Miss Pell Never Misspells: More Cool Ways to Remember Stuff

by Steve Martin, Martin Remphry (Illustrations)

Follow up book to the extremely successful 30 DAYS HAS COOL WAYS TO REMEMBER STUFF. More cool ways to remember stuff! From acronyms to rhyming lists, this book makes remembering facts a breeze. Full of spelling, punctuation, and grammar memory tips, ways to improve vocabulary, geography hints, and much more!

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Childrens

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Keshia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this to use in my classroom. While I did enjoy some of the rhymes and mnemonic devices for remembering information (e.g. Shakespeare's plays, FAN BOYS), I agree with some other reviews I've seen that some of the devices they give to remember are more complicated than just memorizing the info in the first place. Several of the silly sentences they used had nothing to do with the facts you were supposed to use it for. Overall, not quite as handy as I anticipated.

[Madhu N · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book covers a how to remember things easily from a wide range of topics from Math to history to periodic table to even the books in Harry potter series.

Some of them were funny, and some had really neat explanations before coming up with a pneumonic.

A short book which can be finished in 1.5 hours and we can learn a thing or two and hopefully i will remember them!

[Yycdaisy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strange little book, but likeable. This might find a home in an elementary school classroom library. Some of the spelling and grammar acrostics are useful and many are well known already. The ones for the rest of the subjects are of limited use but the information summaries almost make these sections into a tiny encyclopedia.

[Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is full of ideas to help remember random information. I found some things that I’ll use in my classroom.

[Paul Potts · Rating 4 out of 5]

We all should reread these easy-to-learn quips every 10 years or so to improve our basic understanding of stuff.

[Lynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good (& familiar) parts, some ridiculous & completely non-sensical.

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

By Steve Martin??? A quick read, but not sure a lot of students will be lining up to borrow this collection of quips, quotes, acronyms, and other easy ways to remember rules for spelling, history, science, and other studies. I think it would require almost as much effort to remember the "helper" than it would to just memorize the content! I remember being taught many of these, and wonder if classroom teachers still use them. This might be more handy for teachers than students!

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, a lot of these remembering tricks are harder to remember than the actual thing you need to remember. Also, no women scientists, writers, or heroes are mentioned in any of the "important people lists"???

[Sarah]

not on overdrive

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great primer book for a preteen. Fun and easy to breeze through.

[Makenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it's cool. There are some things I would change. Not a book kids will absolutely LOVE entirely but very fun an interesting.

[Barbara Folk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute little memory and mnemonic tricks. I like it. I got the 30 Day Has September book as well.