Speed Learning for Kids E-Book

Bill Handley

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 185

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Proven strategies to help kids learn faster and better, from bestselling author Bill Handley Kids who succeed at school aren't necessarily smarter than other kids. Often, they're simply better at learning. Speed Learning for Kids helps you teach your child how to thrive at school by learning more in less time, with less effort. The brain-training techniques in this book will enable kids to not just learn faster, but enjoy their learning, memorise as they go, and absorb as much in ten minutes as they normally would in two hours of study. How is it possible? These nontraditional techniques aren't mysterious; they're just not often taught. Any child can learn how to learn, and the results really matter--with improved concentration, better short- and long-term memory, more creative thinking, and better reading comprehension skills. * Includes study techniques that replace rote learning to achieve better test results on everything from spelling tests to NAPLAN and scholarship and entrance exams * Written by Bill Handley, author of the bestselling books Teach Your Children Tables and Speed Maths for Kids * Features brain-training techniques that will not only improve school performance, but also improve problem-solving and creative thinking for long-term career success If you want to give your kids a boost in school, Speed Learning for Kids offers proven, effective strategies and techniques that lead to success in the classroom and beyond.

Leseprobe

Speed Learning for Kids

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The brain-training tools

Chapter 1: Making mental pictures

Imagination and learning

Active learning is the secret

Linking new information to old information

Learning the names of capital cities

Making better mental pictures

Now let’s see how well this has worked

How long will I remember what I have learned?

How to remember new information for a long time

Chapter 2: Using rhyming reminders

The reminder system of memory training

Rhyming reminders for numbers

Learn the characteristics of living things

Let’s see if you can remember

Six properties of magnets — another example

Improving your understanding

A fun way to practise

Chapter 3: Learning look-alike reminders

Look-alike reminders

Remembering a shopping list

Shopping list

Chapter 4: Creating logical reminders

Increasing the reminders to 30

The logical reminders

Learning the list of Australian prime ministers

Let’s learn 1 to 10

Let’s learn 11 to 20

Let’s learn 21 to 27

Learning abstract information

Sound-alike or rhyming?

Part II: Learn like a genius

Chapter 5: How to learn to spell like a genius

Making links

Some spelling rules

What to do when you don’t know the rule

Never believe a lie

A piece of pie

Built on stilts

Stationery or stationary?

Here or hear?

ible or able?

ar or er?

Delagate or delegate?

Complement and compliment?

Seperate or separate?

Working out your own reminders

Alphabet reminders

My alphabet reminders

Chapter 6: How to solve problems like a genius

The power of visualising

Using reminders develops creative thinking skills

Courses on creative thinking and concentration

Answers

The tall man/short man problem

Extra activities

Chapter 7: How to write like a genius

How to write to present an argument or persuasive essay

1 Plan what you want to say and how you will say it

2 Begin with an attention-getter

3 State what you want to accomplish

4 Set out your arguments clearly, and deal with them one at a time

5 Give illustrations and examples

6 Summarise what you have written

7 Finish with what you want your reader to do or believe

Using the reminders to generate ideas

How to write a story essay

1 Begin with an attention-getter

2 Explain the events that led up to the opening paragraph

3 Use plenty of dialogue

4 Use adjectives

5 Use adverbs to describe the action

6 Finish quickly and neatly

Good grammar

Apostrophes

Affect or effect

Less or fewer

You and I, or you and me

Chapter 8: How to summarise information like a genius

Using the reminders to write a summary

Chapter 9: How to speak like a genius

Some rules for giving a good talk

Speaker’s nerves

Chapter 10: How to learn a language like a genius

Fast, easy way to learn a language

Play with the language

Using the link system to learn vocabulary

Learn some French vocab

Learn some German essentials

Now try learning some Indonesian words

Test yourself

Play at languages — don’t work at them

How would you remember these words?

Test yourself

Chapter 11: How to sit tests like a genius

Before the exam

Doing the exam

Examination nerves

Part III: Some more fun with speed learning

Chapter 12: Playing a memory party game

Making links

The linking list method

Chapter 13: Learning word-for-word

Here’s my method

Let’s memorise the quote

Let’s learn the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’

How the reminders work for ‘Advance Australia Fair’

Test yourself

Chapter 14: Memorising big numbers

Remembering numbers

Phonetic values

Test yourself

Turning the letters into words

A few simple rules

Using the phonetic values to memorise numbers

Memorise your PIN

Going to the library

More things to remember

Now test yourself

Phonetic reminders

Test yourself

Chapter 15: Learning the US presidents

Remembering the names of US presidents

Presidents 1 to 10

Presidents 11 to 20

Speed Learning for Kids

The Must-Have Brain-Training Tools to Succeed at School

BILL HANDLEY

First published in 2013 by Wrightbooks an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd

42 McDougall St, Milton Qld 4064

Office also in Melbourne

Typeset in Trump Mediaevel-Roman, 11pt

© Learning Unlimited Australia Pty Ltd 2013

The moral rights of the author have been asserted

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Author: Handley, Bill.

Title: Speed learning for kids: the must-have brain-training tools to succeed at school/Bill Handley.

ISBN: 9780730377191 (pbk.)

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Learning.

Effective teaching.

Educational innovations.

Educational change.

Dewey Number: 371.102

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (for example, a fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review), no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, communicated or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. All inquiries should be made to the publisher at the address above.

Cover design by: C. Wallace

Cover image: © iStockphoto.com/Nicole S. Young

Internal design: Peter Reardon, pipelinedesign.com.au

Silhouettes: allsilhouettes.com

Examples in chapter 6 adapted from Brain Stretchers by Eugene Raudsepp

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Disclaimer

The material in this publication is of the nature of general comment only, and does not represent professional advice. It is not intended to provide specific guidance for particular circumstances and it should not be relied on as the basis for any decision to take action or not take action on any matter which it covers. Readers should obtain professional advice where appropriate, before making any such decision. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the author and publisher disclaim all responsibility and liability to any person, arising directly or indirectly from any person taking or not taking action based on the information in this publication.

Acknowledgements

I owe so much to so many for the existence of this book.

First, Geoff Wright, founder of Wrightbooks, who phoned me after a radio interview and said, ‘Write a book and I will publish it.’ He was prepared to take a risk and it paid off. Thank you Geoff.

Thank you also to Geoff’s daughter, Lesley Beaumont, who gave me heaps of guidance, advice and encouragement with my earlier books.