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FIGURE 5.1
Skills and Strategies for Persisting
Persisting:
What to do when
I get stuck
Celebrate smallaccomplishments.
Brainstormalternatives.
Senda textmessage.
Askparents.
Ask the teacher orother teachers for help.
Talk with other students
who are working on the same
problem or a similar
problem.
Sleepon it.
SearchtheInternet.
Play a
game to getmy mind
off it.
Ask myself,What doI already
know
about this?
Go backand rereadthe problem.Chunk it.
Eat
something.
Take awalk.
Break the taskinto smaller
steps.
Try a
different way.
Talk it overwith others.
Leave itfor a while.
Draw
on previous
experiences and
knowledge.