Give your students the study strategies they need to achieve their academic goals. Inside these pages are 29 complete lesson plans that target four skill areas essential to school success - note taking, summarizing, researching, and test taking.

In every classroom, there are students who need help learning how to learn. Some take sloppy and incomplete notes. Some struggle to distinguish important ideas from irrelevant details. Some improperly use research tools and reference books. Others suffer from too much stress and anxiety, especially at test time. Each of these problems results in poor preparation and failing performances. This book offers easy-to-follow lessons that can correct poor study habits and make learning easier for every student.

Each study skill can be taught as a stand-alone activity or blended seamlessly into existing curricula. The lessons follow the same structured format, and the authors offer talking points to help you introduce the skill, explain the objective, and guide students through the activities. Suggestions on how to summarize the lesson and generalize the skill to other academic areas are provided.

Includes CD-ROM

The enclosed CD has each lesson plan's overheads, worksheets, homework assignments, articles, and other support materials in pdf format.

Drawing on more than 100 years of combined experience in education - from classroom instruction and curriculum development to coaching and consulting - the authors have written whole lesson plans that are convenient for classrooms, practical for teachers, and fun for students.

Lesson plans teach these study skills and more:

• Using signal words
• Finding main ideas
• Identifying supporting details
• Creating concept maps
• Separating facts and opinions
• Using different references
• Doing efficient searches on the Internet
• Preparing for standardized tests
• Overcoming test anxiety

Reviews

Proper study is essential to proper learning, and "Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom: 29 Lesson Plans for Teaching Note-taking, Summarizing, Researching and Test Taking Skills" is a guide for educators who want to get their students back on the right path of studying, so that the material sticks for the examination and for life. Various topics such as signal words, understanding the main idea, differentiating fact and opinion, using the internet, and facing the harsh opponent that is the standardized test are all covered completely and comprehensively.
Enhanced with a bonus CD-ROM filled with worksheets and overheads for classroom use, "Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom" is highly recommended for community library education collections as a must-read for every educator.
-The Midwest Book Review, August 2008