Memorizing Techniques

Some ideas I pulled together about memorizing Doctrinal Mastery scriptures.

1.  Make flashcards; use often

2.  Make a matching game with reference and key phrase

3.  Write it out, cover what your wrote, then write it again (and again and again)

4.  Say the reference and key phrase out loud until you can recite it

5.  Use the first letter of the reference and each word from the phrase (Doctrinal Mastery App)

6.  Make a fill-in-the-blank "worksheet"

7.  Write them out then cut into words or phrases and put back in the right order.  How fast can you do it?

8.  Make up a game to teach them to your parent(s) or sibling(s)

9.  Draw a picture that helps you remember the reference or the phrase

10. Turn it into a rhyme or song

11.  Visualize it/create an image to remember the reference or key phrase

12.  Ask your parent, sibling or friend to quiz you on them

13.  Write it on a piece of paper and hang it where you can see it often during the day.

14.  Set an alarm to go off several times a day--stop what you're doing and work on Doctrinal Mastery for 5 minutes.

I am coming to believe that knowing the reference and the doctrine it teaches is really the goal...not knowing the exact "key phrase" and most often we will have access to scriptures to look up the full reference.  That is what I am focusing on and encouraging my students to focus on as well.  I find that when I try to memorize word for word I'm obsessed with the WORDS and not the meaning of the scripture.