Purpose: To help students increase their ability to remember spoken or other auditory information.

• Step 1: Ask students to remember the sound of a dog barking.
• Step 2: Notice where the students' eyes move to as they recall this information. Notice that for many students it will be to the side. Around 90% of right-hand students will look to their left.
• Step 3: Ask students to freeze and discover for themselves where they were looking.
• Step 4: Explain to them that looking across to the left switches on their sound memory.
• Step 5: Create a positive sound effect like a bell or a chime, repeat a couple of times.
• Step 6: Now ask students to remember the sound of the bell or the chime and encourage them to move their eyes to the left or the right, whichever is more comfortable for them.
• Step 7: Encourage students to move their eyes to the sound memory position frequently when you would like to help them to remember auditory information.

 NOTE: Consistent practice at moving the eyes to the sound memory position may considerably help some students. Also remember that a student's eye movements are often indicating a specific form of mental processing that they need to undertake in order to remember something. Asking for direct eye contact from the student can often shut down effective thinking and memory.