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Study skills resources on the Web

Skills and strategies
  • Teenage stress, self-propelled motivation, and the human brain (Ned Johnson and William Stixrud)
  • Classroom accommodations for children and teens with ADHD (Russell Barkley). Many consider Barkley the leading expert on ADHD, and his book, Executive Functioning, includes a thorough analysis of the role of EF in evolution.
  • ADDitude magazine (accessible resources and tips on every aspect of organization)
  • Learning toolbox (study strategies)
Study Guides and Strategies
  • Essential study skills: Complete guide to success at university (companion Web site to Sage Publishing book on study skills)
  • How to Study
  • How to focus in class
  • Study Skills information (Virginia Tech)
  • Think before your Search (tips for using Google Search)
  • Google Chrome's assistive technology toolbox
  • Montgomery College's Department of Disability Services (DSS)
  • Colleges that provide support for students with learning differences (CollegeWebLD)
Reading & writing
  • Dictionary (dictionary.com)​
  • ​Simple English Wikipedia
  • Etymology (word origins)
  • Idioms​
  • Sample Accuplacer Reading tests
  • Keys to remembering what you read (LD Online article on note-taking)
  • Critical evaluation of information (great resource from Kathy Schrock)
  • Business English Materials (collection of readings about companies, with large set of reading exercises for each company)
  • Rewordify (a tool for simplifying your writing)
  • Text Compactor (for reducing the length of texts; works like Word's old Autosummarize feature)
  • ReadWriteThink - interactive classroom resources
  • WritingDEN (guide to writing sentences, paragraphs, and essays)
  • Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • Grammar Girl (podcasts on grammar, punctuation, etc.)
  • MLA Style and Formatting Guide
  • Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes
  • Readability statistics
  • "The importance of automaticity and fluency for efficient reading comprehension" (review of research)
  • Butterick's practical typography (excellent guidelines for use of fonts, spaces, dashes, etc.)
  • Quizlet (for making flashcards and using flashcards made by others)
Graphic organizers​​
  • Online Venn Diagram (Classtools)
  • Google Drawings templates
  • Interactive Graphic organizers(Holt)
  • Education World (Education World)
  • Education Oasis (including Character and story graphic organizers)
  • Worksheet Works.com
The most effective graphic organizers are often the ones you design yourself. Three design tools simplify the process of customizing graphic organizers and creating organizers more complex than the ready-made ones available on the Web:
  • Google Drawings: simple and free, but lacking in advanced features
  • Canva.com: the free version includes editable Venn diagrams (Canva.com can also be used to create everything from business cards to infographics)
  • LucidChart: allows for the creation of highly complex graphic organizers (the free version limits the number of diagrams you can make)
Math
  • Distance courses (video format) from Montgomery College (Bill Witte)
    • PreAlgebra
    • Algebra
    • Intermediate Algebra
  • Math Reference Tables
  • Create a graph
  • Algebra worksheets
  • Graph paper (from Kevin Savetz's Printable Paper site)​
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