Sylvan Learning Center creates confident, independent students by discovering and targeting the causes of academic frustrations. Using the results of a comprehensive Skills Assessment, they create a personalized curriculum that addresses and eliminates underlying issues. Through positive reinforcement and their unique instructional method known as Mastery Learning, they ensure that each student achieves success. What's more, academic success translates into improved confidence and enthusiasm for learning — qualities that help students well beyond their years in school.
This book is a valuable resource that includes 50 reproducible templates, student samples, step-by-step directions and strategies to support every learner. The organizers are perfect for note taking, planning, presentation, and review. Includes organizers for reading, writing, math, social studies, and science.
This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simple memorization/blind acceptance of information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to react rationally to alternative points of view and helps them develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject as they read and listen.
This book covers numerous topics that are necessary to become a master student, such as time management, mnemonic techniques, types of reading, note taking, techniques for test-taking, critical thinking and problem solving, techniques for writing, personal relationships, and health. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book gives advice and parenting strategies for helping students handle homework in a productive and positive manner.
A humorous and irreverent guide to how "lazy" (i.e. "bored, frustrated, and otherwise sick of school") students can survive the tedium of school, and maybe even have fun doing it. A guide for teens who are bored and frustrated at school, and need motivational skills.
This book/course is designed to help teens become increasingly independent in planning and managing their own homeschooling programs. Sections include goal-setting; making a four-year high school plan; working out a yearly plan; planning individual courses; developing and completing course assignments and projects; scheduling; record-keeping; and planning for post-secondary education. The book contains many helpful, reproducible forms that will streamline the planning and recordkeeping tasks of home schooling for many families. Transcript format options are included. It is nominally coming from a Christian perspective, but can easily be adapted to students of any faith, or none.
"DO NOT read this book if you love doing HOMEWORK!" This book has funny comments, cartoons and suggestions to cope with the not always funny subject of doing homework. It contains valuable homework skills and good ideas.
This book by Gloria Frender delivers some great tools to help students achieve success in both school and life. Practical hints are useful to parents, teachers or anyone wanting a hands-on guide on "learning how to learn."
This series of Test Prep books are the first program ever developed to help students become more familiar with the test-taking experience. The lessons in the books were created after an analysis of five of the most popular achievement tests. The content reflects the types of material that students will encounter when testing.
A handbook of lessons which integrate teaching thinking skills into instruction--language arts, writing, science, math, social studies, personal problem solving, and enrichment. The central feature of all lessons is the use of graphic organizers to illustrate how information is related.
This guide will show students how to earn higher grades by studying smarter instead of just harder. Students will learn how to write essays and papers quickly and well, crucial critical reasoning skills. This book also has information on how to take tests.
This book by Jacqueline Byrne and Michael Ashley includes all kinds of puzzles: crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, cryptograms and more. In a crossword puzzle built around common SAT wrods, you must think of all the possible words for a definition or clue and try to come up with a word that will fit in the given blanks, rejecting the longer and shorter possibilities and homing in on the correct lenght answer.
Authors Beatrice Elyé and Catherine Southwick use a warm conversational style to help give your teenager the practical skills they need to succeed: time management, speed reading, communication and decision making.
The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn't know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart.
Why do some people accomplish so much more than others? It’s not because they’re smarter or more talented. It’s because they know how to set and reach goals. Research shows that effective goal setters have less stress and anxiety, concentrate better, and are more satisfied with their lives. For teens, goal setting is linked to improved school performance, motivation, self-confidence, and self-esteem. What Do You Really Want? is a step-by-step guide to goal setting, written especially for teens.
SuperCamp provides three age/grade-specific learning and life skills summer camp programs, including academic summer camps for students entering grades 6-8 in the fall, teen summer camps for students starting grades 9-12 and college summer camps for incoming and current college students, Quantum U.
This distance learning program offers students help in preparing for a range of tests from elementary school through graduate school. Available online and as a CD-ROM curriculum, courses use sample tests and teach test-taking techniques for improving standardized test scores.
