March: Study Skills

March's Bulletin Board

This year's busy schedule interrupted my plans for study skills classroom lessons.  What I have done in the past is collaborate with our music teacher to create fun and creative ways to teach study skill techniques.  The lesson was formatted around the 3rd grade's English lesson content, which was parts of speech.

Music was a great match to this lesson because there are so many times during studying when creating rhythms, beats, and rhymes with the study material truly helped with memorization and retention of concepts.

The lesson reviewed the definition and examples of several study techniques, including acronyms, mnemonic devices, and poems.  At the end of the lesson, we allowed students to create their own song with the English content they were learning in their classrooms. Utilizing the different study techniques in the lesson was helpful for not only auditory learners, but visual and kinesthetic as well.

Lesson Plan Link for Study Skills Music Lesson
PowerPoint Link for Study Skills Music Lesson