Subject Code: English 6

Module Code: 5.0 Researching Your Topics

Lesson Code: 5.1 Remembering Information
Time Limit: 30 minutes

STUDENT’S COPY

Projected Time Allotment: 1 minute

TARGET

By the end of this learning guide, you are expected to:

✔ Identify various strategies to help you remember information

✔ Apply the appropriate recalling strategy in the given task
 IGNITE

The following strategies and techniques will help you to organize and remember
information you need to know for school or work. (Odell et al., 2000)
1. CLASSIFYING

Classification is a method of organizing items by arranging them into categories or

groups. You use classification when you decide how details fit together, you group items, and
you are identifying the relationships or patterns among them.

Example: What characteristics do each of the following people have in common?

Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord

Tennyson, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Graphic Organizers such as diagrams, charts, and tables summarize information

in a visual form, making the information easier to understand and remember. You may find
it easier to adapt readings or class notes to a chart, map, or diagram.

a. CHARTS
A chart allows you to summarize important information and arrange it into
categories so that you (and readers) can easily understand it. Line Graph, Bar
Graph, Pie Chart, Scatterplot, Histogram, and Gauge Chart are some examples.

b. CLUSTERING
Like brainstorming, clustering (also called webbing) helps you generate ideas.
First, write a topic in the middle of your paper. Circle the topic. Then, in the space
around the topic, write whatever-related ideas occur to you. Draw circles around the
new ideas and add lines to connect them to the original subject. Continue to branch off
as necessary.
c. MAPPING
Mapping, which resembles clustering, is useful for organizing ideas and
seeing whether you have enough support for each main idea. With a group or by
yourself, write down a general topic, and then list every idea about that topic that
pops into your mind. Work as quickly as you can without stopping to evaluate your
ideas. Keep going until you run out of ideas. The following example shows how one
writer brainstormed cluster notes on the topic of music.

Figure 3. An example of showing mapping

d. SEQUENCE CHAIN
A sequence chain is a diagram that helps the reader understand the order in
which actions must take place. Sequence chains are especially useful in explaining a
process because they help the reader visualize each step from beginning to end.
 e. TIMELINE
A timeline organizes historical information chronologically on a horizontal
line so that readers can easily see a sequence of events from earliest to latest.

History of Popular Social Media Platforms

Figure 5. An example of using a timeline

f. VENN DIAGRAM
A Venn diagram compares and contrasts two subjects using two intersecting
circles.

3. MEMORIZATION
You are more likely to remember important information if you memorize material
frequently in short sessions. Use the following guidelines to help improve your memory skills.

How to Memorize

1. Summarize the information.

Outline or condense information found in a textbook chapter.
List dates, names, and places.
2. Rehearse the material in several different ways.
For example, write notes, and read them silently. Then, listen as
you read the notes aloud.
3. Use memory games. Form a word or acronym from the first letter of key
terms. Make up a rhyme or associate the information with a particularly
vivid mental image.

4. NOTES ON READING OR LECTURES

Taking careful notes while you are reading or listening to a lecture will help you to
organize and remember information for later when you are studying or writing research
papers. Remember to recognize and record main points, summarize what you hear or read,
and note important examples.

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5. OUTLINES
An outline helps you organize information by grouping main ideas and details in a
way that shows their relationship to each other and their relative importance.

5. PARAPHRASING

A paraphrase is a restatement of someone else’s ideas in your own words.

Original text:
Differentiation as an instructional approach promotes a balance between a student's style and a
student's ability. Differentiated instruction provides the student with options for processing
and internalizing the content, and for constructing new learning in order to progress
academically.

Bad paraphrase:

Differentiation is a way to encourage equality between the approach and talent of the

student (Thompson, 2009). This type of instruction gives students different ways to deal with
and grasp information, and for establishing new learning to move on in education (Thompson,
2009).

Better paraphrase:

Teachers use differentiated instruction to help students learn, allowing the teacher to cater
lessons to the way each student learns and each student's skill (Thompson, 2009).

7. SQ3R
SQ3R stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. Here are the 5 steps:

S Survey the entire text. Look briefly at each page. Read all titles, headings,
subheadings, and boldface and italicized items. Look at illustrations,
charts, outlines, and summaries.
Q Question yourself. List questions you should be able to answer after you finish
reading. Look at any questions provided at the end of a selection.
R Read the material carefully. Think of answers to your questions as you read.
R Recite (say aloud or to yourself) in your own words the answer to each
question you identified earlier.
R Review the material by re-reading quickly, looking over questions, and
recalling the answers.

8. SUMMARIZING
Summarizing is restating the main ideas of a text or lecture in condensed form.

9. WRITING A PRÉCIS
When you write a précis, you shorten a piece of writing (such as a reading passage, a
chapter, an article, or a report) to its bare essentials.

10. WRITING TO LEARN

Writing is a valuable study tool. Writing helps you to clarify your thoughts, analyze
and recall information, and plan your work. You can use freewriting, autobiographical notes,
diaries, and journals, and learning logs when you study.