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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go to the counselor. Have them talk study strategies. Manuel your daughter doesn actually know how to study and prepare. They don't teach that well anymore. Just because she's sitting there at home trying to learn doesn't mean it's well spent time. Maybe she has trouble processing information, maybe she's anxious and distracted. Go now. Be high maintenance. It's worth it for your kid. Research some good tutors not hair to get her caught up but to give her study skills and learn how to learn!![/quote]
This post doesn't apply to me because my oldest daughter is in fifth grade and she seems like OP's daughter did. My concern is that she will face something similar once she reaches high school. How do you teach your child study strategies? What can be done now (or even starting next year in middle school?)?[/quote]

Start now teaching your child to be responsible for her homework and schedule. Give her the tools let her make decisions, including bad ones. Let her work out better plans when what she tries fails - but let it fail so she learns now. Teach her to break down big projects into smaller parts and make a schedule.

Once she reaches middle school, teach her to manage her grades. Since you can retake many tests, teach her strategies for maximizing her grades. At the end of each marking period show her where she lost free points (not turning in homework or not retaking tests).

If she struggles with things, teach her strategies. Teach her to organize her backpack and her binder (middle school).

Hardest things are to let her do things her way not the way that you think should work best and don't save her. Let her fail and the. Teach her to pick up the pieces and make better plans and decisions. [/quote]

Not the PP, but thank you for this!  
-Also a parent of a MS kid.[/quote]

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