If you are a parent helping your child at home, and you have access to the correction sheets from your center (or if you are checking their work), here is how to use the "answer book" effectively:
Here’s a good, clear write-up for the (typically for students at Level F1 in Kumon’s Reading Program, around grades 5–6 reading level): kumon f1 reading answer book
The mistakes a child makes in F1 tell the Kumon Instructor exactly where their reading comprehension is breaking down. If you "correct" the answers using a book, you blind the Instructor to problems like dyslexia, attention issues, or a lack of inference skills. If you are a parent helping your child
If you are using the answer book to simply hand them the correct answers, you are wasting your money on tuition. : Writing sentences from memory to ensure the
: Writing sentences from memory to ensure the student actually understands the scene or event.