Study Skills, Second Edition
A Landmark School Teaching Guide

List of Examples
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About Landmark School
Landmark Teaching Principles
Introduction

Part I: Basic Study Skills

Chapter 1. Organizational Skills

• Bringing the Right Materials to School
• Organizing Notebooks: The Landmark Master Notebook System, Phase 1
• Organizing Homework Assignments
• Organizing Time
• Organizing Study Space
• Organizing the Classroom
• Setting Clear Expectations

Chapter 2. Recognizing and Formulating Main Ideas

• Teaching Main Idea Skills
• Techniques for Finding the Main Idea
• Main Ideas in Textbooks, Lengthy Selections, and Lesson Plans
• Additional Teaching Suggestions

Chapter 3. Note-Taking

• Teaching Note-Taking from Written Sources
• Note-Taking Sub-Skills
• Teaching Note-Taking from Lectures and Non-Written Sources
• "Note-Taking" versus "Note-Making"
• Selective Note-Taking
• Skeleton Notes of Main Ideas/Graphic Organizers
• Additional Teaching Suggestions

Chapter 4. Summarizing and Paraphrasing

• Teaching Summarizing
• Teaching Paraphrasing

Part II: Advanced Study Skills

Chapter 5. Textbooks Skills

• Identifying and Using Parts of a Textbook
• Pre-Reading Strategies
• Applying Active Reading Strategies to Read for Meaning
• Reflecting While Reading
• Organizational Strategies for Structuring Information
• Mastery Strategies for Long-Term Memory
• In Conclusion

Chapter 6. Study and Mastery: The Master Notebook System

• Phase II:Studying
• Phase III:Mastery
• Teaching Strategies
• Summary of the Master Notebook System

Chapter 7. Test Preparation and Test-Taking Skills

• Teaching Test Preparation
• Teaching Test-Taking

Chapter 8. Research and Report Writing

• Applying Study Skills to Research and Report-Writing
• Assigning Research and Report Projects