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Many students encounter test taking anxiety before an exam. Taking quizzes, unit tests, midterms, finals, and standardized exams can all make children nervous. Students often have challenges learning and retaining information and performing well under the pressure of timed tests.  However, there are many evidence-based test taking strategies that can help students improve their study skills, learn and remember information, and feel more confident when taking tests. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has indicated that systematic study strategies can help students improve their organizational skills and retain information, which is helpful when studying for tests. Detailed below are several strategies students can use independently or during executive functioning tutoring sessions to help them study for exams and improve their outcomes.

Do you find that your child has interesting, smart, and creative ideas but struggles to put them down on paper? Many students are unsure how to begin the writing process, how to write well-organized thesis statements, and how to structure each of their body paragraphs. As the writing demands of school increase, these struggles tend to follow. Yet learning the steps for composing a well-written five paragraph essay can help all students improve their writing.

Children who are getting ready for kindergarten benefit tremendously from strong early literacy skills, such as letter recognition, phonemic awareness, decoding, and writing. Multi-sensory activities including audio-visual card drills, sky writing, sand writing, and tracing can help children develop these skills while keeping learning fun and entertaining. The International Dyslexia Association tells us that hands-on, multi-sensory learning techniques are very effective at helping young children build early reading and writing skills. Improve your child’s early literacy skills with the ideas detailed below.

As students progress through school, learning to manage their time becomes increasingly important. They begin to have many more tests to study for, essays to write, projects to complete, and homework assignments to turn in. While some students are naturally able to manage these tasks well, all students can benefit from concrete time management strategies.