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Learning and Study Skills

Learning and Study Skills. Chapter 11. Chapter objectives. Describe approaches for the assessment of study skills. Identify and explain instructional strategies that support students in their learning. Chapter objectives continued.

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Learning and Study Skills

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  1. Learning and Study Skills Chapter 11

  2. Chapter objectives • Describe approaches for the assessment of study skills. • Identify and explain instructional strategies that support students in their learning.

  3. Chapter objectives continued • Describe instructional strategies for supporting reading comprehension. • Convey instructional strategies for deepening understanding and enhancing memory. • Consider the use of homework to improve students’ learning.

  4. Importance of learning and study skills • Essential for school and work success • Skills involve • Gathering, comprehending, organizing information • Time management • Organizational skills • Learning how to learn • Making representations of what is understood • Taking notes • Taking tests • Doing homework • Teaching these skills should begin in elementary school and continue through all grades.

  5. Strategies • Keeping a schedule • Taking notes • Streamlining note taking • Outlining • Listing • Marking the text • Gleaning

  6. Supporting reading comprehension • Preview-Read-Recall (PRR) • Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review (SQ3R) • Previewing, questioning, reading, reflecting, reciting, reviewing (PQ4R)

  7. SNIPS Strategy • Start with questions • Note what can be learned from hints • Identify what is important • Plug it into the chapter • See if you can explain it to someone

  8. REAP • Read • Encode • Annotate • Ponder

  9. Multipass • Survey the reading • Size up the reading • Sort out the information

  10. Test-taking strategies: before the test • Allot sufficient time to study and prepare for the test • Keep notes • Organize notes • Provide sufficient time to practice new skills and processes • Study with one or more partners • Obtain a good night's sleep before the test • Get proper nutrition before the test • Exercise can reduce anxiety and heighten alertness • Arrive early for the test • Select a good seat

  11. Test-taking strategies: during the test • Stay relaxed and confident • Bring all the materials that are needed such as pencils, pens, a calculator, a dictionary, and a watch • Read the directions carefully • Preview the items • Complete the easy questions first. Next, answer the questions that have the highest point values. Leave the most difficult questions, the ones with lower point values, and the ones that take the greatest amount of writing for last

  12. Test-taking strategies: during the test continued • Use hints from other items • Ask the teacher questions about directions, vocabulary, or questions that the student does not understand • Use specific strategies for each type of test item such as multiple choice, true/false, and essay tests • Allow enough time for review at the end of the test • Use all of the time that has been allotted

  13. Test-taking strategies: after the test • Conduct an error analysis. Identify the items that the student completed successfully and those that were not. • Reflect on the strategies that were used. Which ones worked? Which ones did not work? • Keep the corrected tests in a safe place for review when studying for unit tests or final exams.

  14. Instructional strategies for deepening understanding and enhancing memory • Metacognition • Stop-look-listen • Visual representations • Graphic organizers • Diagrams • Matrices • Hierarchies • Advance organizers

  15. K-W-L • K (what you know) • W (what you want to know) • L (what you learned)

  16. Mnemonics • Strategies that can help students remember academic and behavioral tasks • DEAR: “Drop Everything And Read”

  17. Homework • Assign homework that reinforces and extends learning • Compare the student’s actual time with the teacher’s estimated time of completion

  18. Using technology • Graphic organizer software • Electronic calendars • Grammar, spelling, and punctuation checkers • Time management software • Note-taking software • Outlining software • Reading, writing and vocabulary software • Presentation software • Translation software • Foreign language dictionaries

  19. Summary • Instructional strategies can be used to support reading comprehension. • Instructional strategies can deepen and enhance memory. • Consider the use of homework to support students’ learning.

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