determining the worth of a human being. So with self-acceptance, the individual affirms who she or he is without any need for comparisons.
• Self-esteem is contingent on external factors, such as performance, appearance, or social approval, that form the basis on which the self is evaluated. On the other hand, with self-acceptance , a person feels satisfied with themselves despite external factors, as this sense of worthiness is not derived from meeting certain standards.
• It follows that self-esteem is fragile, whereas self-acceptance provides a secure and enduring positive relationship with the self (Kernis & Lakey, 2010).
• When it comes to the consequences on wellbeing, while self-esteem appears to be associated with some markers of wellbeing, such as high life-satisfaction (Myers & Diener, 1995) and less anxiety (Brockner, 1984), there is also a “dark side” of self-esteem, characterized by egotism and narcissism (Crocker & Park, 2003). Self-acceptance is strongly associated with numerous positive markers of general psychological well-being (MaccInes, 2006).

Identifying and Challenging Core Beliefs

Similar to challenging negative thoughts, it can be an extremely effective therapeutic technique to discover, identify, and challenge your core beliefs. We often carry negative or false unconscious or semiconscious beliefs, never stopping to recognize the values and norms that we buy into on a daily basis.

This exercise will help you or your client explore and define deeply held beliefs that guide thoughts and behavior.

The worksheet begins with an explanation of what core beliefs are:

“Core beliefs can be defined as the very essence of how people see themselves, others, the world, and the future.”

Next, it explains how core beliefs can influence one’s thinking and emotions through an example interaction.

“Interaction: You are attending an interview for a job that you really want.”

In this situation, you must choose between three briefcases to bring along to work, each representing a different core belief:

Purple briefcase—“I’m talented”

Internal thought associated: “I am naturally adept with lots of experience in this field. I deserve this role.”

Your reaction: You feel confident as you enter the interview, and subsequently land the job.

Orange briefcase—“I’m unsure whether I’m talented.”

Internal thought associated: “I have lots of experience and I think I’m good, but someone else will probably get the job over me.”

Your reaction: You don’t feel great heading into the interview. You relatively positive feedback but don’t land the role.

Green briefcase—“I’m not talented.”

Internal thought associated: “There’s no way I’m getting this job. Other candidates are much more capable than me.”

Your reaction: You don’t get the job.

These examples show that the thoughts we carry with us, everywhere we go, can have a profound impact on our feelings, our behavior, and the associated outcomes.

Finally, the worksheet presents an opportunity to apply what you have learned from these examples to your own life. You are prompted to identify three negative core beliefs and three reasons why each belief is not true.

It can be difficult to identify the first core belief, especially if you have several very deeply held negative beliefs that you have never even considered challenging before. However, once you get the ball rolling with the first belief, it should get easier as you go.

To give this  Core Beliefs Suitcases worksheet a try, follow the link.

Assertive Communication Worksheet

Low self-esteem and poor or underdeveloped communication skills often go hand-in-hand (Blood & Blood, 2004). It can be difficult to share feelings with others if you don’t feel your feelings have value, an all-too-common symptom of low self-esteem.

Learning to communicate assertively will not only help you form better relationships and find new opportunities, but it can also facilitate a shift in the way you think about yourself (Law & Sivyer, 2003).

The word “assertive” may make people with low self-esteem hesitant. Being assertive might sound overly aggressive, pushy, or just too out of character.

The worksheet addresses this right away with an explanation about how three common communication styles differ:

• Aggressive Communication Defined by speaking in a mean, harsh, or sarcastic manner, taking instead of compromising, maintaining glaring eye contact and speaking in loud or threatening tones, putting others down, being inappropriately honest, and bullying or trampling others.
• Assertive Communication Defined by being firm but polite, compromising, maintaining warm and friendly eye contact and a conversational tone, building up others and oneself, being appropriately honest, and standing up for oneself.
• Passive Communication Defined by being too nice or weak, being overly compliant, avoiding eye contact, speaking softly, putting oneself down, being emotionally dishonest, and allowing others to trample you in conversation.

When laid out in this way, it is clear that being an assertive communicator is nothing like being an aggressive communicator. Assertive communication is simply expressing yourself honestly and directly, while being polite and open.

The worksheet provides space and instructions to record three scenarios in which you communicated assertively and list the emotions you felt afterward. If you can’t think of an instance where you have communicated assertively, don’t worry! You can make that a goal for yourself in the next week.

You can see this Assertive Communication Worksheet for yourself and begin building up your communication skills.

Apart from these worksheets and activities, there are tons of tips out there for building self-esteem and self-worth.

Dr. John M. Grohol (2011) offers these six tips:

• Take a self-esteem inventory to give yourself a baseline. This can be as simple as writing down 10 of your strengths and 10 of your weaknesses. This will help you to begin developing an honest and realistic conception of your self.
• Set realistic expectations. It’s important to set small, attainable goals that are within your power. For example, setting an extremely high expectation or an expectation that someone else will change their behavior is virtually guaranteed to make you feel like a failure.
• Stop being a perfectionist and acknowledge both your accomplishments and mistakes. Nobody is perfect, and trying to be will only lead to disappointment. Acknowledging your accomplishments and recognizing your mistakes is the way to keep a positive outlook while learning and growing from your mistakes.
• Explore yourself. The importance of knowing yourself and being at peace with who you are cannot be overstated. This can take some trial and error, but it’s a lifelong journey that should be undertaken with purpose and zeal.
• Be willing to adjust your self-image. We all change as we age and grow, and we must keep up with our ever-changing selves if we want to set and achieve meaningful goals.
• Stop comparing yourself to others. Comparing ourselves to others is a trap that is extremely easy to fall into, especially with social media and the ability to project a polished and perfected (and false) appearance. The only person you should compare yourself to is you.

Henrik Edberg (2017) offers a similar set of tips for improving your self-esteem:

• Say “stop” to your inner critic;
• Use healthier motivation habits;
• Take a two-minute self-appreciation break;
• Each evening, write down three things that you can appreciate about yourself;
• Do the right thing;
• Fight against perfectionism;
• Handle mistakes and failures in a more positive way;
• Be kinder toward other people;
• Try something new;
• Stop falling into the comparison trap;
• Spend more time with supportive people (and less time with destructive people);
• Remember the “whys” of high self-esteem.

To read these tips in more detail, you can visit Edberg’s blog post on improving self-esteem here and read more about positive body image here.

While it can take time to build up a solid sense of self-esteem, it’s possible to kickstart the process.

This book helps the reader identify the causes of low self-esteem and provides activities and exercises to start increasing self-esteem. It’s written in plain English, not psychiatric jargon, and has earned an impressive four-star rating on Amazon.

If you don’t have the patience to go through an entire book, there are some simple things you can do now to jumpstart your self-esteem journey:

• Think hard about the root cause(s) of your insecurities. The first step to defeating formidable foes is to learn about them, and this situation is no different. Identifying the events that led to a low sense of self-worth can provide valuable information for challenging these negative beliefs.
• Use the “Negative Self-Talk” and “Identifying and Challenging Core Beliefs” worksheets (available in the adult worksheets section of this article) to help you identify negative thoughts and begin to replace them with alternative thoughts.
• Be kind to yourself. If you find yourself being excessively negative to yourself, stop and consider how you would feel if someone said those things about a close friend or family member. Extend the same compassion you’d give a friend or family member to yourself.
• Make a plan. Set achievable and realistic short-term goals for yourself to complete in the next week or so. Achieving something, no matter how small, can be an excellent boost to your motivation.
• Celebrate your success. When you accomplish a goal, successfully challenge a negative thought, or catch yourself extending kindness toward yourself, mark the achievement with a celebration! Taking the time to revel in your success and enjoy the moment can give you the inspiration you need to continue your journey to self-improvement.

17 Exercises To Foster Self-Acceptance and Compassion

Help your clients develop a kinder, more accepting relationship with themselves using these 17 Self-Compassion Exercises [PDF] that promote self-care and self-compassion.

Created by Experts. 100% Science-based.

We hope this piece helped you find useful ways to begin or continue improving on your self-esteem, but if you only leave with one lesson learned, we hope it is this:

You can improve. You can get better. You can reach your goals.

It may not feel like it at the moment, but know that no matter how down you might be feeling, there is always room for growth and improvement.

Which techniques have you used to improve your self-esteem? Were they effective? Please share your experience with us in the comments section.

We hope you enjoyed reading this article. Don’t forget to download our three Self Compassion Exercises for free .

• Algoe, S. B., Haidt, J., & Gable, S. L. (2008). Beyond reciprocity: Gratitude and relationships in everyday life. Emotion , 8 (3), 425-429.
• Bloch, D., & Merritt, J. (1993). Positive self-talk for children: Teaching self-esteem through affirmations: A guide for parents, teachers, and counselors. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
• Blood, G. W., & Blood, I. M. (2004). Bullying in adolescents who stutter: Communicative competence and self-esteem. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders , 31 (Spring), 69-79.
• Brockner, J. 1984. Low self-esteem and behavioral plasticity: Some implications for personality and social psychology. In L. Wheeler (Ed.), Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 37 : 1732–1741.
• Child Safety and Abuse Prevention Programs. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.keepyourchildsafe.org/
• Crocker, J., & Park, L. E. (2003). Seeking self-esteem: Construction, maintenance, and protection of self-worth .
• Dickens, L. R. (2019). Gratitude interventions: Meta-analytic support for numerous personal benefits, with caveats. In L. E. Van Zyl & S. Rothmann, Sr. (Eds.).  Positive Psychological Intervention Design and Protocols for Multi-Cultural Contexts (pp. 127-147). Switzerland, AG: Springer.
• Edberg, H. (2017). How to improve your self-esteem: 12 Powerful tips. Retrieved from http://www.positivityblog.com/improve-self-esteem/
• Ellis, A. (1994). Reason and emotion in psychotherapy . Birch Lane Press.
• Ellis, A. (1976). RET abolishes most of the human ego. Psychotherapy: Theory, research & practice, 13(4) , 343.
• Grohol, J. (2011). 6 tips to improve your self-esteem . Retrieved from https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/10/30/6-tips-to-improve-your-self-esteem/
• Kaczmarek, L. D., Kashdan, T. B., Drążkowski, D., Enko, J., Kosakowski, M., Szäefer, A., & Bujacz, A. (2015). Why do people prefer gratitude journaling over gratitude letters? The influence of individual differences in motivation and personality on web-based interventions. Personality and Individual Differences , 75 , 1-6.
• Kernis, M. H., & Lakey, C. E. (2010). Fragile versus secure high self-esteem: Implications for defensiveness and insecurity. Psychology Press.
• Law, J., & Sivyer, S. (2003). Promoting the communication skills of primary school children excluded from school or at risk of exclusion: An intervention study. Child Language Teaching and Therapy , 19 (1), 1-25.
• Lynch, S. M., & Graham-Bermann, S. A. (2000). Woman abuse and self-affirmation: Influences on women’s self-esteem. Violence Against Women , 6 (2), 178-197.
• MacInnes, D. L. (2006). Self‐esteem and self-acceptance: an examination into their relationship and their effect on psychological health. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 13(5) , 483-489.
• Myers, D. G., & Diener, E. (1995). Who is happy? Psychological Science, 6(1), 10-19.
• Practical Tools and Advice to Overcome Low Self Esteem (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.self-esteem-school.com/
• Self-Esteem Experts: Nurturing Vibrant Self-Esteem (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.self-esteem-experts.com/
• Waters, L. (2012). Predicting job satisfaction: Contributions of individual gratitude and institutionalized gratitude. Psychology , 3 (12A special issue), 1174-1176.
• Wood, A. M., Froh, J. J., & Geraghty, A. W. (2010). Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration. Clinical Psychology Review , 30 (7), 890-905.

Share this article:

Article feedback

What our readers think.

I’ve believe that your resources would be very helpful for esteem training for primary education students. I would like to use your worksheets to start a Value You- Self Esteem program for students?

Thank you for your wonderful feedback! You are more than welcome to do so. And keep us informed on how it is going 🙂

Warm regards, Julia | Community Manager

Hi! I am a sophomore student of Psychology at Bataan Peninsula State University, Bataan, Philippines 2100. As a requirement for our course: Experimental Psychology, my group and I are interested in boosting self-esteem among female students using Positive Psychology.

Upon searching for materials we can use, I stumbled upon this article and I found it suitable to use for our study.

Now, I am writing to ask permission if we can use the worksheets above for our study. Rest assured that we will cite the author and your site as our references if you grant us our request. But if not, we humbly accept it and find another material.

