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Richards, Regina G. – 2003
This book is a comprehensive guide to learning and memory strategies for all students and especially those with learning problems. Chapter 1, on memory and the brain, explains brain cells, the cortex, function of the cerebral lobes, and other brain structures. Chapter 2 examines the memory process and discusses sensory memory, short-term memory,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Learning Problems
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Gillam, Ronald B. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Summarizes findings on the relationship of working memory and long-term memory to language impairments. Language interventions are discussed, including promoting attention, speaking clearly and slowly, promoting phonological coding, planning activities around topics familiar to the learners, helping learners organize new knowledge, and providing…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Children, Encoding (Psychology), Intervention
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Davies, Nigel R. – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2001
Suggests simple planning and instructional strategies to improve student learning and understanding for present and long -term application. The first section discusses learner-related issues. The second section focuses on the lesson plan (the introduction, the lesson body, and the lesson closure). The third section examines other strategies for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Lesson Plans, Long Term Memory
Gillam, Ronald B. – 1998
This book contains articles from two issues of "Topics in Language Disorders" that focus on recent developments in the understanding of short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory systems and their relationship to language comprehension, lexical development, early academic development, later academic development, and communication…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes
Keefe, James W., Ed. – 1988
In 1986, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, with the assistance of a national task force, published the NASSP Learning Style Profile (LSP) for diagnosis of the cognitive styles, perceptual response tendencies, and instructional preferences of middle level and senior high school students. This monograph offers a short course…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Noyd, Robert K. – Journal of Cooperation & Collaboration in College Teaching, 2000
Concept maps are diagrams that show students how content is structured. This article asserts that they can be effective teaching and learning tools. It presents one method of concept mapping and several ways it can be used in the classroom. (EV)
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Memory
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Parente, Rick; Herrmann, Douglas – Topics in Language Disorders, 1996
A variety of memory strategies can be used to retrain an individual's ability to process information in working memory. This article provides step-by-step instructions for various memory encoding strategies. These strategies include training in perceptual grouping of number series, organization, mediation, mental imagery, and associative memory.…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Cognitive Processes, Learning Strategies, Memory
Frierson, Henry T., Jr. – 1985
Suggestions are offered for applying learning techniques for a variety of learning situations. The approaches are applicable to learning medical school content as well as other advanced educational content. Ways to control external distractors are suggested, including a systematic approach to completing large tasks, such as writing a research…
Descriptors: Attention, College Students, Comprehension, Higher Education
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Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Discusses instruction in mnemonics to help students with disabilities and learning difficulties improve memory for school content. Discusses what mnemonic strategies are; offers general techniques for improving memory; and explains (with examples) the mnemonic techniques of using keywords, using pegwords, and using letter strategies. Also provides…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Johnson, Donna; Obi, Sunday Christian – 1993
This article suggests that the use of mnemonic strategies may help learning disabled (LD) students in the area of spelling, which is of particular frustration to most LD students. It has been found that children with learning disabilities do not have a pathological difficulty with long-term memory, but rather a deficiency in the use of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Hamachek, Alice L. – 1991
Reading is fundamental to learning. Vital to learning is memory, which is the mental faculty used to retrieve what was read and understood. The human brain is about the size of a grapefruit and weighs about as much as a head of cabbage. The cerebral cortex is a kind of problem-solving and memorizing device. The hippocampus plays a critically…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Reetz, Linda J. – 1987
Seven memory strategies that can be taught to college students with learning disabilities or students who have not learned essential study skills are described: the method of loci, pegwords, keywords, rote rehearsal, chaining, clustering, and first letter mnemonics. To help college faculty provide direct instruction in the memory strategies, the…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
Sprenger, Marilee – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
When teaching a lesson, do students remember the information the next day? The next week? Will they retain that information long enough to use it on a high-stakes test and, most importantly, will they retain it well enough to make use of it in their lives beyond school? "How to Teach So Students Remember" offers seven steps to increase students'…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Mnemonics, Long Term Memory
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Hutchinson, Judith; Marquardt, Thomas P. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Discusses how treatment of memory disorders resulting from traumatic brain injury must extend beyond intervention strategies focusing on deficit reduction to embrace models centering on disability reduction. Disability oriented approaches that emphasize rehearsal and encoding strategies and the use of memory aids are described. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Cues, Encoding (Psychology), Evaluation Methods, Head Injuries
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Pressley, Michael; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Discusses strategies designed to improve elementary school children's memory and comprehension of text. The strategies include summarization, representation, mnemonic imagery, story grammar, question generation, question answering, and prior knowledge activation. (RJC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Instructional Improvement
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