Starting Early with Study Skills: A Week By Week Guide for Elementary Students

by Judith L. Irvin

A unique, research-based plan for teaching study skills to elementary school students, this new book is filled with suggested classroom activities and over 90 reproducible student activity sheets. The book offers strategies teachers can use to develop key study skills in their students with reinforcements through practice activities in both group and individual settings. It is the only book available to provide a systematic treatment of study skills development in the early grades. Each chapter begins by presenting the educational issues, research, and theory associated with the topic under development. This is followed by an illustrative vignette and a week by week plan of classroom activities that can be used as presented or adapted to the needs of specific classrooms and students. Ninety student activities and worksheets that can be used as homework or for in-class work are included. Elementary School Teachers. A Longwood Professional Book.

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 1994