Thank you for your kind consideration.

Hi Kristine,

Glad you found the questions helpful! Yes, feel free to use these worksheets for your research.

Good luck with your research!

Thanks for sharing, these resources are useful. i have been looking for some material on self esteem to take a session for the children from difficult circumstances, and i appreciate so many ideas you have shared to build self esteem. thank you once again.

Let us know your thoughts Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Related articles

Social Identity Theory: I, You, Us & We. Why Groups Matter

As humans, we spend most of our life working to understand our personal identities. The question of “who am I?” is an age-old philosophical thought [...]

Discovering Self-Empowerment: 13 Methods to Foster It

In a world where external circumstances often dictate our sense of control and agency, the concept of self-empowerment emerges as a beacon of hope and [...]

How to Improve Your Client’s Self-Esteem in Therapy: 7 Tips

When children first master the expectations set by their parents, the experience provides them with a source of pride and self-esteem. As children get older, [...]

Read other articles by their category

• Body & Brain (52)
• Coaching & Application (39)
• Compassion (23)
• Counseling (40)
• Emotional Intelligence (21)
• Gratitude (18)
• Grief & Bereavement (18)
• Happiness & SWB (40)
• Meaning & Values (26)
• Meditation (16)
• Mindfulness (40)
• Motivation & Goals (41)
• Optimism & Mindset (29)
• Positive CBT (28)
• Positive Communication (23)
• Positive Education (36)
• Positive Emotions (32)
• Positive Leadership (16)
• Positive Parenting (14)
• Positive Psychology (21)
• Positive Workplace (35)
• Productivity (16)
• Relationships (46)
• Resilience & Coping (38)
• Self Awareness (20)
• Self Esteem (37)
• Strengths & Virtues (29)
• Stress & Burnout Prevention (33)
• Theory & Books (42)
• Therapy Exercises (37)
• Types of Therapy (54)

3 Self-Compassion Tools (PDF)

Kidssoup.com

Search form.

• Fall / Autumn
• School Celebrations
• Other Holidays
• Christmas Holidays
• Thanksgiving
• Mother's Day
• St. Patrick's Day
• Valentine's Day
• Polar Region
• In the Garden
• At the Farm
• Around the World
• In the Kitchen
• Olympic Games
• The EarTwiggles
• Music and Instruments
• Transportation and Travel
• Fairy Tales
• Favorite Books
• Nursery Rhymes
• Seasonal Crafts
• Holiday Crafts
• Animal Crafts
• Letter Crafts
• Story Time Lessons
• Books, Rhymes, and Songs
• Felt Stories
• Science Activities
• Gross Motor Skills Activities
• Math Activities
• Letters of the Alphabet Activities
• Literacy Activities
• Fine Motor Skills Activities
• Preschool Lesson
• Sensory Play
• Outdoor Fun

Our Products

KidsSoup Resource Library

• ABC Twiggles

All About Me Activities, Crafts, and Lessons Plans

All About Me preschool and kindergarten activities, crafts, games, and lesson plans.  The theme, All About Me, provides children with the opportunity to answer the all-important question "Who Am I?" Many of the completed activities can be bound into books for each child when the theme comes to its conclusion. The following pages can be included: Self-Portrait, Facts About Me, My Opinions, Me Poem, My Hands Can, and Me Recipe. So, get out the pencils, crayons, music, and games and give each child a platform for showing the world his or her special self.

Samples of our over 100 all about me preschool and kindergarten activities, crafts, and lessons available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library:

Themes and projects.

Activities and Lessons

Science and Exploration

Booklets and Other

Free All About Me Crafts, Activities, Rhymes, and Printables

All about me center ideas.

Dramatic Play Area Place different sized mirrors in your dramatic play area. Add different clothes, hats, wigs, and shoes and let children play dress-up and look at their reflection in the mirrors.

Play Dough Center Draw a head with no ears, hair, and face features and laminate. Let children use play dough to add the ears, hair, nose, mouth, and eyes to the mat.

Block Center Add pictures of your children on the blocks. 

Science Center Trace each child's hand on card stock paper and cut out. Write their name on the back of the hand cut-out. Provide an ink pad and let children make fingerprints on their hand cut-out. Add a magnifying glass to the center for children to observe their fingerprints.

All About Me Circle Time Activities

I'm Glad I'm Me  Original Author Unknown

No one looks the way I do. I have noticed that is true! No one walks the way I walk. No one talks the way I talk. No one plays the way I play. No one says the things I say. I am special! I am ME! There's no on else I'd rather be!

I like / I don't like Have children stand. Say, "If you like the color red, jump." or "If you like beans, sit down.", etc. 

I Like Collage

Let children draw a picture of themselves on the paper. They cut out items from magazines of things that they like such as dogs, cats, flowers, family pictures, hot dogs, etc.

I Am Special Because  Have children sit in a circle while you play music. Children should pass a bean bag around the circle as the music plays. When the music stops, the child holding the bag gets to stand up and tell something special about himself/herself using the phrase, "I am special because . . . ." Make sure each child has a turn over the duration of the theme.

My Special Face Adapted by Jolanda Garcia, KidsSoup Inc.

When I look in a mirror I see my face, And all of its parts are in their place. I see two little ears and one little nose, I see two little eyes and one little mouth. When I look in the mirror, what do I see? A wonderful and special me!  (Give yourself a hug!)

I'm Special Mirror Craft Draw a mirror shape on to craft paper and cut out. Cut out an oval shape out of aluminum foil and glue on the mirror. Let children decorate their mirror.

All About Me Activities and Weekly Plan and Lesson Plans

Day 1: My Name Day 2: My Body Day 3: My Feelings Day 4: I Can . . . Day 5: My Home and My Family Day 6: My Birthday

All About Me Activities

Matching Game: Make pictures of each child in your class and print out two copies of each picture. Glue the pictures onto index cards to make a matching game with pictures of the faces of the children in your group.

My Birthday (Printables and activity available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library) Print 12 birthday cakes and write the months of the year on the cakes. Make birthday candles with craft sticks and craft paper and write the names of the children in your class on the candles. Make a "Our Birthday Month" chart by writing the names of the children inside their birthday month column. Let children find and place the birthday candles on the matching birthday cake.

Make 10 Birthday Cakes and Candles Addition Activity  (Printables and activity available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Life-Size Me

What you need: Butcher paper Washable black markers Crayons Scissors Glue Yarn

Fabric and paper scraps Buttons

What you do: Trace each child's outline with washable black markers on large pieces of butcher paper. Then, let each child cut out his or her outline and decorate it with crayons, yarn, fabric scraps, paper scraps, and any other collage items available. Arrange the completed life-size portraits around the room. If desired, they can be arranged together with a personal timeline for each child.

My Name Create a name tag with a photograph for each child. Let them practice writing/tracing their name. Cut the photograph and let children match the names to the photographs. Cut the letters of the name and let children put their names back together. 

Names Spelling Cards  With a black marker write children's names on an index card. Write each letter of the child's name on a clothespin and place inside a plastic bag labeled with the name. Let children find their name card. Then find the matching plastic bag containing the clothespins. Let children clip the clothespins to the top of the name card spelling their name. After children have had enough practice spelling their names, let them choose a friend's name card and to spell his/her name.

Hidden Names Artwork With a white crayon, write the children's names on a white sheet of paper. Let children use watercolors to paint all over the paper to reveal their name. 

Building Names Tape the letters of children's names on Duplo blocks. Encourage children to use the blocks to build their names or their classmates names.

My Body  (Printables and activity available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library) Write the rhyme below on sentence strips place  inside your reading chart. Read the rhymes and let children point to their matching body parts. Point to the word "my" and say the word together. Invite a child for each sentence of the rhyme to come up to the board and use a pointer to find the word "my" in the sentence.

Here Are My Fingers Original Author Unknown

Here are my fingers and here is my nose. Here are my ears and here are my toes. Here are my eyes that open wide. Here is my mouth with my white teeth inside. Here is my pink tongue that helps me speak. Here are my shoulders and here is my cheek. Here are my hands that help me play. Here are my feet that go walking each day.

Reading Center: Make cards of each body parts. Let children read the rhyme on their own and place the matching body parts card on the reading chart.

My Body Parts Matching Game  (Printables and activity available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Free All About Me Coloring Pages and Printables

All About Me related KidsSoup preschool and kindergarten activities and resources:

KidsSoup Resource Library Membership Gain unlimited access to our KidsSoup Resource Library member site with more than 10,000 activities and resources for preschool and kindergarten.

Featured Activity

Apples preschool activities, crafts, science, games, and printables.  Discover the perfect way to engage preschoolers this fall...

•   Seasons
•   Spring
•   Summer
•   Fall / Autumn
•   Winter
•   Holidays and Celebrations
•   School Celebrations
•   Other Holidays
•   Christmas Holidays
•   Thanksgiving
•   Halloween
•   Easter
•   Earth Day
•   Mother's Day
•   St. Patrick's Day
•   Valentine's Day
•   Animals
•   Garden
•   Pond
•   Farm
•   Dinosaurs
•   Ocean
•   Woodland
•   Pets
•   Polar Region
•   Jungle
•   Places
•   In the Garden
•   At the Farm
•   Around the World
•   In my Town
•   Outdoors
•   Space
•   In the Kitchen
•   Misc
•   Circus
•   Colors
•   Olympic Games
•   Calendar
•   Pirates
•   The EarTwiggles
•   Shapes
•   Music and Instruments
•   All About Me
•   Amazing Me
•   Nature
•   Weather
•   Plants
•   Transportation
•   Transportation and Travel
•   Story Time
•   Fairy Tales
•   Favorite Books
•   Nursery Rhymes

KidsSoup Memberships

ABC Twiggles Membership

Join our mailing list

Sign Up for Our Free KidsSoup Newsletter

We are here to save you time and money...

ABC Twiggles Letters of the Alphabet...

Company Info

Privacy and use.

• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Use

Connect with us

You are here.

© 2004-2023, KidsSoup®, Inc. All rights reserved.

Choose Your Test

• Search Blogs By Category
• College Admissions
• AP and IB Exams
• GPA and Coursework

The 5 Best Homework Help Websites (Free and Paid!)

Other High School , General Education

Listen: we know homework isn’t fun, but it is a good way to reinforce the ideas and concepts you’ve learned in class. But what if you’re really struggling with your homework assignments?

If you’ve looked online for a little extra help with your take-home assignments, you’ve probably stumbled across websites claiming to provide the homework help and answers students need to succeed . But can homework help sites really make a difference? And if so, which are the best homework help websites you can use? 

Below, we answer these questions and more about homework help websites–free and paid. We’ll go over: 

• The basics of homework help websites
• The cost of homework help websites 
• The five best homework websites out there 
• The pros and cons of using these websites for homework help 
• The line between “learning” and “cheating” when using online homework help 
• Tips for getting the most out of a homework help website

So let’s get started! 

The Basics About Homework Help Websites–Free and Paid

Homework help websites are designed to help you complete your homework assignments, plain and simple. 

What Makes a Homework Help Site Worth Using

Most of the best sites allow users to ask questions and then provide an answer (or multiple possible answers) and explanation in seconds. In some instances, you can even send a photo of a particular assignment or problem instead of typing the whole thing out! 

Homework help sites also offer more than just help answering homework questions. Common services provided are Q&A with experts, educational videos, lectures, practice tests and quizzes, learning modules, math solving tools, and proofreading help. Homework help sites can also provide textbook solutions (i.e. answers to problems in tons of different textbooks your school might be using), one-on-one tutoring, and peer-to-peer platforms that allow you to discuss subjects you’re learning about with your fellow students. 

And best of all, nearly all of them offer their services 24/7, including tutoring! 

What You Should Should Look Out For

When it comes to homework help, there are lots–and we mean lots –of scam sites out there willing to prey on desperate students. Before you sign up for any service, make sure you read reviews to ensure you’re working with a legitimate company. 

A word to the wise: the more a company advertises help that veers into the territory of cheating, the more likely it is to be a scam. The best homework help websites are going to help you learn the concepts you’ll need to successfully complete your homework on your own. (We’ll go over the difference between “homework help” and “cheating” a little later!) 

You don't need a golden piggy bank to use homework help websites. Some provide low or no cost help for students like you!

How Expensive Are the Best Homework Help Websites?

First of all, just because a homework help site costs money doesn’t mean it’s a good service. Likewise, just because a homework help website is free doesn’t mean the help isn’t high quality. To find the best websites, you have to take a close look at the quality and types of information they provide! 

