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Speed reading

09/06/2011 By Lisa Moore

When I began my tutoring ten years ago I noticed that many of the students I work with struggled with their college prep, honors and AP reading reading requirements.  Many confessed they never read outside of school, a troublesome admission since unless they read outside of school 2  hours a week, many will have trouble getting scores…
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Filed Under: College, High School, Middle School, Reading Skills, Test Preparation Tagged With: reading speed, SAT, speed reading, Tachistoscope

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

Test anxiety

07/28/2011 By Lisa Moore

One of the most frequent calls I get is about test anxiety. The parent informs me that the student gets good grades in his/her classes, but doesn’t “test well”. Feeling anxious about tests is a form of performance anxiety and can take the form of a nervous stomach, a headache, or even throwing up. Many,…
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Filed Under: High School, Middle School, Test Preparation Tagged With: academic tutoring, test anxiety

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