Study Skills
General
- ADDitude magazine (website for popular magazine about attentional disorders)
- Classroom accommodations for children and teens with ADHD (Russell Barkley)
- Colleges that provide support for students with learning differences (CollegeWebLD)
- How to pay attention in class
- Smart by Scattered Kids (resources from author of Smart )
- Study skills information (Virginia Tech)
- Teenage stress, self-propelled motivation, and the human brain (video with Ned Johnson and William Stixrud)
- Dictionary (dictionary.com)
- Simple English Wikipedia
- Etymology (word origins)
- Idioms
- 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)
- Bill Witte's Video Review Site (algebra)
- Math Reference Tables
- Create a graph
- Algebra worksheets
- Graph paper (from Kevin Savetz's Printable Paper site)
- Online Venn Diagram (Classtools)
- Google Drawings templates
- Interactive Graphic organizers(Holt)
- Education World (Education World)
- Worksheet Works.com
- Tools for creating your own graphic organizers
- Google Drawings: simple and free
- Canva.com: the free version includes editable Venn diagrams
- LucidChart for creating more complex graphic organizers