When it comes to paid homework help services, the prices vary pretty widely depending on the amount of services you want to subscribe to. Subscriptions can cost anywhere from $2 to $150 dollars per month, with the most expensive services offering several hours of one-on-one tutoring with a subject expert per month.

The 5 Best Homework Help Websites 

So, what is the best homework help website you can use? The answer is that it depends on what you need help with. 

The best homework help websites are the ones that are reliable and help you learn the material. They don’t just provide answers to homework questions–they actually help you learn the material. 

That’s why we’ve broken down our favorite websites into categories based on who they’re best for . For instance, the best website for people struggling with math might not work for someone who needs a little extra help with science, and vice versa. 

Keep reading to find the best homework help website for you! 

Best Free Homework Help Site: Khan Academy

• Price: Free!
• Best for: Practicing tough material 

Not only is Khan Academy free, but it’s full of information and can be personalized to suit your needs. When you set up your account , you choose which courses you need to study, and Khan Academy sets up a personal dashboard of instructional videos, practice exercises, and quizzes –with both correct and incorrect answer explanations–so you can learn at your own pace. 

As an added bonus, it covers more course topics than many other homework help sites, including several AP classes.

Runner Up: Brainly.com offers a free service that allows you to type in questions and get answers and explanations from experts. The downside is that you’re limited to two answers per question and have to watch ads. 

Best Paid Homework Help Site: Chegg

• Price: $14.95 to $19.95 per month
• Best for: 24/7 homework assistance  

This service has three main parts . The first is Chegg Study, which includes textbook solutions, Q&A with subject experts, flashcards, video explanations, a math solver, and writing help. The resources are thorough, and reviewers state that Chegg answers homework questions quickly and accurately no matter when you submit them.  

Chegg also offers textbook rentals for students who need access to textbooks outside of their classroom. Finally, Chegg offers Internship and Career Advice for students who are preparing to graduate and may need a little extra help with the transition out of high school. 

Another great feature Chegg provides is a selection of free articles geared towards helping with general life skills, like coping with stress and saving money. Chegg’s learning modules are comprehensive, and they feature solutions to the problems in tons of different textbooks in a wide variety of subjects. 

Runner Up: Bartleby offers basically the same services as Chegg for $14.99 per month. The reason it didn’t rank as the best is based on customer reviews that say user questions aren’t answered quite as quickly on this site as on Chegg. Otherwise, this is also a solid choice!

Best Site for Math Homework Help: Photomath

• Price: Free (or $59.99 per year for premium services) 
• Best for: Explaining solutions to math problems

This site allows you to t ake a picture of a math problem, and instantly pulls up a step-by-step solution, as well as a detailed explanation of the concept. Photomath also includes animated videos that break down mathematical concepts to help you better understand and remember them. 

The basic service is free, but for an additional fee you can get extra study tools and learn additional strategies for solving common math problems.

Runner Up: KhanAcademy offers in-depth tutorials that cover complex math topics for free, but you won’t get the same tailored help (and answers!) that Photomath offers. 

Best Site for English Homework Help: Princeton Review Academic Tutoring

• Price: $40 to $153 per month, depending on how many hours of tutoring you want 
• Best for: Comprehensive and personalized reading and writing help 

While sites like Grammarly and Sparknotes help you by either proofreading what you write via an algorithm or providing book summaries, Princeton Review’s tutors provide in-depth help with vocabulary, literature, essay writing and development, proofreading, and reading comprehension. And unlike other services, you’ll have the chance to work with a real person to get help. 

The best part is that you can get on-demand English (and ESL) tutoring from experts 24/7. That means you can get help whenever you need it, even if you’re pulling an all-nighter! 

This is by far the most expensive homework site on this list, so you’ll need to really think about what you need out of a homework help website before you commit. One added benefit is that the subscription covers over 80 other subjects, including AP classes, which can make it a good value if you need lots of help!  

Best Site for STEM Homework Help: Studypool

• Best for: Science homework help
• Price: Varies; you’ll pay for each question you submit

When it comes to science homework help, there aren’t a ton of great resources out there. The best of the bunch is Studypool, and while it has great reviews, there are some downsides as well. 

Let’s start with the good stuff. Studypool offers an interesting twist on the homework help formula. After you create a free account, you can submit your homework help questions, and tutors will submit bids to answer your questions. You’ll be able to select the tutor–and price point–that works for you, then you’ll pay to have your homework question answered. You can also pay a small fee to access notes, lectures, and other documents that top tutors have uploaded. 

The downside to Studypool is that the pricing is not transparent . There’s no way to plan for how much your homework help will cost, especially if you have lots of questions! Additionally, it’s not clear how tutors are selected, so you’ll need to be cautious when you choose who you’d like to answer your homework questions.  

What Are the Pros and Cons of Using Homework Help Sites?

Homework help websites can be a great resource if you’re struggling in a subject, or even if you just want to make sure that you’re really learning and understanding topics and ideas that you’re interested in. But, there are some possible drawbacks if you don’t use these sites responsibly. 

We’ll go over the good–and the not-so-good–aspects of getting online homework help below. 

3 Pros of Using Homework Help Websites 

First, let’s take a look at the benefits. 

#1: Better Grades Beyond Homework

This is a big one! Getting outside help with your studies can improve your understanding of concepts that you’re learning, which translates into better grades when you take tests or write essays. 

Remember: homework is designed to help reinforce the concepts you learned in class. If you just get easy answers without learning the material behind the problems, you may not have the tools you need to be successful on your class exams…or even standardized tests you’ll need to take for college. 

#2: Convenience

One of the main reasons that online homework help is appealing is because it’s flexible and convenient. You don’t have to go to a specific tutoring center while they’re open or stay after school to speak with your teacher. Instead, you can access helpful resources wherever you can access the internet, whenever you need them.

This is especially true if you tend to study at off hours because of your extracurriculars, work schedule, or family obligations. Sites that offer 24/7 tutoring can give you the extra help you need if you can’t access the free resources that are available at your school. 

#3: Variety

Not everyone learns the same way. Maybe you’re more of a visual learner, but your teacher mostly does lectures. Or maybe you learn best by listening and taking notes, but you’re expected to learn something just from reading the textbook . 

One of the best things about online homework help is that it comes in a variety of forms. The best homework help sites offer resources for all types of learners, including videos, practice activities, and even one-on-one discussions with real-life experts. 

This variety can also be a good thing if you just don’t really resonate with the way a concept is being explained (looking at you, math textbooks!).

Not so fast. There are cons to homework help websites, too. Get to know them below!

3 Cons of Using Homework Help Websites 

Now, let’s take a look at the drawbacks of online homework help. 

#1: Unreliable Info

This can be a real problem. In addition to all the really good homework help sites, there are a whole lot of disreputable or unreliable sites out there. The fact of the matter is that some homework help sites don’t necessarily hire people who are experts in the subjects they’re talking about. In those cases, you may not be getting the accurate, up-to-date, and thorough information you need.

Additionally, even the great sites may not be able to answer all of your homework questions. This is especially true if the site uses an algorithm or chatbot to help students…or if you’re enrolled in an advanced or college-level course. In these cases, working with your teacher or school-provided tutors are probably your best option. 

#2: No Clarification

This depends on the service you use, of course. But the majority of them provide free or low-cost help through pre-recorded videos. Watching videos or reading info online can definitely help you with your homework… but you can’t ask questions or get immediate feedback if you need it .

#3: Potential For Scamming 

Like we mentioned earlier, there are a lot of homework help websites out there, and lots of them are scams. The review comments we read covered everything from outdated or wrong information, to misleading claims about the help provided, to not allowing people to cancel their service after signing up. 

No matter which site you choose to use, make sure you research and read reviews before you sign up–especially if it’s a paid service! 

When Does “Help” Become “Cheating”?

Admittedly, whether using homework help websites constitutes cheating is a bit of a grey area. For instance, is it “help” when a friend reads your essay for history class and corrects your grammar, or is it “cheating”? The truth is, not everyone agrees on when “help” crosses the line into “cheating .” When in doubt, it can be a good idea to check with your teacher to see what they think about a particular type of help you want to get. 

That said, a general rule of thumb to keep in mind is to make sure that the assignment you turn in for credit is authentically yours . It needs to demonstrate your own thoughts and your own current abilities. Remember: the point of every homework assignment is to 1) help you learn something, and 2) show what you’ve learned. 

So if a service answers questions or writes essays for you, there’s a good chance using it constitutes cheating. 

Here’s an example that might help clarify the difference for you. Brainstorming essay ideas with others or looking online for inspiration is “help” as long as you write the essay yourself. Having someone read it and give you feedback about what you need to change is also help, provided you’re the one that makes the changes later. 

But copying all or part of an essay you find online or having someone write (or rewrite) the whole thing for you would be “cheating.” The same is true for other subjects. Ultimately, if you’re not generating your own work or your own answers, it’s probably cheating.

5 Tips for Finding the Best Homework Help Websites for You

Now that you know some of our favorite homework help websites, free and paid, you can start doing some additional research on your own to decide which services might work best for you! Here are some top tips for choosing a homework help website. 

Tip 1: Decide How You Learn Best 

Before you decide which site or sites you’re going to use for homework help, y ou should figure out what kind of learning style works for you the most. Are you a visual learner? Then choose a site that uses lots of videos to help explain concepts. If you know you learn best by actually doing tasks, choose a site that provides lots of practice exercises.

Tip 2: Determine Which Subjects You Need Help With

Just because a homework help site is good overall doesn’t mean that it’s equally good for every subject. If you only need help in math, choose a site that specializes in that area. But if history is where you’re struggling, a site that specializes in math won’t be much help. So make sure to choose a site that you know provides high-quality help in the areas you need it most. 

Tip 3: Decide How Much One-On-One Help You Need 

This is really about cost-effectiveness. If you learn well on your own by reading and watching videos, a free site like Khan Academy is a good choice. But if you need actual tutoring, or to be able to ask questions and get personalized answers from experts, a paid site that provides that kind of service may be a better option.

Tip 4: Set a Budget

If you decide you want to go with a paid homework help website, set a budget first . The prices for sites vary wildly, and the cost to use them can add up quick. 

Tip 5: Read the Reviews

Finally, it’s always a good idea to read actual reviews written by the people using these homework sites. You’ll learn the good, the bad, and the ugly of what the users’ experiences have been. This is especially true if you intend to subscribe to a paid service. You’ll want to make sure that users think it’s worth the price overall!

What’s Next?

If you want to get good grades on your homework, it’s a good idea to learn how to tackle it strategically. Our expert tips will help you get the most out of each assignment…and boost your grades in the process.

Doing well on homework assignments is just one part of getting good grades. We’ll teach you everything you need to know about getting great grades in high school in this article.

Of course, test grades can make or break your GPA, too. Here are 17 expert tips that’ll help you get the most out of your study prep before you take an exam.

Trending Now

How to Get Into Harvard and the Ivy League

How to Get a Perfect 4.0 GPA

How to Write an Amazing College Essay

What Exactly Are Colleges Looking For?

ACT vs. SAT: Which Test Should You Take?

When should you take the SAT or ACT?

Get Your Free

Find Your Target SAT Score

Free Complete Official SAT Practice Tests

How to Get a Perfect SAT Score, by an Expert Full Scorer

Score 800 on SAT Math

Score 800 on SAT Reading and Writing

How to Improve Your Low SAT Score

Score 600 on SAT Math

Score 600 on SAT Reading and Writing

Find Your Target ACT Score

Complete Official Free ACT Practice Tests

How to Get a Perfect ACT Score, by a 36 Full Scorer

Get a 36 on ACT English

Get a 36 on ACT Math

Get a 36 on ACT Reading

Get a 36 on ACT Science

How to Improve Your Low ACT Score

Get a 24 on ACT English

Get a 24 on ACT Math

Get a 24 on ACT Reading

Get a 24 on ACT Science

Stay Informed

Get the latest articles and test prep tips!

Ashley Sufflé Robinson has a Ph.D. in 19th Century English Literature. As a content writer for PrepScholar, Ashley is passionate about giving college-bound students the in-depth information they need to get into the school of their dreams.

Ask a Question Below

Have any questions about this article or other topics? Ask below and we'll reply!

