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Headquartered in the beautiful community of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, SLK Learning Center, Inc. is a proven leader among South Bay academic tutoring organizations and test prep centers.

 

SLK is equipped with a highly qualified and experienced staff of teachers amassing decades of experience in the fields of instruction and education.

 

We have recently expanded to include a new tutoring facility in Torrance, California, to better serve our clients.

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The Five Secrets to Scoring High on the SAT

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The Writing Process: What Is It? What Do I Do?

 

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Ways to Keep Your Child Academically Motivated During Winter Break

by Leilani

Winter break is right around the corner!  Most students will be on vacation for two weeks.  Two weeks of non-educational activity can undo all of the great work and study habits that the students have formed.  Here are some fun ways to keep your child motivated:

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Study Tips for Different Learning Styles: Accommodating Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Learners

Different learners respond best to specific methods of studying and research. Depending on the learning style—visual, auditory, and tactile—it may not be surprising that we’re geared towards a particular structure or practice. While many of us invoke all three learning styles, we may also privilege, however tacitly, one over the others. Below are some strategies that will benefit all learners and learning styles.

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Motivating Readers to Read: Reacquainting Yourself with the Act of Reading

 

1. Let your child choose what s/he wants to read.

There’s so much assigned reading that taking a break from it may be the kind of respite your child needs to enjoy the act of reading. You may not always approve of the books/magazines s/he chooses, but at least your child is enjoying the process at her/his leisure.

2. Subscribe to magazines that appeal to your child.

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Promoting Literacy at Home: Making Reading Fun and Memorable

 

1. Read with your child.

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Commonly Used MLA Citations and Documentation

1. Italicizing titles—You must italicize titles of books, plays, films, online databases, operas and other long musical compositions, works of visual art, pamphlets, periodicals, web sites, record albums, CDs, audiocassettes, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft: e.g., Hamlet (play); Moll Flanders (novel); PMLA (journal)

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Independent Study Made Manageable!

1. Sign up for Merriam-Webster’s “Word of the Day”!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/

This is an easy way to increase your vocabulary on a daily basis. Once you sign up, you will receive a new word every day via email. Along with the definition(s), Merriam-Webster provides examples and interesting facts relating to the word, as well as the etymology.

2. Read every day.

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Researching Tips: Or, Researching Made Easy(-ish)!

1. Skip to the end of the book!

Use the index, bibliography, and works cited pages to help you find other sources. Writers refer to seminal texts pertinent to their field(s) of study, and an easy way to find out what’s important to your area of study is to look at the works and writers the author references.

2. Scan the table of contents. 

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Three Ways Parents Can Help with Homework Time

By Leilani 

1. Eliminate distractions during homework time.

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