Find simple ways to help your child understand school tasks, explain answers and learn from teacher feedback. Each completed tool gives you a short explanation, a German example and something to try together.
The AYKEN Parent Tool Library is organised around common challenges experienced by multilingual children in German schools. Each collection contains practical explanations, German examples, parent questions and simple strategies that can be used at home.
Help your child move from short or incomplete responses to clearer, more precise and better-supported school answers.
Understand what German school instructions actually require — begründen (give reasons for your answer), erklären (explain), beschreiben (describe) and vergleichen (compare).
Help your child connect ideas, explain causes, show contrasts and build more sophisticated school sentences.
Support your child in finding key information, understanding deeper meaning and using evidence from a text.
Build the words and expressions children need to explain, compare, analyse and demonstrate knowledge in German school.
Understand and strengthen the language, learning and independence skills connected to the Gymnasium pathway.
See the instruments German teachers use — Erwartungshorizont, Operatoren, Anforderungsbereiche and more — so you know exactly what your child's work is measured against.
12 tools available now · 30 coming soon.
See how a German teacher defines what a full-mark answer must contain — before marking begins.
Turn the teacher's test announcement into a preparation checklist your child can work through.
Help your child identify the central point of any German text.
Understand exactly what this common task word requires your child to do.
Help your child move from a short answer to a clearer explanation using three practical questions.
Understand the language and learning skills teachers look for.
Help your child explain why something happens using weil, denn and deshalb.
Show your child the difference between spoken and academic German.
Know what each official task verb requires before your child starts writing.
Understand the three requirement levels — and why the higher marks live in levels II and III.
See where points are won and lost — in content, language and structure.
Read the competence grid to see what good looks like at your child's school stage.
Structure stronger answers by combining a claim, a reason and proof from the text.
Use three key connectors to build stronger reason sentences.
Teach your child to separate key facts from supporting detail.
A checklist of habits that build learning independence at home.
Practical starters for explaining, comparing and analysing.
Tell the difference between erklären and beschreiben — and answer each correctly.
Locate and quote the lines that prove an answer.
Show contrast clearly with these two common connectors.
Practical questions to check whether your child can reason aloud.
Help your child structure a clear, balanced comparison using vergleichen.
Replace weak verbs with precise, grade-level alternatives.
Turn one-word or fragment answers into full, grade-appropriate sentences.
Show your child how to summarise without retelling the whole text.
Spot the reading and writing skills that signal Gymnasium readiness.
Support your child in understanding meaning that is not stated directly.
Teach your child to locate and quote the lines that support an answer.
Build more sophisticated comparison sentences in German school writing.
Help your child decode borrowed words common in school texts.
Practical sentence starters for explaining causes and consequences.
Decode common teacher feedback and turn it into a clear next step.
Prepare focused questions that reveal real progress and gaps.
Help your child explain why characters act and feel the way they do.
Build vocabulary by recognising roots, prefixes and suffixes.
A one-page reference for the most common German task words.
Read a task word and predict the answer format the teacher expects.
Connect two ideas and highlight similarities and differences.
The words children need to explain relationships clearly.
A structured reflection to identify strengths and next priorities.
A simple checklist your child can use before handing in any written answer.
A simple three-question routine to use after every reading task.
These tools help you practise individual skills. If you are unsure which skill your child needs help with first, the Warum-Check can help you choose a starting point.