Write with your Senses :
Write with your Senses Write about the room you are sitting in
Close your note books and first feel, see, touch, smell and touch the room and then start writing.
CHcek your WRTING :
CHcek your WRTING Quickly go through your writing and look for ONE for mistake at a time. DO not read – only scan for mistakes
Look for any spelling mistake
Now look for any Punctuation mistake
Now look for any grammar mistake
Reading Smarter :
Reading Smarter
Read with a PURPOSE :
Read with a PURPOSE S – Survey
Q – Question
Follow K-W-L
K – What I know
W – What I want to know
L – What I learnt
3R – Active Reading, Recite and Review
Read with a PURPOSE :
Read with a PURPOSE If you want to go on a holiday to say, Goa,what you do?:
Do I quick seach of options available - S – Survey
Ask people where to go in Goa - Q – Question
Now when you reach Goa – you go the top most important (to you) places. You see places actively – not just start from one end and try to see full Goa. – So read with a purpose – 1st R- Active Reading (to find answers to most important questions)
Come back and talk about the experience – 2nd R – Recite
Later on see photographs, discuss Goa with others A– 3R - Review
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Choose any book or article
See the contents page, scan heading s and subheading to see what the book contains – do your quick SURVEY
Now write questions what you want to know from the book or article – what specifically interests you – what is important to you – what are you looking for? - Questions
Now Read for finding answers to your questions - Active Reading – we are not going to read everything – we are going to search and read so that we find answers to our questions.However, as we read, we may get more questions – in which case we will add those to our quest list.
After reading, talk and teach others (friends) about what you learned from the book – RECITE
Make a mind map - REVIEW Read with a PURPOSE
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This presentation is part of a workshop Geniekids conducts for children in the age group 9-16 years. We believe its not important to “study hard” but to “study smart” – That is study with an understanding of how our brain works, how we learn.This ensure better efficiency and effectiveness. In fact the principles of study skills are fairly intuitive and also known for centuries – yet the oft heard comment (from parents) is why didn’t somebody tell me about this when I was in school / college. Study skills benefit one and all, are simple to imbibe and result into more enjoyable learning process.Please visit our website to know more as well as browse the web in general to discover and understand learning more. Contact us if you want us to conduct workshop for your child, school, or children of your community or even train you (as an adult) to further train children. Click on our logo below to visit our website.