Italian is one of the easiest Romance languages to learn. Because it’s descended from Latin, there are many cognates -words that look familiar – such as stazione and familiare. In contrast with French, you pronounce every letter that you see. In contrast with Spanish there aren’t the major differences in usage and pronunciation between Castillian ...
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When I began my tutoring ten years ago I noticed that many of the students I work with struggled with their college prep, honors and AP reading reading requirements. Many confessed they never read outside of school, a troublesome admission since unless they read outside of school 2 hours a week, many will have trouble getting scores ...
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You may not realize it, but you already know enough to help your vocabulary grow exponentially. English is a language based on Latin, Greek and Germanic prefixes, suffixes and roots. If you understand the meaning of these word parts and how they fit together, you have the tools to understand hundreds of thousands of other words. ...
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Is it better to take the SAT or the ACT? The SAT tests aptitude in three areas of knowledge: mathematics, reading comprehension and writing & grammar. There are 10 sections to the test, three in each area of knowledge and one experimental section that could be any subject but doesn’t count toward your score. The test ...
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Researchers such as Howard Gardner have suggested what some parents have long suspected: There are very different learning styles and students learn in different ways. The spatial/visual learner learns from what is seen, especially diagrams and pictures. The linguistic learner remembers what is read or spoken. They usually perform well in traditional academic settings that ...
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The answer is more complicated than it seems. It depends in part, on whether the academic difficulty has appeared just recently or has been a problem for a long time. In other words, has he or she always had problems with a subject such as math or reading, or is it a recent, perhaps subject ...
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Critical thinking skills are essential life skills; colleges seek out students with critical thinking skills because they know how to learn. Critical thinking is a form of metacognition: thinking about thinking. Critical thinking means moving from thinking concretely about a topic, such as family, to thinking more abstractly about the idea of the family, which ...
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One of the most frequent calls I get is about test anxiety. The parent informs me that the student gets good grades in his/her classes, but doesn’t “test well”. Feeling anxious about tests is a form of performance anxiety and can take the form of a nervous stomach, a headache, or even throwing up. Many, ...
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