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Listening Skills Mnemonics:

Use the following mnemonics to help you be more focused and better prepared to listen.

SLANT

Sit up
Lean forward
Activate your thinking
Name key information
Track the talker

LISTEN

Look
Idle your motor
Sit up straight
Turn to me
Engage your brain
Now

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Test Taking Mnemonics:

LEARN

Listen for hints clues and important information
Examine your notes, books and papers
Apply study and memory strategies
Review every night
Nail the test!

PACER

Preview the entire test before you begin
Arrange your time to get the most finished
Clue on key terms or underlined
Easiest question first
Review your test before you hand it in

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Language Arts Mnemonics:

Reading Comprehension Skills

RAP

Read a paragraph
Ask yourself what the two main parts are?
Put it in your own words

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Proof Reading

COPS

Capitalization
Overall appearance
Punctuation
Spelling

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When to use a commas..

FAN BOYS

For
And
Not
But
Or
Yet
So

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When to use "affect or effect?"

RAVEN

R
Affect
Verb
Effects
Noun

Other samples of mnemonics...

Chemistry:

Components of an Atom

PEN

Protons
Electrons
Neutrons

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Geography

The names of the Great Lakes

HOMES

Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Erie
Superior

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Prepare to study...

MURDER

Mood; set a positive mood
Understanding; if you don’t understand ask for help
Recall; learn it in your own words
Digest; reconsider the information
Expand; your question
Review

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