EASY MEMORY TECHNIQUES
When you are getting used to being a learner it is a good idea to learn some east memory improving techniques right at the start of the year. They will stand you in good stead for the rest of your time in school. Here are some tips.
Try using images to help you remember things.
Images or visuals like Venn Diagrams help to organise information into chunks – and having chunks to remember is a lot easier than a list of unconnected things.
Use a Venn Diagram for comparing and contrasting information. Or you can use a web for the main topic and details that go all round it. Another nice one is the Cause and Effect Pattern with the event in the middle box, the causes listed in the left boxes and the effects listed in the right boxes.
Making links
Another learning strategy is to associate, or "link," each word or event with a person, place, thing, feeling, or situation you already know. For example, you may connect what you are trying to learn with someone you know, or with a movie character or scene.
Making up rhymes
We all used rhyming in the ABC song to learn the alphabet. And the rhyme "I before E, except after C..... his is also a great strategy when learning anything else too. Make up silly rhymes and you’ll remember these much more easily – you can then connect the rhymes to the things you need to memories.
Making up a story
Storytelling is a great way to help you remember information in any subject. Write a story by focusing on the key points of what you're learning and arranging them in a logical sequence. It can even be a song or rhyme that tells the story. And there's a bonus: each event in the story triggers your memory of the next event, so you'll remember even more!
Using Acronyms
An acronym is a word made up from the first letters of a list of words. What you will do is take a list of words or facts that you want to remember and put them in an order so that the first letters of each word, or the first syllables, spell a real word or a made-up word.
How do you memorize the names of the five Great Lakes? Just remember "HOMES." H=Huron, O=Ontario, M=Michigan, E=Erie, and S=Superior.
Having these techniques up your sleeve when you are at school will really help you in your homework, your ability to answer in the classroom and do tests. Good luck!