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    The document outlines 12 strategies to support memory for learning. These include using games like noughts and crosses to recall key information when reading, revising important information for 20 minutes before sleeping to retain it longer term, creating acronyms and acrostics to remember sequences and lists, using picture and word substitutions to remember subject specific vocabulary, writing down steps when doing math problems, and using rhyming, familiar places, competitive quizzes, graphic organizers, and story chaining to enhance long-term memory retention.

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    The document outlines 12 strategies to support memory for learning. These include using games like noughts and crosses to recall key information when reading, revising important information for 20 minutes before sleeping to retain it longer term, creating acronyms and acrostics to remember sequences and lists, using picture and word substitutions to remember subject specific vocabulary, writing down steps when doing math problems, and using rhyming, familiar places, competitive quizzes, graphic organizers, and story chaining to enhance long-term memory retention.

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    The document outlines 12 strategies to support memory for learning. These include using games like noughts and crosses to recall key information when reading, revising important information for 20 minutes before sleeping to retain it longer term, creating acronyms and acrostics to remember sequences and lists, using picture and word substitutions to remember subject specific vocabulary, writing down steps when doing math problems, and using rhyming, familiar places, competitive quizzes, graphic organizers, and story chaining to enhance long-term memory retention.

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    STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT MEMORY FOR LEARNING

    Psychologists use the term memory for learning to refer to the ability we have in
    processing & storing in the mind and then retrieving & applying information at a later
    point. The following strategies are designed to help those students who have limited
    memory for learning as with all aspects of learning, each individual will find some
    more beneficial than others.
    1. Noughts & Crosses During reading activities, practise a routine of students
    reading the information once and discussing it, and then reading the information a
    second time circling key words and crossing the start & end of key pieces of
    information as they go. A game of tic-tac-toe can be played where the student has
    to recall something they have circled or crossed before putting it down on the grid.
    2. Incredible 20 When revising important information for an exam, research has
    shown the 20minutes of reading before sleeping (if the student is still fully awake!)
    can be crucial in retaining information on a longer-term basis. This only works if the
    20minutes are not interrupted or followed by brushing your teeth, watching TV,
    listening to music etc.
    3. Acronyms On trying to remember a sequence of words, events or actions that
    need to be used later, try to create acronym cues that list them in a memorable
    sequence using their starting letter i.e. to remember point example explain
    we can use PEE.
    4. Acrostics - Another technique to remember a list of words, events or actions in
    order is to make up an acrostic sentence, using the first letter of each word in the list
    i.e. The colours of the rainbow in order, from the outside to inside are: Red, Orange,
    Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. They can be remembered using this acrostic,
    Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.
    5. Pic Subs To help remember a list of subject-specific words, put each word on a
    card with a picture cue and regularly play memory pairs with them. Another activity
    is to cover the picture, and try to guess it using the word, and then immediately play
    again but vice versa.
    6. Word Subs To help remember the trickiest subject-specific words, it can be
    useful to link them to similar sounding high-frequency words or rhyming phrases. For
    example, occipital can be remembered as exhibit hall and photosynthesis can
    be remembered as photos in to this.
    7. Stepping Students who have a weakness in memory should not rely on mental
    computations when solving math problems. For example, if they are performing long
    division problems, they should write down every step including carrying numbers.
    When solving word problems, they should always have a scrap piece of paper

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    handy and write down the steps in their calculations. This will help prevent them from
    losing their place and forgetting what they are doing.
    8. Rhyming Numbers - A way of remembering an exact sequence of numbers such
    as quantities and dates is by picturing objects that rhyme with each digit from 1 to
    10, i.e. 1 rhymes with bun, 8 rhymes with gate and 6 rhymes with sticks. So to
    remember that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, you imagine a bun (1)
    going through a gate (8) made of sticks (6) whilst being struck by a two bolts of
    lightening. This strange visual image will help you remember the numbers one, eight,
    and six in order and associate that figure with 'light' (lightning) and 'per second' (two
    bolts).
    9. DIY Quiz Research has shown that long-term memory is enhanced when
    students engage in competitive retrieval practice i.e. the act of remembering
    information against a timer or opponent. This does not have to be teacher-led as
    students can make up their own quiz questions and complete them racing against
    an opponent or, if studying alone, a timer.
    10. Grafix When making notes, to help the student remember them more easily
    and effectively, it is better to use graphic organisers such as mind-maps and flow
    diagrams rather than to simply list bullet points examples of these can be found at:
    www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers
    11. Pegging This technique involves some coaching and practice. The student is
    asked to imagine a place they are very familiar with such as a route they often walk
    or their house. From there the student pegs facts onto well known features of the
    place and then repeatedly imagines walking through the place, recounting the
    facts as they go they could even do this literally at first. The idea is that unfamiliar
    information becomes closely linked to familiar information, locking it into their longterm memory.
    12. Chaining This technique involves making a story where each word or idea the
    student has to remember cues the next idea they need to recall i.e. if they had to
    remember the words Napoleon, ear, door, and Germany, they could invent a story
    of Napoleon with his ear to a door listening to people speak in German.

    Matt Grant, 2011


    www.HumansNotRobots.co.uk

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