Help! I Have to... Study. Scholastic's A+ Junior Guide to Studying

100 Pages·1987·9.507 MB·English

by  Louise Colligan

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...STUDY.
Scholastic's A+ Junior Guide to Studying
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...STUDY.
Scholastic's A+ Junior Guide
to Studying
Louise Coiligan
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To the students
of the Irvington, New York, Middle School

Table of Contents
1: How To Organize Yourself
on the Home Front 1
Quiz Yourself on Being Organized 5
Making Organizing Easy 7
Ten Terrific Time-Savers 10
2: How To Organize Yourself
at School 14
Quiz Yourself on Being Organized
at School 16
Making Organizing Easy 18
3: How To Take the Work
Out of Homework 27
Quiz Yourself on Homework 29
Managing Your Homework 32
How To Read so You Will
Remember What You've Read 36
How To Become
4:
a Better Test Taker 40
Quiz Yourself on Test Taking 43
Getting in Shape for Tests 46
Follow-up 50
5: What's on Your Mind?
Some Answers to Students7 Questions ... 51
Problems on the Home Front 51
Problems at School 56
Homework and Tests 61
6: Quick Review:
A
School Survival Kit 69
A
School Tools: Checklist 70
A
Listening-Skills Checklist 71
A
Note-Taking-Skills Checklist 71
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Homework-Skills Checklist 72
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Memorizing Checklist 74
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Test-Taking Checklist 75
Tip-off 77
Go for the Goal 78
Test Record Sheet 80
Student's Notes 84
Index 87
1
How
To Organize Yourself
Home
on the Front
Did your first weeks in middle school go some-
thing like this?
• You couldn't find half your classes on the first
try?
• Your locker combination wouldn't unlock at
the worst possible times?
• You had a hard time figuring out your schedule
for all those classes? Or, worse, you lost your
schedule completely?
• Yournotebook, the one you boughtrightbefore
school started, vanished the first week or was the
wrong kind?
• The eighth graders hassled you and your friends
every chance they got?
In short, was middle school a pretty confusing
place to go to five days a week?
If these things happened to you, please know
that you are not alone. Over and over the little
things make school hard for some students. You
do your homework but forget it on the bus. You
show up a little late for class and miss out on
important announcements. You listen attentively
in class but forget your notebook at home. You
read the wrong chapter or memorize the wrong
spelling list. Pretty soon these small mistakes add
up. You do nearly as much work as A students
but wind up with lower grades. You just miss the
mark, not out of laziness or lack of brain cells, but
because you aren't sure how to organize yourwork.
Well, guess what? Everybody, from the class brain
to the class clown, has some problems managing
school in the middle grades. Different classes,
different teachers, lots more homework and tests,
—
older kids many of these things overwhelm
students.
Tofindoutwhatproblemswerebuggingstudents
in school, a large group was asked this question:
"Whatwas thehardest thingyou rememberaboutstarting
middle school?"
Here are some of the answers:
• ". knowing where the classes were."
. .
• ". getting used to older kids."
. .
• ". being teased by eighth graders."
. .