• Subscribe to RSS
• Lesson Plans
• worksheet makers
• leveled books
• Little Giraffes

All About Me Activities: Graphing, All About Me Cube, and All About You

“Me” Activities

These teaching ideas were shared by members at the  A to Z Teacher Stuff Forums .

teacherkasey:

• Read  Chrysanthemum  by Kevin Henkes and talk about the children’s names (how did they get them, how many letters are in each, graph number of letters)
• Make tactile names (write children’s names in glue and have children put macaroni or popcarn on it)
• Make name puzzles
• Read  The Important Book  by Margaret Wise Brown
• Compare two children and make a Venn diagram of how they are the same and different
• Write acrostic poetry using their names
• Have them dip tips of fingers into ink and press on paper; look at fingerprints with magnifying glasses

I have done an activity called “Me Bags”. Give each child a brown paper lunch bag. Have them decorate it anyway they want. They take the bag home and put three “favorites” in it. (You could adjust that number as you see fit) Have them write clues about what is in the bag. Classmates try to guess what it is. This is a fun way for the children to get to know each other, especially as similar “favorites” come to light. The kids always look forward to their day to share their “Me Bags”.  – Margo

Hello! I did ALL About Me bags this year as well. They worked wonderfully! On the 1st day of school, I brought in an ALL About Me bag about myself. Inside the bag I put a pen, some paper, a headband. Basically things that I like to do. The kids loved it! They asked questions & were really involved! By the way, i teach 2nd grade. Good luck!

We made personality plates using paper plates and cut out pictures and phrases from magazines. – Upsadaisy

What I did for the beginning of this school year was a bulletin board. The topic was “We’re all a part of the puzzle.” I created puzzle pieces out of poster board and gave each child a piece to decorate. Then the pieces were joined together to complete the puzzle. Also on the board I listed success tips on puzzle pieces, like come to class prepared, be nice to everyone, visit the library,etc. On their piece they were to draw a collage of things they like or things about them. I did it with middle schoolers but works well for all ages!

You could trace the kids outlines on butcher paper and have them cut themselves out and color them. I did that two years in a row and the children seemed to really like doing it. If you provide mixed media art supplies ( tissue paper, wallpaper, markers, pipecleaners, crayons, etc ) they might go nuts over such a cool project.  Help the kids make individual scrapbooks by having parents provide pictures or take pictures of them yourself. After completing their scrapbook have the child read it to the class or you one on one. – CorbyND

All About Me Graphing 

Students learn about collecting and displaying data by making graphs about classmates’ characteristics.

Materials : A large piece of butcher block paper, tape, marker

Lesson Plan :

Introduce the lesson by discussing that everyone has similarities and differences in their appearances.  Direct the discussion toward hair color.

Explain to the kids that a graph is used to show information in a different way.  Go around the room and have the children tell what each persons hair color is when you point to them.  Make the graph.

Have them count each graph section. Talk about what the most popular color was and what was the least.  This can also be done with eye color or if their hair is short/long or curly/straight!

This could also be used for other characteristics, such as eye color.  Here are some helpful printables designed to use with a pocket chart:

• Eye Color Graphing
• Shirt Color Graphing

All About Me Cube

Bring the family and the school together in a homework lesson.

Materials :

• White heavy construction paper or poster board paper
• Cube outline
• Pictures from home
• Parental involvement with the activity

Copy the cube outline onto heavy construction paper for each child in the classroom.

Find pictures of all the people listed in the cube in your photo albums or in extra pictures around the house. Have your child help pick which pictures to use. Also have the child cut out the pictures if possible. Then glue the pictures in the box on the cube. After all the pictures are glued on and dried, tape the cube together and look at the finished product!!

Have your child bring the cube back to school and share the pictures with the rest of the class so they can get to know your family too.

Give your students a full week to get this project done. That way the parents are not feeling rushed to get this project done and they can have fun with their child picking out the pictures. I suggest sending it home on Monday and giving them till Friday to bring it back in. Then spend the next week giving each child a chance to show their own cube to the class.

My kindergarten child did this and we had a lot of fun finding pictures and putting the cube together. She was very proud of it and showed it to everyone that came into the house after that!!

All About You 

Learn more about the children in your class and so they can learn about each other.

• Paper (heavy paper that is durable)
• watercolors
• string to tie together.
• the book “ All About You ” by Catherine and Laurence Anholt published by Scholastic books.
• Optional:  Use ready-made sheets from the Printable All About Me Book

Read the book to the children and discuss each page briefly with the children. Let them answer the questions on each page of the book.

Have these sentences already printed or typed on each page for each child. ( Printable All About Me Book  is available.)

• Title: All About Me name_________
• My favorite color is?_______
• When I look at my door, I see __________outside.
• I live in a ________ house.(apartment, trailer, farm house etc.)
•  ____ people live in my house with me(number). They are my___________________(brother, mom, dad, grandma etc.)
• My favorite place to go play is_______________.
• I really love it when my mom_____________.
• I really love it when my dad_____________.
• I am very special and loved by many people!

Always encourage the children to write the words themselves. Write the word they might use to answer the questions on the board and add to it as children ask how to spell more words to answer the questions in the book.

If you know that kids in your class have no contact with their mom or dad, do not include these pages in the book. If they visit a mom or dad, but do not live with them, I would still include these pages. On the last page encourage the children to look in a mirror and draw or paint a picture of themselves on the page. If possible, after the book is all done(about a week to complete) have the class share their books with the class and their families. This book will be something parents will keep for a long time to come. This is an excellent way to get kids to understand that letters make words and they use words to communicate information to other people.

By:  Debbie Haren, Preschool Teacher

Related lesson plans:

• Dr. Seuss Activities Cross-curricular activities for 15 Dr. Seuss books, including The Foot Book, Dr. Seuss’ ABC, If I Ran the Zoo, The Lorax, and more! The Foot Book   Paint with the kids’ feet and create your own Foot Book. Count the number...
• The Rainbow Fish Art and Craft Activities – Paper Plate Fish, Wax Resist, Watercolor Fish Paper Plate Rainbow Fish Materials: Book:  The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Paper plates magic markers fish imagination hologram stickers Cut many different fish out of paper plates, one for each child. The ridges on the plates make really great fins....
• Alphabet Activities A collection of quick ideas to use for teaching about the alphabet. March Around the Alphabet  This is a lot of fun. The children gain added exposure to the letters while including the excitement of a stop-and-go game! Write each...
• Go Away, Big Green Monster! Activities Through fun hands on art, cooking, math, writing, and science activities, your students will have no fear of monsters! Materials: These are all the materials needed for any of the projects listed. Choose what you need from the list, depending...
• Alphabet Activities: Letter S Letter S Spaghetti Party Learning about the letter S can be fun with a spaghetti party I copied a large letter S onto a red piece of paper (for the red spaghetti sauce, of course). At home, I over-cooked some...

Kindergarten , Preschool

No comments yet.

Leave a reply click here to cancel reply..

Name (required)

Email (will not be published) (required)

Please enter an answer in digits: 17 + seven =

Subscribe / Connect

Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to receive updates.

Grades: Preschool Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Middle School High School

Subjects: Arts & Crafts Health   Language Arts Learning Centers  Literature Activities  Math Physical Education  Science Social Studies  Songs & Poems Special Education  Thematic Units

• Teacher Must-Haves
• Writing Ideas
• Get to Know You Ideas
• Procedures Checklist
• Review Procedures
• Morning Work Ideas
• Classroom Management
• Character Traits
• Compare and Contrast
• Read Alouds
• Point of View
• Reading Response Ideas
• Summarizing
• Text Features
• Text Structures
• Find the Fib
• Reusable Ideas
• Disclosure Policy
• Dollar Deals
• Lifetime Access

All About Me Bag Activity Ideas and Instructions

What is an "All About Me Bag?"

An "All About Me Bag" is basically a structured, back to school show and tell.

Give students an empty lunch sack with instructions (find free printable instructions below).  The instructions tell students to decorate the bag with words and pictures that describe them or are important to them. Then, they choose 3 school appropriate objects that will fit in the bag to share with the class.

When students bring their bags back the next day, they will share their bag with the class.

I would usually give students this as a "homework" assignment the first day of school.

All About Me Bag - Free Printable Instructions

Use these free All About Me Bag Labels to give as instructions to your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.

These instruction tell students to bring 3 objects that:

•  Fit in the bag (so that this activity doesn't take up too much space in your classroom)
• Are school appropriate
• Are not very valuable (to prevent problems with parents if things get lost or stolen)
• Reflect something that is important to the student or their life

Use these free All About Me Bag Labels in your own upper elementary classroom.

All About Me Bag Example

Before sending your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students home with their "All About Me Bags," model sharing your own bag with them so they know what is expected.  Bonus: It's a chance for them to get to know you a little better as well.

As my "All About Me Bag" example, I would usually include:

• a picture of my husband and me hiking
• a dog treat

These 3 items gave me a chance to talk about my husband, my dogs, and some of my favorite hobbies - hiking and reading.  These 3 items summed up some of the most important parts of my life that I wanted to share with students.

I have found that by providing these 3 examples was enough to get my students' creative juices flowing, but if they need more ideas you could suggest things like:

• a small piece of equipment from a sport they like to play (like a glove or a sock)
• a favorite video game box/container
• pictures of family
• a piece from a favorite board game
• the recipe for a favorite food
• a favorite accessory (necklace, bracelet, etc.)
• a memento from a trip or vacation

Save yourself some time, stress, and over 40% those first weeks of school with this back to school bundle. It includes:

• No Prep Emergency Sub Plans
• No Prep Beginning of the Year Fun Packet
• A Classroom Procedure Review Activity
• An Interview a Friend Activity
• What I Wish My Teacher Knew About Me
• Back to School Ice Breakers & Writing Prompts
• Classroom Procedures Checklist

The Benefits of Using This as an Ice Breaker

Building a positive classroom community is one of the most important things you will do at the beginning of the school year.  There are a lot of ways to do this:

• back to school activities and ice breakers
• team building discussion questions
• other All About Me ideas
• team building activities

However, the All About Me Bag activity has an advantage that most other back to school activities don't.  It provides students with a low stress opportunity to get in front of the entire class and speak.

It is important for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to feel comfortable speaking in front of the class.  Yet this is terrifying for a lot of students.  An activity like this can help students feel more comfortable, because there are no wrong answers - they will be talking about themselves.

You might also like these other back to school activities and ideas.  

Never Stress Over Sub Plans Again!

Make copies, find a fiction book, and you'll be ready for any emergency that comes your way!

Excellent web site. Plenty of useful information here. I’m sending it to a few friends and also sharing in delicious. And of course, thanks for your effort!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Does homework really work?

by: Leslie Crawford | Updated: December 12, 2023

Print article

You know the drill. It’s 10:15 p.m., and the cardboard-and-toothpick Golden Gate Bridge is collapsing. The pages of polynomials have been abandoned. The paper on the Battle of Waterloo seems to have frozen in time with Napoleon lingering eternally over his breakfast at Le Caillou. Then come the tears and tantrums — while we parents wonder, Does the gain merit all this pain? Is this just too much homework?

However the drama unfolds night after night, year after year, most parents hold on to the hope that homework (after soccer games, dinner, flute practice, and, oh yes, that childhood pastime of yore known as playing) advances their children academically.

But what does homework really do for kids? Is the forest’s worth of book reports and math and spelling sheets the average American student completes in their 12 years of primary schooling making a difference? Or is it just busywork?

Homework haterz

Whether or not homework helps, or even hurts, depends on who you ask. If you ask my 12-year-old son, Sam, he’ll say, “Homework doesn’t help anything. It makes kids stressed-out and tired and makes them hate school more.”

Nothing more than common kid bellyaching?

Maybe, but in the fractious field of homework studies, it’s worth noting that Sam’s sentiments nicely synopsize one side of the ivory tower debate. Books like The End of Homework , The Homework Myth , and The Case Against Homework the film Race to Nowhere , and the anguished parent essay “ My Daughter’s Homework is Killing Me ” make the case that homework, by taking away precious family time and putting kids under unneeded pressure, is an ineffective way to help children become better learners and thinkers.

One Canadian couple took their homework apostasy all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. After arguing that there was no evidence that it improved academic performance, they won a ruling that exempted their two children from all homework.

So what’s the real relationship between homework and academic achievement?

How much is too much?

To answer this question, researchers have been doing their homework on homework, conducting and examining hundreds of studies. Chris Drew Ph.D., founder and editor at The Helpful Professor recently compiled multiple statistics revealing the folly of today’s after-school busy work. Does any of the data he listed below ring true for you?

• 45 percent of parents think homework is too easy for their child, primarily because it is geared to the lowest standard under the Common Core State Standards .

• 74 percent of students say homework is a source of stress , defined as headaches, exhaustion, sleep deprivation, weight loss, and stomach problems.

