Long-term storage and retrieval includes both initial learning and storage of information and the efficient retrieval of the learned information. It is mediated by working memory.
Glr impacts the following academic skills:
Ways to improve Glr:
Academic strategies that may be helpful for students who are weak in Glr:
Glr impacts the following academic skills:
- Memorization and recall of basic information, such as math facts or sight words, or with more complex information
- Knowing information in different contexts
- Early writing skills, as retrieval of correct spelling and punctuation rules must be automatized
- Basic reading skills, especially early on
- Math calculation in early grades
Ways to improve Glr:
- Help students create schemata, a mental framework, for new concepts
- Link new information to previous schemata by helping students activate prior knowledge
- Pair visual and auditory instruction
- Teach mnemonic strategies
- Cognitive strategy instruction
Academic strategies that may be helpful for students who are weak in Glr: