https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/how-to-make-a-memory-device • Posted by Supernova's Child
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Now go out and ace a spelling test.