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Mnemonics
Mnemonics
Mnemonics are memory aids. We use them all the time. For example, to help remember the names of the Great Lakes, we might have used the first letter mnemonic strategy HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, and Superior), or to learn the lines on the treble clef we may have used Every Good Boy Does Fine. There are also peg-word mnemonics which we use as hooks for specific things we have to remember. A common set of peg-words for the numbers one to ten are: one-bun, two-shoe, three-tree, four-door, five-hive, six-bricks, seven-heaven, eight-gate, nine-sign, and ten-hen. With a grocery list of 5 things (milk, eggs, bread, apples, bananas, and orange juice), you might associate each with a peg-word to help you remember the list. You can visualize milk dripping off a hot cinnamon bun, several eggs stacked inside a shoe, slices of bread like leaves hanging from a tree, a bright red apple door knocker, a bee hive hanging from a banana and the bees all sitting upon the banana with their legs hanging down, and a flat orange smashed under a stack of bricks with a bottle under it to catch the juice. When you get to the store, you use the peg-words to help you recall the grocery list. Several mnemonic ideas are included below with links to websites to assist you learning to use this robust strategy.
Mnemonics are memory aids. We use them all the time. For example, to help remember the names of the Great Lakes, we might have used the first letter mnemonic strategy HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, and Superior), or to learn the lines on the treble clef we may have used Every Good Boy Does Fine. There are also peg-word mnemonics which we use as hooks for specific things we have to remember. A common set of peg-words for the numbers one to ten are: one-bun, two-shoe, three-tree, four-door, five-hive, six-bricks, seven-heaven, eight-gate, nine-sign, and ten-hen. With a grocery list of 5 things (milk, eggs, bread, apples, bananas, and orange juice), you might associate each with a peg-word to help you remember the list. You can visualize milk dripping off a hot cinnamon bun, several eggs stacked inside a shoe, slices of bread like leaves hanging from a tree, a bright red apple door knocker, a bee hive hanging from a banana and the bees all sitting upon the banana with their legs hanging down, and a flat orange smashed under a stack of bricks with a bottle under it to catch the juice. When you get to the store, you use the peg-words to help you recall the grocery list. Several mnemonic ideas are included below with links to websites to assist you learning to use this robust strategy.
Websites with ready-made mnemonics you can use:
Introduction and mnemonics by category
An article from the Access Center: Using Mnemonic Instruction to Facilitate Access to the General Education Curriculum
Memory Math - COMING SOON...
Introduction and mnemonics by category
An article from the Access Center: Using Mnemonic Instruction to Facilitate Access to the General Education Curriculum
Memory Math - COMING SOON...
