Study Skills and Learning Strategies

 

Check out the following websites on study skills and learning strategies. Most of them are designed to be used by high school and college students without disabilities but can be adapted by teachers for classroom use.

The Learning Toolbox is a website designed to enable secondary students with LD or ADHD to become active learners. It can be used for independent use by students or classroom use by teachers. It contains strategies for organization, test-taking skills, study skills, note-taking skills, reading, writing, math, and thinking skills. It was constructed by learning disabilities specialists at James Madison University as part of a research project.

Northern Virginia Community College's Nancy McTaggart designed a user-friendly site for the Dogwood Project called Study Skills Help! with links for a self-evaluation, time management, reading comprehension focusing on finding the main idea and supporting details, memory, test-taking, and note-taking skills.

The unique element of the University of St. Thomas site, Study Guides and Strategies, is that it is available in several languages. The site contains study strategies that are not found on other sites, including preparing to learn, classroom participation, learning with others, project skills, and designing websites.

Do your students need help with grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and other writing skills? Explore ENGLISH-ZONE.com. Designed by an English teacher, the site contains a wealth of information and links for teachers and students, including interactive math activities. There is so much information that it may be overwhelming to students to navigate by themselves but teachers will find this a valuable site.

Several colleges and universities have sites for study skills that are very comprehensive, including the following: Virginia Tech's Study skills Self-Help Information, the University of Toronto's Learning Skills Counselling/Education, and California Polytechnic State University's Academic Skills Center-Study Skills Library. If you find a good site on study skills that we could add to this list, please let me know and I can update it.