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H^ ...STUDY. Scholastic's A+ Junior Guide to Studying Colligan *** ...STUDY. Scholastic's A+ Junior Guide to Studying Louise Coiligan SCHOLASTIC INC. NewYork Toronto London Auckland Sydney No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. Forinformationregard- ing permission, write to Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. ISBN0-590-96544-1 Copyright©1987byRiverview Books. Allrightsreserved. PublishedbyScholasticInc. 12111098765432 9 6789/901/0 PrintedintheU.S.A. 01 To the students of the Irvington, New York, Middle School Table of Contents 1: How To Organize Yourself on the Home Front 1 Quiz Yourself on Being Organized 5 Making Organizing Easy 7 Ten Terrific Time-Savers 10 2: How To Organize Yourself at School 14 Quiz Yourself on Being Organized at School 16 Making Organizing Easy 18 3: How To Take the Work Out of Homework 27 Quiz Yourself on Homework 29 Managing Your Homework 32 How To Read so You Will Remember What You've Read 36 How To Become 4: a Better Test Taker 40 Quiz Yourself on Test Taking 43 Getting in Shape for Tests 46 Follow-up 50 5: What's on Your Mind? Some Answers to Students7 Questions ... 51 Problems on the Home Front 51 Problems at School 56 Homework and Tests 61 6: Quick Review: A School Survival Kit 69 A School Tools: Checklist 70 A Listening-Skills Checklist 71 A Note-Taking-Skills Checklist 71 A Homework-Skills Checklist 72 A Memorizing Checklist 74 A Test-Taking Checklist 75 Tip-off 77 Go for the Goal 78 Test Record Sheet 80 Student's Notes 84 Index 87 1 How To Organize Yourself Home on the Front Did your first weeks in middle school go some- thing like this? • You couldn't find half your classes on the first try? • Your locker combination wouldn't unlock at the worst possible times? • You had a hard time figuring out your schedule for all those classes? Or, worse, you lost your schedule completely? • Yournotebook, the one you boughtrightbefore school started, vanished the first week or was the wrong kind? • The eighth graders hassled you and your friends every chance they got? In short, was middle school a pretty confusing place to go to five days a week? If these things happened to you, please know that you are not alone. Over and over the little things make school hard for some students. You do your homework but forget it on the bus. You show up a little late for class and miss out on important announcements. You listen attentively in class but forget your notebook at home. You read the wrong chapter or memorize the wrong spelling list. Pretty soon these small mistakes add up. You do nearly as much work as A students but wind up with lower grades. You just miss the mark, not out of laziness or lack of brain cells, but because you aren't sure how to organize yourwork. Well, guess what? Everybody, from the class brain to the class clown, has some problems managing school in the middle grades. Different classes, different teachers, lots more homework and tests, — older kids many of these things overwhelm students. Tofindoutwhatproblemswerebuggingstudents in school, a large group was asked this question: "Whatwas thehardest thingyou rememberaboutstarting middle school?" Here are some of the answers: • ". knowing where the classes were." . . • ". getting used to older kids." . . • ". being teased by eighth graders." . .