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TWEEN PUBLISHING’S The 21st Century Student’s Guide to Study Skills Instructor’s Guide by Susa n Mulcaire COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL PRODUCT PREVIEW COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL PRODUCT © 2012 Susan MulcairePREVIEW All rights reserved. The content of this book is protected by intellectual property laws. Tween Publishing grants permission to noncommercial users to provide instruction based on the content of this book. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, for any commercial or noncommercial use whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Tween Publishing LLC, P.O. Box 8677, Newport Beach, CA 92625-8677, or contact Tween by email at [email protected]. Comic illustrations by Zapp! Printed in the United States of America ISBN 978-0-9785210-5-9 THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Message to Educators .................................................................... vi Annotated Lesson Plan ................................................................... v INTRODUCTION TO Lesson 1: What are Study Skills? .............................. 2 STUDY SKILLS & Lesson 2: Metacognition: The Self-Aware Student ............... 21 THE PROCESS OF Lesson 3: A Bit About Brainy ................................. 26 LEARNING Lesson 4: Mental Throwdown: Effort vs. Intelligence .............. 36 LEARNING STYLES Lesson 5: What’s in Style? .................................... 50 & MULTIPLE Lesson 6: Learning Resources & Multimodal Learning ........... 58 INTELLIGENCES Lesson 7: There’s More Than One Way to Be Smart! .............. 74 PRE-LEARNING Lesson 8: That’s My Routine and I’m Stick’n to It! ............... 88 STRATEGIES Lesson 9: The Organized Workspace .......................... 98 Lesson 10: Syllabusted! ....................................... 108 Lesson 11: Gettin’ Your Schema On! ........................... 120 ACTION HEROES: Lesson 12: Active Learning in a Passive Learning World ......... 136 LEARNING, Lesson 13: Battle Plan SQ3R .................................. 148 READING, PRODUCTLISTENING Lesson 14: Hey, are You Listening? ............................. 158 NOTE-TAKING AND Lesson 15: Navigating Notes .................................. 174 OUTLINING SKILLS Lesson 16: Cornies & Indies & Hybrids, Oh My! ................. 184 Lesson 17: The Hidden Benefits of Outlining Your Textbook ...... 194 MEMORY AND Lesson 18: M.N.E.M.O.N.I.C.S. ............................... 206 RECALL STRATEGIESPREVIEWLesson 19: Meet the Anti-Cram: Time-Spaced Learning. 218 TEST-TAKING TIPS Lesson 20: Short Answer & Essay Test Tips ..................... 232 & STRATEGIES Lesson 21: So Many Choices, So Little Time! .................... 246 Lesson 22: How to Trick Out Your Presentation ................. 258 Lesson 23: Taming Test Anxiety ............................... 270 WRAPPING UP Lesson 24: So Close, Yet so Far… Distance Learning ............. 286 FOR COLLEGE Lesson 25: Ouch My Brain Hurts! Critical Thinking Skills ........ 298 READINESS Lesson 26: Ramp Up Your Research Skills ...................... 308 Lesson 27: Good Citizens, Perfect Participants .................. 322 Lesson 28: The Benefits of Failure ............................. 338 Works Cited & Recommended Websites .................................................... 354 Index .................................................................................. 358 THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS iii COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL PRODUCT PREVIEW THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL MESSAGE TO EDUCATORS Dear Educator, Thank you for selecting Tween Publishing’s The Middle School Student’s Guide to Study Skills. With this comprehensive program, students learn that study skills are more than practices or strategies occasionally used to prepare for a test or quiz. Good study skills apply to all aspects of learning. How students learn is just as important as what they learn. The goal of this program is to give students the tools and strategies they need to be self-aware, active learners with the ability to successfully acquire, recall, and demonstrate knowledge. To be high school and college-ready, students must habituate good study skills. To do this, they need consistent skills support at school and at home. Consider making this program more than just a study skills class. Make good study skills a part of your school culture. Enlist the help of all teachers to encourage and enable students to develop good study skills. Take a moment at the beginning of class to review a study skill. Periodically pause instruction to make a “skills check”. Post studyPRODUCT