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OregonsBiggestLoser
OregonsBiggestLoser Posts: 50
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have word games to teach you how to spell as a kid? kinda like;

arithmetic= a red indian thought he might eat turkey in church

geography= george eats old gray rats and paints houses yellow

for some reason it was easier for me to remember a sentence than the spelling of the word lol



what are some of the things that made learning easier for you??
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  • martymays
    martymays Posts: 188 Member
    I remember something in music about learning the notes EGBDF: "Every Good Boy Does Fine". Also Schoolhouse Rock during Saturday morning cartoons. I can't say the preamble to the Constitution without singing it.
  • ma_oeuvre
    ma_oeuvre Posts: 123
    I liked the one in Roald Dahl's Matilda:

    "Mrs D Mrs I Mrs F F I, Mrs C Mrs U Mrs L T Y. That spells difficulty!"

    Always remembered that.

    Oh, and Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - the colours of the rainbow :)
  • faithorfood
    faithorfood Posts: 11
    Spelling Arithmetic: A rat in the house may eat the ice cream :smile:
  • faithorfood
    faithorfood Posts: 11
    I remember something in music about learning the notes EGBDF: "Every Good Boy Does Fine". Also Schoolhouse Rock during Saturday morning cartoons. I can't say the preamble to the Constitution without singing it.
    I can't spell encyclopedia without singing it like Jiminey Cricket :wink:
  • makenoexcuses
    makenoexcuses Posts: 128 Member
    I never used it for spelling per say but, I did use it for the music notes. EGDF, "every good boy deserves favor" and FACE. I also remember using PEMDAS otherwise know as "please excuse my dear aunt sally" for the order of operations in equations.
  • sho3girl
    sho3girl Posts: 10,799 Member
    necessary - never eat cakes eat salad sandwiches and remain young ...


    FACE and EGBDF (every good boy deserves fruit) for reading music

    GDAE great dames always eat - strings on a violin

    also SOHCATOA (silly old hitler can't advance troops over alps) was for a trig thing in Math class - remember the saying but not how to use (never was a Math girl) :laugh:
  • BamsieEkhaya
    BamsieEkhaya Posts: 657 Member
    because - big elephants can't always use small exits (year 2..my fave teacher) :bigsmile:

    music : face and every good boy deserves fudge
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    No, but that's only because for me it was easier to remember how to spell the words
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Mnemonics are fun.
  • Michellereducf
    Michellereducf Posts: 168 Member
    I just want something that helps people remember the difference between 'lose' and 'loose' as those words are COMPLETELY different. Drives me batty.
  • sicoe17
    sicoe17 Posts: 120 Member
    I did the music ones (FACE and EGBDF) though we said Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. I've grown up with a lot of them (my mom was a remedial reading teacher), but I think my favorite mnemonic is Kings Play Chess On Funny Green Squares as a way to remember the order of biological classification (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species).
  • Zomoniac
    Zomoniac Posts: 1,169 Member
    My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

    Self explanatory really.
  • RoseThePenguin
    RoseThePenguin Posts: 100 Member
    Big Elephants Can't Always Use Small Elevators. (Because)

    B - E - A - UTIFUL! (Jim Carey taught me that one xD )
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

    Self explanatory really.
    Well, now it's just My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Proper way to fire a rifle:

    BRASS
    Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze
  • Zomoniac
    Zomoniac Posts: 1,169 Member
    My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

    Self explanatory really.
    Well, now it's just My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming.

    I refuse to accept that reclassification. It ruins everything. Boo hiss.
  • sicoe17
    sicoe17 Posts: 120 Member
    My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

    Self explanatory really.
    Well, now it's just My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming.

    I refuse to accept that reclassification. It ruins everything. Boo hiss.
    If you don't accept the current scientifec classification then you would have to also consider Eris, Ceres and the other dwarf planets as planets. Might be a bit more difficult to work those into the sentence.
  • poedunk65
    poedunk65 Posts: 1,336 Member
    The teaches that kept eveything is perspective and fun.
  • Jordy1983
    Jordy1983 Posts: 25 Member
    Another variant on BECAUSE

    Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.
  • karawRN
    karawRN Posts: 311
    use two "L"s and two "O"s in BALLOON cause every kid should have two balloons :)
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    I just want something that helps people remember the difference between 'lose' and 'loose' as those words are COMPLETELY different. Drives me batty.

    Wouldn't it be awesome if you could just loose weight. Maybe pull a rlp cord and have your *kitten* fall off or something..
  • SeaRunner26
    SeaRunner26 Posts: 5,143 Member
    Desert versus Dessert. I'd rather have two desserts, hence two S's.
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    All People Seem To Need Data Processing

    The OSI Networking Model

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  • XxXWhitneyShereeXxX
    XxXWhitneyShereeXxX Posts: 160 Member
    B-e-a -utiful, Jim Carrey, and I cant spell Banana unless I sing Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl lol
  • Montegue42
    Montegue42 Posts: 98
    I can't say the preamble to the Constitution without singing it.

    Same! Ahahahaha.
  • BernadetteChurch
    BernadetteChurch Posts: 2,210 Member
    Desert versus Dessert. I'd rather have two desserts, hence two S's.

    Now why doesn't that surprise me?!
  • tiffanylacourse
    tiffanylacourse Posts: 2,986 Member
    My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

    Self explanatory really.
    Well, now it's just My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming.

    I refuse to accept that reclassification. It ruins everything. Boo hiss.

    Mine was this:

    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

    Don't remember if our class made it up or if it actually came from somewhere, but I still remember it clearly!
  • MindyBlack
    MindyBlack Posts: 954 Member
    I remember something in music about learning the notes EGBDF: "Every Good Boy Does Fine". Also Schoolhouse Rock during Saturday morning cartoons. I can't say the preamble to the Constitution without singing it.

    Me too!! I like to show off by singing the preamble.

    I also remember ROY G BIV. Anyone else remember that one?

    Years later in Anatomy and Physiology class I learned a dirty neumonic(SP?) for the cranial nerves.
  • softballsharie
    softballsharie Posts: 154 Member
    I actually learned how to spell by a secret code language that my friends and I used. It was called op. You would basically spell out the word outloud using the letters' sounds, and add "op," to the end of every letter that's not a vowel. Example, my name: Sharie, you would say: Sop Hop ay Rop eye eee. Had to know how to spell to speak the language. I can now spell anything fairly quickly, and I attribute it mostly to that, and not so much to my teachers. lol!
  • choochoobell
    choochoobell Posts: 147 Member
    [/quote] I can't spell encyclopedia without singing it like Jiminey Cricket :wink:

    Me too...Also, can't remember middle letters in the alphabet without singing the "alphabet song"

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