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Rebeccca
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direction for my kiddo.
I have a remarkably bright girl. Generally, her modus for study is to look over it once and she's got it. This has been particularly true b/c almost everything is very interesting to her and she easily understands. As she gets older, though, she sometimes has to do work that she's not just dying to do. We have an online Latin class, which we love, and for the reading and vocabulary, it comes easily for her.
However, for things that aren't high on the interest-o-meter, her glance-it-over-once approach doesn't work. I'm thinking particulary of principal parts, et c.
I need to help her with her approach to studying things like this. My own approach is to write. I write out the notes I need to remember, lists, whatever. Anything I need to remember I write as many times as I need to write it to remember it.
In college I'd take notes from lectures/texts and then when it came time to study, I'd just copy my notes, all of them. If there were something I had a hard time with, I copied just that part again. I'm using the same approach to studying Latin. Like her, for the reading and general vocabulary, I understand fairly well and what I don't understand, my girl tutors me through. However, the principle parts, macrons, false cognates, et c, don't cement themselves w/o a bit more effort so I copy them till I get them.
My girl doesn't particuarly want to do that. Still, she's got to do something.
I remember having English/Writing tchrs who made me free write in a way that didn't suit my own stye and it drove me crazy. I think studying is similar. I don't want to force fit my study style onto my daughter. And yet, I can see I need to help her do something.
I'm begining to form some ideas but I would very much like some advice/input from you.
Do you have some good ideas for helping me help my daughter form her own study style **and use it?**
Are there some resources I should know about?
Short of that, I'm about to put together a check-list that will include read, write, review, quiz w/ mom, re-write misses, quiz again. something like that. I hate to take that step but will if I can't think of something better. She's not coming up with anything better, either. It's usually so easy for her that now that a road bump came along, she has no idea how to approach it.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
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Rebecca,
How old is she? I think the way you approach this would make a huge difference depending on her age.
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Mimi,
My daughter is 10. Sorry, I always forget . . . I need a sig line.
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I am like you...all about the notes!
My 12 year old was very resistive to notes, until she actually started doing them, and now sees the difference in learning. It helps so much with her personal review. I push the notes, because I know that once they go to college, hopefully, having that discipline will be very, very helpful.
So, part of their homeschooling duties is writing notes, especially in science and history.
God bless...she will do fine.
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I think a check list might be a good idea. Do you know what sort of learner your dd is? My dd is very auditory so she has to say things out loud if she really wants to learn them. Another thing I have her do is teach one of her brothers or me what she is trying to learn. That forces her to organize and verbalize her thoughts. Shurley English was a huge hit with her because of the little jingles she would memorize and say/sing out loud.
I am a visual / tactile learner. I learned at a young age that if I wanted to do well on my tests, I had to write out spelling or vocabulary words and their meanings. I would make up questions for science or history tests, write them out, then write the answers and read over them. Outlining was also helpful.
I have read Discover Your Child's Learning Style which I found to be helpful, but a bit overwhelming. I would recommend it though as there is some very helpful information.
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