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 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.
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.
"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 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.
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.
The website says, "This guide will show you how to earn higher grades by studying smarter instead of just harder. You will learn why teachers and textbooks are unclear, how to write essays and papers quickly and well, crucial critical reasoning skills." This book also has information on how to take tests.
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 website is for students interested in gaining skills necessary for positive study habits. It offers learning tools, test preparation information along with career and college searches. In the learning tools section, you can locate resources to assist in studying anything from agriculture to philosophy and law. There is a free member’s-only portion of the website where you can save your favorite study aides as well as purchase books. The site also offers many links to other good websites that assist with studying and learning.
This website explores the mathematical concept of fractals by providing their unique properties using Sierpinski’s Triangle, the Jurassic Park Fractal, and the Koch Snowflake.
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. Suitable for young children.
This website offers lots of current events, maps and ideas on how to help other people as well as some educational games and puzzles.
This website is an experimental public multimedia space which combines learning resources (books, Internet, videos, laserdiscs) with media production equipment. There are resources that connect to exhibits at the museum. There are interesting videos with narration.
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 from Virginia Tech University offers articles on various topics in order to improve one's 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 video instructs high school students in how to improve basic study skills and develop a genuine enthusiasm for learning. The two-tape 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 career 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."