Easily Identify Your Amazing American States [PDF]

What a great country we have—but so many states to learn! Does learning to identify them all seem like an impossible task? Not with Easily Identify Your Amazing American States with Clever Comics Memory System. Our minds want to make sense out of what we see. So when the mind is given visual and mental clues its ability to remember instantly and dramatically increases. And once you see it, you will wonder why you never noticed it before!

The states look like their state abbreviation. How simple, how obvious! Texas is a T with an X, California is a giant C and an a, Oregon is an O with room for an R, and New York is an NY, and so on. You begin to wonder if the states got their shapes from their abbreviations in the first place!

The second important aspect of memory is review often. There are nineteen quizzes in the Quick Quizzes for Your Amazing American States booklet (sold separately) that can be given at a moment’s notice. (The tests are fun! You will decipher a code using the state initials and do dot-to-dots that make pictures if you know your states!)  In the end you will know your states better than most people think is possible.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK: Print the PDF and let’s start the adventure. 

1. Paste fronts and backs of the ID Your States Flash Cards together. Cut out and use only the Northeast state cards at first. Discuss the shapes.
2. Next do the ID Your Northeast States page. 
3. Make at least three copies of the ID Your States 1. Do them over a week’s time. Draw and color the initials in the states. (And yes, you need to color them. Color is part of what will help them stick in your brain.) At the same time learn the Great Lakes.
4. Now move on to the next set of states and learn them with the worksheet pages and flash cards. Learn them well, because they are not going away.