Teaching Memory Strategies Prepared by: Shuhudha Rizwan

Paired-associate learning Verbal Learning Paired-associate learning Serial Learning Free-recall learning Learning items in linked pairs so that when one is presented, the other is called. Learning a series of items in an order Learning from a list of items in any order Burger Planets Parts of the body H2O Water Periodic table

Mnemonics Mnemonics are: Techniques for helping us to remember. It is the connecting of two ideas, with the second one triggering yet another one, and so on. It is based on the idea of making information meaningful by relating it to what you know.

Imagery Create mental images and visualize them when you learn things The Spanish word patio (pronounced pot-o) meaning duck Visualise a duck having an ‘O’ shaped pot on its head Patio Pot Duck

Word Clip Words to be learnt Toothache Nightmare Terrible Suddenly Imagine a story clip where George W. Bush is sleeping in your bed and having a nightmare about a terrible toothache and he suddenly calls your name in his sleep.

Imagery method French word pere sounds pear, & it means father. Generate images of father by using the keyword Father was eating a pear while reading a story for me.

Pegword Method Memorising lists (eg. The order of the first 10 presidents of USA) by using mental images that are familiar to you. Eg. George Washington eating a bun while John Adams comes and hits him with a shoe which is followed by Thomas Jefferson grabbing the shoe.

Pegword Integers-Objects rhyming words to learn the numbers One-bun Two-shoe Three-tree Four-door Five-hive Six-sticks Seven-heaven Eight-gate Nine-wine Ten-hen

Loci Method Remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations

Initial letter strategy (acronyms and acrostics) Strategy for learning in which initial letters of items to memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or a phrase.

Acronyms Example: SMART Remember words by forming one word to represent all of the words Example: SMART Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound

Acrostics Construct a sentence to remember a sequence of objects. First letter of each word represents the first letter of the object. My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas = Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

Make a rhyme to remember informtaion. E.g. Rhymes Make a rhyme to remember informtaion. E.g. Black & Yellow, Kill a Fellow