Memory

Here are some useful ways for memorising facts and spellings

The Leitner System is a good way to learn facts for science, history and geography. This method is explained in the video below

Ways to Learn Spellings 

• Look at the word. Cover the word. Write the word.  Check you have spelled it correctly.

• Trace Copy and Write from memory (and then check)

• Quickwrite – write the word as quickly as you can lots of times

• Drawing around the word to show the shape

•  Drawing an image around a word

• Pyramid Writing

• Rainbow writing 
  Using coloured pencils in different ways can help to make parts of words memorable.
  Highlight the tricky part of the word or write the tricky part in a different colour.
  Write each letter in a different colour, or write the word in red, then overlay in orange, yellow and so on.

• Making up memorable 'silly sentences' containing the word
  Big elephants can always understand small elephants

• Saying the word in a funny way 
  e.g. pronouncing the 'silent' letters in a word
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• Clapping and counting to identify syllables in a word

• Breaking the word into chunks

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