Do you ever find textbooks supremely boring to read? I asked my client this the other day, and he said, “Well, not if they’re science. But everything else, yes!” This client — a high school senior — is taking a college class on Western Civilizations, and their textbook is large and unwieldy.
Henry and I spent 20 minutes figuring out a process to help his reading assignments be more, well, “anti-boring”. Check out the video to get a demo of how we did that!
Here are the notes from the video if you do not have time to watch it, so you can get an idea on what to do to make textbooks less boring:
If you are a parent looking for help for your child or a teacher looking for study tips for your students take a look at The Anti-Boring Approach!
That is great Gretchen. I will use this week with my new student. This is a struggle for her too. How do you view the students text book when on Zoom? Do you have them hold it up like your whiteboard?