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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Distance courses (video format) from Montgomery College (Bill Witte)
- Math Reference Tables
- Create a graph
- Algebra worksheets
- Graph paper (from Kevin Savetz's Printable Paper site)
