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Learning How to Study

Learning How to Study
By G.E. Tompkins
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Students are often asked to remember content-area material that they’ve read for a discussion, to take a test, or for an oral or written project. The traditional way to study is to memorize a list of facts, but it’s more effective to use strategies that require students to think critically and to elaborate ideas. As they study, students need to do the following:

  • Restate the big ideas in their own words
  • Make connections among the big ideas
  • Add details to each of the big ideas
  • Ask questions about the importance of the ideas
  • Monitor whether they understand the ideas

Students use these five strategies as they study class notes, complete graphic organizers to highlight the big ideas, and orally rehearse by explaining the big ideas to themselves.

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