6th Grade Developing Study Skills that fit you!

• Identify learning style to improve study habits.
• Assess study skills by applying solution focused strategies to identify how you study best.
• What’s working, what’s not, and what needs to change in order to be a more successful learner.

Turn and Talk: 1 minute per person:

• How do you study?
• What is your study environment?
• What are some rewards?

Learning Style and Study Skills

Now what?

Objective for today...

• Think about how you study.
• Does the way you study match your learning style?

What is your study environment?

How do you study?

Are you rewarding yourself?

Option

use your 5 senses

If you complete all your homework at once

Reward yourself; You're done!

Option

• Create a song
• Create a "saying"
• Write an outline
• Make a visual chart
• Picture it in your mind
• Takes lots of breaks
• Do practice problems

If you break your homework into 1 hour time blocks

• How are you sitting?
• Where are you sitting?
• Are you not sitting?
• Are snacks near?
• Is there light?
• Who is around?

Give yourself a 30 min reward and then get back to work.

Option

Big Questions:

• What is my learning style?
• What are learning styles?
• How do I currently study?
• How can I use my learning style to improve my study habits?

You break your homework into 30 minute time blocks

Give yourself a 15 minute reward and then get back to work. Do this until the work is done

• Is there music?
• Is there technology?
• Pencil or Pen?
• Are you at home?
• How are you dressed?
• Are you focused?

• Take detailed notes
• Create notes cards
• Roll play
• Quiz friends
• Say it out loud
• Read about it
• Do practice problems

Technology, video games, food, play outside...

Just make sure you get your work done!

Give us some information.

1. On a scale from 1-10, 1 being “I have no idea why learning styles help study skills” and 10 being “My learning style will help me improve my study habits.” Where are you? Circle your number.

2. What is my learning style?

3. Why are study skills important?

Why are you learning about study skills?

Connections:

Learning Styles

Know how you learn best to be a more successful learner.

Study Skills

What did students have to say about their study skills and time management skills?

Developing study skills that match your learning style will help you become a more successful student

Options After High School

Understanding yourself as a learner will help you make informed decisions about life beyond High School.

Use your learning style to identify some changes you can make to your current study habits.

What's your study plan?

• How do you currently study?
• What environment do you study in?

What is your new study plan?

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I

V

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Y

• What works?
• What can I change or add to try and improve my study habits?

What reward would motivate you to do your best?

How can learning styles help you figure out the best way for you to study?

3 learning styles

Auditory

Visual

Reflections:

Auditory

What is my learning style?

Visual

Tactile and Kinesthetic

• How is this presentation meeting the needs of auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners?

What are learning styles?

Tactile and Kinesthetic

Think...

Big Questions

Pair with a partner near you

How do I currently study?

1. What is my learning style?

3 people will share.

2. What are learning styles?

3. How do I currently study?

How can I improve my study habits using my learning style?

4. How can I improve my study habits using my learning style?