• Students in high-performing high schools spend an average of 3.1 hours a night on homework , even though 1 to 2 hours is the optimal duration, according to a peer-reviewed study .

Not included in the list above is the fact many kids have to abandon activities they love — like sports and clubs — because homework deprives them of the needed time to enjoy themselves with other pursuits.

Conversely, The Helpful Professor does list a few pros of homework, noting it teaches discipline and time management, and helps parents know what’s being taught in the class.

The oft-bandied rule on homework quantity — 10 minutes a night per grade (starting from between 10 to 20 minutes in first grade) — is listed on the National Education Association’s website and the National Parent Teacher Association’s website , but few schools follow this rule.

Do you think your child is doing excessive homework? Harris Cooper Ph.D., author of a meta-study on homework , recommends talking with the teacher. “Often there is a miscommunication about the goals of homework assignments,” he says. “What appears to be problematic for kids, why they are doing an assignment, can be cleared up with a conversation.” Also, Cooper suggests taking a careful look at how your child is doing the assignments. It may seem like they’re taking two hours, but maybe your child is wandering off frequently to get a snack or getting distracted.

Less is often more

If your child is dutifully doing their work but still burning the midnight oil, it’s worth intervening to make sure your child gets enough sleep. A 2012 study of 535 high school students found that proper sleep may be far more essential to brain and body development.

For elementary school-age children, Cooper’s research at Duke University shows there is no measurable academic advantage to homework. For middle-schoolers, Cooper found there is a direct correlation between homework and achievement if assignments last between one to two hours per night. After two hours, however, achievement doesn’t improve. For high schoolers, Cooper’s research suggests that two hours per night is optimal. If teens have more than two hours of homework a night, their academic success flatlines. But less is not better. The average high school student doing homework outperformed 69 percent of the students in a class with no homework.

Many schools are starting to act on this research. A Florida superintendent abolished homework in her 42,000 student district, replacing it with 20 minutes of nightly reading. She attributed her decision to “ solid research about what works best in improving academic achievement in students .”

More family time

A 2020 survey by Crayola Experience reports 82 percent of children complain they don’t have enough quality time with their parents. Homework deserves much of the blame. “Kids should have a chance to just be kids and do things they enjoy, particularly after spending six hours a day in school,” says Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth . “It’s absurd to insist that children must be engaged in constructive activities right up until their heads hit the pillow.”

By far, the best replacement for homework — for both parents and children — is bonding, relaxing time together.

Homes Nearby

Homes for rent and sale near schools

How families of color can fight for fair discipline in school

Dealing with teacher bias

The most important school data families of color need to consider

Yes! Sign me up for updates relevant to my child's grade.

Please enter a valid email address

Thank you for signing up!

Server Issue: Please try again later. Sorry for the inconvenience

Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

A conversation with a Wheelock researcher, a BU student, and a fourth-grade teacher

“Quality homework is engaging and relevant to kids’ lives,” says Wheelock’s Janine Bempechat. “It gives them autonomy and engages them in the community and with their families. In some subjects, like math, worksheets can be very helpful. It has to do with the value of practicing over and over.” Photo by iStock/Glenn Cook Photography

Do your homework.

If only it were that simple.

Educators have debated the merits of homework since the late 19th century. In recent years, amid concerns of some parents and teachers that children are being stressed out by too much homework, things have only gotten more fraught.

“Homework is complicated,” says developmental psychologist Janine Bempechat, a Wheelock College of Education & Human Development clinical professor. The author of the essay “ The Case for (Quality) Homework—Why It Improves Learning and How Parents Can Help ” in the winter 2019 issue of Education Next , Bempechat has studied how the debate about homework is influencing teacher preparation, parent and student beliefs about learning, and school policies.

She worries especially about socioeconomically disadvantaged students from low-performing schools who, according to research by Bempechat and others, get little or no homework.

BU Today  sat down with Bempechat and Erin Bruce (Wheelock’17,’18), a new fourth-grade teacher at a suburban Boston school, and future teacher freshman Emma Ardizzone (Wheelock) to talk about what quality homework looks like, how it can help children learn, and how schools can equip teachers to design it, evaluate it, and facilitate parents’ role in it.

BU Today: Parents and educators who are against homework in elementary school say there is no research definitively linking it to academic performance for kids in the early grades. You’ve said that they’re missing the point.

Bempechat : I think teachers assign homework in elementary school as a way to help kids develop skills they’ll need when they’re older—to begin to instill a sense of responsibility and to learn planning and organizational skills. That’s what I think is the greatest value of homework—in cultivating beliefs about learning and skills associated with academic success. If we greatly reduce or eliminate homework in elementary school, we deprive kids and parents of opportunities to instill these important learning habits and skills.

We do know that beginning in late middle school, and continuing through high school, there is a strong and positive correlation between homework completion and academic success.

That’s what I think is the greatest value of homework—in cultivating beliefs about learning and skills associated with academic success.

You talk about the importance of quality homework. What is that?

Quality homework is engaging and relevant to kids’ lives. It gives them autonomy and engages them in the community and with their families. In some subjects, like math, worksheets can be very helpful. It has to do with the value of practicing over and over.

What are your concerns about homework and low-income children?

The argument that some people make—that homework “punishes the poor” because lower-income parents may not be as well-equipped as affluent parents to help their children with homework—is very troubling to me. There are no parents who don’t care about their children’s learning. Parents don’t actually have to help with homework completion in order for kids to do well. They can help in other ways—by helping children organize a study space, providing snacks, being there as a support, helping children work in groups with siblings or friends.

Isn’t the discussion about getting rid of homework happening mostly in affluent communities?

Yes, and the stories we hear of kids being stressed out from too much homework—four or five hours of homework a night—are real. That’s problematic for physical and mental health and overall well-being. But the research shows that higher-income students get a lot more homework than lower-income kids.

Teachers may not have as high expectations for lower-income children. Schools should bear responsibility for providing supports for kids to be able to get their homework done—after-school clubs, community support, peer group support. It does kids a disservice when our expectations are lower for them.

The conversation around homework is to some extent a social class and social justice issue. If we eliminate homework for all children because affluent children have too much, we’re really doing a disservice to low-income children. They need the challenge, and every student can rise to the challenge with enough supports in place.

What did you learn by studying how education schools are preparing future teachers to handle homework?

My colleague, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, at the University of California, Davis, School of Education, and I interviewed faculty members at education schools, as well as supervising teachers, to find out how students are being prepared. And it seemed that they weren’t. There didn’t seem to be any readings on the research, or conversations on what high-quality homework is and how to design it.

Erin, what kind of training did you get in handling homework?

Bruce : I had phenomenal professors at Wheelock, but homework just didn’t come up. I did lots of student teaching. I’ve been in classrooms where the teachers didn’t assign any homework, and I’ve been in rooms where they assigned hours of homework a night. But I never even considered homework as something that was my decision. I just thought it was something I’d pull out of a book and it’d be done.

I started giving homework on the first night of school this year. My first assignment was to go home and draw a picture of the room where you do your homework. I want to know if it’s at a table and if there are chairs around it and if mom’s cooking dinner while you’re doing homework.

The second night I asked them to talk to a grown-up about how are you going to be able to get your homework done during the week. The kids really enjoyed it. There’s a running joke that I’m teaching life skills.

Friday nights, I read all my kids’ responses to me on their homework from the week and it’s wonderful. They pour their hearts out. It’s like we’re having a conversation on my couch Friday night.

It matters to know that the teacher cares about you and that what you think matters to the teacher. Homework is a vehicle to connect home and school…for parents to know teachers are welcoming to them and their families.

Bempechat : I can’t imagine that most new teachers would have the intuition Erin had in designing homework the way she did.

Ardizzone : Conversations with kids about homework, feeling you’re being listened to—that’s such a big part of wanting to do homework….I grew up in Westchester County. It was a pretty demanding school district. My junior year English teacher—I loved her—she would give us feedback, have meetings with all of us. She’d say, “If you have any questions, if you have anything you want to talk about, you can talk to me, here are my office hours.” It felt like she actually cared.

Bempechat : It matters to know that the teacher cares about you and that what you think matters to the teacher. Homework is a vehicle to connect home and school…for parents to know teachers are welcoming to them and their families.

Ardizzone : But can’t it lead to parents being overbearing and too involved in their children’s lives as students?

Bempechat : There’s good help and there’s bad help. The bad help is what you’re describing—when parents hover inappropriately, when they micromanage, when they see their children confused and struggling and tell them what to do.

Good help is when parents recognize there’s a struggle going on and instead ask informative questions: “Where do you think you went wrong?” They give hints, or pointers, rather than saying, “You missed this,” or “You didn’t read that.”

Bruce : I hope something comes of this. I hope BU or Wheelock can think of some way to make this a more pressing issue. As a first-year teacher, it was not something I even thought about on the first day of school—until a kid raised his hand and said, “Do we have homework?” It would have been wonderful if I’d had a plan from day one.

Explore Related Topics:

• Share this story

Senior Contributing Editor

Sara Rimer A journalist for more than three decades, Sara Rimer worked at the Miami Herald , Washington Post and, for 26 years, the New York Times , where she was the New England bureau chief, and a national reporter covering education, aging, immigration, and other social justice issues. Her stories on the death penalty’s inequities were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and cited in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision outlawing the execution of people with intellectual disabilities. Her journalism honors include Columbia University’s Meyer Berger award for in-depth human interest reporting. She holds a BA degree in American Studies from the University of Michigan. Profile

She can be reached at [email protected] .

Comments & Discussion

Boston University moderates comments to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation. Abusive, profane, self-promotional, misleading, incoherent or off-topic comments will be rejected. Moderators are staffed during regular business hours (EST) and can only accept comments written in English. Statistics or facts must include a citation or a link to the citation.

There are 81 comments on Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?

Insightful! The values about homework in elementary schools are well aligned with my intuition as a parent.

when i finish my work i do my homework and i sometimes forget what to do because i did not get enough sleep

same omg it does not help me it is stressful and if I have it in more than one class I hate it.

Same I think my parent wants to help me but, she doesn’t care if I get bad grades so I just try my best and my grades are great.

I think that last question about Good help from parents is not know to all parents, we do as our parents did or how we best think it can be done, so maybe coaching parents or giving them resources on how to help with homework would be very beneficial for the parent on how to help and for the teacher to have consistency and improve homework results, and of course for the child. I do see how homework helps reaffirm the knowledge obtained in the classroom, I also have the ability to see progress and it is a time I share with my kids

The answer to the headline question is a no-brainer – a more pressing problem is why there is a difference in how students from different cultures succeed. Perfect example is the student population at BU – why is there a majority population of Asian students and only about 3% black students at BU? In fact at some universities there are law suits by Asians to stop discrimination and quotas against admitting Asian students because the real truth is that as a group they are demonstrating better qualifications for admittance, while at the same time there are quotas and reduced requirements for black students to boost their portion of the student population because as a group they do more poorly in meeting admissions standards – and it is not about the Benjamins. The real problem is that in our PC society no one has the gazuntas to explore this issue as it may reveal that all people are not created equal after all. Or is it just environmental cultural differences??????

I get you have a concern about the issue but that is not even what the point of this article is about. If you have an issue please take this to the site we have and only post your opinion about the actual topic

This is not at all what the article is talking about.

This literally has nothing to do with the article brought up. You should really take your opinions somewhere else before you speak about something that doesn’t make sense.

we have the same name

so they have the same name what of it?

lol you tell her

totally agree

What does that have to do with homework, that is not what the article talks about AT ALL.

Yes, I think homework plays an important role in the development of student life. Through homework, students have to face challenges on a daily basis and they try to solve them quickly.I am an intense online tutor at 24x7homeworkhelp and I give homework to my students at that level in which they handle it easily.

More than two-thirds of students said they used alcohol and drugs, primarily marijuana, to cope with stress.

You know what’s funny? I got this assignment to write an argument for homework about homework and this article was really helpful and understandable, and I also agree with this article’s point of view.

I also got the same task as you! I was looking for some good resources and I found this! I really found this article useful and easy to understand, just like you! ^^

i think that homework is the best thing that a child can have on the school because it help them with their thinking and memory.

I am a child myself and i think homework is a terrific pass time because i can’t play video games during the week. It also helps me set goals.

