Strategies for Study Success: Summarizing I

Strategies for Study Success Summarizing I, is designed to build reading comprehension, attention-to-detail, and listening skills. The exercises in this book build independent study skills by teaching students how to summarize text and edit these summaries for missing information. With enough repetition of the exercises in this book, students should gain automaticity in their attention-to-details and paraphrasing skills. Learning to …

Strategies for Study Success: Summarizing II

Strategies for Study Success Summarizing II, is designed to build reading comprehension, attention-to-detail, and listening skills. The exercises in this book follow the same structure as the exercises in Summarizing I, using passages at a more advanced level. Students build independent study skills by learning how to summarize text and edit these summaries for missing information. Approximate grade levels: 3-5

Strategies for Study Success: Visualizing Text

Strategies for Success, Visualizing Text, helps students build reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Learning to visualize text is an important study skills strategy for academic success. Research indicates that most students with reading comprehension skills automatically visualize as they read. Many students, however, need this strategy systematically taught to them. By practicing the step-by-step, picture-by-picture exercises in this book, …

Strategies for Study Success: Test Taking

Strategies for Success, Test Taking, teaches students specific strategies for taking True/False, Multiple Choice, and Essay tests. As students progress through school, tests become increasingly complex and lengthy. Learning specific techniques for how to break down different types of tests will help strengthen both their independent study skills and self-confidence in these skills. Students will feel more comfortable and at-ease …

Strategies for Study Success: Written Repsonses

Strategies for Study Success, Written Responses, is the latest addition to the writing series. This workbook presents passages on controversial topics, such as school uniforms, legal age requirements, and immigration. Students are asked to read each passage, form an opinion on the topic, and then answer a written response question in the form of a five paragraph essay. This book …

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Strategies for Study Success: Executive Functioning

Strategies for Study Success, Executive Functioning, helps students build their executive functioning skills, including time management, following multi-step directions, managing their homework, and improving their organization. With this workbook, students will complete a series of practice exercises to build their fundamental executive functioning skills and will learn to tackle academic tasks in an organized, more efficient manner. Approximate grade levels: …

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Strategies for Study Success: Executive Functioning II

Strategies for Study Success, Executive Functioning II, helps students build higher level executive functioning skills, including note taking, homework management, following multi-step directions, planning tasks, and improving their organization. With this workbook, students will complete a series of practice exercises to build their fundamental executive functioning skills and will learn to tackle academic tasks in an organized, more efficient manner. …

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Strategies for Study Success: Auditory Processing

As students progress through school, the auditory processing demands increase, as they are required to listen and process information, take notes, and then apply that information on quizzes and exams. In this workbook, students learn research-based strategies for developing their auditory processing skills. ‎In the first part of this multi-sensory program, students learn a strategy for listening to passages and identifying …

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Strategies for Study Success: Sentence Structure

In this multi-sensory workbook, students will learn how to express their thoughts in the form of well-written sentences. They will first learn to differentiate between a complete and incomplete thought. They will then learn the parts of a sentence and different types of sentences, as well as how to expand sentences and write compound sentences. Approximate grade levels: 1-4

Strategies for Study Success: Teachers Manual

The Strategies for Study Success Teacher’s Manual gives teachers guidelines for how to teach and implement the strategies in the entire workbook series. Answers to all questions from the books are provided.

Strategies for Study Success: 18-Book Bundle, discounted rate

Purchase the full Strategies for Study Success series for only $240 (a 10% savings)!  The bundle includes: Highlighting I, II, and III Simple Paragraphs Extended Paragraphs Five Paragraph Essays Column-Style Note Taking Webbing Outlining Summarizing I and II Visualizing Text Test-Taking Written Responses Executive Functioning I and II Auditory Processing Teachers Manual

Strategies for Study Success: DVD Training Video

In this DVD, Dr. Levy, the author of the Strategies for Study Success workbook series, teaches you how to use and implement all of the workbooks in the series. She explains the strategies and goes through sample exercises from each workbook. This DVD helps “bring the workbooks to life” and serves as a great supplement for teachers and students.

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