Poor readers by contrast, just keep going if they don't get it the first time. They think about what they read, challenge it, make it their own. Many of the 175 students using this technique jumped two grade levels in comprehension, and their college-aptitude test scores rose by as much as 14 percent. Practice memory-enhancing techniques . All such memory-enhancing techniques, called mnemonics, transform new information into more easily remembered formulations.
Mnemonics can also work with images.
The trick is to invent visual clues that will make unfamiliar material mean something to you. In studying Spanish, for example, you might learn that the word for duck is pato. Pato sounds like the English word pot. To link the two, imagine a duck waddling about with a large pot over its head. And it is something we can all have with practice.