Our Study Skills program incorporates your student's current class work and home assignments to teach skills and strategies that will be most effective for YOUR student. Below is an overview of the topics we cover in sessions. Our Tutors tailor the program to your student's needs and learning style.
This flexible program teaches students how to use their strengths and learning style to learn new concepts, expand on the concepts, and retain information. Your child’s Tutor will meet with them for each week to teach strategies and apply it to what they are learning today.
The Week by Week outline presented here is only a guide.
Diagnostic Test that explains success in terms of tools: what tools do you already have?, which can you make better use of?
Learning Styles Inventory
Review teacher and parent comments with the student: get their perceptions.
With student, make a list of their strengths and weak areas.
Personal Study Style for homework
Review with them what they will be learning.
Ways to organize paperwork
Setting up a homework space
Prioritizing: what is it and how do I do it?
Using a weekly planner: for tests, homework, long term projects, and activities. Building in down time. Having a to-do list and notes to self.
Active listening
Active reading: skimming, highlighting, using codes, chunking, summarizing, confusing text strategies.
Graphic Organizers for books to record and remember what you read.
Effective note taking: difference between note taking and copying
Different formats for note taking and finding the one you like best.
Note Taking as you listen.
Creating an outline from your notes
Creating notecards for studying
Pulling together textbooks info, notes info and handouts to study.
Organizing information to pull out the important points
Tricks: acronyms, acrostics, pictures in your mind, sketches, creating songs, time lines, remembering dates with rhymes, remembering numbers (making flash cards, finding patterns), and more strategies and tricks!
Game plans for test taking and using strategies I’ve learned.
During the test: read and underline first, directions
Strategies for: matching, multiple choice, T and F, Fill in the Blank, Essays
Checking Math tests.
Writing a solid essay
Writing a timed essay
Planning a long term project.
