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MNEMONIC DEVICES. What are they?. Ways to help you remember important information, names, lists, and a million other things. People have relied on mnemonic devices for a long time. They are VERY effective memory tools!. Ways of Remembering Through Mnemonics.
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What are they? Ways to help you remember important information, names, lists, and a million other things. People have relied on mnemonic devices for a long time. They are VERY effective memory tools!
Ways of Remembering Through Mnemonics MUSIC A SONG or TUNE to help recall MODEL an image to help you remember RHYME: Rhyming phrases 30 days hath September, April, June, and November. NAMES (ROY G. BIV), PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SALLY CONNECTIONs Make connections to unlike things ACROSTICS: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles. (Planets) WORD MNEMONICS ARE OUR FOCUS, BUT DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!!
Come up with our own!!! Learn: 1. affect versus effect 2. too versus to 3. here versus hear What devices did you come up with? NOW: Fill out the handout with a mnemonic device for each commonly confused set of words provided.