Spelling Tests and Long Term Memory

When I attended public school we had weekly spelling tests. Every Monday the words were handed out to study for the week and on Friday we were tested on what we had learned. I would bring my list of 20 words home each week, review them with my mother, and typically got an A on the Friday test. I got A's in spelling. This is very amusing if you actually knew my spelling ability. You see, even back in elementary school whenever I had to write a paper in class I always had tons of spelling errors. Why? Because moving something into short term memory is very different from moving it into long term memory. We only ever studied the difficult words for a week at a time! Not enough!

Using StudyTag it is simple to keep reviewing facts with students over the long term. StudyTag makes it easy for students to master the most important facts by moving them into long term memory. StudyTag does this by encouraging short, dedicated but focused study on a set of facts. And, StudyTag makes it easy to accumulate a large set of related facts (such as spelling) into one large review lesson. StudyTag then comes back to review all facts to make sure the spelling (or whatever is being learned) is reaching long term memory.

In case you haven't noticed, we have recently added sound to StudyTag. It is now possible in a content editor to add sounds to a fact. Your student can build their own customized weekly spelling lesson directly into StudyTag! We suggest keeping focused on adding 20 words a week. As they finish each week copy the words into a final exam test and continue to study that lesson as well, long term memory and great spelling is on the way!