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Do you need Study Skills ?

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Our study skills program is designed to help kids in grades 1-8 build great habits of studying. Even if your child is a really good student, we’ve found that establishing great study habits early is the secret to making a big impact in school, from higher grades to greater confidence.Using a variety of study tips and strategies, our tutors will teach your child how to get more organized, strategically plan projects and achieve goals — all skills that align well with Common Core.

Study skills your child will learn

 

Some kids can benefit from school time management tips. Others need study tips to effectively take tests. And yet others need help managing advanced coursework as they prepare for college.

With our study skills program, your child gets the individual help  needede at the personal pace that works best. Depending on needs and study goals, our program covers the following skill sets:

• Study strategies to become an independent and effective student.

• School time management tips and organizational habits to better manage time and responsibilities.

• Active reading strategies, including reading comprehension strategies, to read better in every class.

• Active listening strategies and presentation skills to communicate clearly.

• Effective note taking strategies and how to use study tools, such as flash cards and color coding, to study efficiently and improve test scores.

• Test taking strategies to take tests and quizzes with confidence, tackle different types of tests and manage testing anxiety.

• How to research effectively, such as learning how to research a topic, evaluate sources and write a bibliography.

• How to write effectively, such as mastering all the steps of the writing process.

• How to be safe online, such as learning how to locate, evaluate and share digital information responsibly and other tips on how to be safe on the internet.

• Active Reading: Comprehension and Rate

• Classes: Notetaking, Listening, Participation

• Improving Concentration, Memory, and Motivation

• Studying in Math and the Sciences

• Managing Your Time

• Preparing and Taking Tests and Exams

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• Study Skills tips

• 1.Set goals.

• If you don’t know what you want to achieve as a student, you won’t know how to get there or if

• you’ve accomplished things.

• 2.Use an appointment book.

• If you keep all your appointments, due dates, test dates in your head, you won’t have any room left

• for the new information you are learning about in classes.

• 3.Know your learning style.

• Develop techniques and strategies for compensating for possible differences between your learning

• style and your instructor’s teaching style.

• 4.Be an active reader.

• Be a text detective: ask your text good questions and it will yield good answers.

• 5.Participate in study groups.

• Share the load of reading and studying with other students – you will learn better by teaching them,

• and you will be exposed to ideas you didn’t come up with on your own.

• 6.Take notes.

• Use the Cornell, outline, mapping or charting method to condense and synthesize reading, lectures

• and discussions.

• 7.Organize your study materials.

• If you organize your materials as you proceed through a course, you will retrieve information with

• greater ease later.

• 8.Draft papers. Never turn in the first draft of a paper – always leave time to re-work it before your professor sees it.

• 9.Slow down on tests.Anxiety makes you skip over parts of questions. Read every word carefully.

• 10.Call  Cynthia 2257474057

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Our tutoring experts will:

• Instill life-long study skills in your child that will pay dividends far beyond school.

• Share effective study tips that will make homework assignments, school projects and big tests much more manageable.

• Reinforce positive behaviors and attitudes. Our tutors are experts at motivating and recognizing children for every skill learned, building your child’s confidence.

• Give your family convenient scheduling options.

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