Study Skills Strategies help students stay organized and on top of their work. In previous posts I have shown you LEAN and MARKER.
Today I am going to teach you MURDER by Kerka (2007). This acronym will help you revise for exams.
Mood – Set a positive for yourself to study in. Select the appropriate time, environment and attitude.
Understand: Mark any information that you don’t understand in a particular unit; Keep a focus on one unit or a manageable group of exercises
Recall: After studying the unit, stop and put what you have learned into your own words.
Digest: Go back to what you did not understand and reconsider the information. Contact external expert sources in you still cannot understand it.
Expand: In this step ask three kids of questions concerning the studied material:
- If I could speak to the author, what questions would I ask or criticisms would I offer
- How could I apply this material to what I am interested in?
- How could I make this material interesting and understandable to other students?
Review: Go over the material covered. Review what strategies helped you understand and/or retain the information in the past and apply these to your currect studies.
This is a really simple strategy that you could teach using the Strategic Instruction Model. You could also make posters and handouts that could also be placed in students study folders.
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I love this series! Study skills are so desperately needed in every student/educator/parent’s life! I am sharing this article with my friends and their kids. I am sure there is something here everyone can apply to daily life.
-Amanda