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Inst. Strat
By Michelle

These are actually called mneumonics. Try doing a google search for more ideas. Additionally, it is very helpful to teach kids how to develop their own mneumonic devices.

Also, the letters don't necessarily have to
spell a word; you can use the first letter of each word you are learning as the first letter of each word in a sentence. For example:
Kings play chess on fine glass squares
stands for
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
and
Every day my snake crawls by.
stands for
Estimate, divide, multiply, subtract, compare, bring down.

For these mneumonics, teach

the students to say the sentence while writing down the first letter of each word. Then, they can go back and fill in the words they are trying to remember.