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STUDY SKILLS Summary: This text shows you how to show your children how to use topnotch study techniques to get higher grades. Your children will get more done in less time and bring home the kind of grades you've known they've been capable of earning. This text shows you how to: (1) take the hassle out of studying; (2) turn a poor student into a motivated, successful one; (3) help your children take better notes, participate more often in class and improve their student-teacher relationship; (4) improve your children's concentration and memory skills and; (5) help your children prepare for tests, cope with 'test anxiety' and excel during exam time. (Grades K-12)
Title: Learning to Achieve (Student's Manual) Summary: This is the students workbook that accompanies the teachers manual. Learning to Achieve strives to increase students' achievement motivation and to teach students the skills they need to be effective and responsible achievers. The book develops reading, writing and vocabulary skills. It develops thinking and organizing skills as well. (Grades K-12)
Title: Learning to Achieve (Teacher's Edition) Summary: The purpose of this book is to increase students' achievement motivation and to teach students the skills they need to be effective and responsible achievers. While teaching students to achieve, the book also develops reading, writing and vocabulary skills. It develops thinking and organizing skills as well. Thus, by using this book, students will be strengthening their academic skills as well as their achievement motivation. (Grades 7-12)
Title: Study Skills Strategies: Your Guide to Critical Thinking Summary: This workbook contains self-study material on essential topics including: attitude development, note taking, SQ3R, memory techniques, exam strategies, critical thinking and much more. The learning strategies in this module are flexible. For example, this book can easily be integrated into summer or weekend college preparatory sessions; one unit credit classes offered by Learning Resource Centers; high school study skills programs; freshman orientation classes; or used effectively in workshops for reentry students. (Grades 7-12)
Title: Test Buster Pep Rally Summary: Test Buster is a unique approach to improving student performance on achievement tests. It includes more than 100 skits, worksheets, practice tests, cheers, songs, games, jokes, exercises and other unique test preparation activities. (Grades 1-6)
Title: Kid Contracts (For grades 4-8) Summary: Kid Contracts is a way to motivate those hard to reach students and develop a more positive relationship between teacher and student. The Kid Contracts system is a simple one. There are 3 levels: teacher-contracted, negotiation-contracted and self-contracted. (Grades 4-8)
Title: Thinking Smarter: Skills for Academic Success Summary: The skills explored in this book are often neglected in the educational system; therefore, they may never be taught at all. Students are often told that they need to use their time more wisely, to take better notes, to do their homework, to do better on tests; but they are not often told how to do these things. Thinking Smarter allows students to assess their learning styles and to determine which techniques work best for them. Thinking Smarter is a cooperative learning program. Students work in groups of three or four to solve problems, brainstorm ideas, think logically, discuss strategies, draw conclusions and then they share their solutions with the entire class. (2 parts: Teacher Edition & Student Edition) (Grades 7-12)
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Last Updated March 20, 2007