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Sylvan Learning Center
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Sylvan Learning Center creates confident, independent students by discovering and targeting the causes of academic frustrations. Using the results of a comprehensive Skills Assessment, they create a personalized curriculum that addresses and eliminates underlying issues. Through positive reinforcement and their unique instructional method known as Mastery Learning, they ensure that each student achieves success. What's more, academic success translates into improved confidence and enthusiasm for learning — qualities that help students well beyo...
http://www.educate.com/homepage.html
 
 
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STUDY tactics
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This website is for students interested in gaining skills necessary for positive study habits. It offers learning tools, test preparation information along with career and college searches. In the learning tools section, you can locate resources to assist in studying anything from agriculture to philosophy and law. There is a free member’s-only portion of the website where you can save your favorite study aides as well as purchase books. The site also offers many links to other good websites that assist with studying and learning.
http://www.studytactics.com
 
 
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Exploratorium's Learning Studio
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This website is an experimental public multimedia space which combines learning resources (books, Internet, videos, laserdiscs) with media production equipment. There are resources that connect to exhibits at the museum. There are interesting videos with narration.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/map.html

 
One Minute Test-Taking Tips
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This article is excerpted/modified from the book How the Best Handle Stress by Dr. Ronald L. Rubenzer, Ed.D, MA, M.Ph, MSE. "Top test performance requires developing three different types of smartness, tapping into different "brain-domains": Students must be - Fact-Smart (leftbrain); Test-Smart (Left & Right-Brain); and Stress-Smart (Right-Brain)."
http://www.drrubenzer.com/Testips.pdf

 
Scholar Holler
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This website is designed to bring together some of the brightest young minds in the nation in an effort to mentor younger students. Members of the online community can receive advice on topics ranging from academics, scholarships, contests and more.
http://scholarholler.com/

 
Study Skills Self-Help Information
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This website from Virginia Tech University offers articles on various topics in order to improve one's study skills. More in-depth, online study skills workshops are also available on the following topics: Time Management Strategies for Improving Academic Performance; Seven Strategies for Improving Test Performance; Increasing Textbook Reading Comprehension by Using SQ3R; Strategies for Improving Concentration and Memory; and Study Skills Inventory.
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
 
 
Websites: Learning Tools

 
How to Become a SuperStar Student
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This video instructs high school students in how to improve basic study skills and develop a genuine enthusiasm for learning. The two-tape course covers a range of skills useful in any school subject: budgeting time, taking notes, annotating texts, writing papers, completing exams and choosing the right career path after high school.
http://www.teach12.com/ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/140.asp

 
Type to Learn®
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"Students embark on zany time travel missions to learn keyboarding skills in this animated update of Type to Learn™. Built on a proven curriculum of sequential, skills-building instruction, Type to Learn™ 3 helps students master keyboarding by engaging them in lesson/practice sequences."
http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndsun3.htm
 
 
Websites: For Fun

 
Jumpstart Typing
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You need to help save Coach Qwerty! Polly locked him up, and now it's up to you to type your fastest and most accurately to earn key-cards and save the day!
http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndkna18.htm

 
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 9
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Excellent resources for learning keyboarding. Includes games which are motivational, and progresses with the student's ability. Suitable for young children.
http://support.broderbund.com/faq_list.asp?id=1294817624
 
 
Printed Materials: Books

 
50 Graphic Organizers for Reading, Writing & More
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This book is a valuable resource that includes 50 reproducible templates, student samples, step-by-step directions and strategies to support every learner. The organizers are perfect for note taking, planning, presentation, and review. You'll find organizers for reading, writing, math, social studies, and science.

 
Becoming a Master Student: Tools, techniques, hints, ideas...
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This book covers numerous topics that are necessary to become a master student, such as time management, mnemonic techniques, types of reading, note taking, techniques for test-taking, critical thinking and problem solving, techniques for writing, personal relationships, and health. Click here to read a review of this book.

 
Ending the Homework Hassle: Understanding, Preventing, and Solving School Performance Problems
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This book gives advice and parenting strategies for helping students handle homework in a productive and positive manner.

 
Get Off My Brain: A Survival Guide for Lazy Students (Bored, Frustrated and Otherwise Sick of School)
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A humorous and irreverent guide to how "lazy" (i.e. "bored, frustrated, and otherwise sick of school") students can survive the tedium of school, and maybe even have fun doing it.
http://www.freespirit.com/catalog/item_detail.cfm?ITEM_ID=192

 
How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up
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"DO NOT read this book if you love doing HOMEWORK!" This book has funny comments, cartoons and suggestions to cope with the not always funny subject of doing homework. It contains valuable homework skills and good ideas.
http://www.freespirit.com/catalog/item_detail.cfm?ITEM_ID=226

 
SAT Vocabulary Express: Word Puzzles Designed to Decode the New SAT
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This book by Jacqueline Byrne and Michael Ashley includes all kinds of puzzles: crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, cryptograms and more. In a crossword puzzle built around common SAT wrods, you must think of all the possible words for a definition or clue and try to come up with a word that will fit in the given blanks, rejecting the longer and shorter possibilities and homing in on the correct lenght answer.
http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?cat=111&isbn=0071458409

 
The Princeton Review: Study Smart
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The website says, "This guide will show you how to earn higher grades by studying smarter instead of just harder. You will learn why teachers and textbooks are unclear, how to write essays and papers quickly and well, crucial critical reasoning skills." This book also has information on how to take tests.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=13&isbn=0679738649&x=73
 
 
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SuperCamp - Quantum Learning Network Summer Program
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This 10-week summer program is held at various locations across the United States as well as Mexico and China. Camp is open to high school, middle school, upper elementary and even college bound, where students improve grades, motivation and confidence, gain powerful study skills and develop high self-esteem in an environment that fosters learning and success.
http://www.iqln.com/SuperCamp/Default.asp

 
    

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