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Visualization, memory, and visual and auditory sequencing are important cognitive areas that must be developed before children can learn how to learn. f>y the year 2000, much of the information taught in schools today will no longer be pertinent. People will need to process information more quickly. In today's world with more single parent families and families in which both parents work, certain basic skills needed by children to process information rapidly are not fully developed. Three of these cognitive areas are: visualization, memory, and sequencing (both visual and auditory). There are many spongetime activities teachers can use in the classroom to remediate these deficiencies. They do not take long and can fill up those extra few minutes between lessons. Visualization The ability to visualize is utilized in all aspects of the thinking process. With family units breaking up and children getting less attention from the extended family (such as sitting on a grandparent's lap listening to stories) and with television taking the place of storytelling which was reinforced by the radio, teachers must concentrate on visualization skills. Visualization or visual imagery is one of a number o