Dear Loved Ones,
The final tests are among us, but I want to caution you.
The single biggest study mistake…reading notes. Unless your student is being tested on their ability to read, reading notes isn’t studying.
Your struggling student is being tested on their ability to REMEMBER, not read. We also know that most struggling students think better while standing and moving, than sitting.
I have taught and used the "Study Hallway" with unique learners for many years. This strategy gets the student moving, involves intermittent recall, and practices the remembering of information, rather than the reading of information. Reading notes just doesn't work.
Step 1: Create A Mock Quiz
Write it on plain paper. Just a concept or two per page. Write it large. Stick with the content that requires memorizing such as definitions of words, labeling a diagram, formulas, or dates and events. This quiz will be many pages, but that's part of the fun.
Step 2: Write The Answers
In pencil on the back or a separate sticky note If you write it on the back, you can flip the page, bottom up so that it's upside down if it shows through.
Step 3: Use Sheet Protectors
Place each page in a sheet protector and get our your dry erase markers.
Step 4: Tape It Up
Tape up this mock quiz around the house, preferably along a hallway. Make the dry erase pens available so that your student can write answers on a whim, as they walk by.
Have Fun With It
Every time you walk by and see a correct answer add a star next to that problem and erase the answer. Incentivize those stars.
Make it a game where your student tries to maintain all blanks filled, while you sneak in and randomly erase them.
Erase the wrong answers. Soon you will begin to see which problems need extra practice.
