04-04-2022
Study Strategies Help Children Remember Facts
Some kids can study for hours and still not remember much. If this sounds like your child, introduce some "memory booster" strategies.
During study sessions, encourage your child to:
- Say it out loud. Have your student teach the lesson to you.
- Picture it. Have your child link the material to a picture—either a mental image or something your child draws on paper. For example, your student could visualize a heart connected to a car to remember Hartford, the capitol of Connecticut.
- Make a mental video. Suggest that your child imagine directing a movie of an historic event. How would your student show key elements?
- Make connections. Help your child connect new information to familiar concepts. A child who likes baseball might remember the word "perimeter" by imagining a player running around all the bases.
- Rhyme it. Your child can say, "I before E except after C."
- Practice remembering. Have your child create vocabulary or math flash cards and review them in small chunks of spare time.
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