Study Skills For Students

How Gemm Can Improve Learning Efficiency

Student study skills require proficiency in a number of areas, particularly in middle school and high school, where learning independence is not only expected, it is required. Learning difficulties that can undermine study skills include:

• Weak listening comprehension in class
• Reading speed, accuracy comprehension issues
• Inability to focus in class or at home
• Lack of organization skills
• Eroding academic confidence

While homework assignment and study stress is common, the sources of weak study skills are many and varied. For younger children, it is often a maturity issue and just part of growing up. While a homework tutor can be helpful, the best course of action is to help your child learn how to study effectively with one on one guidance.

For many children though, especially in middle and high school when maturity should be less of an issue, study skill difficulties are more likely an indication of deeper issues. They are not a sign of laziness or lack of interest. Rather, they are symptomatic of cognitive weaknesses, many of which can be improved. In these cases a parent needs to be part detective, part mentor, to get to the true difficulty.
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Improve Study Skills

Gemm Learning helps study skills for middle and high school students, using Fast ForWord, online learning software, to strengthen underlying fundamental skills.

Concentration and Comprehension In Class

If the teacher is speaking at 50 miles per hour and your child can only process language at 45 miles per hour, there is a problem. We use Fast ForWord at home anywhere in the US and Canada to overcome auditory processing problems and related attention stamina and memory retention difficulties. This makes it easier to follow the teacher, not only in absorbing the content of the day's lesson, but also in fully understanding the homework assignments.
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Reading Comprehension & Fluency

Fast ForWord software will help your child read with automaticity, a comfortable reading style that improves reading comprehension in class and at home when the homework assignments are opened.
Reading programs for children

Working Memory and Organization

Working memory is a critical to better study skills. It impacts focus, comprehension and thinking skills.

How to improve working memory

Improve confidence & focus

By strengthening processing skills and increasing attention stamina we build confidence at school and at home.   Improvements in fundamental cognitive abilities will improve grades and make learning less traumatic and stressful -- it helps your child become a more capable and willing learner.
How Fast ForWord builds processing skills

Gains from Our Program

Many parents report that they no longer need a homework tutor, that after Gemm the homework goes smoothly and without fuss. Learning study skills is an important step in academic development. The sooner your child has the the tools required for learning independence the better.
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