(8 reviews) Author: Milton J. Dehn ISBN : 9780470919972 New from $43.22 Format: PDFA 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.
- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 11, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470919973
- ISBN-13: 978-0470919972
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 10.9 inches
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Helping Students Remember, Includes CD-ROM: Exercises and Strategies to Strengthen Memory PDF
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.
The book stores, both on-line and brick and mortar, are deluged with books about ways to improve the brain. Most of these are aimed at becoming best sellers with little, if any, regard for support from the research related to the topic. This book is different. Written by an author who has studied and written before in the area of memory, this book is based on age-specific empirical data and presented in a manner for the teacher or other professional to work with either a primary or upper level student to improve memory.
The author skips the traditional "Chapter 2" in most books which takes the reader through what is usually a high school level of the anatomy of the brain and jumps right into strategies to assist the student. While not all memory issues are the same, the author provides numerous strategies which could assist in the classroom.
At a time where there is ample evidence suggesting that attentional and memory difficulties work hand-in-hand, the strategies would be useful for students who may have been diagnosed with attentional difficulties in the past. The adage "Pills don't teach skills" apply in this situation. Now that the child can focus on what is going on in the classroom, do they have the coping strategies to be successful? Dehn lays these skills out in this book.
Chapters for the lower-grades include topics such as Goals for remembering, Memorization Methods Using repetition and chunking and Grouping Words by Category. The author also orders the chapters for specific topics, such as spelling, arithmetic and reading comprehension. Included in the Appendices is a list of skills, the minimum number of practice rounds as well as locations to find related information.
The power of our memory is fascinating. The art and science of memory has been fading into obscurity for a number of years now, but is experiencing a resurgence due to books like this and more popular works like Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. There are some great books out there for adults on building memory and learning basic techniques, but not for younger children.
This text solves that problem. It is a workbook for memory that is so simple, a child can pick it up quickly and build on the techniques to improve their memory. Most of the basic exercises will take less than 10 minutes, but the lessons learned will improve your child's study skills and learning ability for life. The book says that it should be started at Grade 3, but many of lessons could easily be adapted for children even younger.
There is a lot of value here, and if you learn best through worksheets than this may be a good book for any age. It is a great tool and the accompanying CD-ROM with worksheets makes it adaptable to your family's needs. Valuable tool for building memory.
If you are interested in memory, here are some other great books:
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Mentioned earlier, but this is a great narrative account of a journalist learning to use memory techniques. An easy to read introduction into the world of memory.
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