A subscription grants you access to 1000’s of SAT/ACT questions, flashcards, and test-taking strategies. Brush up on fundamentals or keep skills fresh by running through practice questions. Works with any mobile phone.
This site is for students interested positive study habits. It offers learning tools, test preparation information and career and college searches.
Smithsonian’s History Explorer provides hundreds of free online resources for teaching and learning American history. The site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students, afterschool program providers and families. The website focuses on using historical artifacts and items to teach American history.
You need to help save Coach Qwerty! Polly locked him up, and now it's up to you to type your fastest and most accurately to earn key-cards and save the day!
Excellent resources for learning keyboarding. Includes games which are motivational, and progresses with the student's ability.
NewzBrain Weekly is an interactive game board classroom enrichment assessment of current events, world, national and cultural. A new game board with all new questions and answers is provided every Monday morning.
This is an interactive "live" website where users and guests create a drawing to represent themselves as they move around "Whyville." In Whyville, they interact with other participants, as they learn about science topics in an open-ended, exploratory way, invent things and have the ability to do hands-on activities at home and post their results on the site.
This website provides free stories for children in grades 3-5 (ages 8-11), designed to help them recognize and appreciate their strengths and talents. Power Smarts are the 8 multiple intelligences identified by Harvard research psychologist Howard Gardner. Each story comes with optional discussion questions to spark conversations and develop face-to-face conversational skills.
This site offers current events, maps and ideas on how to help other people as well as educational games and puzzles.
"Welcome Elementary School Students! If you are a student in Kindergarten to Grade 5, you will find lots of fun and interesting information on this site, including computer games in Math, Social Studies, Science and English. There are also links to help with homework, and sites that give you information about topics that you are studying in school."
This site is an experimental public multimedia space combining learning resources (books, Internet, DVDs) with media production equipment. There are resources that connect to exhibits at the museum and interesting videos with narration.
This website has an array of educational resources, including lesson plans, teacher resources, homework links, critical thinking activities and specific subjects of study.
"Opening doors to student imaginations since 1974, the Future Problem Solving Program offers new and exciting learning paths. Discovering rich and varied ways of thinking, students experience the excitement of creative thinking and the thrill of resolving difficult problems with unique solutions when they participate in FPSP. Inspiring and motivating, our educational materials help your students learn how to think (not what to think)."
This promotes the Inspiration series of visual thinking tools, that inspire students to brainstorm, organize, plan and create. This award-winning software has revolutionized visual learning in education, inspiring students to develop strong thinking skills and improve performance.
This website is designed to bring together some of the brightest young minds in the nation in an effort to mentor younger students. Members of the online community can receive advice on topics ranging from academics, scholarships, contests and more.
This website offers articles and editorials about various topics, such as literature, music and math. The website also provides subscription-based test preparatory services and practice examinations.
This website from Virginia Tech University offers articles on topics to help improve study skills. More in-depth, online study skills workshops are also available on the following topics: Time Management Strategies for Improving Academic Performance; Seven Strategies for Improving Test Performance; Increasing Textbook Reading Comprehension by Using SQ3R; Strategies for Improving Concentration and Memory; and Study Skills Inventory.
This website provides a lesson on the United States justice system through a fictional murder case. The lesson covers topics such as grand juries, indictments, and plea bargains. The website also provides information on several notable Supreme Court cases, as well as a glossary of legal terms.
This DVD instructs high school students to improve basic study skills and develop enthusiasm for learning. The course covers a range of skills useful in any school subject: budgeting time, taking notes, annotating texts, writing papers, completing exams and choosing the right path after high school.
SpellingCity is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun.
This website is an excellent study guide for students. With numerous topics ranging from Geography to History to Science and more, students are provided a number of tools (such as flashcards, games, study tables, etc.) to assist them with their studies.
"Students embark on zany time travel missions to learn keyboarding skills in this animated update of Type to Learn™. Built on a proven curriculum of sequential, skills-building instruction, Type to Learn™ 3 helps students master keyboarding by engaging them in lesson/practice sequences."