Strategy 19

1. Strategy 19 Using metaphors, analogies, similes and mnemonic devices: How does this happen? Examples: Connect Content with Your Child’s Life

2. Examples: Main Idea • For example: • If your child is working on writing a paragraph with the main idea and supporting details, tell your child to think of a table. The table top is the main idea but it cannot stand alone the legs are the supporting details. • If your child is struggling with main idea-tell your child to think about texting (without the texting abbreviations). When one texts-it is the main idea that is texted not all the details.

3. Continued When helping your child with homework, take a concept they are trying to remember and connect it to real life. When working with fractions: use a pizza, a Hershey’s bar or something that is concrete and they would understand. Use similes to connect things together. It compares to things. She was as angry as a wet hornet. Use that strategy to teach a new concept.

4. Continued • Use acronyms to help your child remember content. When ideas are connected in a word or initials it is called an acronym. • An example is Roy G. BIV for the colors of the spectrum: • Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

5. Continued An acrostic is a phrase that helps students remember. This is for the planets. My very educated other just served us nine pizzas. That is to remember the planets (before Pluto got demoted)

6. Continue • Older children can create their own. • Please excuse My Dear Aunt Sally has been around for years for math calculation. • Dr. Tate had a student create his own: • Please end my day at school. (It works just the same).