News for May 2012:
Tween Publishing’s gone digital with The Middle School Student’s Guide to College. It’s available in ebook and print formats.
Our upcoming study skills curriculum The Middle School Student’s Guide to Study Skills is moving right along for its anticipated Summer 2012 publication. Teachers and students will enjoy the fresh and innovative approach to study skills. It’ll be classroom ready, easy-to-teach and loaded with comics and middle school humor. The program has 28 lessons with worksheets and activities so your students can nail down those important study skills. We’re excited about it and can’t wait ’til its launched. Here’s a peek at the Instructor’s Guide Table of Contents:
THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS
Lesson 1 The Benefits of Good Study Skills
Lesson 2 Metacognition:Traits of the Self-Aware Student
Lesson 3 How the Brain Learns
Lesson 4 Mental Throw Down: IQ vs. Effort
Lesson 5 What’s in Style? Introduction to Learning Styles
Lesson 6 Let’s Go Multimodal!
Lesson 7 How are You Smart?
Lesson 8 That’s My Routine and I’m Sticking to It!
Lesson 9 The Organized Workspace
Lesson 10 Syllabusted!
Lesson 11 Gettin’ Your Schema On
Lesson 12 Action Heroes: Active vs. Passive Learning
Lesson 13 Battle Plan SQ3R
Lesson 14 Are You Hearing or Listening?
Lesson 15 Navigating Notes
Lesson 16 Cornies & Indies & Hybrids Oh My!
Lesson 17 You and The Basic Outline
Lesson 18 M.N.E.M.O.N.I.C.S.
Lesson 19 Time Spaced Learning: The Anti-Cram
Lesson 20 Test Time! Short Answers and Essays
Lesson 21 So Many Choices, So Little Time!
Lesson 22 Oral Intensity
Lesson 23 Taming Test Anxiety
Lesson 24 So Close, Yet So Far… Distance Learning
Lesson 25 Ouch, My Brain Hurts! High Order & Critical Thinking
Lesson 26 Ramp Up Your Research Skills
Lesson 27 Good Citizens, Perfect Participants!
Lesson 28 Failure Analysis
Lesson titles may adjust a bit before publication this summer. This program picks up right where The Middle School Student’s Guide to Ruling the World! (Work Habits & Organizational Skills) leaves off, providing your students with a comprehensive high school and college readiness program. Watch this website for more information. We’ll also be tweeting progress reports and opportunities to pilot the study skills program, so follow us on Twitter.