Make Flash Cards To Learn New Subjects

Make a set of flash cards using index cards and the glossary in your text book. Review them during commercials, in the car, on the bus, while waiting for text messages, etc. Once you've mastered this list, you're going to find the subject much easier to comprehend.

By Phyliss from Ranson, WV

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By 09/19/2009

Flashcards are the way kids learned how to read when they started school, where I live. We didn't have kindergarten and there was no phonics. We also had a lot of flash card drills with arithmetic flash cards. I also used the arithmetic flash cards in the early sixties when I taught. I think flash cards help to memorize things. Then when I went to college I took really good notes and when I had free time I recopied them so that they could be read and that seemed to help too.

By 09/18/2009

Excellent tip - and you can be as simple or as fancy as your artistic side allows!

By 09/14/2009

Flash cards are one of the best way to learn from them, usually just a few times around with the list of the cards, and most of the information is already set for the test.

It also is really just good for anyone when we just want to learn things in our life.

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Flash Cards for Learning New Words

I made flash cards for my daughter to help her learn new words. I bought a pack of index cards and went through some old magazine and found pictures of everything from tennis shoes to a salad. I cut out the pictures and glued them onto the index card and wrote the name of the picture on the front of the card.

Anna from South Carolina