I am starting a Blog for parents and teachers of grade school children. My goal is to begin a dialogue with tips to help children become successful in school. I am hoping that you will check this blog site often and update it with your comments as well as your own experience in ways you help your student become successful in school.
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This is my first Blog. I plan to describe easy to use tips you may use in order to help your child become successful in school. Read the tips and decide which ones are applicable to your student and implement the strategy. Let's get started!
My son is in 5th grade and his teacher at school is helping to prepare him to transition to middle school. He is expected to learn to take notes from class lectures as well as take notes from his text books. He is also to learn how to utilize a study guide in order to prepare for an upcoming test.
These expected skills can be overwhelming for students to master. I decided to research my areas of concern. Who better to ask than a teacher at my son's school.
Her answers seemed simple but proved to be extremely helpful.
Teach...Model...and Learn
My son and I spent the next evening going over the study guide provided for the upcoming test. We made a photocopy of the study guide. The original was put off to the side. We used the working copy to create our own study guide for the test. We used a black sharpie pen on the working copy. We would read a sentence and darken in the key words thus creating a full in the blank format.
ex. The brain consists of two hemispheres including the left and the right.
ex.(with sharpie)(xxxxx = the words we wanted to quiz) The brain consists of two hemispheres including the xxxxxx and the xxxxxx.
We created a fill in the blank working copy that could be studied in the future.
Together we reviewed the working copy which was now a fill in the blank study guide.
Finally, he was able to quiz himself with the fill in the blank study guide on his own.
TEACH = I taught my son how to create two copies of the study guide including the working copy and the original. I also taught him to darken in key words that would be important to learn for the upcoming test.
MODEL = Together we studied for the upcoming test.
LEARN = My son learned what was necessary in order to create a study guide, learn material and finally he was able to study for his test independently.
Hurray!! My son aced the test and most importantly learned the skills to study for upcoming tests.
To help make learning to read fun and engaging, our reading program includes lesson stories that are matched to the progress of your child's reading abilities.
These lessons stories are part of the learning program, and comes with colorful illustrations to make learning reading fun and engaging for you and your child.
These are the exact same stories and step-by-step lessons that we used to teach our own children to read!
This is my first Blog. I plan to describe easy to use tips you may use in order to help your child become successful in school. Read the tips and decide which ones are applicable to your student and implement the strategy. Let's get started!
ReplyDeleteMy son is in 5th grade and his teacher at school is helping to prepare him to transition to middle school. He is expected to learn to take notes from class lectures as well as take notes from his text books. He is also to learn how to utilize a study guide in order to prepare for an upcoming test.
ReplyDeleteThese expected skills can be overwhelming for students to master. I decided to research my areas of concern. Who better to ask than a teacher at my son's school.
Her answers seemed simple but proved to be extremely helpful.
Teach...Model...and Learn
My son and I spent the next evening going over the study guide provided for the upcoming test. We made a photocopy of the study guide. The original was put off to the side. We used the working copy to create our own study guide for the test. We used a black sharpie pen on the working copy. We would read a sentence and darken in the key words thus creating a full in the blank format.
ex. The brain consists of two hemispheres including the left and the right.
ex.(with sharpie)(xxxxx = the words we wanted to quiz)
The brain consists of two hemispheres including the xxxxxx and the xxxxxx.
We created a fill in the blank working copy that could be studied in the future.
Together we reviewed the working copy which was now a fill in the blank study guide.
Finally, he was able to quiz himself with the fill in the blank study guide on his own.
TEACH = I taught my son how to create two copies of the study guide including the working copy and the original. I also taught him to darken in key words that would be important to learn for the upcoming test.
MODEL = Together we studied for the upcoming test.
LEARN = My son learned what was necessary in order to create a study guide, learn material and finally he was able to study for his test independently.
Hurray!!
My son aced the test and most importantly learned the skills to study for upcoming tests.
To help make learning to read fun and engaging, our reading program includes lesson stories that are matched to the progress of your child's reading abilities.
ReplyDeleteThese lessons stories are part of the learning program, and comes with colorful illustrations to make learning reading fun and engaging for you and your child.
These are the exact same stories and step-by-step lessons that we used to teach our own children to read!
Find out here: Teach Your Child To Read?
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