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Mnemonic Weekly Tip
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10 November
17, 2002 |
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A 25 year old man
exhibited difficulty with reading and spelling the following words
during the screening I completed with him:
her, here and hear.
This young man experienced difficulty throughout his
schooling because of weak reading and writing skills and reports
that he reads and writes only what he must, and that is very
little.
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| The Mnemonic |
This
week’s clue again uses the technique of a sequence.
A sequence is a number of items that are related in some
way and therefore memorable.
The words: her, here, hear can be sequenced
with the pronouns he and she to
produce a list of related words. |
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| We
start with he the male pronoun and add the letter s
to make she the female pronoun.
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To this we add the concept that the female
pronouns each contain three letters, she and her,
while the two words that are pronounced the same each
contain four letters. |
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| We distinguish between here
and hear by weighting one, you hear
with your ear. This
sequence should be reviewed with the person who is confusing these
words until he or she is able to distinguish them with ease. |
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