"SOAR study skills is a comprehensive program that empowers students to manage their time, schoolwork, and extra-curricular activities more efficiently."--Back cover.

Learning Writing, Study, and Planning Skills Is Easy with Ten Minutes to Better Writing and Study SkillsSpiral-bound workbook features:¿Quick, practical 10-minute graphic organizer exercises¿Reproducible activities with graphic organizers¿Tips to help students organize information, take notes, make comparisons and write essays¿Includes reproducible planning calendars, test taking tips, research paper organizers and much more!Students will soon be on their way to higher test scores and improved writing, study, and planning skills. Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills¿ makes the information we have read or acquired easy to use. These graphic organizer study forms, tips, and methods are supported by the National Reading Panel. Graphic Organizers Improve Study Skills¿Daily, weekly, and monthly planning becomes easyier¿Write more interesting sentences¿Learn the steps of the writing process¿Write clear and understandable paragraphs and essays¿Make good word choices and improve your vocabulary¿Write a bibliography/works cited¿Write the four basic essays

58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.

"Student-directed activities help middle schoolers learn how to get organized, how grading is done, and how to develop good study skills."--Amazon.com

Provides opportunities for active learning and student practice in the study skills and strategies most important for success in high school.