The Study Skills Toolkit for Students with Dyslexia
- Monica Gribben - Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Higher & Further Education (general) | Specific Learning Difficulties | Study Skills (General)
Issues covered include:
- procrastination
- planning your assignment
- understanding your essay question
- researching, writing and referencing your written work
- managing your own well-being.
Drawing on years of experience running study skills workshops in higher education, Monica Gribben has written an accessible book for students with dyslexia that shows how to work through the challenges that studying presents.
The companion website has podcasts, worksheets and electronic resources to support each chapter.
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Supplements
Visit the companion website for The Study Skills Toolkit for Students with Dyslexia for more free online resources accompanying each chapter, including:
- Chapter Podcasts and Activities
- Further web links
- Appendices.
Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips, resources and videos on study success!
This book was a good teaching resource for me. It helped me to better understand how to support our students with dyslexia, who were undertaking study skills. It is also a useful tool generally for any tutor looking to support students undertaking study skills.
I very useful guide which I recommend to students with dyslexia.
A really good book for students to use who have dyslexia to help them build solving mechanisms but it is also good for students who are coaching or teaching participants with dyslexia as it offers ideas to help with creating solving mechanisms and making practice inclusive and developmental.
A helpful tool for students with dyslexia. Some good tips and guidance, clearly laid out in dyslexia-friendly format.
The book contains a range of activities for supporting learners with dyslexia. There is an excellent chapter on assignment writing including a table on the use of quotations and an activity to check knowledge of writing conventions. The chapter on referencing is useful for all students but it would have been helpful to include also an example from an edited book and possibly a conference paper. Very interesting chapter on feedback that encourages students to use it effectively.
This will be suggested as an additional resource for students with dyslexia in the School of Health & Wellbeing, as well as for their persoanl teachers.
Useful as an extra source
This is a clear, easily accessible text that utilises clear font choices and off-white backgrounds that learners have enjoyed using. It is a useful reference guide to dip in and out of as well as a guide for trainee teachers in how they could support learners.
I would highly recommend this book, an extremely useful toolkit packed with practical advice, tips and hints to help the dyslexic learner at university.
From the moment I started to read this book it quickly became a resource I used with the university students I support. Many identified with the author’s remarks, describing how the learner might feel, with comments from student such as “yes I often felt like that!” and “I’m sure she is writing about me?”
This immediately engaged the students, who were keen to read more and take part in the activities.
I found it an excellent practical, down to earth guide in how to support students with dyslexia. I liked the practical suggestions and ideas rather than just woolly recommendations.
