[LM_NET] TARGET: HS Study Skills

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@FWCDS.ORG>]

I'm working with my high school advisees and the topic that seemed to come up 
throughout a recent parent-teacher conference was "study skills"--- teaching 
students how to take notes, study for tests, summarize lengthy paragraphs, skim, 
scan, review, etc.

If anyone has any recommendations for books, websites, or programs that could help 
in these areas, I'd appreciate the information.  I am compiling things here but I 
know that we don't have the latest materials that might be available to help the 
students.  

Since I work with these students only once a week for about 20 minutes, I wanted to 
compile a "Time Saver / Tip of the Week" for high school students---showing them 
ways to make their lives easier as they begin their adventure in high school 
(they're freshmen) and make sure that they can adapt to college when that time 
comes.  I don't want to add more work to their load but rather offer them 
suggestions based upon what they're doing in class---for example, "Romeo and 
Juliet" is being studied, so I might suggest using the online database "Literature 
Resource Center" to gain some insights into the play and what elements might be 
discussed by the teacher (by scanning the critical reviews).

If you have suggestions, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.  I'll post a 
HIT and provide you links to some of the websites / resources that I develop for 
this group on my website as soon as I can get them created!

Thanks!!

~Shonda


Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco@fwcds.org
http://www.fwcds.org/campus/libraries/default.asp

http://webpages.charter.net/sbrisco/index.html

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