Helping Students Remember E-Book

Milton J. Dehn

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 285

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

A hands-on memory-training program for children and adolescents featuring dozens of practical, evidence-based memory exercises 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.

Leseprobe

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

General Directions and Principles

Optional Pre- and Post-Tests

Lesson-by-Lesson Directions

Lower Level Workbook

Lesson 1: Introduction for Students

Lesson 2: Thoughts and Feelings About Memory

Directions

Lesson 3: How Memory Works

Short-Term Memory

Long-Term Memory

How Things Move Through Memory

Memory Quiz

Directions

Lesson 4: Memory Strengths and Weaknesses

Lesson 5: Memory Beliefs

Lesson 6: Memorization Methods

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Questions

Lesson 7: Memory Strategies Survey

Lesson 8: Goals for Improving Memory

Lesson 9: A Memory Experiment

A Memory Experiment: Part I

Things That Can Harm the Memory Center

A Memory Experiment: Part I Continued

A Memory Experiment: Part II

Things That Can Help Memory

A Memory Experiment: Part II Continued

Assignment

Lesson 10: Review and Reflections

Lesson 11: Repetition

Review of the Memory Experiment

Practice Round 1

Repetition

Practice Round 2

Lesson 12: Repeating Written Information

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Practice Round 2 Continued

Assignment

Lesson 13: Using Repetition to Study Spelling

Lesson 14: Chunking

Combining Repetition and Chunking

Chunking and Repeating Words

Lesson 15: Review of Repetition and Chunking

Review

Repetition Practice

More Practice With Combining Repetition and Chunking

Lesson 16: Using Chunking to Memorize Spelling

Practice

Thoughts About Memory Training

Lesson 17: Putting Words Into Sentences and Stories

Repetition and Chunking Practice

Putting Words in Sentences

Practice

Putting the Words Into a Story

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 18: Comparing Memory Methods

Lesson 19: Using Arithmetic to Build Memory

Assignment

Lesson 20: Using Cards to Build Memory

Assignment

Jesse: A True Story About Someone With Memory Problems

Lesson 21: Remembering Locations to Build Memory

Lesson 22: Picturing Verbal Information

Practice Round 1

Helping Your Short-Term Memory in the Classroom

Assignment

Practice Round 1 Continued

Picturing What We Hear and Read

Practice Round 2

Helping Your Short-Term Memory at Home

Assignment

Practice Round 2 Continued

Visualizing Directions

Assignment

Lesson 23: Naming and Describing What You See

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Assignment

Lesson 24: Grouping Words by Category

Review

Practice Round 1

Memory Likes Organization

Practice Round 1 Continued

Practice Round 2

Other Ways of Organizing Information

Practice Round 2 Continued

Practice Round 3

Assignment

Lesson 25: Imagining Yourself in the Scene

Review

Using Imagination to Help You Remember

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 26: Using Locations to Remember Information

Review

Using Locations to Remember

Practice

Lesson 27: Pegword

Review

Pegword

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Lesson 28: Review and Reflections

Review

Review and Reflection Questions

Lesson 29: Using Study Cards

Rules for Using Study Cards

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 30: Thinking About the Information

Review

Practice Round 1

Thinking About Information

Practice Round 2

Practice Round 3

Practice Round 4

Lesson 31: Remembering What You Read

Review

PRSAR

Lesson 32: Creating and Using Review Sheets

Review

Review Sheets

Rules for Creating a Review Sheet

Practice Round 1

Review Sheet

Practice Round 2

Rules for Using Your Review Sheet

Assignment

Lesson 33: Testing Yourself

Practice

Lesson 34: Study Skills That Help Memory

Assignment

Lesson 35: Using Music to Remember

Practice

Lesson 36: Review and Reflections

Lesson 37: Remembering to Do Things

Practice Round 1

Other Ways to Remember to Do Things

Practice Round 2

Assignment

Lesson 38: Memory Aids

Lesson 39: Creating and Using a Memory Book

Assignment

Lesson 40: Plans for Using Memory Strategies

Directions

Upper Level Workbook

Lesson 1: Introduction for Students

Lesson 2: Thoughts and Feelings About Memory

Directions

Lesson 3: How Memory Works

Short-Term Memory

Working Memory

Long-Term Memory

The Flow of Information Through Memory

Memory Quiz

Directions

Kim: A True Story About Someone With Memory Problems

Lesson 4: Memory Strengths and Weaknesses

Lesson 5: Memory Beliefs

Directions

Lesson 6: Memorization Methods

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Questions

Lesson 7: Memory Strategies Survey

Lesson 8: Goals for Improving Memory

Lesson 9: A Memory Experiment

A Memory Experiment: Part I

Things That Can Harm Memory

A Memory Experiment: Part I Continued

A Memory Experiment: Part II

Things That Can Help Memory

A Memory Experiment: Part II, Continued

Assignment

Lesson 10: Review and Reflections

Lesson 11: Repetition

Review of the Memory Experiment

Practice Round 1

Repetition

Practice Round 2

Kim’s Story, Continued

Lesson 12: Repeating Written Information

Lesson 13: Using Repetition to Study Spelling

Lesson 14: Chunking

Lesson 15: Review of Repetition and Chunking

Lesson 16: Using Chunking to Memorize Spelling

Lesson 17: Putting Words Into Sentences and Stories

Repetition and Chunking Practice

Putting Words in Sentences

Practice

Putting the Words Into a Story

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 18: Comparing Memory Methods

