Critical Thinking Tip #5: When doing a word problem in math, talk to your student about the information given and ask them to tell you how they will use it to solve the problem. Also discuss what information could be missing or if information is given that is not needed.
Critical Thinking Tip #4: Main Idea
Critical Thinking Tip #4: Ask your student questions about the main idea of the story and the author’s purpose. For example it could be to persuade, entertain, inform, etc.
Critical Thinking Tip #3: Reading Comprehension
Critical Thinking Tip #3: Ask questions to your student that allows them to show their understanding of reading they recently read.
Critical Thinking Tip #2: Reading Opinions
Critical Thinking Tip #2: Ask your student about their opinions on what they read. Why do they like or dislike a book? Why do they think a particular event in a story is important? Why do they like or dislike certain characters?
Purr-fect Cat Shelter PetWalk
The Purr-fect Cat Shelter of Medway, MA will be having a raffle this Sunday as a part of PetWalk 2014. Please enter the raffle and hopefully you will win the Y3K Tutor In Your Home tutoring and test prep certificate. Our support of PetWalk and the raffle will allow The Purr-fect Cat Shelter to continue their mission of helping homeless animals in need with the ultimate goal of placing them in permanent homes.
Critical Thinking Tip #1: Fact vs. Opinion
Critical Thinking Tip #1: Talk to your student about analyzing something they read today. Discuss if the reading was fact or opinion and how they know.
Critical Thinking – Important Life Skill
We often hear about how critical thinking is an important life skill and how it is now becoming the focus of math and English in school. There are many tricks parents can do to build students critical thinking skills. These methods will prepare your student for the new Common Core Standards. Over the next several posts, we will take a closer look at some easy ways to help children involve critical thinking daily.
Needham Hometown Weekly Newspaper’s 2014 Best Tutoring
FIRST PLACE FOR BEST NEEDHAM TUTORING 2014 – Y3K Tutor In Your Home is the best Needham tutoring service as voted by the readers of Needham Hometown Weekly Newspaper. A big thank you goes out to all of the great families of Needham that voted for us
Organizational Skills Tip #4: Clean Up
Organizational Skills Tip #4: Clean Up
After each night’s homework, students should spend five minutes to put away their papers, supplies, neatening their workspace and preparing their backpack for the next school day.
Organizational Skills Tip #3: Homework Notebook/Planner
Organizational Skills Tip #3: Homework Notebook/Planner
Most disorganized students forget or lose track of what assignments need to be completed and when then need to be turned in. A homework notebook or planner app should be used to write down the following every day:
Homework assigned for each class with due dates.
If no homework assigned for a given class, write “no homework”.
Upcoming tests, quizzes and projects.
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