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Do you want your child to write correctly and be able to clearly express his thoughts? It is necessary to lay the foundations of literacy from the moment of birth. Experts from the City Psychological and Pedagogical Center give recommendations on how to do this.
The teacher can stimulate children’s speech with the help of motor games and exercises, for example, in logorhythmic classes. Can conduct activities that contribute to the development of visual-spatial orientation and general motor skills. What can parents do? Actually a lot.
Performing speech development exercises with the child, reading fairy tales, inventing their own stories, playing different games, parents help their child develop imagination, intellectual and creative abilities.
All this will help the child quickly adapt to learning and, of course, will come in handy in the future life. Here are some tips from a speech therapist on how to raise literate children who can clearly express their thoughts in words.
The sooner the better
Start literally from the cradle: talk to your child, tell him stories and be sure to watch your speech. The more literate the parents, the more literate the child grows. There is no need to «lisp» with children. Try to immediately speak the words clearly and correctly, you can also syllable by syllable, and watch the endings, pronounce all the sounds.
Do this in a playful way for the child, but at the same time talk even with a baby in normal Russian: even if he forms and stores the correct sounds and words in his memory.
Small children repeat everything after adults and act, in essence, in the same way. Be an example to your child. And in speech too.
The baby grows, the tasks grow
There comes a period when the child begins to learn the world through toys, books with pictures and letters. Gradually, he understands that words can have not only a sound appearance, but also a letter one. Take bright interesting books that contain not only pictures, but also large letters, and start reading together.
It is very important to read not an electronic, but a printed book and follow the line: the child must see where it begins and understand where it ends. You can drive with your finger, apply a ruler or other flat object.
Use colorful blocks with letters, books in which you can write, «scribbles» and a variety of word games.
First, pronounce the letters yourself, then, together with the child, separate letters, then add syllables, then words and sentences. At the same time, talk, tell yourself, then involve your children, discuss what you do, describe objects, discuss color, shape, pronounce words clearly and competently, and then you can compose whole stories.
«Talking» streets
Walking down the street, talk to your child. Take a break from your messengers, let the walk with the children be a pleasant learning story.
Pay attention to the signs and try to read together: «Ice cream», «Pharmacy», «Grocery», «Bank», «Cafe». And if you are walking at night and, for example, one letter on the sign is off, play the game “which letter is missing” and ask the child to fill in the “gap”.
We develop fine motor skills
Writing is often the most difficult thing for children to learn. To avoid them, you need to understand whether the child’s hand is ready for this process.
Modeling from plasticine has a wonderful effect on fine motor skills. You can also fasten and unfasten buttons, sew them on, try to tear them off (but without damage to clothes, on a special material).
It is useful to untie knots on shoelaces, coloring, drawing, graphic exercises (hatching), stringing beads, beading, picking up puzzles, mosaics. At the same time, try to talk with the child, discuss what he is doing.
Expanding vocabulary
In the dictionary of a child of 6-7 years old there should be about 2000 words, and among them — all parts of speech. How to expand your child’s «vocabulary»?
While at home, talk to him more often. For example, if you are cooking, and your son or daughter is nearby, tell and show what you are doing: “take potatoes”, “peel onions”, “cook broth”, “wash vegetables”, “sort rice”, “salt soup”, “we take a saucepan”, “a colander is a kitchen utensil, it is needed in order to …”
Explain your actions, and let the child also say how exactly he helps you, what he does. And let him share what emotions he experiences.
We listen and pay attention
By the age of six, a child should clearly pronounce all sounds, be able to select words with them, master the skills of elementary sound analysis and synthesis. That is, determine the first and last sounds in a word, be able to make a word out of them, count the number of sounds, distinguish and repeat combinations like: “ba-pa-ba”, “ta-tsa-ta”, “you-you-fu” and similar.
You should pay attention to word formation: “rain — rain”, inflection: “chair — chairs”, agreement: “green cube”, management: “helped mom”, “read a book”, “washed the dishes”.
A child of 6 years old should almost unmistakably pronounce words like: “cyclist”, “tour guide”, “cosmonaut”, etc.
Developing XNUMXst century skills
The ability to communicate with other children and adults, listen, remember and follow instructions, play independently, the ability to invent and accept rules — all these are also very important components of future literacy. How to develop them?
Learn new things together, train attention and memory. For example, offer your son or daughter a competition: which of you will remember more words (or objects).
You can together restore the sequence in a series of lined up toys, distribute them into groups, or vice versa, generalizing according to some feature, call them in one word.
If you want your child’s speech to meet the age norm, the vocabulary to be rich enough, and the child to develop and grow up literate, speak correctly yourself and find more time to communicate with your child.
When working with him, remember that the most important thing for a baby is the love and recognition of loved ones.