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The mnemonic “IT FITS” (King-Sears, Mercer, & Sindelar, 1992) is an acronym providing the following steps to create mnemonics for vocabulary words:


 * I** dentify the term (vocabulary word, e.g., “impecunious”).
 * T** ell the definition of the term (e.g., “having no money”).
 * Fi** nd a keyword (e.g., “penniless imp”).
 * T** hink about the definition as it relates to the keyword, and imagine the definition doing something with the keyword. For example, “an imp tried to buy something but found that his pockets contained no money.”
 * S** tudy what you imagined until you know the definition (Foil & Alber, 2002).

[|Used to find out unknown words from context]- LPR3 (Look, Predict, Reason, Resolve, & Redo) -Thank you Vanita for sharing this idea! [|Used to fully absorb written material] SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review) [|Mnemonics Instruction to assist in accessing the general education curriculum]