Help your kids with study skills : a unique step-by-step visual guide / Carol Vorderman, M.A. (Cantab), MBE., Geoff Barker, Dr. Andrew Moran, Cath Senker, Sandy Sommer.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, New York : DK Penguin Random House, 2016Edition: First American editionDescription: 256 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1465436340
- 9781465436344
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 371.3028 V953 | Available | 33111008858496 |
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Stressed about your studies? Struggling with subjects? Anxious about exams?
This fantastic visual guide is here to help children and parents get the most out of school and make curriculum learning an enjoyable experience.
With bright visuals and brilliant step-by-step content, this is the helping hand parents need to guide their children through the challenges of education. You'll discover all the best practical techniques to gather knowledge, master revision, boost memory, create study plans, and excel at exams. You'll also learn to keep calm with workable ways of building confidence, getting motivated, handling pressure, and managing anxiety.
Help Your Kids with Study Skills offers invaluable advice on how to support your child's classwork, homework, and revision right up to the exams. Covering everything from staying healthy and creating a work space to setting goals and studying online, this absolutely essential book encourages real world skills for lifelong learning. The book presents crystal-clear bite-sized text and jargon-free explanations to conquer difficult concepts and tricky subjects, including maths, science, history, and geography.
DK's best-selling Help Your Kids series ensures frustrated parents and confused children find studying more simple and straightforward than ever before.
Help Your Kids with Study Skills is a unique step-by-step visual guide with invaluable advice on how to support your child's classwork, homework, and revision, with effective study methods that suit a range of learning styles for the third grade level and beyond. From exploring your child's preferred learning approach to using mind maps, flow charts, and mnemonic devices to handling test preparation and exam-day anxiety, this guide can help you place your child on the road to success. Jargon-free text and crystal-clear visual breakdowns help kids get their heads around tricky subjects, and a section covering math, science, history, geography, and other core areas provides subject-specific tips. If you are a confused parent with a frustrated child who is struggling in the classroom, this latest book in DK's best-selling series can give you the tools you need to help them get the most out of school. Series Overview: DK's bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school.
How we learn -- Preparing and setting goals -- Getting and working with information -- Online study -- Review techniques -- Exam techniques -- Handling anxiety -- Reference.
Includes bibliographical references and index.