How to Memorize Flashcards using the Leitner Box

The Leitner Flashcard Game

Objective: Win the game when you get all your cards past Level 7 and out of the box. To do this, you must remember the meaning of the card seven times in a row.

How to Build Your Game Box

1. Get a flashcard storage box (available at Office Depot, Staples, etc.)


2. If the box does not come with 8 index card dividers, buy or make eight.

3. Label them “Level 1” through “Level 7”, and one must be labeled “New”

4. Make your game calendar. Use a blank copy of your school calendar, and write the number 1 in the first day you begin playing this game. Then keep numbering each calendar day in numerical order until you get to the number 64. Then start over with the number 1. Fold it up so it fits into your box. Print the game schedule below and tape it to the box.

5. Get out your envelopes of Langenscheidt flashcards, and decide which 3 stacks are most important for you to memorize first. Place them behind the divider labeled “New”. This is just a holding area for the cards you will consider playing with later.

How to Set Up to Play

1. Take the cards from the “New” section. Looking at the German word, test yourself to see if you can get the translation right in the first couple seconds on your first try. Those super easy cards go back in their envelope/rubberband (there’s no reason to spend time with words you already know), and the harder ones go in a stack next to the box.

Count the first 15 cards (underclassmen), or 30 cards (upperclassmen) from the stack, and place them in the Level 1 section. Put the rest at the front of the “New” section. You will use them tomorrow.

Everyday you must add 15/30 new cards to your game.

How to Play

1. Use the Leitner schedule below, to know which Level is up first on game day (if the assigned level section has no cards, go to the next assigned level on that day’s schedule).

2. Take out your collection of 15/30 flashcards from the “Level 1” section and test yourself. The cards you get correct, on your first try (in approximately 5 seconds), get placed in the next section (Level 2). The cards you couldn’t get right on your first try, go to the back of your practice stack. Keep practicing, until ALL your practice cards have made it into Level 2.

Reward yourself when all cards are gone (quick online game, Instagram, piece of chocolate, bike ride, swim, etc.)!

3. The next time you play, follow the Leitner schedule, and move the cards you get correct to the next higher level, but the cards you get wrong will go all the way back down to “Level 1”. Only touch/practice the level 2 and higher cards one time: the ones you get right go up, the ones you get wrong (or you just don’t know) go back to level 1.

Note: It’s only the “Level 1” cards that you keep touching/practicing until you get them correct and move them into the Level 2 section.

4. Draw a picture that helps you remember the word on the front of each card that got sent back to ”Level 1”

NOTES

Play the Leitner Game every day at the same time. It’s best if you do it along with another daily activity (German class time, brushing teeth, after eating breakfast, during a bus ride, etc.)

This game must be played 30 minutes each day. If you skip or miss a day, do 60 minutes the next day.

Tough cards can be made easier, when you take the time to draw a picture (no matter how good or bad-as long as you know what it is) or print and paste an online image to the German side of the card. Your brain will actually learn the word while you are drawing or searching online, so take your time.

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