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Mnemonic Strategies

This document discusses mnemonic strategies and devices that can help students remember and learn new information. It explains that mnemonics create connections between new and existing knowledge. The document outlines three steps to using mnemonics: 1) identify what students struggle to remember, 2) decide if a verbal or visual mnemonic would be best, and 3) create or find an appropriate mnemonic device. It provides examples of popular verbal and visual mnemonics and discusses how mnemonics can benefit all students, especially those with learning disabilities or poor memory.

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Mnemonic Strategies

This document discusses mnemonic strategies and devices that can help students remember and learn new information. It explains that mnemonics create connections between new and existing knowledge. The document outlines three steps to using mnemonics: 1) identify what students struggle to remember, 2) decide if a verbal or visual mnemonic would be best, and 3) create or find an appropriate mnemonic device. It provides examples of popular verbal and visual mnemonics and discusses how mnemonics can benefit all students, especially those with learning disabilities or poor memory.

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STEPS:

Mnemonic
Strategies

Step
One

Step
Two

Figure out what


information
requires the use
of a mnemonic
device. What are
the students
having the most
difficulties
remembering?
Decide what kind
of mnemonic
device should be
used. Verbal or
Visual?

Either create your


own device or
research popular
devices that are
Step used. You could
Three even have your
students come up
with their own.

Who can this


strategy help??
EVERYONE!!!!

Mnemonic devices can be


used to help any type of
student. These devices are
used to help with students
with poor memory. It is
specifically directed to
children with learning
disabilities but they are not
the only ones who can
benefit from this strategy.

What is it???
According to an
article, Comprehensive review of
mnemonic devices and their
applications: State of the art, a
mnemonic is defined as a systematic
procedure for intensification of
memory.
A mnemonic device creates a
connection between new information
taught and information already
received.

This strategy gives children an easier


way to take in information and to
remember that information for
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Issue | Date

Verbal VS. Visual


Verbal

Visual

A verbal mnemonic is when


acronyms, rhymes, or
rhythms are used as
memorization techniques.

A visual mnemonic is when


a picture is associated with
a word, phrase, or
sentence.

EXAMPLES:
o Days of the month using fist as shown in the
figure on the left. Months with thirty days
will be on the creases of the knuckles and
the months with thirty-one will be at the top
knuckles.
o Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean
blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two.
o North, South, East, and West; Never Eat Sour
Watermelon
o PEMDAS: Parenthesis, Exponents,
Multiplication, Division, Addition,
Subtractions; Please Excuse My Dear Aunt
Sally

Hall, C. c., Kent, S. C., McCulley, L., Davis, A., & Wanzek, J. (2013). A New Look at Mnemonics and Graphic
Organizers in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom. Teaching Exceptional Children.
Jurowski, L., Jurowska, A., & Krzeczkowska, M. (2015). Comprehensive review of mnemonic devices and their
applications: State of the art. International E-Journal Of Science, Medicine & Education.
Mastropieri, M. A., & Scruggs, T. E. (1994). Applications of mnemonic strategies with students with mild mental
disabilities. Remedial & Special Education
Wolgemuth, J. R., Cobb, R. B., Alwell, M. (2008). The Effects of Mnemonic Interventions on Academic Outcomes
for Youth with Disabilities: A Systematic Review. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice.

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