1. Teaching Memory Strategies
Prepared by: Shuhudha Rizwan

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. Loci Method
Remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations

10. 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.

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

12. 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

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