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Study Skills/Memory - Nessy

 
     
  Nessy Brain Booster.  
     
     
 

New, interactive study skills package for students from intermediate age to adults.

 

BrainBooster is a complete study skills program that is easy to use with six interactive sections (see boxes below).

Using animations, Brainbooster allows you to play quick interactive activities or print out additional resources to help develop many of the study skills.  

 

 

Brainbooster helps you to:

  • Speed read
  • Improve your memory through a range of strategies
  • Revise more effectively
  • Get organized
  • Write more clearly
  • Understand your individual learning strengths
 
     
     
  Windows Only; Suitable for Intermediate/High School and Adults
Single user version. Price only $130 + GST!
 
 
To see how Brain Booster works, click on the User Guide at: http://www.nessy.com/brainbooster/ 
 
Reading skills

1. Eye exercises

2. Decoding

3. Skimming

4. Scanning

5. Finding main point

6. Analysing media text

 

Learning strengths

The program allows you to take a quiz to determine this.

 

Revision skills

1. Chain games

2. Topic pages

3. Using stories

4. Mind maps

5. Flow charts

 

Writing skills

1.Sentence construction

2. Bulletpoint planning

3. Paragraphs and topic sentences

4. Extended writing

5. Essay planning

6. Letter writing

7. Summary skills

8. Descriptive writing

9. Argument essays

10 Poetry analysis

Memory skills

1. Mnemonics

2. Acronyms and lists

3. Picture thinking

4. Number pegging

5. Room pegging

6. Names, Faces and learning lines

7. Rhyme, rhythm and rap

 

Organisational skills

1. Organise yourself

2. Study planners

3. How to study

4. Exam techniques

5. Dictionary skills

6. Note taking

 

 
     
     
 

See our other Nessy products:


Nessy Learning Programme This has all the on-screen games plus over 1,500 printable resources, worksheets, board and card games etc to supplement and reinforce Nessy - saves hours of teacher preparation!
 

Nessy GamesPlayer (the 12 Nessy games but no printables)
Nessy Games Player has all the on-screen games of the Nessy Learning program has but none of the printable resources. GamesPlayer provides an inexpensive way to put Nessy on another computer. An added bonus is that GamesPlayer is compatible with both Windows and Mac (OSX 10.3 and above)

Nessy Fingers
Nessy Fingers quickly teaches the layout of the keyboard through the alphabet in 5 simple lessons, using real words and sentences. Comprises of 9 games. This is ideal for all students (age 8+), especially those who have dyslexia / dyspraxia.

 
     
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