Individuals with strong language skills or auditory skills often enjoy creating short sayings, jingles, rhymes or even tunes to learn new information. Jingles or rhymes can be catchy; advertisers and markets know this each time they attempt to create a slogan or a tune for the consumer to sing. Rhymes, jingles or catchy sayings are used often; you can create your own for information that may otherwise be difficult to learn.
Examples of Rhymes and Tunes
1. A spelling rule: Use I before E, when you hear a long e, except after C.
2. For daylight's savings time: Spring forward; fall back.
3. A reminder for the direction to open or turn something on: Right tighty, Lefty Loosy.
4. To remember that stalactites are the icicle-shaped deposits that hang down from the roof
of a cave and stalagmites are deposits that build up from the floor of a cave:
When the mites go up, the tights come down.
5. Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.
6. In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
7. The following rhymes were created to match inventors with their inventions:
Alfred Nobel had quite a fright when he discovered dynamite.
Gutenberg could not rest, until he created the printing press.
Charles Webb could not do math in his head. He went to work and a few years
later, he developed the calculator.
Arthur Melvin had to stoop - to pick up his new hula hoop.