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Cram: Flashcards to Study and Sample Essays

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers a wide selection of flashcards for you to study, memorize, test yourself on, and more. Learn a foreign language, practice your multiplication table or prepare for your MCAT by memorizing every bone in the body. Whatever...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Mysteries of Memory Memorization Techniques That Work

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach learners about memory and techniques to better remember information. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Professional Doc
Other

Educorock: English, French, and Spanish Educational Music

For Students 9th - 10th
These resources are available for purchase and may be of interest if you are wanting to learn to use popular styles of music as effective teaching and motivational tools. Music CDs help students to memorize basic grammar principles by...
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: "Mad Minute" Tests Could Make You a Math Whiz

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
How well do you know your addition and subtraction facts and multiplication tables? In this article you'll learn what brain studies show about the value of memorizing and using such fact sets.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Scotland: Brainsmart

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginners guide to how the human brain works and suggestions for taking care of it, memorizing numbers, remembering names, managing stress, and more. Take a trip inside and see what happens when it learns something new.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Use Acronyms to Remember Information

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Students will learn how to use acronyms as a study tool.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Reading Comprehension Through Think Alouds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Think-Aloud method has be shown to improve information retention. The lesson plan contained within this site models for teachers how to model this strategy. There is a rubric included for assessment.
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Website
Auburn University

The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Personal Vocabulary Notebook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a simple but direct approach to building your vocabulary. Keeping a special notebook of new words can increase vocabulary, assist memorization, and encourage good study and organization skills. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Some Obstacles to Vocabulary Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A strong vocabulary, both written and spoken, requires more than a dictionary. In fact, it requires an educational commitment to overcoming four obstacles: the size of the task (the number of words students need to learn is exceedingly...
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Activity
Other

Mtsu: Memory Principles & Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore memory principles and strategies. Before you go to this site, list the ways you usually try to remember things. Write these strategies down (share with someone else if possible). Once you have written your strategies down, take a...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The goal of this lesson plan is for students to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson plan will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Sum of Its Parts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Julianna's understanding (from the novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen) that "A painting is more than the sum of its parts," learners will describe a memorable place that evokes a certain feeling or emotion. Students will...
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist learners with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Brain Trainer

For Students 4th - 6th
Are you ready to train your brain? Brain Trainer is an engaging game to strengthen your brain by focusing on four categories: Memory, Reaction, Logic and Focus. Brain Trainer features a Daily Challenge that records your progress, as well...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use and Teach Content Vocabulary Daily

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Copying definitions from the dictionary and memorizing words for tests is not sufficient work for students to master and retain new vocabulary. This article helps teachers choose which words are most important to teach and suggests...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Games Pelmathism, Multiplication

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use this game to improve your quickness and memorization of multiplication facts. You can set the facts you want to practice on this game.
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Interactive
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Flip Flop

For Students 1st - 5th
Use this game to improve your quickness and memorization of addition facts. You can set the facts you want to practice on this game. Just follow the instructions below it!
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Dog Breath

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Tv Repair Person

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Crazy Critters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Stone Cutter

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Sleeping Ugly

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...