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Mastering Academic Skills: Strategies for Successful Learning

Learn to analyze, infer, evaluate, formulate, describe, support, explain, summarize, compare, contrast, and predict by breaking down and synthesizing information. Discover the keys to effective academic success!

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Mastering Academic Skills: Strategies for Successful Learning

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  1. Twelve Words That Make A Difference

  2. Analyze • Take it apart • Chunk it • Think about the small chunks • Decompose • Look deep into it • Break it down!

  3. Infer • Read between the lines • Figure it out • Take what you know plus context clues • Be a detective • Make a mental leap

  4. Evaluate • Judge • What’s good; what’s bad • Tell me the good and the bad.

  5. Formulate • Create • Decide • Come up with • Figure Out • Build • Construct • Put it all together

  6. Describe • 5 W’s and the H • Who • What • When • Where • Why • How • At lease 3 sentences for 5W’s and an H • 5 sentences for gifted kids

  7. Support • Back it up! • Prove it! • Tell why! • Give reasons!

  8. Explain • 5 W’s and the H • Who • What • When • Where • Why • How • At lease 3 sentences for 5W’s and an H • 5 sentences for gifted kids

  9. Summarize • Retell the KEY points • Short version • Give me the commercial • Just the fact, ma’am • Hit the high points • Shuck it all down to the Cobb County School District • Give reasons why things happen

  10. Compare • Find the similarities • What is the same?

  11. Contrast • Find the differences • What is different?

  12. Predict • Forecast • Educated guess • Conclude • Look into the future • What will happen next?

  13. Based on strategies for helping students be successful presented by: Larry Bell Multicultural America, Inc.

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