Homework is not harmful ,but it will if there is too much

I feel like, from a minors point of view that we shouldn’t get homework. Not only is the homework stressful, but it takes us away from relaxing and being social. For example, me and my friends was supposed to hang at the mall last week but we had to postpone it since we all had some sort of work to do. Our minds shouldn’t be focused on finishing an assignment that in realty, doesn’t matter. I completely understand that we should have homework. I have to write a paper on the unimportance of homework so thanks.

homework isn’t that bad

Are you a student? if not then i don’t really think you know how much and how severe todays homework really is

i am a student and i do not enjoy homework because i practice my sport 4 out of the five days we have school for 4 hours and that’s not even counting the commute time or the fact i still have to shower and eat dinner when i get home. its draining!

i totally agree with you. these people are such boomers

why just why

they do make a really good point, i think that there should be a limit though. hours and hours of homework can be really stressful, and the extra work isn’t making a difference to our learning, but i do believe homework should be optional and extra credit. that would make it for students to not have the leaning stress of a assignment and if you have a low grade you you can catch up.

Studies show that homework improves student achievement in terms of improved grades, test results, and the likelihood to attend college. Research published in the High School Journal indicates that students who spent between 31 and 90 minutes each day on homework “scored about 40 points higher on the SAT-Mathematics subtest than their peers, who reported spending no time on homework each day, on average.” On both standardized tests and grades, students in classes that were assigned homework outperformed 69% of students who didn’t have homework. A majority of studies on homework’s impact – 64% in one meta-study and 72% in another – showed that take home assignments were effective at improving academic achievement. Research by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) concluded that increased homework led to better GPAs and higher probability of college attendance for high school boys. In fact, boys who attended college did more than three hours of additional homework per week in high school.

So how are your measuring student achievement? That’s the real question. The argument that doing homework is simply a tool for teaching responsibility isn’t enough for me. We can teach responsibility in a number of ways. Also the poor argument that parents don’t need to help with homework, and that students can do it on their own, is wishful thinking at best. It completely ignores neurodiverse students. Students in poverty aren’t magically going to find a space to do homework, a friend’s or siblings to help them do it, and snacks to eat. I feel like the author of this piece has never set foot in a classroom of students.

THIS. This article is pathetic coming from a university. So intellectually dishonest, refusing to address the havoc of capitalism and poverty plays on academic success in life. How can they in one sentence use poor kids in an argument and never once address that poor children have access to damn near 0 of the resources affluent kids have? Draw me a picture and let’s talk about feelings lmao what a joke is that gonna put food in their belly so they can have the calories to burn in order to use their brain to study? What about quiet their 7 other siblings that they share a single bedroom with for hours? Is it gonna force the single mom to magically be at home and at work at the same time to cook food while you study and be there to throw an encouraging word?

Also the “parents don’t need to be a parent and be able to guide their kid at all academically they just need to exist in the next room” is wild. Its one thing if a parent straight up is not equipped but to say kids can just figured it out is…. wow coming from an educator What’s next the teacher doesn’t need to teach cause the kid can just follow the packet and figure it out?

Well then get a tutor right? Oh wait you are poor only affluent kids can afford a tutor for their hours of homework a day were they on average have none of the worries a poor child does. Does this address that poor children are more likely to also suffer abuse and mental illness? Like mentioned what about kids that can’t learn or comprehend the forced standardized way? Just let em fail? These children regularly are not in “special education”(some of those are a joke in their own and full of neglect and abuse) programs cause most aren’t even acknowledged as having disabilities or disorders.

But yes all and all those pesky poor kids just aren’t being worked hard enough lol pretty sure poor children’s existence just in childhood is more work, stress, and responsibility alone than an affluent child’s entire life cycle. Love they never once talked about the quality of education in the classroom being so bad between the poor and affluent it can qualify as segregation, just basically blamed poor people for being lazy, good job capitalism for failing us once again!

why the hell?

you should feel bad for saying this, this article can be helpful for people who has to write a essay about it

This is more of a political rant than it is about homework

I know a teacher who has told his students their homework is to find something they are interested in, pursue it and then come share what they learn. The student responses are quite compelling. One girl taught herself German so she could talk to her grandfather. One boy did a research project on Nelson Mandela because the teacher had mentioned him in class. Another boy, a both on the autism spectrum, fixed his family’s computer. The list goes on. This is fourth grade. I think students are highly motivated to learn, when we step aside and encourage them.

The whole point of homework is to give the students a chance to use the material that they have been presented with in class. If they never have the opportunity to use that information, and discover that it is actually useful, it will be in one ear and out the other. As a science teacher, it is critical that the students are challenged to use the material they have been presented with, which gives them the opportunity to actually think about it rather than regurgitate “facts”. Well designed homework forces the student to think conceptually, as opposed to regurgitation, which is never a pretty sight

Wonderful discussion. and yes, homework helps in learning and building skills in students.

not true it just causes kids to stress

Homework can be both beneficial and unuseful, if you will. There are students who are gifted in all subjects in school and ones with disabilities. Why should the students who are gifted get the lucky break, whereas the people who have disabilities suffer? The people who were born with this “gift” go through school with ease whereas people with disabilities struggle with the work given to them. I speak from experience because I am one of those students: the ones with disabilities. Homework doesn’t benefit “us”, it only tears us down and put us in an abyss of confusion and stress and hopelessness because we can’t learn as fast as others. Or we can’t handle the amount of work given whereas the gifted students go through it with ease. It just brings us down and makes us feel lost; because no mater what, it feels like we are destined to fail. It feels like we weren’t “cut out” for success.

homework does help

here is the thing though, if a child is shoved in the face with a whole ton of homework that isn’t really even considered homework it is assignments, it’s not helpful. the teacher should make homework more of a fun learning experience rather than something that is dreaded

This article was wonderful, I am going to ask my teachers about extra, or at all giving homework.

I agree. Especially when you have homework before an exam. Which is distasteful as you’ll need that time to study. It doesn’t make any sense, nor does us doing homework really matters as It’s just facts thrown at us.

Homework is too severe and is just too much for students, schools need to decrease the amount of homework. When teachers assign homework they forget that the students have other classes that give them the same amount of homework each day. Students need to work on social skills and life skills.

I disagree.

Beyond achievement, proponents of homework argue that it can have many other beneficial effects. They claim it can help students develop good study habits so they are ready to grow as their cognitive capacities mature. It can help students recognize that learning can occur at home as well as at school. Homework can foster independent learning and responsible character traits. And it can give parents an opportunity to see what’s going on at school and let them express positive attitudes toward achievement.

Homework is helpful because homework helps us by teaching us how to learn a specific topic.

As a student myself, I can say that I have almost never gotten the full 9 hours of recommended sleep time, because of homework. (Now I’m writing an essay on it in the middle of the night D=)

I am a 10 year old kid doing a report about “Is homework good or bad” for homework before i was going to do homework is bad but the sources from this site changed my mind!

Homeowkr is god for stusenrs

I agree with hunter because homework can be so stressful especially with this whole covid thing no one has time for homework and every one just wants to get back to there normal lives it is especially stressful when you go on a 2 week vaca 3 weeks into the new school year and and then less then a week after you come back from the vaca you are out for over a month because of covid and you have no way to get the assignment done and turned in

As great as homework is said to be in the is article, I feel like the viewpoint of the students was left out. Every where I go on the internet researching about this topic it almost always has interviews from teachers, professors, and the like. However isn’t that a little biased? Of course teachers are going to be for homework, they’re not the ones that have to stay up past midnight completing the homework from not just one class, but all of them. I just feel like this site is one-sided and you should include what the students of today think of spending four hours every night completing 6-8 classes worth of work.

Are we talking about homework or practice? Those are two very different things and can result in different outcomes.

Homework is a graded assignment. I do not know of research showing the benefits of graded assignments going home.

Practice; however, can be extremely beneficial, especially if there is some sort of feedback (not a grade but feedback). That feedback can come from the teacher, another student or even an automated grading program.

As a former band director, I assigned daily practice. I never once thought it would be appropriate for me to require the students to turn in a recording of their practice for me to grade. Instead, I had in-class assignments/assessments that were graded and directly related to the practice assigned.

I would really like to read articles on “homework” that truly distinguish between the two.

oof i feel bad good luck!

thank you guys for the artical because I have to finish an assingment. yes i did cite it but just thanks

thx for the article guys.

Homework is good

I think homework is helpful AND harmful. Sometimes u can’t get sleep bc of homework but it helps u practice for school too so idk.

I agree with this Article. And does anyone know when this was published. I would like to know.

It was published FEb 19, 2019.

Studies have shown that homework improved student achievement in terms of improved grades, test results, and the likelihood to attend college.

i think homework can help kids but at the same time not help kids

This article is so out of touch with majority of homes it would be laughable if it wasn’t so incredibly sad.

There is no value to homework all it does is add stress to already stressed homes. Parents or adults magically having the time or energy to shepherd kids through homework is dome sort of 1950’s fantasy.

What lala land do these teachers live in?

Homework gives noting to the kid

Homework is Bad

homework is bad.

why do kids even have homework?

Comments are closed.

Latest from Bostonia

Bu alum chompon boonnak runs mahaniyom, one of greater boston’s hottest thai restaurants, champion of indie films, china scholar merle goldman dies, cfa alum jonathan knight is head of games for the new york times, a commitment to early childhood education, reading list: alum bonnie hammer publishes 15 lies women are told at work —plus fiction, poetry, and short stories, one good deed: jason hurdich (cas’97) is uniting the deaf community, one cup at a time, is our democracy at risk americans think so. bu experts talk about why—and the way forward, space force general b. chance saltzman is a bu alum, feedback: readers weigh in on a bu superager, the passing of otto lerbinger, and alum’s book fat church, law alum steven m. wise, who fought for animal rights, dies, pups wearing custom-designed veterinary collars get star treatment in alum’s new coffee-table book, using glamour for good: alum’s nonprofit organization brings clothes and beauty products to those in need, gallery: shea justice (cfa’93), oscar-nominated actor hong chau (com’01) stars in new action-comedy the instigators, alum’s new book recounts the battle for inclusion in boy scouts, opening doors: ellice patterson (questrom’17), an alum’s new memoir recounts six decades of beatlemania, bu alum in paris keeping olympians’ minds sharp and healthy, erika jordan departs bu alumni engagement office to return to california.

• TemplateLab

All About Me Templates

19 printable all about me templates (free).

An all about me worksheet is a great way for your students to write about themselves. In a classroom of twenty or more students, a teacher might take time to learn the finer details about their students. They may know their names in the first week but may not tell where each student comes from, what they love, their parents, or their age. An all about me worksheet will provide the teacher with every finer detail they might want to know. 

Table of Contents

• 1 All About Me Templates
• 2 What is an all about be activity about?
• 3 All About Me Worksheets
• 4 Ideas about all about me day
• 5 Different types of get to know me templates
• 6 Get To Know Me Templates
• 7 Guidelines to follow when writing an all about me page
• 8 How to create an all about me page?

What is an all about be activity about?

When new kids or students join the school, it is necessary to learn more about them. It is easy to socialize with someone who you have more information about. During the first month, many teachers take their new students through an all about me activity. It is an activity that gives the learners a chance to write about themselves. During the activity, the learners are taught about information such as:

• What does my family unit look like?
• What nicknames do I call my relatives?
• My story about how I was named
• Is my birth story unusual? Can I share it?
• Was I adopted? Where did I come from?
• How many pets do I have? And their names.
• Can I speak another language other than English?
• Can I sing the entire national anthem?
• I’m good at singing, dancing, running (any special talent)
• My photos, my family photos, pet photos, etc.

There is no limit as to what the kids/students can write during the all about me activity day. The secret is to make it a fun day where children write all sorts of good and crazy things about themselves. Some draw themselves, paint their friends, play, and have merry the entire day.

All About Me Worksheets

Ideas about all about me day

Each year, you can change the activities all about your day. Plan a day when the weather is friendly for outdoor activities. You may get ready with an all about me poster template where learners will fill in details about them.

It is more fun to let them explore themselves while you guide them. You can customize the ideas to the age of your students. For example, preschoolers would love to talk more about themselves. They will mostly talk about:

• The food they love
• Their favorite color
• Their pet etc.

The first-graders may talk in a broader sense and include things such as:

• Their family
• Their community
• Their neighborhood
• Their friends
• Relatives, etc.

You may want to check a presentable get to know me template that is completely customized to make planning for an all about me day easy. Get a template predesigned for your classroom, whether it is for preschool or first grades. Here are different ideas for an all about be activities.

