Memory Chunking to Help Memorize Your SpeechMy mother taught me this when I was in university. I call it the; After the initial work is done, you can basically read a few words and remember anything you wish. Steps to Memorizing Anything. (Especially Speeches.)
1. Divide your page for taking notes or for writing your speech on into 3 sections.2. Main section should be about 2/3's of the page. Next section about a quarter of the page. The section furthest to the left should be about an inch wide. 3. Write your notes or speech word for word into the main section. 4. When you read over your notes a second time use the second section. Right down ideas that you want to talk about from the notes. (Or, write down a few words from the speech that will trigger your memory to remember the part in the main section. Write as much as you need, but not word for word. You may need numerous words to get the point across. 5. In the third column (on the left side of the page,) write just one word per idea. No more than one. You may have several words on the page Sometimes I just have one word per page. You can write as many 'one word' memory aids in this column as you need to help you to memorize the whole speech. 6. When you practice, you should just need to look at the third column on the left. I suggest covering up the other columns so that you don't cheat. (Not that you would, but you don't need to be tempted.) 7. You can take all the 'one word' memory aids and put them on a single card. Or, once you memorize all of these words you don't need anything at all. This has worked wonders for me. Try it on your next speech. Return from Memory Chunking to Public Speaking Practice
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