Helping Students Remember (eBook)

Exercises and Strategies to Strengthen Memory

Milton J. Dehn (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2011 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-11790-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A hands-on memory-training program for children and adolescents
featuring dozens of practical, evidence-based memory exercises

A practical workbook designed to assist students whose academic
learning is suffering due to a memory deficit or ineffective
utilization of their memory capabilities, Helping Students
Remember provides numerous strategies and methods to strengthen
memory, including chunking, organization, keyword, self-testing,
pegword, loci, and mnemonics.

Drawing on the author's extensive training and experience, this
useful resource presents effective techniques and lessons on:

* How memory works

* Memorization methods

* Goals for improving memory

* Repetition

* Using cards to build memory

* Grouping words by category

* Study skills that help memory

* Using arithmetic to build memory

* Using music to remember

* Improving recall during tests

* Creating and using review sheets

* Picturing verbal information

* Using context cues

* Plans for using memory strategies

With an accompanying CD containing all of the worksheets and
word lists for reproduction, Helping Students Remember is
the first workbook of its kind for general psychologists, school
psychologists, and special education teachers, offering practical,
easy-to-implement, and evidence-based methods for working with
children with memory impairments.

Autor

Milton J. Dehn, EdD, NCSP, is the cofounder and Program Director of Schoolhouse Tutoring, an agency that provides assessment, tutoring, and instructional support for students of all ages and abilities. He is also author of Essentials of Processing Assessment; Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents; and Working Memory and Academic Learning (all published by Wiley).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Schlagworte: Bildungswesen • clinical neuropsychology • Education • Educational & School Psychology • Erziehungs- u. Schulpsychologie • K-12 / Schulpsychologie u. Beratung • Klinische Neuropsychologie • Psychologie • Psychology • School Psychology & Counseling (K-12)
• ISBN-10: 1-118-11790-5 / 1118117905
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-11790-3 / 9781118117903