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Level I: Grades 5-7
The hm Learning and Study Skills Program, Level I was designed to provide learning and study skills strategies for students in grades 5-7 through a series of activity-oriented units. It is structured on the assumption that an activity-oriented lesson is the most effective instructional strategy for the teaching of study skills. Or, more succinctly, that "learning by doing" is the best way to study smart.
List of contents
Introduction to the hm Learning and Study Skills: Level 1
Units
I.Ways to Listen
II.Tuning Into Directions
III.Getting the Timing Down
IV.A Matter of Time (Agenda)
V.Putting Ideas Together
VI.Picturing in Your Mind's Eye
VII.Improving Your Memory
VIII.Organizing Ideas
IX.Reading for Meaning
X.Reading Online and Using Online Texts
XI.Using a Dictionary
XII.Improving Your Vocabulary
XIII.Taking Notes - Mapping and Outlining
XIV.Listening and Taking Notes
XV.Putting a Book Together/Text Features
XVI.Studying and Test Taking
XVII.Multimedia Presentations
XVIII.Posttest
About the author
Judy Brunner is a former elementary, middle, and high school principal and currently serves as clinical faculty for Drury and Missouri State Universities. She is the co-founder and Chief Education Officer of Instructional Solutions Group. She is the author of three books on the topic of literacy from R & L Education Publishing I Don't Get It! Helping Students Understand What They Read, Now I Get It! Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning, and Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level.
Matt Hudson serves as the Coordinator of Operations for Secondary Education for the Springfield MO Public Schools. He received the Outstanding Young Teacher Award by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, is an adjunct professor for Drury University and holds a doctorate in Executive Educational Leadership from St. Louis University.
