Mnemonics is a tool that helps you remember an idea or phrase (example: ROYGBIV helps you remember the colours of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). Human memory is a tool that can be developed and trained, regardless of the initial indicators and the age at which this development begins. The idea of mnemonics is that our memory stores images and pictures very well. It allows you to convert any information to some image, so you can easily remember tables, large series of numbers, new languages, etc.

Description of the exercise: There is not much difference if the exercise is done individually or in a group. If individually, then the person simply writes down 20-30 unrelated words. If in a group, – someone asks each participant to name a few words and write them all.

Then, the words are read several times, first, it should be a slow reading with one picture – association about each of the words. Every following word, or rather its image, has to have some connections with the previous images.

For example, if you have words “plane”, “door”, “elephant”, then, the association may be an image of a plane that crashes into the door and there is an elephant sitting behind that door. At the end, you will have your first “movie” script ready to be filmed!

Voice record, or video your story, and share it with Mrs. Acorn! sacorn@srsd119.ca