Memory Skills Made Easy

Improve your child’s memory by learning how to use mnemonics.

Here is one I’ve been using for a long time in Spanish class. It involves the verbs in the preterite that have changes in the él/ella/ud and the ellos/ellas/uds. forms.

I don’t include a lot of the verbs because in reality students don’t need that many verbs when they are learning. They’ll get them later when they live in a Spanish speaking country.

Anyway, here are the verbs: Repetir, Servir, Vestirse, Pedir, Dormir.

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Strengthen your child’s memory with mnemonics.

How do you remember the eight essential amino acids?

Isoleucine, Leucine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Methionine, Valine, Lysine, Phenylalanine.

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It is almost impossible to improve your child’s memory without good, solid, mnemonics. That’s why I’ve included this baby…

The formula to calculate distance is: D=  rt. (Distance = rate x time).

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No better way to improve your kids memory than with a good mnemonic.

Today, we have the difference between “affect” which is a verb, and “effect” which is a noun.

How can you keep them straight? Well, I’m old enough to know that I need help with this just about every time so here is what I use. If you teach it to your child once you learn it, he will never have to worry again…at least until the next problem area comes up!

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Some people believe kids have to choose between memorizing and thinking
when they study. Needless to say, I don’t agree and here’s why.

My son (in fifth grade) needed to discuss the events that lead to the American
Revolution in his class recently. He sat at home and went over
all the major points:

- The Stamp Act of 1765
- Taxation without representation.
- The Boston Massacre of 1770.
- etc.

We discussed them and he showed he understood.

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Improving your child’s memory one mnemonic at a time.

There are two types of camels:
Bactrian camels have two lumps.
Dromedary camels have one lump.

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