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Strategies To Help Students Use Textbooks More Effectively

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textbooksI hate textbooks. How many times have teachers heard that? I’ve been tempted to tear the textbook apart into smaller units and give these to my students one at a time (Our students don’t have to buy their textbooks.) But, textbooks are toooooootooooooo expensive to do that. Although I might be tempted to ask a parent to buy the textbook and then divide it into smaller chunks. I haven’t done that yet, but that might be an accommodation we could make for my learning disabled kids. Photocopying is also expensive and time, my time, consuming.

Oh, are you wondering why I’m not showing you an example of a mind map like I promised in the last post. Well, I can’t get the ****** thing to load into the post. So on to plan B. This may be a good time to point out that having a plan B is a prudent thing to do. I have a set of emergency lessons ready in case the wheels fall off the wagon in class. It’s proven to be a good survival tactic. I have a class set of various handouts ready to distribunanon a nano second if things go awry, as they do from time to time. I like using puzzles, word searches, and short story activities for this purpose. Creating them is really not a problem becausedhelper to do it. Check out the site. It’s great.

Now on to plan B. As I said many students hate textbooks. I believe that one of the reason is that they don’t know how to use them. I have created a lesson to help my students learn to use their textbooks more efficiently. I’ll share the lesson with you. Please notice that it does have a simple mind map to explain all the feature of a text book. Click here for the lesson.

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