• Body tracing activity. The body tracing activity is an awesome time for kids to trace their colleague’s body. You require to buy a few rolls of butcher paper, pencils, or paintbrushes and paint. Dry erase markers will be the best choice. The activity will be loved by kids of all ages.
• Learn to write their name. Preschool kids must learn to recognize their names. Put letters on a letter board and let the kids search for letters that spell their names. Due to time, several kids can participate at a time. You may assist where help is needed.
• Learn about the body. Learning about the body is a science-fun activity. Provide the kids with body part labels and butcher paper. The activity helps kids to develop their brains.
• Personalities. Kids come from a family, which is what makes them who they are or “YOU.” Although they may have another brother or sister, they are unique in their own way. This is where kids fill the all about me page and fill in personality differences between their siblings, parents, or classmates. This is where they draw their family members like father, mother, sister, and brother. After drawing, let them cut the papers to have the images of their family members.
• All about me book. The all about me book is a DIY book created using a get to know me template. The kids write texts in bullets about them and then create a book. This activity may require more time to complete but it helps the kids become more creative.
• Is a get to know me template used by children only. The all about me poster template is common with younger kids. When they join the school, the teacher takes them through the get to know me lessons so that they learn something about each kid. The teacher gets a chance to learn about their classroom too. However, the all about me poster template is not specifically designed for kids only.

It can be used by high school or university students. Teachers, too, can use the all about me poster template to let their students know about them. The only difference is the content or how it is done, but the aim remains the same. Mostly, students in high school and university create an all about me page to help other students know about them.

Different types of get to know me templates

Depending on the purpose, several hundreds of get to know me templates are available online. Before you choose a customizable get to know me template, understand its use. Here are the different types of get to know me templates.

• Get to know me template for kids. This is an all about me worksheet used by preschoolers and early graders. They could also be used by kids in other grades, although they are mostly used by those joining school recently. Their teacher should guide them during the all about me event/day. This type of all about me poster template helps kids write about their family, names, what they love, their neighborhood, community, etc.
• Get to me know template for students. This type of getting to know me worksheet is used by students. It is common among students who are joining campus or high school recently. Unlike the get to know me to template for kids, this type of template may not require an official event. Students download the templates that will fit their needs and write a description about themselves. It helps other students to learn more about themselves in the new learning environment. It can help students make friends fast.
• Get to know me template for teachers. Teachers should also let their students or pupils learn more about them. It is a good way to create stronger bonds between teachers and their students. The teacher may not include a lot of information in the template, such as where they stay, their parents, and the like. They only need to write who they are in terms of their names, the subjects they teach, and the classes they teach. They may also include information such as their hobbies, what they dislike, what they like, what makes them angry, etc. What makes a teacher angry is mostly when their students are disobedient, fail to do homework, make noise in the classroom, or continually perform poorly.
• Get to know me template for politicians. This type of all about me poster template is used by politicians to let the electorate learn more about them. Mostly, aspiring politicians will choose to use this type of template. They aim to sell themselves to the public so that they vote them into political office during a general or by-election. This type of all about me worksheet contains a lot of details. The politician details why they want the political seat, where they are coming from, and their plan for the public.
• Get to know me template for clergymen and women. The clergy might want the congregation to learn more about them. Faith-based congregations are open to membership, and new believers could be joining them weekly. The new congregants might take time before they know who are the clergy or leaders in the congregation. The clergy can write an all about me page where they can check information about the leadership. It makes everything easier for the new members or even the old members who might not know about their spiritual leaders.
• Get to know more about me template for workmates. Workmates working in a large company may hardly know about each other. In an organization whose workforce exceeds one thousand, it becomes extremely hard to know about your workmates. Mostly, you will only know about the people you share a workstation or desk with. It helps for the workforce to have an all about me page where every employee starting with the management, writes more about themselves. Anytime a colleague wants to know about another colleague, they will go to the all about me page and get some information about them.

Get To Know Me Templates

Guidelines to follow when writing an all about me page

You get to know me template should include as many details about you as possible. A lot of people will be checking your information to learn more about you. If you are a student, many other students would want to find out more about you. They would learn about your personality before they decide to be close to you. Follow the following guidelines.

• Choose your audience. Your first step is to know your audience. These are the people who will be reading your all about me page most. Decide whether you are writing to students, teachers, workmates, customers, or the public. For example, a politician’s all about me page will be addressed to the general public. A teacher will be addressing pupils or fellow teachers. Once you decide on your audience, write to them.
• Do not focus on facts. Focus on yourself and forget about facts. People want to hear your story or who you are but not what you have or you can.
• Focus on values. Your values are what you believe in. Values are what drive a person in their life so that they maintain their integrity.
• Tell your audience how you can be valuable to them. You could have special skills that your audience can use for a better experience in whatever they are doing. A student could be good in math or arts. If they are willing to help their fellow students improve like them, they can let them know they are available to help.

How to create an all about me page?

An all about me page describes who you are and your hobbies and sometimes contains links. People create an all about me page when creating their profile pages, websites, or blogs. Some people create their all about me page and update it on their social media pages.

The purpose is to let your audience know more about you. As simple as it might sound, it is not easy to write detailed information about yourself. The following information will help you write an attractive all about me page:

• Think about what you want to convey: Your all about me page should convey an important message to your audience. It can convey any of the following information.
• Who you are:  Your names, status in life, family status, business status?
• What you are doing : Student, teacher, business person, writer, etc.
• How did you get there : Your journey?
• What’s your next move or where are you headed to?
• What are you doing currently?  Currently, you can either be a student or a career/business person. If you are a class teacher, describe yourself to your students in a way that they will easily remember your name or recognize you.
• What you love doing:  Write what you are passionate about. If you are a student, you might be passionate about research, studying astrology, science, computers, etc. A teacher could be passionate about teaching and seeing their students perform well. A business person could be passionate about innovation, marketing, etc.
• Write about what you are anticipating:  These are the expectations that you have. You could be expecting to graduate with the best grades. Another person could be expecting to join the career world soon, and another could be expecting to learn more about a new learning environment, make new friends, and study harder.

More Templates

Spelling Test Templates

Frayer Model Templates

Essay Outline Templates

Homework Planners

Table of Contents Templates

Preschool Newsletter Templates

• Our Mission

Rethinking Homework for This Year—and Beyond

A schoolwide effort to reduce homework has led to a renewed focus on ensuring that all work assigned really aids students’ learning.

I used to pride myself on my high expectations, including my firm commitment to accountability for regular homework completion among my students. But the trauma of Covid-19 has prompted me to both reflect and adapt. Now when I think about the purpose and practice of homework, two key concepts guide me: depth over breadth, and student well-being.

Homework has long been the subject of intense debate, and there’s no easy answer with respect to its value. Teachers assign homework for any number of reasons: It’s traditional to do so, it makes students practice their skills and solidify learning, it offers the opportunity for formative assessment, and it creates good study habits and discipline. Then there’s the issue of pace. Throughout my career, I’ve assigned homework largely because there just isn’t enough time to get everything done in class.

A Different Approach

Since classes have gone online, the school where I teach has made a conscious effort as a teaching community to reduce, refine, and distill our curriculum. We have applied guiding questions like: What is most important? What is most transferable? What is most relevant? Refocusing on what matters most has inevitably made us rethink homework.

We have approached both asking and answering these questions through a science of learning lens. In Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning , the authors maintain that deep learning is slow learning. Deep learning requires time for retrieval, practice, feedback, reflection, and revisiting content; ultimately it requires struggle, and there is no struggle without time.

As someone who has mastered the curriculum mapping style of “get it done to move on to get that next thing done,” using an approach of “slow down and reduce” has been quite a shift for me. However, the shift has been necessary: What matters most is what’s best for my students, as opposed to my own plans or mandates imposed by others.

Listening to Students

To implement this shift, my high school English department has reduced content and texts both in terms of the amount of units and the content within each unit. We’re more flexible with dates and deadlines. We spend our energy planning the current unit instead of the year’s units. In true partnership with my students, I’m constantly checking in with them via Google forms, Zoom chats, conferences, and Padlet activities. In these check-ins, I specifically ask students how they’re managing the workload for my class and their other classes. I ask them how much homework they’re doing. And I adjust what I do and expect based on what they tell me. For example, when I find out a week is heavy with work in other classes, I make sure to allot more time during class for my tasks. At times I have even delayed or altered one of my assignments.

To be completely transparent, the “old” me is sheepish in admitting that I’ve so dramatically changed my thinking with respect to homework. However, both my students and I have reaped numerous benefits. I’m now laser-focused when designing every minute of my lessons to maximize teaching and learning. Every decision I make is now scrutinized through the lens of absolute worth for my students’ growth: If it doesn’t make the cut, it’s cut. I also take into account what is most relevant to my students.

For example, our 10th-grade English team has redesigned a unit that explores current manifestations of systemic oppression. This unit is new in approach and longer in duration than it was pre-Covid, and it has resulted in some of the deepest and hardest learning, as well as the richest conversations, that I have seen among students in my career. Part of this improved quality comes from the frequent and intentional pauses that I instruct students to take in order to reflect on the content and on the arc of their own learning. The reduction in content that we need to get through in online learning has given me more time to assign reflective prompts, and to let students process their thoughts, whether that’s at the end of a lesson as an exit slip or as an assignment.

Joining Forces to Be Consistent

There’s no doubt this reduction in homework has been a team effort. Within the English department, we have all agreed to allot reading time during class; across each grade level, we’re monitoring the amount of homework our students have collectively; and across the whole high school, we have adopted a framework to help us think through assigning homework.

Within that framework, teachers at the school agree that the best option is for students to complete all work during class. The next best option is for students to finish uncompleted class work at home as a homework assignment of less than 30 minutes. The last option—the one we try to avoid as much as possible—is for students to be assigned and complete new work at home (still less than 30 minutes). I set a maximum time limit for students’ homework tasks (e.g., 30 minutes) and make that clear at the top of every assignment.

This schoolwide approach has increased my humility as a teacher. In the past, I tended to think my subject was more important than everyone else’s, which gave me license to assign more homework. But now I view my students’ experience more holistically: All of their classes and the associated work must be considered, and respected.

As always, I ground this new pedagogical approach not just in what’s best for students’ academic learning, but also what’s best for them socially and emotionally. 2020 has been traumatic for educators, parents, and students. There is no doubt the level of trauma varies greatly ; however, one can’t argue with the fact that homework typically means more screen time when students are already spending most of the day on their devices. They need to rest their eyes. They need to not be sitting at their desks. They need physical activity. They need time to do nothing at all.

Eliminating or reducing homework is a social and emotional intervention, which brings me to the greatest benefit of reducing the homework load: Students are more invested in their relationship with me now that they have less homework. When students trust me to take their time seriously, when they trust me to listen to them and adjust accordingly, when they trust me to care for them... they trust more in general.

And what a beautiful world of learning can be built on trust.

• PRO Courses Guides New Tech Help Pro Expert Videos About wikiHow Pro Upgrade Sign In
• EDIT Edit this Article
• EXPLORE Tech Help Pro About Us Random Article Quizzes Request a New Article Community Dashboard This Or That Game Happiness Hub Popular Categories Arts and Entertainment Artwork Books Movies Computers and Electronics Computers Phone Skills Technology Hacks Health Men's Health Mental Health Women's Health Relationships Dating Love Relationship Issues Hobbies and Crafts Crafts Drawing Games Education & Communication Communication Skills Personal Development Studying Personal Care and Style Fashion Hair Care Personal Hygiene Youth Personal Care School Stuff Dating All Categories Arts and Entertainment Finance and Business Home and Garden Relationship Quizzes Cars & Other Vehicles Food and Entertaining Personal Care and Style Sports and Fitness Computers and Electronics Health Pets and Animals Travel Education & Communication Hobbies and Crafts Philosophy and Religion Work World Family Life Holidays and Traditions Relationships Youth
• Browse Articles
• Learn Something New
• Quizzes Hot
• Happiness Hub
• This Or That Game
• Train Your Brain
• Explore More
• Support wikiHow
• About wikiHow
• Log in / Sign up
• Education and Communications
• Study Skills
• Homework Skills

How to Do Homework

Last Updated: July 15, 2024 Fact Checked

This article was co-authored by Ronitte Libedinsky, MS . Ronitte Libedinsky is an Academic Tutor and the Founder of Brighter Minds SF, a San Francisco, California based company that provides one-on-one and small group tutoring. Specializing in tutoring mathematics (pre-algebra, algebra I/II, geometry, pre-calculus, calculus) and science (chemistry, biology), Ronitte has over 10 years of experience tutoring to middle school, high school, and college students. She also tutors in SSAT, Terra Nova, HSPT, SAT, and ACT test prep. Ronitte holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS in Chemistry from Tel Aviv University. There are 11 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 962,638 times.

