STUDY AND

THINKING SKILLS
Study Strategies
& Thinking Skills
 Mnemonics
- a technique that allows
learners to organize, retain and
remember
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• Cha
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 ACRONYMS- using the first letter from a group of
words to form a new word.

Examples:
• CAPTCHA- Completely Automated Public Turing
test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
• ASAP - As Soon As Possible

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Acrostics- creating sentences from the first
letter of every word that needs to be
remembered.
Example: To remember the order of notes of the treble
staff which is EGBDF by using acrostic Every Good
Boy Does Fine.
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Chaining - creating a story where each
word or idea you have to remember
cues the next idea to recall.
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 imagery or visualization
-creating pictures on your
mind.
 Graphic Organizers
- are visual representations that
show how information is
organized.
 Keywords
-using what a word sounds like to visualize something.
Example: To remember the two different parts of the
brain: cerebrum and cerebellum. Since the cereberum
is larger than the cerebellum, the keyword for
cereberum could be drum (a large instrument) and the
keyword for cerebellum could be bell (a small
instrument).
 PEG WORDS
- visualizing words literally attached to
familiar objects.
Example: One is a gun. Two is a shoe.
Three is a bee. Four is a door. Five is a
hive.
 REPETITION
- saying or writing information
several times.
 Rhymes and Songs
- creating rhymes or
songs of facts.