Learning Tips and Study Habits

Answer these questions: A. What have I learned? B. What was the text about? C. How long did it take to read? D. Why did I read this?

Taking notes and organizing them as you read helps you remember also.

your question could be "have I understood everything that I have just read?"

Here are some ideas that usually work:

• Do a report on something from your class that isn't really taught in the textbook, or that your teacher is skipping over
• Do artwork - illustrate something from the class, or draw your interpretation of something you're studying, or make a poster for what you're learning
• Look up extra definitions and make sentences with the words
• Make a story using your vocabulary words
• Make a story about the people you're studying or the period of history you're learning about
• Make up a poem or song about what you're learning

Memorizing means learning something so that your brain will remember it - to "learn it by heart."

• You can write it down a couple of times - writing helps you to memorize it.
• Repetition is a good way of memorizing something. Repeating it over and over until it sticks in your mind is one of the most basic ways to memorize.
• You can use word association to help. Think of something that you already understand that is similar to the new word or term. When you think of the new term, remember the familiar one and "associate" or link them together in your mind.

If you have a list to memorize, write the list out, and take the first letter of each word. Using those letters in order, make up a sentence of words that start with the same word, but are funny enough or familiar enough that you can remember them better than the list of terms. For example, if you want to learn the names of the planets in order from the sun outward, here is how you would do it:

• to list the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
  • Make a new sentence with each word beginning with the same letter as the words in the first list: My Very Eager Mailman Just Showed Us Newspapers, or Man Very Early Made Jars Stand Up Nearly Perfectly (or Neatly, since Pluto isn't a planet!)
• You can also make one word or term by using just the first letters if you can make something that you will remember. You can memorize the colors of the rainbow by remembering ROY G. BIV, the imaginary student: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet!
• For complicated explanations, you can write just the facts, and use the first letters of those to make a sentence or word: remember the Krebs Cycle in biology by memorizing "OIL RIG" - Oxidation Is Loss; Reduction Is Gain!
• If you want to memorize left and right hold out your hands with palms facing outwards, and thumbs out, left hand should appear like an L

You can also remember a list of anything in order by imagining a picture for each number of your list, and imagining the word or term along with that picture. You imagine that:

• One (1) is a Bun (like a hotdog or hamburger bun) - see the term between the ends of a bun, like it was a hotdog or hamburger!
• Two (2) is a Shoe - imagine your favorite shoe with the term inside of it!
• Three (3) is a Tree - imagine the term growing on a tree!
• Four (4) is a Door - imagine opening the door to see the term, or having the term posted on the door like a decoration!
• Five (5) is a Hive (a beehive) - imagine the term inside the hive, covered with bees or honey!
• Six (6) is a Fix - imagine fixing your parents car! OR a Stick - imagine beating the item with a big stick!
• Seven (7) is in Heaven - imagine the term flying around with wings and a halo!
• Eight (8) is a Gate - imagine the term hanging off of the top of a gate, or stuck between the gate and the fence!
• Nine (9) is a Vine- imagine the term covered up with a huge vine!
• Ten (10) is a Hen- imagine the item on a hen, or the hen sitting on the item!

The above method is called Pegwords - you are "hooking" a new term onto a "peg" that you already have in your memory. You can also use a variation of this called Loci - the word locus (plural: loci) is Latin for place. For the Loci Method, have a vivid mental image of a place you like - this can be rooms or sections in a building, or sights along a drive or walk. Now, see each item on your list in one spot in your mental place - in order to recall the items, just take a mental walk or drive.

Here are other ideas from our WikiReaders:

• make flashcards
• write it in your note book
• write it on paper and put it where it will be seen a lot.
• Read the material out loud often.
• Practice , practice, practice.
• If a long passage, break into smaller portions, then practice speaking each portion separately. If you don't have the privacy to read out loud, then whisper to yourself as loudly as possible. It is important for your auditory nervous system to hear your words spoken. It will speed up your memorizing if the auditory system ( connecting your ears to your brain ) is also working. Thus two nervous systems are teaming up to help you to remember ( commit to memory ), your speaking system and your listening system. Actually three nervous systems -- your eyes are reading which means your visual nervous system is also working as part of the learning team. Also, pacing up and down in your room while practicing saying your material will help by using your physical system as a fourth member of the learning team. In addition, I recommend using your lips in a very exaggerated fashion when pronouncing, for the same reason.
• I have always found it easier to make a story with it. Like, if you are memorizing a list of words make a story with it. I made one for science and it helped a lot.
• Keep a small pocket journal. Write stuff down. Practice remembering what you just wrote, then look and see how many items you remembered (e.g. such as on a grocery shopping list).

This question is not possible to answer. It depends on the age of the student, the philosophy of the school or the individual teacher.

• Some teachers think that homework is good for students to practice what they learned in class. This is a good strategy for languages and mathematics.
• Some teachers think that homework is good for students to extra work related to what they have learned.
• Some teachers believe that homework should be used to complete assignment work.

There are probably many different types of homework given. What percentage of time is spent on homework compared with school is really answered for an individual student at an individual school and individual teacher.

No answer!

Some tips for grade 6 are: study hard , be prepared , get everything you need , do your homework , take notes in class , ask for help (when you need it) , stay on task , try to aviod getting detentions & always try your best. With these tips I garantee you'll have a great year in grade 6.

Here are some more specific tips, too:

• Keep an assignment notebook - write down all your assignments in one place so you'll never lose them.
• Keep a calendar - get one of those ones that have big squares you can write in. Put down when each big assignment - project, report, or test - is due and keep an eye on the calendar so you won't get surprised!
• Learn how to take good notes - see related question below
• Have a set time each day to study and do your homework - treat it just like a job and go do it.