Make Your Own Fun, Interactive, Study Guide

How many nights have you sit with your child and finally their vocabulary words and definitions with them? How long do you sit there and ask them to repeat the definition of questions about each word? There’s no reason you should have an interactive learning with your child for long periods of time. Everyone wants their children to do well in school, but with so many activities and large families, mothers need to be cut in order to take care of everyone. I spend too much time learning with my kids, and my duty is ignored. I want my child to do well in school and could not tell him “no” when he asked me to help him learn. Because I spend so much of my time studying, I came up with a great way for my child to learn on their own. This study guide is very easy to make, that before long your child will make it without your guide.

Preparation Study Guide

You will need the following items in order to develop these guidelines, the study of interactive and fun:
1. Vocabulary words and definitions that are sent home by teachers
2. A scanner / copier
3. Scissors
4. Ziploc bags

Steps To Making Study Guide

1. Make copies of your child’s vocabulary and definitions.
2. Save a copy of the original to the side.
3. Cut the vocabulary words and definitions in the strip. For example: You should have a strip that looks like: Volcano – an opening in the earth’s crust where lava.
4. Once you have all your vocabulary / definition of strips cut, you will need to cut the vocabulary words from the strip so you have stacks and stack of vocabulary definitions. You may need to be creative in cutting this strip apart depending on the format of the book the original study. For example, if a definition is two lines long, then make sure you cut all the strips vocabulary as a single line so your child can not see that the words of a larger vocabulary fits the definition that takes two rows. It is easiest to cut the strips apart if you can cut each strip of the same size. Your child may try to “section of this guide it back together” like a puzzle if it is proved that a certain word in accordance with that definition because of the size of the strip.

Learning With Your New Guide

1. Have your child mix the pile strip definitions and put them all on the right side of the table in a vertical row.
2. Have your child mix the pile of vocabulary words and then put them all on the right side, separated from the strip definition.
3. Your child is now ready to match words to definitions. When he / she thinks they answer correctly, you can check their answers with the original study guides. Soon, they will be able to check their answers without your help.

Children learn in different ways, some do best by listening, while others do better by seeing or reading their material. In order to meet both learning styles, be sure to go to the vocabulary words with your child when they feel that they have mastered over the study guide activities.

Review Your Interactive Guide With Your Kids

Once your child feels they have mastered their words and definitions, review this guide with them.
1. Give your child vocabulary when you take a pile of pile strip definition.
2. Read each strip definition and have your child choose the correct vocabulary of his / her pile of words.
3. Swap the stack with your child, and test them again by reading the definition and ask them to choose the right vocabulary. You can choose to place the correct words to the side and just work on that do not fit anymore or working with all the words until you feel your child is ready to test them.

You will be amazed at how well this works and how much time this will save you! Your child will love this activity and must learn their words quickly. After they finished studying, they can continue this activity in the Ziploc bag so they do not lose any of their strips before studying again.

I stay at home mom with two boys. I teach fifth grade, looking forward to going to work everyday and love the interaction with students and parents. After my first child, I decided the best for my family if I should stay home and not return to teaching until my son got older. Well, here I am, a mother of two and still at home, not in the classroom. I’ll let you in on a little secret …. I do not intend to return to class. I enjoy staying at home with my children and knowing that I could be there when they need me without making me angry boss takes a holiday.