Study Skills from Roads to Success

It’s time for school! Before you rush out to meet the bus, you:

• A. Run around the house looking for your book bag, stuffing in whatever notebooks and textbooks are lying around.

• B. Grab your book bag from your room, but wonder if all your notebooks and textbooks are in it as you head out the door.

• C. Grab the book bag from its regular spot. You know everything you need is there, because you packed it the night before.

The bell has rung and you are packing up your binder. Your teacher says, “Tonight, please read Chapter 3 and answer the questions at the end.” You:

• A. Keep walking out of class, telling yourself you’ll remember the assignment.

• B. Write it on a scrap piece of paper and shove it into your book bag.

• C. Take out your agenda and write it in the day’s list of assignments.

You get home and realize you didn’t write down your math homework. You:

• A. Call someone you know in that class to find out the assignment.

• B. Plan on doing your math homework during your science class.

• C. Celebrate! No math homework tonight!

Your social studies teacher wants your paper typed on a computer. You don’t have one at home, so you:

• A. Ignore his request and write it in your neatest handwriting.

• B. Figure you’ll use the computer lab the day it’s due.

• C. Talk to your teacher and ask what you should do.

It’s time to head home, so you:

• A. Pick up your binder and whatever papers are in it.

• B. Check your agenda to see what papers and other materials you’ll need for homework that night, then make sure you have them.

• C. Look at all the papers on your desk, feel overwhelmed, and go home without your binder.

You know you have a paper, math homework, and lots of reading to do before tomorrow. Before you get started, you:

• A. Play a video game, call a friend, check your email, call another friend, check your email again...

• B. Grab your books and turn on the television.

• C. Go to your special, quiet spot for studying and set a goal for what you need to accomplish.

It's Monday, and you don't have any written homework. However, you have a social studies test on Thursday and an important English paper due on Friday. You:

• Read for 30 minutes, then go play.

• Read for 30 minutes, then work on the paper for 15 minutes and study your social studies notes for 15 minutes.

• Read for 30 minutes, then watch a movie.

Your homework in reading is to "study your vocabulary words," so you:

• Don't do anything.

• Study each word on the list by reading the definition.

• Study each word on the list by reading the definition, then asking a parent or sibling to quiz you on the meaning of each word.

Your full heading should include... (check all that are true)

• First and last name

• The title of the assignment

• Section (4A or 4B)

• Date

• Your class number

There is a new topic in math that is difficult for you, so you:

• Keep a positive attitude.

• Ask your teacher for help.

• Study and practice the skill extra at home.

• All of these! :)