Study Skills Power
Authors: Terry Dodds, Maureen Chislett, Earl Dodds, and Marvin Dodds

Program Components

• Teacher’s Guidebook
  • Scripted lessons
  • Copy of student materials
  • Appendix A includes The Mustard Jar story, point summary chart, blackline master for special drafting paper, student glossary, and note-taking outlines for Lessons 51-118
  • Appendix B is the answer key
• Blackline masters for student materials

Study Skills Power is a 125 lesson language skill development and homework program that is specially designed to provide a highly motivating supplement to the Corrective Reading Decoding C Program. This program is appropriate for students in Grades 5 to 12 and adults who are learning to read in the Corrective Reading Decoding C Program or in any other remedial approach. One of the features of this program is that it may be used with students who need to become more proficient in written expression and study skills.

Instructional Sequence

The program has a consistent procedure:

• Daily work or homework check
• Vocabulary challenge
• Guided practice of new skills (Power Exercises)
• Explanation of tasks to be completed independently or for homework.

Find Out More!

• Goals
• Skills Taught
• Sample Lesson (Lesson 52)
• Sample Lesson (Lesson 55)
• Sample Lesson (Lesson 117)