Cognitive Learning Strategies Display

Cognitive Learning Strategies Display

Cognitive learning strategies are different ways that we can teach children in the classroom to retain new information and draw on information that they already know.

They are a vital tool in ensuring that children become lifelong learners inside and outside of the classroom.

Teaching children these strategies will make sure that they are able to take on board new information and retain it, while selecting the best methods to store that information for a later date.

These cognitive learning strategies cards can be printed, cut and displayed in your classroom as they are taught to children and used as an aide-memoire to support them in identifying the most suitable method for drawing on, and retaining, information.

The following learning strategies identified are:

• repeat, repeat, repeat
• make a list
• summarise it in your own words
• connect to something you know
• write it down
• make a rhyme or story
• test it with yourself or a friend
• say it in order
• physically do it
• teach it to someone
• elaborate in more detail
• give it space (come back to it later)
• draw a picture or diagram
• dual code with text and pictures
• learning something else alongside it (interleave)
• can do, can’t do… yet
• make a mnemonic or acronym
• group or pair