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Hello dear readers! In young children, involuntary memorization prevails, that is, without awareness and application of volitional efforts.
But in the first grade, they already need to reproduce the material, relying on arbitrary memory, which during this period becomes the leading mental process.
And the sooner you start paying attention to it, the easier it will be for the child to learn. While maintaining an interest in learning by enjoying their own success.
After all, only a small percentage of people fail to motivate to give more. So, if learning is not easy, the baby may have resistance, and this will bring a lot of difficulties, both for you and for him.
Therefore, today we will talk about how best to ensure the development of the memory of younger students.
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Interest
Try to conduct classes in a playful way. Because the child is not capable of monotonous activity at this age. Plus, both he and you should be in a good mood. Otherwise, any mistake can cause a storm of negative emotions, which will later be associated with the exercise.
So work hard so that the games are not only interesting, but also constantly replace one another. And, importantly, they corresponded to the interests of the baby. For example, a boy who has a passion for robots, come up with tasks where they will play the main role, instead of cars, planes and other things.
Attention
When a person is not attentive, it is quite difficult for him not only to concentrate, but also to linger on one subject for such an amount of time that he will be able to study it well. Therefore, there are difficulties when trying to remember something.
So development must be comprehensive, then it will be harmonious.
Awareness
In order for the baby to have a motive to do it, explain to him why it is generally necessary to do it. How will it help him in life? Only the reasons should be clear and close to him. It’s too early to talk about work, for example. For him, this is a very distant future, which means that there is still plenty of time to prepare for it, you can not really try.
Promotion
And, of course, encourage your preschooler or elementary schooler. It is not necessary to promise to buy a toy and so on. Sometimes enough praise for the diligence and correctness of the exercises performed.
You can start a separate notebook, so to speak, a diary of success and paste emoticons with different emotions into it, depending on how he coped with the task.
Exercises
Associations
Call the baby randomly some words to which he will have to come up with his own associations. And not just to invent, but also to draw them. Warn that the pictures are very small, because there will not really be time to create them.
He quickly drew something so that he could understand, and then named them. In the order you dictated.
In addition to the fact that visual memory is developing, it is also figurative, that is, fantasy.
By the way, this method is used even by adults in preparation for performances, students as notes, defense of diplomas and term papers. You can get more detailed information by following this link.
History
Offer a list of words with which he will have to come up with a story. 5-6 words are suitable for the smallest, older ones, for example, already first-graders, can cope with 10. It is only important that he uses them in his story in the same order and can name them at any time.
For example, fruit, garden, sun, coin, joy.
A girl named Masha was very fond of fruits. Therefore, I often went to the garden. One day, when the sun was shining brightly, she noticed something sparkling on the ground. As she got closer, she realized that it was a coin. She experienced joy at that moment.
Cicero’s method
It consists in memorizing the sequence of your speech, relying on objects located in a well-known room. It is so called because it was a favorite way of preparing for the performance of the famous orator Cicero.
First you need to determine for yourself the sequence of zones in some part of the house, necessarily static, permanent. For example, if you often rearrange the furniture in the hall, it is not suitable, because the baby may forget when and where something was located.
Having decided on the place, let him choose from 6 to 10 items that are nearby. Let’s say a closet, next to the closet is a chair, a table, and on it is a lamp, a cactus and a computer monitor. Let each of them in turn give the proposed word.
And then mentally walk around the room. By the way, this helps to strengthen long-term memory, especially if you ask your preschooler to list the words that you thought of at least once a week.
For more detailed instructions click here.
Snowball
Auditory memory is a kind of figurative memory and requires no less attention. The essence of the game «Snowball» is that the first person calls one word, the second repeats it and adds his own. After that, the next task is to repeat the previous two, also adding a third from itself. And so on, until someone stumbles or makes a mistake.
The advantage is that any number of participants can play, even if there are only two of you and you are on the road, on the street, in a store, and so on.
Guess
Come up with your own game, for example, who can guess what brand of car is parked along the road. Or, how many steps from the beginning of the building to its end, what colors the store sign flashes, and so on. To be able to answer, both you and the baby will have to be attentive. After all, who knows what kind of question will follow.
Then, walking around the city, you will notice those nuances that you would not have noticed at all before. Plus, you will involuntarily memorize this seemingly, at first glance, unnecessary information. Which will be very useful in the future.
Completion
And that’s all for today, dear readers! Finally, I want to recommend an article that shows how to develop eidetic, that is, visual memory.
Good luck to you, so that your classes are joyful and enjoyable!
The material was prepared by a psychologist, Gestalt therapist, Zhuravina Alina