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Christine Field "A Field Guide to Homeschooling" MemLok is a Bible memory system that really works for me. I am a woman who cannot recall what she did 2 hours ago but I am memorizing Scripture thanks to this great system.

Sometimes I (Drake) feel like I've done everything wrong there is to do regarding Scripture memory. Except ONE....Quit! This list is from MemLok, Both the notebook and software have memory cards, but some are more related to MemLok one or the other. But, most are simple practical ideas I've found over the years in various places or in my experience. Hope you find something helpful for you and yours! Please copy and use however you want and please send me your ideas so I can add them here to any prefix at memlok.com.

1. Make review time a priority, not something you "work in". Review just before something you do everyday (breakfast, turn on radio in car, devotions, practice instrument, clear the table, bathe) etc.
2. Start a new topic if you've lost motivation on your current one.
3. Put a check on the card when you have used the verse or it has been used in your life. For me, an experience associated with the verse really seals it in my heart.
4. Substitute a verse you prefer by using any of the 48 blank cards in MemLok.
5. Laminate copies of the Summary Card when done with a topic so everyone will have one.
6. Write it out in pencil, or on a white board. Repeat verse each time you erase a word or phrase.
7. Tape record the new verse several times with pauses. Listen, and say the verse during pauses.
8. Try to talk outloud for five straight minutes about the verse, alone, with a group or your family.
9. Turn the timer to 5-10 minutes while each child reviews.
10. About numbers: notice sequence Jms. 3:4,5; similarities 2 Chr. 7:14 and 2 Cor. 7:10; multiples Lk. 15:20; duplications Mk. 15:15; odds 1 Cor. 3:13-15; evens 1Thes. 4:16-18.
11. Visualize where it is on the Summary Card. Say out loud "It's between this picture and that one."
12. Write out the first letter of each word or key word. Then practice saying the whole verse from this.
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13. Enlarge the Summary Card (p.48-52) and make up games. Cut it up, draw out of hat, color, trace etc.
14. Notice alphabetical order of words you mix up. 1 Tim. 1:17 eternal, immortal, invisible NASB
15. Pray through your verse phrase by phrase in the first person, adding your thoughts.
16. Yell the word or phrase you always miss, as you review.
17. Review out loud in this order: Topic-Reference-Verse-(no stopping for breath here!)-Reference.
18. Look at the other side of the card every time. Read it aloud. Move your finger along each word.
19. Don't immediately look on the back when you can't remember! Make your mind do the work of recall. Recall locks the verse in much more than repetition.
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20. Keep a flip pad around with hand drawn picture on front and verse on back. Let kids draw their own ideas for the "first key words".
21. Buy a "special" stuffed animal or puppet to teach application and meaning. He comes out once a week to storytell, share a problem he is having (verse has answers) etc. Give him a fun name.
22. Use both sides of the brain by tracing the picture. Draw one you like better. Paste it on. Send it in!
23. Accent memorized verses with a common color in your Bible.
24. Be sure you learn it word perfect.
25. Ask a small group or ministry team to give 5-10 minutes a week for listening to verses in pairs.
26. Make up a melody for the verse. Please send your MemLok Melodies in on cassette!
27. Use traveling or waiting time to say verses together, in turns, or each saying the "next" word.
28. The first person says the verse. One by one the rest join in and repeat it together.
29. Occasionally list 3 rewards you'd like for memory progress in order of priority. Make contracts.
30. Commit one quiet time a week to this verse and its context to apply the verse. Memorization without application is nearly useless. Try the MemLok© Seven Devotional Tool's reproducible Meditation Sheet.
31. Learn your verse phrase by phrase and do start next week's verse even if you're not ready yet.
32. As a family, make up motions you do together to say the whole verse. This is fun and it works!
33. If you have already memorized the verse in another version, don't try to change!
34. Use the statements on the front of the card like quiz questions.
35. Precede your review with some form of exercise. Studies show the mind is more alert.
36. No amount of memory aids can replace self-discipline. Without that, any memory plan will fail.
37. WALK while you review your cards. You'll FOCUS more and find application can come easily. Talking out loud while you walk will increase that.
38. When using the Summary Card (in MemLok Cards), occasionally say the references as you look at the pictures in reverse (from the end to the beginning). It's like artists drawing from a photo "upside down". You see things you wouldn't otherwise. Being "out of order" helps too.
39. Treat the Summary Card (all 12 pictures on one side of the card - arranged so that the first key words form a sentence - not in PC) just like a new verse. Put it in the review cycle.
40. Print your cards from MemLok in black and white with several copies. Kids old enough to color these will then select the one they like the most for their card review.
41. Regarding printing 8.5x11" coloring pages of the pictures in MemLok: Since you have the flexibility to print with or without the reference/verse...print copies each way during the week. Toward the end of the week, have them write out the verse below the picture. Select a favorite and put it in a binder. From ages 3-10, you'll have a neat record of handwriting and coloring skills plus over 300 verses they've memorized.
42. Some parents reward MemLok reviewers with the 12 cards when they have finished a topic.
43. Have a non-memorizer hold you accountable each week. Eccl. 4:9,10 When both are memorizing and one doesn't do his verse, he doesn't ask you so say yours as readily.
44. Print the color 8.5x11" pages and use them as inexpensive wallpaper :) The Word encourges having the Word before your eyes. (Neat on the bedrooms ceiling too!).
In the software, every time you finish reviewing, one of 550 different Tips, Suggestions, Stories and Encouragements pop up!
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