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Subject: Mnemonics

Author:
Susan Parkins

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Date Posted: 17:23:32 06/13/12 Wed

As a school we have reviewed our use of mnemonics and decided to use standard phrases across all classes. This has come about because children were getting confused when different teachers used different mnemonics. E.g. because - in some classes children were taught Big Elephants Can't Always Use Small Exits (not helpful to some children when 'always' has a 'or' sound at the beginning), in others Big Elephants Can't Always Understand Small Elephants, in yet others Big Elephants Can't Add Up Sums Easily. It was decided to go with the last of these as it is more phonetically regular (the only slight issue being the 'ee' sound in easily, rather than the short 'e'. Since standardising high frequency nmnemonics, there has been less confusion for those with dyslexia.

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