How to Remember Everything: Grades 6-8: 127 Memory Tricks to Help You Study Better

by Ellen Gibson & Nick Guastaferro (2006, Princeton Review, 12.95)
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This brand new guide from the experts at The Princeton Review teaches students how to learn. Instead of providing them with long lists of information, it teaches students memory tricks and techniques. Grades 6-8. [7” x 9”...240 pages]

Attitude!: Helping Students WANT to Succeed in School & Then Setting Them Up for Success

by Cheryl Thurston (2003, Cottonwood Press, 19.95)
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These activities provide a realistic approach to help students become better learners. These activities help students see and understand the value of knowledge and learning, look realistically at the future and think about what they want in life, recognize and build on their strengths, change bad habits, and learn practical ways that will help them improve school performance. Grades 6-12. [8.5” x 11”...105 pages]

What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future

By Peter Benson, et al. (1998, Free Spirit, 15.95)
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An interesting presentation of “40 developmental assets” that, according to the author, all teens need to succeed in life. The author maintains that assets form a strong foundation for a person’s life—they protect students from risky behaviors. These assets also make teens the type of people that others look up to, count on, and respect. Grades 6-12. [7” x 9”...361 pages]

Integrating School Success & Career Readiness: Strategies, Student Activity Sheets, Tools, & Assessments

by Imogene Forte & Sandra Schurr (2000, Incentive 19.99)
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Is the world of work becoming complex? You bet it is. And so is school success for some middle school students. This book of activities gives a boost to the basic skills essential to both school and career success. You will find the activities, and the ideas behind them, personally compelling. The focus is on current school success and how that links to the future world of work. There is a lot here. Grades 6-10. [8.5” x 11”...223 pages]

Student Success Secrets: Fifth Edition

By Eric Jensen (2003, Barron's, 8.99)
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Offers productive approaches to developing good study habits, learning study strategies, retaining information from reading, taking useful classroom notes, and scoring high on exams. There is also advice on developing motivation to learn, and methods for approaching particular subjects. Humorous cartoons. Grades 6-12. [6” x 9”...252 pages]

Learn This!: Stuff You Need to Know, & Mistakes You Need to Stop Making, Before You Step Foot Into High School

by Charles Gulotta (2005, Mostly Bright Ideas, 8.95)
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A practical approach for middle school students to learn history, geography, math, writing, grammar, science, literature, astronomy, art and music history, and much more. A great book for students…and their teachers. Grades 7-9. [8.5” x 11”...64 pages]

How to Study Better and Faster: Using Individual Learning Styles, Second Edition

by Aileen Carroll (2001, J. Weston Walch, 19.95)
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Building on Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, this book utilizes techniques that will improve your students’ reading, studying, and testing skills. Grades 6-10. [8.5” x 11”...112 pages]

Improving Study and Test-Taking Skills

by David Wilson, et al. (1997, Carson-Dellosa, 11.99)
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This book engages students with a wide variety of opportunities to make them think about, react to, review, and make plans regarding the ideas presented. Includes exercises for math, science, social studies, language, music, and art. For use in grades 5-8. [8.5” x 11”...94 pages]

School Power: Study Skill Strategies for Succeeding in School

by Jeanne Schumm (2001, Free Spirit, 16.95)
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Strategies that really work for taking notes, writing papers, following directions, setting goals, and more. Grades 6-10. [8.5” x 11”...135 pages]

Super Study Skills: The Ultimate Guide to Tests and Studying

by Laurie Rozakis (2002, Scholastic, 7.95)
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The helpful tips all students need to become more successful. The author uses kid-friendly text and practical examples to show kids how to study smarter, gain confidence, get organized, take great notes, and improve reading comprehension. Grades 4-10. [6” x 8.5”...128 pages]

Getting Ahead

by Teresea Mathis, et al. (2001, Ed. Media, 11.95)
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A book designed to help middle school students get off to a good start. Getting involved at school, setting goals, and communicating with teachers are a few of the concepts. It includes forms and ideas students can use to improve learning by becoming better prepared and organized. Grades 6-8. [8.5” x 11”...72 pages]

Help! My Teacher Hates Me: A School Survival Guide for Kids Ten to Fourteen Years Old

by Meg Schneider (1994, Workman, 7.95)
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A sensitive, but no-nonsense approach to a whole array of school-related problems. Using common teacher predicaments that give the book its title, the author presents a unique, highly supportive guide to helping children get along. Grades 6-8. [5.5” x 7”...278 pages]

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