Kumon - Developing Good Study Habits

While in school as a child you are always taught what to study, but never how to study. Learning good study habits are just as important as the materials you are learning. Here at Kumon we understand the importance of good study habits and teach children from preschool through the high school years. Below, we have listed some great tips and tricks to help develop good study habits. Developing good study habits mean you use your time well. Time is the most valuable resource you have; but it's easy to waste. Improving your time management means you can decrease the time it takes to do your work and still increase the quality of what you produce.

Ask questions. Of all the good study habits you can develop, this one is key. Just ask. If you don’t tend to do this, remember: success is defined by the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.

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   Become organized. Arrange your space, stuff, time and technology so they help, rather than hurt you.

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   Lower your resistance. What is one of the biggest time wasting ‘enemies’ you face? You! Part of you knows you should study, but another part of you wants to have some fun now.

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   Manage your time-wasters. Wasting time online often leaves you feeling bad afterwards. The worst thing to do to stop is to try and stop! Give yourself permission to waste time. Look at your goal. One simple but highly effective habit is to constantly remind yourself what you’re studying for.

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   Do the worst first. Each day, break off a bit of your hardest task.

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    Isolate yourself. Turn your communications off when you study. Even better, put them out of site.

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       Finish wanting more. We all crave completion on anything, so leave yourself ‘high and dry’. If you stop working at a natural break, it’s nice and neat, but harder to start up again.

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       Sell it to yourself. Thoughts become things or, to put it another way, we do what we think about.

   What helps you complete your work?

Kumon Oh the Places You Will Go! - Reading Enrichment

Nowadays who hasn't either read a Dr. Seuss book or watched the cartoons? Dr. Seuss is a classic and must read for generations, but did you know the author, Theodor Seuss Geisel, of Dr. Seuss comes from our very own backyard of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the author of many children's books, and political publications prior to writing "The Cat In The Hat" which is a story using only 225 "new-reader" vocabulary words.

Many parents choose to read Dr. Seuss's stories to their toddler-aged children as first-time books. Not only are these books simple to read and whimsically illustrated, their stories pass along the gift of imagination, since they are in no way limited in their fantasy elements. The language in the books, furthermore, goes a long way to facilitate the language development in children, especially the phonetic abilities that are so important in building reading skills. It is for these reasons that Dr. Seuss books are an excellent stepping stone to a successful reading career.

Dr. Seuss’s books help encourage reading skills for young children reading and repeating written in rhymes. Most children learn reading more quickly with rhymes, because they remember rhymed words more easily than they do non-rhymed words. Saying these rhymes also encourages children to read out loud, which teaches them how to sound words out in order to pronounce more advanced words. Moreover, Dr. Seuss books contain make-believe words that children love to say aloud, such as "wocket" and "yottle."

Another great aspect of the Dr. Seuss series is the encouragement of imaginative skills. Each Dr. Seuss book has a fantastical story that most children love to hear and enjoy because it is the sort of thing they imagine to themselves. Through these surreal stories, Dr. Seuss books encourage children to use their imagination and begin learning to read.

Just as Dr. Seuss stories encourage children to read so does Kumon!

Kumon assists children as young as Preschool age to develop reading skills that will last a lifetime. For further information on Kumon visit www.Kumon.com.