Verbal Memory Activities

COGNITIVE THERAPY WORKSHEETS
VERBAL MEMORY
PACKET #38
SEPTEMBER 2021
What Do These Exercises Train?
Words, Where are You?
Situations such as casual conversation or instructions from
a doctor’s appointment require us to pay attention to
the words we see and hear and assign relevant meaning
to them. In this exercise, your client must memorize and
correctly place the location of several words pictured on
a grid. While abstract, this exercise challenges your client
to develop strategies to assign meaning to incoming
information in order to apply it for use at a later stage.
Split Words
While highly verbal, this exercise also challenges working
memory and spatial navigation. On a grid, your client must
put together word fragments in order to create a logical
word that pertains to a particular category. Your clients
will practice deriving meaning from details, using context
clues, and exploring space to collect relevant information.
This exercise carries over to everyday tasks, such as reading
an article or searching a web-page for relevant information.
Root it Out
In everyday life, we like to share jokes, things we have
learned, and things we find amusing. Sometimes, accessing
our memory to retrieve information for use on the spot
can be very difficult. In this exercise, your client will be
presented with the root of a word and they must derive as
many words as they can using the root that they are given.
While this exercise targets verbal memory and fluency, it
can also help with word formation and learning by trial-
and-error.
Restaurant
Many situations in real-life demand the correct pairing of
information to an individual’s identity, like remembering
which healthcare provider corresponds to which specialty.
Other situations these skills are important are for when
someone has guests over and one guest has an allergy
or a preference for a food item. Using attention, working
memory, and name recognition, your client will learn to
create meaningful associations with multiple pieces of
information.
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WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 1
Study the 3 words and their location in the grid for 18 seconds.
Then turn the page to continue the exercise.
WIZARD
QUESTION
SOLILOQUY
1/6
From the word bank below, identify which words are the ones you
had memorized and which words are new words.
Wizard Witch Question Soliloquy Nerves
Using the word bank above, identify the location of the memorized
words in the grid below.
Hint: The colored squares is where a word is located.
2/6
MESSAGE BEATITUDE
KEYRING
DANCING CARTON
3/6
Pillow Carton Dancing Minute Beatitude

Message Swim Session Keyring Tree
4/6
FORTITUDE LAUGH
SANDWICH WARNING
SHRUG
FEATURE
5/6
Silly Driver Jury Gorgeous Veering

Sandwich Warning Escape Fortitude Zephyr
Wrong Truck Laugh Feature Shrug
6/6
SPLIT WORDS Level Equivalent: 1
Connect the word fragments to make a word that pertains to the category
presented. There are 4 words to find and one word that does not belong. The first
part of the word is colored.
PICNIC FOOD
SAND FRU SA
ERT WICH DESS
LAD IT NAP
PICNIC SUPPLIES
NAP EL SIL
WAT KIN BOT
UTEN TLE TOW
1/5
Connect the word fragments to make a word that pertains to the category presented.
There are 10 words to find. The first part of the word is colored.
CLASSROOM
TEA JECTS PACK STUD

ASSIG BOARD HOME CHA
LES BACK CHER TEXT
LK ENT PRO BLACK
BOOK WORK NMENT SON
2/5
Connect the word fragments to make a word that pertains to the category
presented. There are 10 words to find.
TRAVELING
TEL SUIT PLANE ATION
PORT TAL SOU AWAY

GET VAC HO PASS
ISE REN CRU ATION
AIR VENIR DESTIN CASE
3/5
Connect the word fragments to make a word that pertains to the category presented.
There are 6 words to find. The first segment is in blue, the second segment is in
yellow, and the last segment is in green.
TYPES OF CAKE
PO GEN SP
FLO UR BIS
SE U ON
BU OI LESS
CU ER ND
GE TT IT
4/5
SPLIT WORDS
ANSWER
Category: Picnic Food
Words: Sandwich, Fruit, Dessert, Salad
Extra Fragment: Nap
Category: Picnic Supplies

Words: Napkin, Utensil, Bottle, Towel
Extra Fragment: Wat
Category: Classroom
Words:Teacher, Student,Textbook, Lesson, Blackboard,
Homework, Project, Assignment, Backpack, Chalk
Category: Traveling
Words: Airplane, Vacation, Getaway, Rental, Hotel,
Cruise, Destination, Souvenir, Suitcase, Passport
Category: Type of Cakes

