For students experiencing difficulty with organizing and memorizing information, teachers may use: (1) mnemonic devices such as the acronym HOMES, which stands for the names of the Great Lakes; (2) riddles, poems, and songs for remembering important people, places, and events; (3) check lists and calendars for organizing and completing assignments; (4) color coding for organizing and accessing materials and assignments (for example, different colored notebooks or dividers for different assignments and subjects); and (5) multisensory assignments and activities for remembering more fully an experience or more thoroughly grasping a concept from a concrete example (for example, construction projects, three -
dimensional maps,
textured artifacts, period music, dance, and dress, regional dialects and languages, and samples of various cuisines).