Lesson 19: Using Arithmetic to Build Memory

Arithmetic Exercise to Build Memory

Assignment

Working Memory Overload in the Classroom

Lesson 20: Using Cards to Build Memory

A Strategy for the Card Game

Practice and Keep It Challenging

Assignment

Lesson 21: Remembering Locations to Build Memory

Lesson 22: Picturing Verbal Information

Practice Round 1

Suggestions for Supporting Your Working Memory in the Classroom

Assignment

Practice Round 1 Continued

Visualizing and Imagery

Practice Round 2

Suggestions for Supporting Your Working Memory During Home Study

Assignment

Practice Round 2 Continued

Visualizing Directions

Making Images Memorable

Assignment

Lesson 23: Naming and Describing What You See

Practice Round 1

Verbalizing Visual Information

Practice Round 2

Practice Round 3

Dual Encoding

Assignment

Lesson 24: Grouping Words by Category

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Other Ways of Organizing Information to Make It Memorable

Reorganizing Information

Assignment

Lesson 25: Imagining Yourself in the Scene

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 26: Using Locations to Remember Information

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Why Loci Works

Assignment

Lesson 27: Pegword

Review

Pegword

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Kim’s Story Continued

Lesson 28: Review and Reflections

Review of the Last Lesson

Review and Reflection Questions

Lesson 29: Using Study Cards

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

More Tips for Using Study Cards

Assignment

Lesson 30: Thinking About the Information

Review

Practice Round 1

Elaboration

Practice Round 2

Practice Round 3

Practice Round 4

Assignment

Lesson 31: Remembering What You Read

Review

Practice

PERSAR

Why PERSAR Works

Lesson 32: Creating and Using Review Sheets

Review

Creating and Using Reviewing Sheets

Steps for Creating a Review Sheet

Practice Round 1

Review Sheet

Rules for Using Your Review Sheet

Practice Round 2

How to Study From a Teacher’s Review Sheet

Assignment

Lesson 33: Testing Yourself

Tips for Self-Testing

Practice

Lesson 34: Study Skills That Help Memory

Review

Study Skills

Assignment

Lesson 35: Using Music to Remember

Practice

Lesson 36: Review and Reflections

Lesson 37: Remembering to Do Things

Practice Round 1

Other Tips for Remembering to Do Things

Practice Round 2

Assignment

Lesson 38:

Calendar Practice

Memory Aids

Lesson 39: Creating and Using a Memory Book

Assignment

Lesson 40: Keyword

Practice Round 1

Keyword

Practice Round 2

Practice Round 3

Assignment

Lesson 41: Taking Class Notes

Taking Notes

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Practice Round 3

Reviewing, Editing, and Adding to Your Notes After Class

Additional Note-Taking Tips

Assignment

Lesson 42: Studying From Class Notes

Review

How to Study From Class Notes

Practice

Lesson 43: Scheduling Reviews

Review

Scheduling Reviews

Practice

Assignment

Conclusion of Kim’s Story

Lesson 44: Teaching the Information

Review

Teaching to Remember

Suggestions

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 45: Using Context Cues

Context Cues

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 46: Improving Recall During Tests

Do a Final Review

Think of Context Cues

Elaborate

Other Testing Suggestions

Practice

Assignment

Lesson 47: Selecting, Modifying, and Combining Strategies

Practice Round 1

Practice Round 2

Lesson 48: Test on Memory and Strategies

Directions

Lesson 49: Plans for Using Memory Strategies

Directions

Lesson 50: Evaluation of Training

Directions

Appendixes

Appendix A: Practice Schedule and Materials

Appendix B: Data Collection Forms

Appendix C: Spanish and French Vocabulary

Appendix D: English Vocabulary

Appendix E: State Capitals

Appendix F: Literature, Science, and Social Studies Lessons

Appendix G: Words for Grouping by Category

Appendix H: Shopping Lists

Appendix I: Visual-Spatial Grids

Appendix J: Examples of Shorthand and Abbreviations

Appendix K: Pre- and Post-Tests

Appendix L: Review Sheet

Appendix M: Parent Instructions for Working Memory Exercises

References

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