Teach your students acronyms as memory tools. When most people think of mnemonics, their minds immediately turn to acronym-style options such as HOMES, an acronym that is representative of the great lakes, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.
Provide students with helpful memory phrases. Phrases that prove easy to remember can also be an easy way to commit information of importance to memory. Most notably, "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally" is a phrase to which math learners have turned for years to remember the order of operations: parenthesis, exponents, multiply, divide, add and subtract.
Give students keywords to relate to other terms. Select a keyword that you can relate to the word you are trying to teach. The meaning of this keyword does not have to relate directly to the meaning of the word you are presenting but it should in some way relate. For example, as The Access Center recommends, teachers could connect the word "car" to the word "carline" which means "witch." Teachers would choose this word because it sounds similar to the word they are trying to teach. To connect the two, the teacher could show learners a picture of a car with a witch sitting in it.
Scaffold students' mnemonic learning. Regardless of which mnemonic type you use, you should scaffold the instruction by providing students gradually less support as they learn the mnemonics. For example, start by repeating the mnemonics regularly, providing clear support for the learners. As the learners become familiar with the mnemonic, pull back your support, giving them only hints as to the mnemonic and its meaning and, in doing so, helping them retain knowledge of the mnemonic for later use.