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FIRST-Letter Mnemonic Strategy

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Instructional materials for this component of the Strategic Instruction Model are available only through professional development sessions conducted by certified SIM instructors.

The FIRST-Letter Mnemonic Strategy is a strategy for independently studying large bodies of information that need to be mastered. Specifically, students identify lists of information that are important to learn, generate an appropriate title or label for each set of information, select a mnemonic device for each set of information, create study cards, and use the study cards to learn the information.

Research results showed that students who learned the FIRST-Letter Mnemonic Strategy received test grades that increased from an average of 51 percent to 85 percent.