Discontinued Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom

Teach your students the study strategies they need to improve academic performance and achieve school success. This book offers 29 easy-to-follow lessons that can correct poor study habits and make learning easier for every student. Use in a study skills course or in a reading class.

The lessons are ideal for summer school sessions or for any student who was never taught how to learn. Several strategies are presented to master each of four essential skills that every student needs to know; ie. note-taking, summarizing, researching and test-taking. Skills can be taught as stand-alone activities or blended seamlessly into existing curricula. Each lesson follows the same structured format, and the authors offer talking points to help you introduce the skill, explain the objective, and guide students through the activities. Suggestions on how to summarize the lesson and generalize the skill to other academic areas are provided. An enclosed CD has each lesson plan's overheads, worksheets, homework assignments, articles, and other support materials in pdf format. The lessons build on each other. 280 pgs.

Examples are:

• Using signal words
• Finding main ideas
• Identifying supporting details
• Creating concept maps
• Separating facts and opinions
• Using different references
• Doing efficient searches on the Internet
• Preparing for standardized tests
• Overcoming test anxiety

Reviews:

"Proper study is essential to proper learning, and Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom is a guide for Educators who want to get their students back on the right path of studying, so that the material sticks for the examination and for life. Various topics such as signal words, understanding the main idea, differentiating fact and opinion, using the internet, and facing the harsh opponent that is the standardized test are all covered completely and comprehensively. Enhanced with a bonus CD-ROM filled with worksheets and overheads for classroom use, Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom is highly recommended for community library education collections as a must-read for every educator." ~The Midwest Book Review, August 2008

Published by Boys Town Press 

ISBN: 978-1-889322-94-0