Study Smarts is a DVD/Workbook Program that can help your child in grades 5-8 achieve greater success in school. Study Smarts is engaging, entertaining, and educational. It will enhance your child’s self worth, increase his or her motivation, and provide the foundation for important study skills.

About the DVD Topics covered include the following: positive thinking motivation organization remembering taking notes concentration procrastination setting goals study habits improving reading increasing vocabulary learning styles test taking

The actual running time of the DVD is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Allow for an additional 30 to 45 minutes of pause time for your child to write responses to questions in the accompanying workbook as well as to complete a self-evaluation. You can show the DVD in its entirety or break it up into identified segments.

Click Windows Media or Quicktime to View Each Video Clip:
Video Clip 1: Overview (Windows Media) | (Quicktime)
Video Clip 2: Four Types of Students (Windows Media) | (Quicktime)
Video Clip 3: The Fuzz (Windows Media) | (Quicktime)

*Safari users: When viewing the Quicktime format, make sure to stop the video you are viewing before starting another clip.

About the Workbook
Have your child use the 32-page workbook as he or she watches the DVD. Time is provided for your child to write answers to questions in the workbook about what he or she has just viewed. Your child also has an opportunity to complete a learning styles evaluation. The completed workbook provides your child with a study guide throughout the school year. Your child can add notes to the workbook pages as the year progresses.

Click to View a Workbook Page:
Workbook Page

You can follow up Study Smarts by using the parent edition of Study Skills and Strategies for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School. This program provides an assessment of your child’s study skills and strategies and 152 instructional activities.