Words: Pound, Sponge, Genoise, Biscuit, Flourless,
Butter
5/5
ROOT IT OUT
For each box try to name at least 10 5-letter words that start with the given let-
ters. For an extra challenge, try to do each set of letters in a minute. You cannot
use the names of people or places.
SA SE
SO
1/1
ROOT IT OUT
For each box, try to name at least 5 7-letter words that start with the given
letters. For an extra challenge, try to do each set of letters in a minute. You
cannot use the names of people or places.
CR TU
WA
1/3
ROOT IT OUT
SUGGESTED ANSWERS
SA SE
SALAD SAGES SEAL SEIZE
SAINT SALTS SEARS SETUP
SABLE SAPPY SEATS SEVEN
SAUCE SAVOR SEDAN SEVER
SATIN SEEDS SEWER
SATYR SEEKS
SO
SOAKS SOFTY
SOAPS SOLAR
SOBER SOUTH
SOCKS SOLVE
SODAS SONG
SOFAS SOWER
2/3
ROOT IT OUT
SUGGESTED ANSWERS
CH TU
CROCHET CRADLES TURMOIL TURRETS
CREVICE CRACKUP TUITION TUCKING
CREAMER CRACKLE
TUBULAR TUCKERS
CRYSTAL CRABBER
CROQUET CRAFTED
TUGBOAT TUBLIKE
CRITTER CRAMMED TURFMAN TURNKEY
CRUMBLY CRAMPED TUMBLED TURNOFF
CRIMSON TUNNELS TURKEYS
CRANIUM TUFTING
CROSSED TUBBING
WA
WAXWING WAKEFUL
WAZZOCK WALKUPS
WAXWORK WAYMARK
WAXWORM WABBLED
WALTZED WAFFLED
WASHBAG WALKING
WARZONE WARLOCK
WALKWAY WAFFLES
WACKILY WALLABY
WAXING WARMUPS
3/3
RESTAURANT level: 1
Restaurant workers often have the best memories. In this exercise, you must
practice retaining the orders of individuals seated around a table. Look at the
name of each individual and their order, and try to take less than 30 seconds
to memorize it. Once you have memorized the orders, please do not refer
back to them. Sometimes, the individuals may switch places. It is your task to
accurately recall the orders of each individual. Next to each individual is a blank
box, where you must write in the correct order of each person.
1/8
RESTAURANT level: 1
You have just left the kitchen, serve the patrons below with their food order.
Mai Tai Grilled Salmon

White Wine Tropical Salad
2/8
RESTAURANT level: 5
In this exercise, you must practice retaining the orders of individuals seated
around a table. Look at the name of each individual and their order, and try to
take less than 30 seconds to memorize it.
3/8
RESTAURANT level: 5
You have just left the kitchen, serve the patrons below with
their food order.
Iced Tea Lager Fried Flounder

Grilled Chicken Burger Spritzer
Grilled Pork Salad Water
4/8
RESTAURANT Level: 8
You are a server at a famous restaurant in your town. One of the key elements
of your restaurant is everyone knows everyone’s name. As part of your job,
you must memorize the customer’s name and the 3 menu items (a drink, the
main course and a side dish) that they ordered. You will have 45 seconds to
memorize everything.
5/8
RESTAURANT Level: 8
You have just left the kitchen, can you remember each patron’s name and their
food order?
Name Bank
Ben Karen Tom
Derrick Kelly Kristen
Food Bank
Skinny Latte Oatmeal Hash Browns
Pancakes Jam Hot Tea
Croissant 3 eggs Bacon
Rye Bread Black Coffee Omelet
6/8
RESTAURANT Level: 9
You are a server at a famous restaurant in your town. One of the key elements
of your restaurant is everyone knows everyone’s name. As part of your job, you
must memorize the customer’s name and the 4 menu items (a drink, 2 menu
items, and a dessert) that they ordered. You will have 45 seconds to memorize
everything.
7/8
RESTAURANT Level: 9
You have just left the kitchen, but Oh no! The patrons have switched
seats. Can you remember each patron’s name and their food order?
Name Bank
Nathan Neil James
Samuel Jacob Jack
Food Bank
Asahi Vegetable tempura Salmon Avocado Roll
California Roll Shrimp Shumai Mixed Sashimi
Cold Sake Strawberry Mochi Mango Mochi
Seaweed Salad Edamame Lychee Martini
Philadelphia Roll Hote Sake Green Tea Mochi
Spicy Tuna Roll Boston Roll Chocolate Ice Cream
8/8
Bridging Questions
Words, Where Are You?
Did you assign meaning to the words and their location? Did you make any associations
between the words in the grid that you had to remember? If so, how did this help
you remember the location of the words and what they words were that you had to
remember?
Words, Where Are You?!

Did you get distracted by the distractor words in the wordbank? What strategies did you
use to not get tripped up by words that were not the ones that you had to memorize?
Restaurant
Think about a time where you may have switched a date around for an assignment or
task that needed to be done. How might this be similar to mixing up a restaurant order?
How might you use the strategies you learned in this exercise to help you keep track of
deadlines?
Root it Out!
Look at the words that you came up with. Think about how you learned these words.
How might you go about expanding your vocabulary and retaining new words that you
come across?
Split Words
Think about the last two exercises you completed where you had no clues given. How
might brainstorming possible solutions have helped you find the correct words in each
matrix? Do you think doing this helped you or biased your responses?
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COGNITIVE THERAPY WORKSHEETS

WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 1

WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 1

Wizard Witch Question Soliloquy Nerves

WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 6

WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 6

Pillow Carton Dancing Minute Beatitude

WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 9

WORD’S WHERE ARE YOU? Level 9

Silly Driver Jury Gorgeous Veering

SPLIT WORDS Level Equivalent: 1

SPLIT WORDS Level Equivalent: 4

TEA JECTS PACK STUD

SPLIT WORDS Level Equivalent: 6

TEL SUIT PLANE ATION

PORT TAL SOU AWAY

SPLIT WORDS Level Equivalent: 8

Category: Picnic Supplies

Category: Type of Cakes

Mai Tai Grilled Salmon

Iced Tea Lager Fried Flounder

Words, Where Are You?!

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