How to teach poetry, developing memory in children

All parents want their children to be smart and to learn well. "But this," they think, "will happen later when the baby becomes older. And for the time being he is quite small. "

But right now the memory of your baby is being formed and at the moment it is incredible Capacious and mobile. Just because of his young age and a complete lack of life experience, the crumb does not know how to use it. Although…

You, probably, already faced with how your three-year-old kid, having taken the book with a favorite fairy tale, "reads" it? Yes, yes, he holds in his hands, almost unerringly reproduces the text and turns the pages in the right places? What is it? Of course, memory. Backed up by vivid, detailed pictures on the pages of your favorite book.

Your direct duty is to help the child develop this wonderful memory and teach him
Use it. In this you will help poems for Preschoolers. They develop speech, imaginative thinking and, of course, memory.

How to learn poetry with kids

A very small baby, you just need to recite poteshki and sing songs. This is enough that he eventually, barely learned to speak, began to repeat them for you:

"We were driving, we were driving

With mushrooms and nuts.

On bumps, on bumps,

High lumps,

In the hole - bush! "

As a rule, all the verses for the youngest are the quatrains, which are very easily illustrated by movements that greatly facilitate memorization.

And before that, How to teach poetry with the baby, use this their peculiarity - tell the poem, accompanying it with suitable movements.

Ant

(Author: Roman Sef)

Crawled on the watermelon ant (slowly fall from one foot to the other)

And I thought: "Oh-she-she! (Attach palms to cheeks)

How immense and great (lay your hands apart)

A huge ball of earth! "

Invite the child to repeat gestures for you while reading your poem, and then let him try to tell the rhyme himself, accompanying him with the same movements. Thus, you include an indirect memory that relies not only on the auditory, but also on the visual perception. To do this, you can also draw a picture with the child, an illustration of the verse being learned.

Before you learn poetry, do not forget to explain to the kid the meaning of all incomprehensible words. Only the understandable becomes really interesting. And in order for the poems to be remembered better, and for long-term memory to work , repeat the learned after a while.

And remember: learning poems should be perceived by the child, as something pleasant! Do not try to teach them through strength, especially if the baby is tired, irritated, capricious.

Children are very suggestible, so remind the child that he has an excellent memory, and it is easy for him to learn any poem.

And a few more tips on how to teach poetry:

1. Do not delay the learning process. Attention to a small child can be kept only for 5 minutes.
2. Choose to learn at first only poems with clear rhythm and rhymes. They are easier to remember.
3. Reading poems, do not forget about intonation. Ask the child to repeat the poem "with an expression." Emotional fullness also facilitates memorization.

Learning verses for the development of memory is an excellent, accessible method that is used in all preschool institutions and, as a rule, gives remarkable results.