How To Make A Memory Device

A simple trick to remember spelling and the like.

Posted by Supernova's Child

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I do this everytime I have a spelling test, which in my advanced placement literature class is every single friday. :P There are so many people who don't ace these tests, because they don't do these simple little things.

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You Will Need (3 things)

  • Paper
  • Pencil
  • Paper

Steps (5 steps, 5 minutes)

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    One thing you could do would be to break up a word into parts that sound like other words and then distort them to make them into a sentence.
    For example: I used to have trouble remembering how to spell the word separate. I always spelled it seperate, which is NOT correct.

  2. 2

    Broken up into smaller parts:

    se-par-ate

    If you add another e to se, it becomes see. Par can easily change into pair, because you can see a pair of something, and ate sounds like 8.

    See pair eight.

    Make it into a sentence:
    I see pairs of eight.
    See pair eight
    See-pair-eight
    Se-par-ate.

  3. 3

    Another thing you could do is to memorize the word by mentally spelling it phonetically.
    For example: cacophony.
    Out loud it's pronounced cuh-cough-oh-nee.
    To remember the spelling, in my head I always said it as: cake-oh-phony.

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    A third tip I have for memorizing things is to make an allusion, and then make a story to go along with it.
    For example: caesura.
    Caeser had a wife. Her name was Caesura. (Not really, but you get what I'm saying).

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    Now go out and ace a spelling test.