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2. Comprehend your reading
3. Learn more effectively
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6. Do better on tests
7. Organize your writing
8. Solve math word problems
9. Manage your time
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Quick Question

Have you ever tried to remember what a word or term means?
Or what word fits a definition?
Or is there, an easy way to link terms, their defifnitons and a visual so that you can recall them anytime you want.
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Learning Outcome

After you have learnt this strategy, you will be able to learn and remember terms and definitions, as well as, associate pictures to those terms and definitions.
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What is the Strategy?

Cards (index cards) are used for remembering terms and their definitions. You will be able to recall the definition and also a picture to illustrate each term.
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Guided Practice

Making Cards - Choose a term and its definition that you want to remember.

Front of the Card
- Write the term in large letters on the front of the card.
- You can add your name, course name and text page it refers to.

Back of Card
- On the top half of the card back, place the definition, which you find from your notes, textbook, glossary, instructors or fellow learners.
- On the bottom half of the card back, make a picture that will remind you of the term and definition.

Using the cards
1. Go through your cards by making the front into a question using: What is ..., Who is ..., Where is..., When do I use..., Why is ..., or What are the steps?

2. Answer the question completely out loud or on a piece of paper and also recall the picture or illustration you drew to go with the item on the front.

3. Turn your card over and check your answer.

4. Go through your cards once a week and sort the cards into two piles - ones you know & will review weekly and cards you don't know completely. Take a small amount (5 - 10 cards) with you and go over them on a break, on the bus, during homework, before class or any time you have a few seconds.

5. Shuffle your cards for a change of order, then do them again.

6. Do cards by looking at your picture and say what the item is on the front.

7. Pick three cards at a time and explain how those cards are the same and how they are different.

8. Work with your classmates and review your cards and their cards.
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Apply the Strategy

Choose 10 terms from your learning that you want to learn and remember forever.
Make up the cards and use the steps to learn them.
Start learning terms from your courses before you encounter them in the course by using the glossary to build your cards.
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Summarize the Strategy

Now that you have started using cards, explain what terms you will put onto cards from each of your courses.
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So where to from here?

Continue to use cards for each of the terms you want to learn, review them at intervals to keep them fresh in your mind and be able to apply the terms as you need them.
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Carry around Bookmark

Create your own carry around Bookmark by printing CARDS Bookmark.
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One page handout

Go to the CARDS One Page Handout to produce a one page (actually 2 page) summary of CARDS. The one page (actually 2 page) summary covers four kinds of cards and gives examples of each.
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copyright 2002 Roger Moore