By focusing on activities such as reading for gist, scanning, predicting and responding to what has been read, this book helps students to become more aware of the different strategies used in reading.
In the current No Child Left Behind education environment, test taking is more important than ever. A must for parents helping their children understand the important thinking strategies in all test-taking areas, Gruber's Essential Guide to Test Taking: Grades 6-9 helps them realize their child's true potential. Using the exclusive Gruber methods, this book will give parents and teachers strategies to "nip in the bud" any faulty thinking approaches when it comes to education and testing, and enforce the correct approaches.
In this fascinating book, clinical health psychologist Louise Samways reveals the 12 secrets of health and happiness, which only recently have become properly understood. The secrets are not complex or elusive, they are simple, successful skills and strategies you can learn, to make your goal of true health & happiness a reality.
The challenge of motivating underachieving students is addressed in this classroom resource guide that advises teachers and other concerned adults to look beyond test scores and encourage under-performing middle school and high school students to find their motivational spark. Developmental benchmarks, reasonable expectations for results, and strategies for charting progress are discussed for a myriad of situations..
