Build Your ACT Prep Skills While Planning a Vacation
The ACT underestimation...ACT skills don’t have to end with the test and here’s how to use them…
The ACT study guide tragedy...Why study guides haven’t helped your child succeed Exclusive access to the ACT daily skill calendar stay tuned for An ACT study calendar that will blow your mind. If you think the ACT is a waste of your time…, If you think there are better options out there, If you want to create lifelong learning habits then this article is for you. What never to do with the ACT? (Unless you want to waste time)
You don’t want to waste all of the time you spent studying and preparing for the ACT to leave it at the test. Take the skills with you wherever you go.
When students come to me for ACT prep, they have already taken the test. Some have studied while others have not. Those students who have studied have used a study guide. However, they struggle to get a high score. Yes, a good score will get you into college and get you scholarships to pay for college, but there are so many more things you can do with ACT skills. Like, plan a vacation. What? Like, plan a vacation.
Research and budgeting, right?
Research is reading critically, and budgeting is math. Two subjects down. Many vacations are related to science. Now all you need to do is figure out how to put English and writing in, and you have the skills of the ACT. Let’s dig deeper. You don’t want to end up in a roach motel, so you must look at the area around the motel/hotel and check out the reviews. Meals take up much of the vacation budget. Most restaurants have online menus with prices and reviews. Transportation is expensive too. But you can save money by booking early. When driving, you can use smartphone apps to compare gas prices. These are just a few of the ways to use ACT skills to plan a vacation. Here are 26 more.
Reading Strategies
ACT English skills see if you can correct grammar, punctuation, and editing of a paper. You can look critically at the website you are studying to check for mistakes. If there are a lot of mistakes, you might want to go somewhere else.
Math You want to make sure that you are on budget during a vacation. Math is the only way to budget.
Science
The ACT science test is all about the scientific method and experiments. As you research your vacation destination, think about why your destination is special and how it was discovered or created.
These are just a few of the ideas that correlate with the ACT test while planning a vacation at the same time. Do you have to learn about the ACT to apply its skills? No, of course not. Applying ACT skills help you create lifelong learning habits.
I would love some feedback from you about how ACT skills could help plan a vacation. Leave a comment below.I would love some feedback from you about how ACT skills could help plan a vacation. Leave a comment below.
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Here’s a way to help homeschooling parents teach ACT prep.
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The Crucial ACT test Misconception: ACT test prep doesn’t take away from ‘regular learning’ The system meltdown...Why ACT test prep has been unable to be useful for families until now… Yours free: Exclusive Access to a ACT test prep calendar… I worked with 3 different ACT study guides to create a study calendar that takes 30 minutes per subject per day. If the ACT seems like a chore, If ACT means you have to stop your regular teaching/learning, If ACT brings fear and dread to you, If you desire being with your child for the last few moments before college, then this article is for you.
In addition to tutoring ACT prep, I also work with homeschool families. I was talking with a mom one day about teaching an ACT prep class at the high school. The mom said that ACT prep was a chore because they had to stop learning their current material to learn about the ACT.
I was bothered by this comment since I know homeschooling is not an easy task. Why do parents decide to homeschool their children?
Parents decide to homeschool for a variety of reasons.
These are some great reasons to homeschool, but there are also some difficulties to homeschooling.
Parents work very hard when homeschooling their children. ACT prep should be a part of their teaching repertoire. But not in the way they think! ACT test prep has to use a study guide and take forever, right? WRONG!!!! I’ll explain why you can teach ACT prep skills in your everyday learning and teaching.
As I started teaching the ACT, I used a study guide. I used the Kaplan ACT Study guide, and it worked great for a while.
When I bought my study guide, it was four inches thick and very intimidating. So I tore it apart and separated it according to the subject matter. As I studied it, I found several things useful, but to a regular person, I had one thought. Boring. All of the information is important, but I found one sentence very interesting. It said: “You will create study habits that are successful for college.” Ahhhh! Habits! After seeing that sentence, I changed the way I looked at the study guide. I looked for the main points of the subject matter. Then I taught students how to apply them to their current habits.
Here are a few ways I’ve tested this theory.
With COVID-19, I have my 10th-grade foster daughter, G, at home with me. I had her take the test and write the paper at the end. Then I taught her ACT English skills. After she learned them, we took a look at her writing. I was shocked at what I found! She was making the same errors in her writing, as was covered in the study guide. This revelation reminded me of a grammar course I had to take in college, where I learned the parts of grammar. Instead of learning how to correct my writing, I had to complete several exercises of picking out what was wrong in a sentence. Now I could teach my daughter the same skill I dreamed of in college. By correcting your writing, you can get faster on the test because you already look for those rules in your papers. The same rule applies to the rest of the tests on the ACT too. Homeschooling parents--avoiding the ACT is no longer a thing.
Instead, you can adjust your teaching methods to apply the ACT skills to your routine.
If you do take time to learn the format of the ACT, it might equal about two days. You can use one day to learn about the structure of the test and another to take a practice ACT. Creating daily habits in learning helps make the ACT much easier. When you get to the test, instinct kicks in, and you can get a good score for college. Homeschool students know how to work hard and stay focused, so they should be doing the ACT to show colleges what they can do and get the scholarships that they deserve. There are other tests that you can take like the Accuplacer to get into community colleges if you want, but the ACT allows for scholarships. If you want a skill breakdown of the ACT in a shorter format, please sign up for my FREE ACT skill calendar. P.S. Stay tuned for my next blog post that will talk about how to use ACT skills to plan your next vacation. |
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