{"id":56,"date":"2014-08-08T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T22:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:56:56","slug":"back-school-study-skills-textbook-previewing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/back-school-study-skills-textbook-previewing-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-School Study Skills: Textbook Previewing With Your Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.\u201d Robert M Hutchins<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s that time of year again, so I want to re-run a three part article about textbook previewing with your kids to help them start out well with this fall’s school success.<\/p>\n Before I do though, I want to remind you to LIKE our Character Ink FB page<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and sign up to receive our blog posts in your email and to receive our enewsletter (in the sidebar) which includes links to articles for the week and much more! Oh, and don\u2019t forget to spread the word! Many of our Raising Kids With Character seminar\/blog followers are not aware of our homeschool pages and updates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Comprehension and study skills are not necessarily as much remembering all of the details that were read as much as knowing how to read for meaning, remembering the most important parts, and being able to locate information as needed. Students\u2019 textbooks in the content areas (science, history, government, health, geography, etc.) lend themselves greatly to comprehending the information they contain\u2014if students know how to interact with them.<\/p>\n I recommend that parents sit down with your kids (one at a time) and have them bring their textbooks to you, one at a time, and follow some of the tips below previewing their books with them. This will help them (and you) determine the signaling systems, layout, study tools, etc., that each book includes.<\/p>\n A student needs to know quickly how to find information in his book, whether there\u2019s a glossary or index for quick vocabulary help, how each section is summarized, and many other tips that can be discovered right when he begins using that text (with some help from Mom or Dad). By previewing his whole text at first, he will know how user friendly it is, how to set up his notes, and even which study approaches will and will not work for that particular text.<\/p>\n
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