1. MNEMONIC DEVICES

2. What are they? Ways to help you remember important information, names, lists, and a million other things. People have relied on mnemonic devices for a long time. They are VERY effective memory tools!

3.  MUSIC A SONG or TUNE to help recall  MODEL an image to help you remember  RHYME: Rhyming phrases 30 days hath September, April, June, and November.  NAMES (ROY G. BIV), PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SALLY  CONNECTIONs Make connections to unlike things  ACROSTICS: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles. (Planets)  WORD MNEMONICS ARE OUR FOCUS, BUT DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!! Ways of Remembering Through Mnemonics

4.  Learn:  1. affect versus effect  2. too versus to  3. here versus hear  What devices did you come up with?  NOW: Fill out the handout with a mnemonic device for each commonly confused set of words provided. Come up with our own!!!