David Peal, Tutor and Coach
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    • Study skills
    • The news & media literacy
    • History resources
    • Geography resources
    • Podcasts on history and the news

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)
Reading & Writing
  • 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)
Math
  • Bill Witte's Video Review Site (algebra)
  • Math Reference Tables
  • Create a graph
  • Algebra worksheets
  • Graph paper (from Kevin Savetz's Printable Paper site)
Graphic organizers​​
  • 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​
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  • About
  • Resources
    • Study skills
    • The news & media literacy
    • History resources
    • Geography resources
    • Podcasts on history and the news