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"Washing Adam's Jeans" and Other Painless Tricks for Memorizing Social Studies Facts

From the Series Adventures in Memory ™

  • Interest Level: Grade 4 - Grade 6
  • Reading Level: Grade 5

Need a sure-fire way to memorize everything you need to know for your next social studies test? Brian P. Cleary can help! He’s made up acronyms, poems, riddles, songs, raps, and more to help those slippery social studies facts stick in your skull. And better yet, this book will give you ideas for how you can create your very own painless memory tricks.

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978-0-7613-6330-9
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Interest Level Grade 4 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 5
Genre Social Studies
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Millbrook Press ™
Language English
Publication Date 2010-08-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF055000, JNF052000, JNF025000
Dewey 300.71
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Lexile 850
Features Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Original artwork, Reviewed, Table of contents, and Websites

Reviews

School Library Journal

Reviewed on 1 November 2010

“In the introduction, Cleary defines ‘mnemonic’ and gives a few examples. Using songs, captions, sentences, poems, and numbers to aid in memorizing are all demonstrated.” —School Library Journal