Finding ways to create images for words or phrases can help you remember them.  Make the words personal and they will become permanent in your mind.  Make a verbal connection, an image, or a picture in your mind.

Example:        to remember the colors in a rainbow  

                                                            ROY G. BIV

                                                            Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Example:  Do you know how to spell friend?

Remember:  You will always have a friend in the “end”.

Example:      to remember the order of the directions on a compass rose

                                                  North, East, South, West

                                                  Never Eat Soggy Waffles

Here are some cool sites with mnemonics that have already been created for you and also have suggestions on how to use mnemonics to enhance your school success!!  J

http://users.frii.com/geomanda/mnemonics.html     Amanda’s mnemonics

http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html                 Memory Improvement tools

http://www.vcld.org/pages/newsletters/00_01_fall/mnemonic.htm Enhancing success

- contributed by Michelle Pruitt, LTCY 524