Often, children, as well as adults, need to remember some words or letters. This applies not only to foreign languages, which are not easy to learn anyway, but also to our native Russian language, which is rich in a variety of simple and complex words. But what if nothing works at all? Give up and move on to something else? Or still try?
If you have ever encountered this problem, then this article will be a salvation for you. These word memory exercises will help you and your children develop their memory, learn to memorize words or letters faster. Here you can choose which exercise will be the best.
Enumeration
One of the simplest memory exercises is "enumeration". Let's say the words "painting, carburetor, charger, flowers, nebula, grapes, kitchen set …" are given. A person reads these words twice, and then from memory he must remember everything that he has just read. Words can be chosenaccording to the person's age, occupation, upcoming holidays or change of season.
This exercise can be modified and complicated. For example, a person must not only remember the words, but also make a sentence with them without losing a single one.
Exercise "Describe the picture"
Let's imagine a picture with a parrot sitting on a perch. We are given the words: "claws, diamond, grass, autumn leaves, tongs, chocolate." And now, using our imagination to the maximum, we explain how the parrot in the picture can be connected with these words.
With its paws, the parrot clings to the perch like CLIPS, its eyes are like DIAMONDS, its plumage is green like GRASS, but there are also orange glimpses, like AUTUMN LEAVES, the parrot's beak is similar in appearance to TONGS, the perch on which sitting parrot, color "bitter CHOCOLATE". Such a memory exercise will not only help develop a child’s memory, but also show his imagination.
Rows of words
You will need a helper for the next letter memorization exercise. Write a series of words. Let's say 20 pieces. In the row on the right, write the words that somehow refer to the left. For example:
- Globe - map.
- Dog - booth.
- The gardener is a wheelbarrow.
- Pencil - eraser.
- Hypotenuse - legs.
- Honey - bees.
- Tree - leaves.
- Flash drive - drive.
- Internet - social networks.
- Flowers - flowerbed.
- Space is a planet.
- Sunflower-seeds.
- Washing machine - powder.
- Farm - cow.
- Headphones - music.
- Toothbrush - toothpaste.
- The jewelry box.
- Coffee is Turkish.
- Sausage - sandwich.
- Candle - flame.
- Portrait - pencils.
Read all the phrases, and then close the right column. Restore the words from memory and write them down opposite each left. Do not forget that the number of words also depends on the age of the child. This suggests that the words used in the exercise should be familiar to the child. Such tasks are actively used in teaching children English.
Many of one
Another memory exercise. (One of the most typical options is presented, you can finish it based on the age, capabilities, hobbies and desires of a person, you can make it easier or more difficult, the main thing is the principle). Before you are pictures of animals, things, flowers, insects, books, cities, cars, musical groups … Within one minute you should memorize all the pictures. Then write down all the items in alphabetical order on paper.
This task is used in different interpretations and in almost every intellectual marathon or game. It is enjoyed by both adults and children. You are given some long word, for example: "shipwreck". The task is to make as many words as possible from the letters of the given word. (Slave, cancer, varnish, ball, shock, block, seam, wide, slag). With the same principleexercises are used to memorize the English alphabet. Such an exercise can be turned into a whole game by giving the child as many points for each word as there are letters in the word.
Personal advice exercise
Once upon a time, teachers of Russian language and literature forced those who had problems with spelling, punctuation to rewrite large works of art … If you want to remember something, write these words or texts. Rewrite several times a day, write in drafts, on bookmarks in prominent places, social networks. This will help you memorize the material faster. Also, the more you read, the better your visual memory develops.
Such exercises for memorizing the multiplication table are actively used for elementary school children who find it difficult to learn a large number of numbers.
Double letters
If you can't remember words with doubled vowels or consonants, what should you do then? It will help memorize one certain plot. We take a few words in which you constantly forget how the letter "t" or "tt" is written. Words: thaw, certificate, attraction, confetti, cottage, shade. Now we come up with a small scenario in which these words could occur. “When the thaw came, and the guys from the cottage village “Confetti” received their certificates, they went to the “shade” attraction. This is all very subjective, of course. Everyone must choose the words that he is unable to remember. Fold it in your head with fantasyinto a coherent plot and remember.
Cipher
Do you know the word "cryptography"? This is some encryption of letters, numbers or other useful information. You can also feel like a detective or an archaeologist studying an ancient language, and besides, pump your memory and ability to memorize words or letters. You can come up with a cipher yourself, or you can ask someone from your environment about it (this will be more interesting). You should encrypt, for example, the alphabet or numbers and signs of arithmetic operations. Encryption can be various uncomplicated drawings, geometric shapes, or just any symbols. Decipher at least one “message” or “example” every day, and your memory will become simply stunning. You can also use exercises to memorize English words by encrypting them with numbers and symbols.
Poems reversed
We have been taught poetry since kindergarten. But the essence of this exercise is not to memorize as many poems as possible from beginning to end and tell them to your environment, but to memorize a poem from end to beginning. Yes, yes, word by word from the end to the beginning of the poem. It turns out not: “You don’t love me, don’t feel sorry for me, Am I not a little handsome?”
Various logic games, monopolies, strategies will also help you develop your memory and memorize words and letters with ease.
Undoubtedly, a certain memorization exercise may not be suitable for someone, it can help someone to a greater extent, and someone less. Some people will find them difficult, while others will master them in no time. The most important thing is always desire. You shouldn't stop. If you know your enemy by sight (as a rule, a person’s enemy is his own shortcomings), then you can defeat him, defeat yourself. Train, overcoming all difficulties, and you will submit to any peaks. Your memory will be very powerful and your abilities great. As the great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein said: “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to keep moving.”
