Learning & Study Skills Components
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Each student workbook teaches and reinforces the essential skills students need to be successful: skills for perceiving, organizing, making sense of, and using ideas and data. The workbook functions as a text for learning study skills and as a resource reference throughout the year. Each student should have a copy of the student text.
Contents of Students Texts:| Grades 1-2: Level A |
Grades 3-4: Level B |
Grades 8-12: Study Skills |
Grades 5-7: Level I |
| Listening | Listening | Ten Tools for Total Success | Ways to Listen |
| Observing | Observing | How to Track Assignments | Getting the Timing Down |
| Categories | Understanding Directions | How to Set Goals | A Matter of Time |
| Understanding Directions | Categories | Taking Notes | Putting Ideas Together |
| Put It in Order | Sequences | How to Schedule Your Day | Picturing in Your Mind's Eye |
| Pictures in Your Mind | Tables and Graphs | Tips for Total Recall | Reading for Meaning |
| Main Idea | Visualizing | Improve Your Listening | Taking Notes |
| Creative Problem Solving | Main Idea | Mapping and Outlining | |
| Problem Solving | Listening and Taking Notes | ||
| Problem Solving in Math | Improving Your Vocabulary | ||
| Organizing Ideas | |||
| Charts-Tables and Graphs | |||
| Using a Dictionary | |||
| Putting a Book Together | |||
| Studying and Test Taking | |||
| Grades 8-10: Level II |
Grades 11-12: Level III |
Grades 6-10: Math |
Grades 7-10: Science |
| Learning to Listen | Listening | Problem Solving | Listening |
| Vocabulary | Note Taking | Listening | Science Vocabulary |
| Note Taking | Surveying | Math Vocabulary | Reading for Meaning |
| Reading Textbooks | Vocabulary | Study Habits | Note Taking |
| Solving Problems | Questioning | Homework | Making Judgments |
| Study Habits | Text reading | Formulas | Interpreting Graphs/Charts |
| Memory | Organized Study | Estimating | Problem Solving |
| Paragraph Organization | Memory | Calculators | Scientific Measuring Tools |
| Preparing for Tests | Flexible Reading | Test Preparation | Applying Scientific Laws |
| Taking Tests | Gaining from Discussions | Test Taking | Working w/Metric System |
| Use of Time | Learning from Visuals | Working in Scientific Notation | |
| Taking Exams | Test Taking | ||
| Developing/Testing Hypothesis |
Teacher Guides
Essential to the program is the comprehensive teacher's guide. It provides a focus on the importance of study skills, directions for using the student text, and practical suggestions for both the experienced and inexperienced teacher.
Level A Level B Level I Level I (continued) Listening Listening Ways to Listen Organizing Ideas Observing Observing Tuning into Directions Charts-Tables and Graphs Categories Understanding Directions Getting the Timing Down Using a Dictionary Understanding Directions Categories A Matter of Time Putting a Book Together Put It in Order Put it in Order Putting Ideas Together Studying and Test Taking Pictures in Your Mind Tables and Graphs Picturing in Your Mind's Eye Study Skills: Their Values and Why They Should be Taught Main Idea Pictures in Your Mind Reading for Meaning Teaching Study Skills: A School Wide Focus Creative Problem Solving Main Idea - What's it about? Taking Notes-Mapping and Outlining Building Sentences Problem Solving Listening and Taking Notes Solve it Yourself Problem Solving in Math Improving Your Vocabulary Level II Level III Math Science Teaching the Introduction to the Student Text Listening is a Mathematical Skill What Makes a Technology Appropriate? Listening is Tuning In Problem Solving (1) Listening as a Science Skill and What Does Appropriate mean? Taking Notes is a College Survival Skill Understanding the Language of Math Building Your Science Vocabulary and What Makes a Technology Appropriate? Learning to Survey Problem Solving (2) Reading for Meaning and Domestic Petroleum: How Long Will it Last? Thinking About New Words Learning from Your Homework Taking Effective Notes and, Sun Wind and Water: Hope for the Future? Asking Useful Questions Using Formulas Making Judgments and How does Technology Affect the Environment? Learning from Your Reading Estimating Working with Graphs and How Can We Use Energy Efficiently? Taking Charge of Your Learning Preparing for a Test Solving Problems and How Much do Technologies Cost? Understanding and Improving Your Memory Taking a Math Test Becoming a Skilled Test Taker Reading Flexibly Review Test: Units I-VII Gaining from Discussions Part Two: The Solar Greenhouse as an Appropriate Technology Learning from Visuals Using Scientific Measuring Tools and Trapping the Sun's Energy Preparing for and Taking Exams Applying Scientific Laws and How does Energy Behave in a Solar Greenhouse? Working with the Metric System and How Can We Store Energy? Part Three: Appropriate Technology at Work Developing and Testing a Hypothesis and Applying Appropriate Technology
Parent's Guides to Study Skills
The Parent's Guide contains suggestions to reinforce study/learning skills at home. It is a resource for schools to involve parents in a partnership to teach their children responsibility an independence in learning. This guide is available in English and Spanish.
The Parent's Guide to Learning and Study Skills
(English and Spanish)Learning and Study Skills: What Are They? Understanding Your Child's Learning Style Setting and Achieving Goals Listening Organizing Managing the Paper Blizzard Taking Notes Preparing and Taking Tests Responsibility and Enabling
Study Skills Inventories
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Study Skills Inventories are self-scoring instruments that help students find strengths and weaknesses in their study skills and habits. The inventories require very little time to complete and score. Students can score the inventory under teacher guidance. Inventory 1 is recommended for grades 4-7 and Inventory 2 for grades 8-12.
Study Skills Inventory I Study Skills Inventory II 25 copies of Student Inventory 25 copies of Student Inventory Student Profile Student Profile Class Analysis Chart Class Analysis Chart User's Guide User's Guide
Workshop Leader's Handbook
Available in loose-leaf format. The modules contain background information, a script for workshop leaders, blackline masters for visuals and handouts, application of learning style and learning theory, and a bibliography.
The Complete Workshop Leader's Handbook Introduction Level A Module Level B Module Level I Module Level II Module Level III Module Math Module Science Module Black Line Masters Bibliography
Workshop Kit
Each Workshop Kit for Teacher Training includes:
Workshop Kit / Teacher Training 1 1 1 Manual for Workshop Leaders 10 copies of the Introduction to Study Skills and a sample unit The kits are available for Levels A, B, I, II, III, Math, and Science.
