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This document examines study skills and presents various approaches to teaching the skills at the elementary and secondary levels. The teaching of study skills should have a high priority in our schools to help students deal efficiently with their daily classroom tasks and to equip them for a lifetime of learning. There are many different ways to view study skills. One way is to view them as three more or less coherent clusters rather than as disjointed lists: 1) receptive skills--the intake of ideas through reading, 2) reflective skills--interaction between the individual and what he reads or sees, and 3) expressive skills--ability to apply knowledge learned and demonstrate its utility. Another way to view study skills is to consider them under three broad headings: knowledge and use of reference materials; ability to read and interpret pictorial, tabular, diagrammatic, and graphic materials; and reading study skills. There are various approaches to teaching study skills. In the functional-incidental approach the skills taught evolve from the materials being used in classroom instruction. In the skill-oriented approach the specific skill needs of the pupils, rather than content considerations, dictate the type of instruction. Other approaches include the content-oriented approach and the textbook approach. (Author/RM)