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Vocabulary building with roots & visual cues

08/30/2011 By Lisa Moore

You may not realize it, but you already know  enough to help your vocabulary grow exponentially. English  is a language based on Latin, Greek and  Germanic prefixes, suffixes  and roots. If you understand the meaning of  these word parts and how they  fit together, you have the tools to understand hundreds of thousands of other  words….
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Filed Under: High School, Vocabulary Skills Tagged With: learning styles, mneumonics, visual learning

SAT vs ACT

08/30/2011 By Lisa Moore

Is it better to take the SAT or the ACT? The SAT tests aptitude in three areas of knowledge: mathematics, reading comprehension and writing & grammar.  There are 10 sections to the test, three in each area of knowledge and one experimental section that could be any subject but doesn’t count toward your score.  The test…
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Learning styles

08/20/2011 By Lisa Moore

Researchers such as Howard Gardner have suggested what some parents have long suspected: There are very different learning styles and students learn in different ways. The spatial/visual learner learns from what is seen, especially diagrams and pictures. The linguistic learner remembers what is read or spoken.  They usually perform well in traditional academic settings that…
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Filed Under: College, High School, Middle School, Study Skills Tagged With: learning styles

When do you need to call a tutor?

08/12/2011 By Lisa Moore

The answer is more complicated than it seems.  It depends in part, on whether the academic difficulty has appeared just recently or has been a problem for a long time.  In other words, has he or she always had problems with a subject such as math or reading, or is it a recent, perhaps subject…
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Filed Under: High School, Middle School Tagged With: test anxiety, tutoring

Why college bound students need critical thinking skills

08/04/2011 By Lisa Moore

Critical thinking skills are essential life skills; the more selective colleges seek out students with critical thinking skills because they know how to learn.  Employers recruit such students because they have demonstrated a capacity Critical thinking is a form of metacognition: thinking about thinking. Critical thinking means moving from thinking concretely about a topic, such as family,…
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Filed Under: College, High School Tagged With: academic tutoring, metacognition

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