Because of these, I started something different with him on his weekly homework assignments: before answering any questions, he has to underline the key element of the instructions & review *that* with me first. We've only been doing this for a handful of assignments, but it seems to have eliminated a bunch of the silly mistakes.
I do that too!
Assignments are pasted in their hw journal but there are just too many words. I find underlining / highlighting the key words help him to focus on what he NEEDS to do. Especially when there are different parts to one assignment.
