Mini-Study Program Part 2 – Planning
It is essential to develop a plan for homework, assignments and exams. Each presents a different set of requirements and each requires its own study plan. Planning for Homework Take your assignment planner to class and write down assignments. Before you leave school, read your planner and make sure that you bring all the necessary […] […]
Mini-Study Program Part 1
Our objectives are to learn how to — Set study goals Arrange a study environment Plan study breaks Avoid interruptions Learn how to study. Study Analysis Where do you study? What distractions are there (visual – noise)? How do you avoid or minimize these distractions? Where do you keep your study supplies? When do you […] […]
Dad, How Do You Do Fractions?
I am relaxing, watching something about space on The Learning Channel, when my 10-year-old son strikes. “How do you do fractions?” he asks. I hate that question because it means I am about to fly right into the teeth of his beloved classroom teacher who does it a different way. I am about to become […] […]
The Oxford Learning Beat Writing Program Part 3
Using Beat Writing Beat Writing is designed to teach both grammar and writing skills. It is not to be used as a singular program. You must use it with other Oxford Learning materials as per the Program Manual. Beat Writing teaches — how to recognize complete sentences how to punctuate how to write grammatically correct […] […]
The Oxford Learning Beat Writing Program Part 2
Why Can’t It Be Easier? We commonly receive requests to make Beat Writing easier! While we sympathize with this wish — to help kids learn to write in an easy manner — it is just impossible. Clear thought requires the clean use and understanding of language: its syntax and its semantics. Our students will never […] […]
The Oxford Learning Beat Writing Program
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you’ve got something to say.” F. Scott Fitzgerald “Thought flies and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.” Julien Green “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.” Robert Louis Stevenson “Nothing […] […]
Make Goal Setting a Family Affair
Setting goals helps motivate students, give purpose to their work, and better plan their time. Oxford Learning recommends that parents and children set goals for success together because “we decisions” are better than “me decisions”. By collaborating during goal setting, parents and kids can open the lines of communication. To begin, simply sit down with […] […]
The Trouble With Words
Your son’s report card is sitting on the table and you are not happy. Math is lower than it should be, his teacher noted that he did not hand in all his assignments, and he got a “Needs Improvement” for effort. What do we do? If you are like most of us, you will sit […] […]
Homework Wars
Even if your child thinks homework is useless or stupid, it still has to be done. Fortunately, there are ways to help kids complete homework assignments and give parents peace of mind. First, don’t try to change your child’s opinion about the value of homework. Instead, acknowledge that its very existence is a blight upon […] […]
Attention Deficit Disorder or Simply Poor Concentration Skills? Part 2
You may be interested to know that the decisions to limit vocabulary and to end phonics were a result of ideas that originated in the 1890s. In the 1890s, one group of educators disagreed with an earlier group of educators. They wrote books and lectured and more than 100 years later we have books with […] […]