skills tips and strategies posters in classrooms and hallways. Allow students time at the end of class to review and correct notes or discuss what they learned. Consistency is key! Bring parents on board too. Use the Letter to Parent in the student workbook to tell them what their student is learning. Ask parents to help their student organize and use their home workspace and to encourage their student to discuss or reteach a concept learned in class. Explain to parents how they canPREVIEW help their student develop critical thinking skills and set grade goals. Please take a moment to review the annotated lesson plan on the following pages. Each lesson in this Instructor’s Guide follows this format. Each lesson includes an in-class activity. Idea Walls at the end of each unit provide additional activities and suggestions for developing a strong study skills culture at your school. Sincerely, Tween Publishing THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS v COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL ANNOTATED LESSON PLAN LESSON AND NUMBER TITLE SLIDE References the webslide corresponding to the lesson segment. (Access slides at www.middleschoolguide.com) WORKBOOK References the corresponding chapter in The Middle School Student’s Guide to Study Skills (the “workbook”) MATERIALS Lists materials and information needed to prepare the lesson. PRODUCT OBJECTIVES Identifies the skills and strategies students will learn in the lesson. GAINING ATTENTIONPREVIEW Lessons begin with a brief review of the previous lesson, and an informal discussion related to the skills and strategies students will learn in this lesson. COMMUNICATE LEARNING GOALS Students are told their learning goals for the lesson. PRESENTATION OF CONTENT Instructional Content. Most lessons are based on a Direct Instruction model, followed by skills practice. vi THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL ANNOTATED LESSON PLAN ACTIVITY Each lesson includes an in-class activity for skills practice. Activity worksheets are contained in the student workbook. LET’S SUMMARIZE! Summarizes key points at the conclusion of the lesson. Use this activity to guide students to complete the Letter to Parent in the workbook. READING AND HOMEWORK References the workbook pages students read to prepare for the next lesson, and the Application of Skills (homework) for this lesson. At the end of each Unit, students complete an assessment What Did You Learn? IDEA WALL PRODUCTBLOG-DEBATE-DISCUSS Suggested study skills and college readiness issues and topics for the blog, debate, discuss activity. PRACTICE, PRACTICE Additional skills practice and activities. UNIT SOURCES Cites books, papers, articles, and website sources PREVIEWused for unit lessons. COLLEGE READINESS CORNER Suggested activities for developing students’ high school and college readiness skills. BLANK Where possible, we’ve left a blank space for your own ideas. TECH CONNECT Fun and useful apps to help students develop good study skills. IT’S A TEAM EFFORT Ideas for making good study skills and college readiness school-wide goals. THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS vii COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL PRODUCT PREVIEW THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO STUDY SKILLS & THE PROCESS OF LEARNING Lesson 1 What are Study Skills? Lesson 2 Metacognition: The Self-Aware Student Lesson 3 A Bit About Brainy Lesson 4PRODUCT Mental Throwdown: Effort vs. Intelligence O By the end of Unit One the student will be able to: B preview course materials and progression. J state a simple definition of learning. recognize the application of study skills to all aspects of learning. E PREVIEW describe the benefits of good study skills. definemetacognition . C identify traits of the metacognitive student. complete a survey of their personal metacognitive skills. T label parts of the brain involved in the learning process. describe how the brain converts sensory data to knowledge. I make a plan for maintaining a healthy brain. compare the roles of effort and intelligence in learning. V identify as a fixed or growth mindset learner. E list the traits of a growth mindset learner. S UNIT 1 1 COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL B PRODUCT PREVIEWBINGO, B 2 THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL LESSON 1 SLIDE 1A WHAT ARE STUDY SKILLS? TEXTBOOK This lesson corresponds to Chapter 1 of The Middle School Student’s Guide to Study Skills. MATERIALS • Computer/whiteboard display with internet access. • Webslides 1A-E (www.middleschoolguide.com) • The Middle School Student’s Guide to Study Skills (“workbook”) • [Optional] Go to a reliable blog hosting site, such as edublog.org or classpress.com