Muscle Memory for Story Learning

For several years (in one of my other lives) I worked as a special education assistant and as an advocate. In training sessions current research data would be presented and we would learn about various teaching tools for learning skills. But muscle memory was always a go to that aids in everyone's learning. Methods such as sky writing a large looping "O" while using this vowel's sounds "O" "ocean / Otter / coat/  cot" and so on with each letter aids learning and retention.

As we move from station to station with a story and physically demonstrate scenes from a story we engage muscle memory. When we make those large body movements around our stage area our story gains description and depth in our memory while also including /inviting our audience in.