Study Tips

Use Touch Math to Help Students Struggling With Addition

If students in your classroom are having trouble understanding addition, one method that works for young students is Touch Math. Students usually understand Touch Math easily for addition, and it can help them transition into learning subtraction. There...

Top Homework Tips for Kids With Learning Disabilities

Do you or someone you know have a learning disability? Does the learning disability make study and homework a challenge? Does your child hand in work late or not finished? Check out this article filled with top tips for getting homework and...

Study Tips for Children with Learning Disabilities

Children with learning disabilities can improve their studying performances if they receive the right help from their teachers. Read on to see how teachers can promote learning success for students having difficulty in their classrooms.

Study Techniques for Children with ADHD

This article describes some ADHD study techniques that can be used for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Break it Down and Learn it Backwards - How to Ace Your Next School Project or Test

Some students simply hate tests and assignments. They find them hard to finish, hard to do well at, and hard to be motivated about. But with some simple strategies in mind, you can boost your performance in tests and assignments easily. Read on to find...

Tips for Fourth and Fifth Grade Social Studies Test Prep

For elementary students with special needs, social studies tests may be overwhelming. There's usually a wealth of information they need to know from definitions to dates to historical facts. Many concepts are abstract, such as the branches of government...

Top Math Tutoring Tips

This article sets you on the road to being a successful math tutor - all you need to know about tutoring students with lower abilities in math at a range of age levels. Tutoring can be a satisfying and quite a well paid job, but it pays to understand...

Science Study Skills: Creating a Concept Mapping Study Guide

In a typical science classes, there are extensive vocabulary lists and conceptual learning that students with special needs may find difficult to access and connect into meaningful knowledge bases. By using concept mapping to outline and scaffold chunks...

Tips for Teachers to Explain Money to Students in Special Education

Teaching money is an abstract concept that has many "what ifs" to the task. Teaching these concepts to students with disabilities can be hard to do. They need a lot of reinforcement and modified lesson plans. This is a resource to create a study...

Study Guide: H1N1 Swine Flu Facts vs. Fictions

Swine flu has become the latest health epidemic for the global world. As the flu spreads throughout the world, school communities are scrambling to provide valid information that separates facts from fictions. Keep reading the facts from the CDC to keep...