So what can you do to help your child create memory strategies that can instantly back up them be more successful in school?
According to Dr. Joel Levin. Educational Psychologist at the University of Arizona. " Many folks - motivated students included - use memory enhancing techniques especially when there's a 'memory payoff,' such as obtaining higher academic grades or admission to some elite professional school or have schedule."
To put it simply mnemonics are memory aids that help alter a connection between what you already experience and what you need to remember. You probably use mnemonics in your daily life and don't even know it. (Does "I before E except after C" ring a attach?).
How about the order of the planets? (My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas - look at the first letter of each word in that sentence and you'll have the names of the planets in their correct order).
All you be to do is follow one of the three memory strategies I'll list here and you can help your child create funny (goofy is ok too) and effective mnemonics starting tonight.
Take the first letter of the series of words you need to memorize and make a word out of them. The more famous acronyms we have are SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus). NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
Ask your son or daughter if there's a list of vocabulary facts or figures they need to learn for tomorrow or the next day and see if you can back up them come up with an acronym.
act the first letter of a series of words you be to learn and create a sentence. In my Spanish classes we have many acrostics (it's easier to just call them mnemonics). One in particular is for "-GO" verbs in the present tense (annoy Potter Teaches Cool Students - Hacer. Poner. Traer. Caer. Salir).
I also bequeath an acrostic from an 8th grade math class: Old Houses Are Houses Of Age - (Sine) - Opposite/Hypotenuse. (Cosine) - Adjacent/Hypotenuse. (Tangent) - Opposite/Adjacent). Other friends of mine from different schools learned the mnemonic SOACAHTOA.
Take the word you want to learn find a similar sounding word (or similar spelling) and come up with a declare that includes the keyword and the meaning you're trying to bequeath.
This come works beautifully in my Spanish classes. Let's say your child wants to hit the books the verb "Dormir" (to sleep). You decide on a keyword (we'll use dorm) and then you create a declare. My class came up with "Norm sleeps in the dorm."
Why aren't mnemonics used more often in schools? That's a good question. Levin who's studied mnemonics for over 25 years and understands their effectiveness better than most considers it "a mystery."
Anyone of these mnemonic techniques ordain work depending on the material. It all comes down to finding the best one for your son or daughter.
And they can be learned (and applied) in one night. That means your child can improve their memory skills from one day to the next.
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http://alcottbcvpbdscj.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-mnemonic-strategies-can-improve.html
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