Strategy for Flash Cards

Flash card teaching strategies are popular with teachers because of their effectiveness. Parents also appreciate the flash card because it is an easy teaching strategy for home. There are several ways to use flashcards for reading. This flashcard teaching strategy, the Constant Time Delay (CTD) technique, is widely used by special and regular education teachers. The CTD strategy can be used easily with flash cards at home to teach any subject. Constant Time Delay has allowed for the multiple exposures necessary for learning and reading.

Strategy to Measure the Success of Improvement through Flash Cards:

Date

Words Read

Errors

Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM)

Flash cards are a practical tool for learning vocabulary and grammar, the key point is if you look at them regularly. I found them particularly useful when learning any characters. They might have a character, word, phrase or sentence on one side, and a translation, definition and/or notes on the other side. Anybody can make them, one can even buy readymade sets of cards, or there are many use flash card programs such as Anki, Mnemosyne and Supermemo.

Flash card is also considered the quickest way to get just the repetition that you need on just the words that you need to repeat. It is tried and true. Another tip is, it is inexpensive. The best methodology is using index cards or a pack of blank business cards, write the target words and phrases on the cards, putting one language on the front and the other on the back.

As you review the words, going on through the load separate the words into two piles:  those you understand immediately, and those you do not. Keep going through the yet-unlearned words until you accomplish a speedy mastery of them.

Flash cards have many advantages of learning any subject or languages, The crucial rule of learning is to repeat, repeat and repeat again. Once we hear something again and again, we learn it very quickly. I give you an example of one of Pakistan's region, known as “Chitral” a very beautiful and attractive place especially for foreigners in Pakistan. Majority of the population is illiterate and even far from the primary schools for children, but I may surprise you here to say, they know how to speak English, not because they used flash cards but their interaction with foreigners more than national people. The purpose behind this example is, using flash cards help to repeat and this is how you learn anything fast.