It seems that even the neighbors are already ringing in their heads endless “Evening, do you remember …”, but not in the head of a schoolboy. He is surprisingly unable to memorize more than two stanzas, and even those he forgets after ten minutes. And what to do with it?
“Why learn such sheets by heart at all? How will this help him in life? ” – my friend, the mother of the fifth-grader Timofey, breaks down to scream. Timofey does not like to learn poetry. But the literature teacher does not care what Timofey loves or dislikes there, so both have to suffer – both the mother and the schoolboy son.
“Memorizing any material is very useful. And at any age. During memorization, certain zones are activated in the brain and neural connections are formed, which are responsible for the development of high-quality speech. They contribute to the development of memory, increase its volume, improve the child’s learning ability and receptivity to new information. The more new neural connections a child has, the easier it is for him to learn, the greater the potential of his memory for assimilating new information at school, the easier it is to build his oral speech, formulate his thoughts, ”psychologist Anastasia Klepinina responds to the cry of the mother’s soul.
It turns out that the benefits of memorization are the most direct: the child’s brain functions are enhanced. And different techniques will help you learn poems faster and easier, even the longest and most complex.
It is better to start training your memory with short verses. Soon it will become child’s play for your child. At first, this method helps a lot: we recite a poem on a dictaphone, and then we listen to the recording as often as possible – doing something else in parallel. When the verse is remembered a little, it can be spoken in sync with the recording.
4 Steps to Lesson Learned:
- Read the poem aloud at least three times. You need to read loudly, slowly and with expression, pondering each word.
- Draw pictures for the plot of the verse and remember them.
- Recite the poem, paying attention to the syntax rules.
- Rewrite the verse on paper, saying each line out loud.
If some phrase does not fit in your head, you can rewrite it on a piece of paper and use it as a cheat sheet. After a short time, there will be no need for this prompt either.
Often in school you have to learn whole chapters from novels in verse, which take more than one page. The following tips will help here:
- Study the poem carefully, analyzing the plot and images. It is useful to come up with illustrations for the text.
- Rewrite the verse, repeating each line aloud.
- Learn only a poem rewritten with your own hand.
- Start by memorizing the first passage. It should be repeated until the words are deposited in memory.
- Learn the next snippet and add to the first. Having learned each next piece of text, you need to add it to the previous fragments and pronounce the verse from the very beginning.
- Take short breaks after 3-4 quatrains.
- Repeat the learned verse several times a day, and always before going to bed.
- In the morning recite the verse without rereading it.
Long poems need to start learning in advance, at least two days before delivery, so that they are well deposited in memory.
And it is also very useful to learn poetry just like that, for training. Gradually, it will become easier and simpler. To make it more interesting, try to learn poetry not from classics, but from ordinary pop songs. They can also be long and complex – especially in a foreign language.