Even though your parents probably complain about how hard it was in their day, students nowadays have more homework than ever before, even when just starting their first year at middle school. That homework doesn't need to be a struggle now. Learning to plan out an efficient schedule for completing your homework, working on it effectively, and knowing when to get help with difficult assignments can help take the stress out of studying. Don't put it off any longer. See Step 1 for more information.

Working on Homework

Once you go into your space and start working, try not to leave until you've got a break scheduled. If you want a quick snack or drink, get it now before you start. Hit the bathroom and make sure you'll be able to work for the amount of time before your next break, uninterrupted.

• It's common that students will try to multi-task, watching TV or listening to the radio or continuing to chat on Facebook or Instagram while also trying to do homework. It'll be so much more fun to do those things after you're already done with your homework, though, and your homework will take half as much time if you're focused on doing nothing but your homework.
• Check your phone or your social networking sites during your study break, but not before. Use these distractions as a carrot, not as a pacifier.

If one assignment proves challenging and time-consuming, it's okay to switch for a while to something else. Just make sure to save enough time to circle back and give it another shot.

• Try to figure out what works best for you. Some students might like to start their homework immediately after school to get it done as quickly as possible, while it may be better to give yourself an hour to relax before starting in on it and decompress from the long school day. Don't wait for the last minute.
• While it may seem like a better idea to work straight through and finish, it's possible that the quality of the work you're doing will start to suffer if you don't give your mind a rest. It's difficult to think hard for more than 45 minutes at a time on a particular subject. Give yourself a rest and come back refreshed.

• The first fifteen minutes after a break are your most effective minutes, because your mind will be cleared, and ready to work hard. Give yourself a pep talk and dive back in, refreshed and ready.

• If you have trouble staying focused, get a parent, sibling, or friend to help keep you honest. Give them your phone while you're working to avoid the temptation to check it, or give them the video game controller so you won't be able to plug in for a few minutes of alien-hunting when you're supposed to be doing your homework. Then, when you're finished, show them the finished product and earn back your fun. Make it impossible to cheat.

• You can make yourself take enough time by having your gate-keeper (the person with your phone or video game controller) check over your homework for quality when you're done. If you know you're not going to get it anyway unless it's done right, you won't have any reason to rush. Slow down and do it right.

Joseph Meyer

When doing practice problems, promptly check to see if your answers are correct. Use worksheets that provide answer keys for instant feedback. Discuss answers with a classmate or find explanations online. Immediate feedback will help you correct your mistakes, avoid bad habits, and advance your learning more quickly.

Planning Your Homework

• It's common to quickly write out the math problems you're supposed to do at the top of your notes, or scribble down the page number of the English reading on a textbook page, but try to recopy this information into a specific homework list so you will be sure to remember to do it.
• Write down as many details as you can about each assignment. It's good to include the due date, corresponding textbook pages, and additional instructions from your teacher. This will help you plan your night of homework more effectively. Also, it's a good idea to write about your homework in a planner.

• Homework doesn't have to wait until you get home. Look through an assignment as soon as it's been given, so you'll have the time to ask your teacher any questions you might have before you leave school for the day.

• At home , a desk in your bedroom might be the best place. You can shut the door and tune out any distractions. For some students, though, this is a good way to get distracted. You might have video games, computers, guitars, and all sorts of other distractions in your bedroom. It might be a better idea to sit at the kitchen table, or in the living room, where your parents can call you out for procrastinating. You'll get it done more quickly without the temptation of distraction.
• In public , the library is a great place to study and do homework. At all libraries, it's a rule that you have to be quiet, and you won't have any of the distractions of home. The school library will often stay open after school ends, making it a good option for finishing up homework before heading home, or your school may even have an after-school study spot specifically for the purpose. [11] X Research source
• Try to switch it up . Studying in the same place too often can make work more difficult. Some studies have shown that a change in environment can make your mind more active, since it's processing new information. You'll be able to vary your routine and remember what you learned more effectively.

• Try starting with the most difficult homework . Do you really hate the idea of getting into the algebra homework? Does reading for English take the longest? Start with the most challenging homework to give yourself the most time to complete it, then move on to the easier tasks you can complete more quickly.
• Try starting with the most pressing homework . If you've got 20 math problems to do for tomorrow, and 20 pages to read in a novel for Friday, it's probably better to start with the math homework to make sure you'll have enough time to complete it. Make homework due the next day the priority.
• Try starting with the most important homework . Your math homework might be difficult, but if it's only worth a few completion points, it might be less important to spend a lot of time on it than the big project for Social Studies that's due in two days. Devote the most time to the most valuable assignments.

• Set an alarm or a timer to keep yourself honest. The less time you spend procrastinating and checking your text messages, the more quickly you'll be done. If you think you can finish everything in a half hour, set a timer and work efficiently to finish in that amount of time. If you don't quite finish, give yourself a few extra minutes. Treat it like a drill.
• Keep track of how long you usually spend on particular assignments on average. If your math homework typically takes you 45 minutes to finish, save that much time each night. If you start plugging away for an hour, give yourself a break and work on something else to avoid tiring out.
• Schedule 10 minutes of break time for every 50 minutes of work time. It's important to take study breaks and give your mind a rest, or you'll work less effectively. You're not a robot!

Finding Extra Time

• Do you really need an hour of TV or computer after school to decompress? It might be easier to just dive into your homework and get it done while the skills are still fresh in your mind. Waiting a couple hours means you'll have to review your notes and try to get back to the same place you already were. Do it while it's fresh.
• If you've got three days to read an assignment, don't wait until the last evening to do it all. Space it out and give yourself more time to finish. Just because you've got a due date that's a long time away doesn't mean it wouldn't be easier to finish now. Stay ahead of the game. Try either waking up earlier or going to bed later. But don't get too tired!

• If you've got to read a bunch of stuff for homework, read on the bus. Pop in some headphones to white noise that'll drown out the shouting of other students and tune into your book.
• The bus can be distracting, or it can be a great resource. Since it's full of your classmates, try to get other students to work with you and get things done more quickly. Work together on the math problems and try to figure out things together. It's not cheating if everyone's doing the work and no one's just copying. Also, you might make some new friends while you're at it!

• Don't rely on this time to finish homework just before it's due. Rushing to finish your last few problems in the five minutes before you need to turn it in looks bad in front of the teacher, plus it doesn't give you any time to review your homework after you finish it. Rushing is a good way to make mistakes. And always check difficult problems you had trouble with.

• Work on your homework while you're waiting for a ride, while you're killing time at your brother's soccer game, or while you're waiting for your friend to come over. Take advantage of any extra time you have in the day.

Getting Homework Help

• Asking for help with your homework isn't a sign that you're bad at the subject or that you're "stupid." Every teacher on the planet will respect a student that takes their homework seriously enough to ask for help. Especially ask if you weren't there that day!
• Asking for help isn't the same thing as complaining about the difficulty of homework or making excuses. Spending ten minutes doing half your math problems and leaving most of them blank because they were hard and then telling your teacher you need help isn't going to win you any favors on the due date. If it's hard, see your teacher ahead of time and find the time to get help.

• If there's not an organized homework help group at your school, there are many private tutoring organizations that work both for-pay and non-profits. Sylvan Learning Center and other businesses have after-school hours that you can schedule appointments at to get help studying and completing your homework, while community centers like the YMCA, or even public libraries will often have homework help hours in your area.
• Getting help doesn't mean that you're bad at your homework. All variety of students visit tutoring centers for extra help, just to make sure they have enough time and motivation to get everything done. It's hard being a student! There's no shame in extra help. Imagine being afraid to ask for anything! You wouldn't be able to ask in restaurants, shops, anywhere!

• Make sure that your group study sessions don't cross the line into cheating. Dividing up an assigned so your friend does half and you copy each other's answers is considered cheating, but discussing a problem and coming up with a solution together isn't. As long as you each do the work separately, you shouldn't have any problems.

• Some parents don't necessarily know how to help with your homework and might end up doing too much. Try to keep yourself honest. Asking for help doesn't mean asking your parent to do your work for you.
• Likewise, some older relatives have outdated ways of completing specific tasks and might suggest forcefully that something you learned in class is wrong. Always use your teacher's approach as the correct approach, and discuss these alternative ways of completing an assignment with your teacher if necessary.

Supercharge Your Studying with this Expert Series

Expert Q&A

Reader Videos

• Make sure your little study space is well lit, quiet, and comfortable. This will make it much easier to do your homework properly. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
• If you missed school that day, then you should call a friend to get the notes and/or homework from that day. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
• Take a piece of paper or wipe board and create a schedule for your homework. Be generous with the amount of time that you give for each task. If you end up finishing a task earlier than the schedule says, you will feel accomplished and will have extra time to complete the next task. It makes homework get done quicker than usual. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0

Tips from our Readers

• Don't put off starting homework just to have more playtime. Jumping in early leaves you more free time for later and ensures you don't miss out on sleep. Plus, the class material is still fresh right after school, so you'll understand your homework better.
• Make sure you have what you need handy when you get stuck on homework. Don't be afraid to ask questions if you're confused — asking helps you understand things better. And get enough sleep since it's easier to get your work done when you're well-rested.
• Do your homework as soon as you get home every day except Fridays. On Fridays, give yourself permission to relax for the evening. Also, take short breaks as you work to help you focus. For example, play a quick game or eat a healthy snack.
• Ask for help when you need it, but don't rely on others to give you all the answers. The point of homework is for you to practice what you've learned, so try to work through problems yourself before asking for hints or explanations.
• Write down homework assignments in your planner right when your teacher gives them so you don't forget details later. Knowing exactly what work you need to do keeps you from being surprised.
• Break big assignments down into smaller pieces that feel more manageable. Taking things step-by-step makes big tasks feel less overwhelming, and helps you stay motivated.

• Never leave unfinished homework for the next day because you might have other homework to do and you will have to do both. Thanks Helpful 24 Not Helpful 0
• If you forget your homework, your teacher might not accept late work or may even give you more homework. Thanks Helpful 7 Not Helpful 1

Things You'll Need

• Writing equipment, such as pencils, rulers, and erasers.
• Resources that may help you work faster.
• A comfy place to sit while doing homework.

You Might Also Like

• ↑ https://www.warnerpacific.edu/5-tips-for-dealing-with-too-much-homework/
• ↑ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-wealth/201206/10-tips-make-homework-time-less-painful
• ↑ Ronitte Libedinsky, MS. Academic Tutor. Expert Interview. 26 May 2020.
• ↑ https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/plan-for-college/college-prep/stay-motivated/take-control-of-homework
• ↑ https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/homework.html
• ↑ https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/understanding-assignments/
• ↑ https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/homework.html
• ↑ https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/homework.html#a_Create_a_Homework_Plan
• ↑ https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Extras/StudyMath/Homework.aspx
• ↑ https://learningcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/studying-101-study-smarter-not-harder/
• ↑ https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/homework-help.html

About This Article

If you need to do homework, find a quiet, comfortable spot where you won’t be distracted. Turn off any electronics, like your TV, phone, or radio, and gather all of the supplies you’ll need before you get started. Work on the most important or hardest assignments first to get them out of the way, and if you have a homework assignment that actually seems fun, save it for last to motivate you to finish your other work faster. Keep reading to learn how to find extra time to get your homework done, like working on it on the way home from school! Did this summary help you? Yes No

• Send fan mail to authors

Reader Success Stories

Margaret Wessex

Dec 2, 2017

Did this article help you?

Doris Fasanya

Oct 25, 2017

May 27, 2017

Shibapriya Mukhopadhyay

Jun 3, 2017

Sep 13, 2021

Featured Articles

Trending Articles

Watch Articles

• Terms of Use
• Privacy Policy
• Do Not Sell or Share My Info
• Not Selling Info

Get all the best how-tos!

Sign up for wikiHow's weekly email newsletter

0, text: error()">

0, text: error(), css: errorCssClass">

Reset your password

Enter your email address or username and we’ll send you a link to reset your password

Check your inbox

An email with a link to reset your password was sent to the email address associated with your account

Provide email

Please enter your email to complete registration

Activate to continue

Your account isn't active yet. We've emailed you an activation link. Please check your inbox and click the link to activate your account

0, text: error" style="display: none;">

0, text: success" style="display: none;">

• Relationships

The Bored Panda iOS app is live! Fight boredom with iPhones and iPads here .

• Partnership
• Success stories
• --> -->