1. Oak Hall Learning Specialists Parent Coffee Talks
“Working Together to Ensure Success”

2. How to help your child succeed in school
Fall 2018
How to help your child succeed in school

3. Welcome and Introductions:
Diana Murdock – Academic Dean
Sue Hendricks – Lower School Learning Specialist
Kelly Warm – Lower School Learning Specialist
Susan Swiderski – Middle School Learning Specialist

4. Objective: Upon completion of this presentation you will:
learn a variety of study strategies for assessments
take away organizational strategies that prevent your child from feeling overwhelmed and promote life-long success
acquire strategies that help your child
to comprehend what they are reading

5. Developing Smart Study Habits:
Set a regular study time and space
Remove all distractions
Have all the necessary supplies

6. Study in small, short chunks.
Study Strategies
Study in small, short chunks.
DO NOT CRAM

7. Rereading notes or highlighting a textbook are ineffective.
Study Strategies
Rereading notes or highlighting a textbook are ineffective.
Instead use notecards or rewrite notes.

8. Have a goal for each study session.
Study Strategies
Have a goal for each study session.
For Example: I will make notecards for 10 of my vocabulary terms and memorize them.

9. Encourage your child to
Study Strategies
Encourage your child to
”teach” challenging
concepts to you.

10. Study Strategies https://kahoot.com
Have your child use the information they need to learn to make a Kahoot game and play it as a family.
You make a Kahoot game and have your child play it.
It’s free and fun!

11. Study Strategies
Have your child use the information they need to learn to make a Quizlet game.
Find an already made Quizlet for your child
It’s free and fun!

12. Organizational Strategies
Have your child keep a planner
Require them to write everything down *even if they have no homework.*
Encourage your child to keep a large calendar at home that allows them to make long-term plans, such as a desk calendar or white board.

13. Reading Strategies Read with your child every day, even
after he/she becomes
an independent reader.
Jump-In Reading
Enjoy reading a story with family
members by allowing each person
to read a portion of the story. This technique
motivates your child to read a longer text. .

14. Reading Strategies Selective Underlining/Highlighting
Helps your child understands the story’s
main idea and for organizing information
from selections.
Sticky-Note Discussions
This works effectively after your
child has read a selection,
he/she uses sticky notes to mark
the places he/she wants to talk about