The Successful Student Handbook: Student Survival Skills for High School and College Students

by Carl E. Moyler (2007, Educational Media, 16.95)
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The Successful Student Handbook is a compilation and selection of key areas of learning needed by students to be successful in today’s academic classrooms. While every student may not need all the areas included here, this handbook is offered as an answer to many needs shown by the majority of students that Dr. Moyler has taught over the years. Therefore, it can serve as an excellent learning assistant and reference for any level of learning and academic pursuit. Grades 9 and up. [8.5” x 11”...86 pages]

How to Remember Everything: Grades 9-12: 183 Memory Tricks to Help You Study Better

by Russell Kahn & Tom Meltzer (2006, Princeton Review, 12.95)
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Here you will find memory tricks and techniques for learning large amounts of information quickly and easily—so that students can remember that information for years to come. Rote memorization doesn't result in long-term memory retention—but creative learning does. Teachers and students can use these mnemonic devices to produce both short-term and long-term memory. [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]

Student Success Secrets: 5th 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]

Surviving High School: Making the Most of the High School Years

by Mike Riera (1997, Celestial Arts, 11.95)
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Written in a lively, dialog format, with a decidedly “hip-but-responsible” tone, this book strikes the balance between guidance and making choices. The book that you wanted then, and the book for the teens-in-your-midst now. Ten years of experience as a high school counselor have perfected the author’s approachable, interactive style. [7” x 9”...156 pages]

Get Off My Brain: A Survival Guide for Lazy* Students (*Bored, Frustrated, & Otherwise Sick of School)

by Randall McCutcheon (1998, Free Spirit, 12.95)
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This unconventional study guide is aimed at bright, unmotivated students. It offers creative, fun, and effective suggestions for succeeding in school, despite the obstacles of their “lazy” attitude. Students can learn how to combine laughs with learning, identify their strengths, minimize their weaknesses, refine their test-taking abilities, write better papers, and speak up in class. Illustrated. Grades 9-12. [6” x 9”...102 pages]

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