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Essential Study Skills , Fourth Edition
Linda Wong
Chapter 2 Enrichment: Jingles, Rhymes, Sayings and Tunes

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.


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