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The Optimal System Incorporates Rote-Learning And Mnemonic Devices

• Frequent active recall increases long-term retrieval

• Deep-processing increases recall and enhances comprehension

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What Is A Mnemonic Device?

• Mnemonic devices are strategies for enhancing memory

• They help to encode the information so that it will be easier to remember

• They relate new information to information that is already known

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Simple Mnemonic Devices(pictorial representation of the word)

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Keyword Strategy

• A familiar word that sounds similar to the word to be remembered

• The keyword could be connected to either the Hebrew word or to the English translation

• A picture helps connect the word and its translation

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(front side of flashcard)

h¯b‰pˆk(picture sounds like translation)

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(back side of flashcard)

Before(oheuxp)

.¤rœ¨t¨v›o‹g h¯b‰pˆk o¨v¨r‰c©t Uj©T§J°H³u -

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v¨n¨a±b(picture connects word to concept)

AAACHOOO!!!!!!AAACHOO0O!!!!!

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s‹F(connect picture to sound of Hebrew word)

(Cod)

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River - r«ut±h

(Oar sounds like

“r«ut±h”)

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Vocabulary Blocks(Translation on back with new oheuxp)

(Hebrew word)

h°bŠg(Hebrew antonym/

synonym)

rh¦aŠg

(Present euxp)o°h¨r‰m¦n‰C r¤J£t

h¦N‹g h°b„g›,¤t

(Mnemonic clue)

(Optional-Sentence)

The h°bŠg didn’t have an umbrella, so he got soaking wet in the pouring rain.