Helping Your Child Develop a Better Memory
Many kids do poorly in school because they have a hard time remembering the many
different kinds of facts required for academic success. Here are some techniques you can
encourage your child to use to help him develop a better memory for all the information he
has to digest during the school day:
- Suggest that he form visual images in his mind related to words he must memorize. For
example, to remember the three reading words, "egg", "shoe", and
"paper" in order, have him think about an egg being stepped on by a shoe, and
cleaned up with a piece of paper!
- Suggest he make up a phrase whose first letters are also the first letters of the list
he needs to memorize. For example, to remember the order of the planets in the solar
system, have him think of a phrase like, "many very eager men just slipped under new
places" whose first letters are the same as those of mercury, venus, earth, mars,
jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and pluto!
- Suggest rhymes he can use to remember facts. A well known example is the rhyme
"Thirty days hath September, April, June and November!"
For more information about other memory techniques, read the book Use Both Sides of
Your Brain by Tony Buzan.
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Last modified: Oct 24, 1995