Teen Literacy Tips

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I’d also love to hear what you have to say, so please feel free to comment on any post. Thanks for visiting!The Study Smorgasborg has reprinted a set of 10 guidelines for reading non fiction by Paul Edwards of the [...]

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The Value of Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing is one of the most important skills we can teach junior high and high school students. Often they want to rush into interpreting and reacting to a text even before they know what it means. We teachers sometimes suffer from the delusion that since a student can read the [...]

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Study Guides and Strategies is “an educational public service helping learners to succeed.” The study skills website is maintained by Joe Landsberger and is well worth exploring. Some of the topics you will find on the site include:

Exploring Your Own Learning Style
Active Listening
Taking Notes in Lectures
Emergency Test Preparation
Influencing Teachers (!)

There are some [...]

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