A practical workbook designed to assist students whose academic learning is suffering due to a memory deficit or ineffective utilization of their memory capabilities, Helping Students Remember provides numerous strategies and methods to strengthen memory, including chunking, organization, keyword, self-testing, pegword, loci, and mnemonics.
Drawing on the author's extensive training and experience, this useful resource presents effective techniques and lessons on:
How memory works
Memorization methods
Goals for improving memory
Repetition
Using cards to build memory
Grouping words by category
Study skills that help memory
Using arithmetic to build memory
Using music to remember
Improving recall during tests
Creating and using review sheets
Picturing verbal information
Using context cues
Plans for using memory strategies
With an accompanying CD containing all of the worksheets and word lists for reproduction, Helping Students Remember is the first workbook of its kind for general psychologists, school psychologists, and special education teachers, offering practical, easy-to-implement, and evidence-based methods for working with children with memory impairments.
