Erbao is three years old, and in only three months, he has memorized more than 100 ancient poems, and when he sees the established scene, he can recite it like a stream and can use witty words. For example, once he hears the word "black cloud", he can think of other ancient poems related to "black cloud". He also learned a lot of Chinese characters and was able to read some of the indicative texts in ancient poems.
A friend once said that you are pulling out seedlings to help you grow, learning is just a waste of effort, and you will forget it when you grow up. But that's not the case. Spontaneous and enjoyable learning is an excellent way for children to exercise their memory skills.
Memory is the basis of intellectual development and the only way for the brain to acquire knowledge. It is a flexible skill that can be improved through continuous practice.
Training a child's memory skills from an early age will be of great benefit to him in the rest of his life.
Freud once believed that early memory is deeply hidden in the depths of the brain, but it will continue to penetrate from the subconscious and have an important impact on the personality shaping of adults.
Children memorize a lot of ancient poems when they are young, maybe they forget them when they grow up, but it doesn't matter. It is important that the child develops memory from an early age, which will become a skill that will benefit him for life.
Through constant repetition and deliberate practice, active synapses and circuits can be strengthened, and new information can be acquired and stored. Those inactive synapses and circuits gradually decline.
Freud believed that early life experiences were buried deep in the mind, but constantly permeated in the subconscious, having a significant impact on the adult personality. Therefore, nurturing children's early memories has profound implications for their lives. At present, children have a lot of schoolwork and need to memorize a lot of content. Early acquisition of memory skills is beneficial for future learning.
Why should children recite ancient poems to exercise their memory skills? Because ancient poetry has a strong sense of rhythm and rhythm, and expresses rich emotions, characters, events and things in concise and expressive language, children are also easily attracted to it. Children should also learn. In fact, it is very simple, he is willing to carry it himself, and I will give him a break in due time.
First of all, it is necessary to develop children's memory skills
We need to take the first step of reading ancient poetry in emotionally rich language.
The rhythm and rhythm of ancient poetry give people a natural attraction, we only need to use emotional tone, gesture, inflection and other ways to vividly read to children, so as to bring children into the rich situations of ancient poetry and attract their attention.
We should not just read one sentence and ask children to memorize it, but repeat it repeatedly. Let children gradually comprehend and master the rhythm and rhythm of the sounds they hear.
The second step is to answer your child's questions in a timely manner
As your child listens, the child may be ready to ask questions. We should put down the books in our hands and cooperate with the illustrations in the books to answer children's doubts, so that children can understand relevant knowledge through concrete pictures and make abstract words more concrete.
In order for children to get better visual stimulation, we should give them a choice of poetry books with rich pictures. It will also be easier when we explain it to our children. For example, "The Shepherd Boy Refers to Xinghua Village", the illustration in the book shows a shepherd boy riding a scalper, pointing his finger in one direction.
Erbao is very interested in the drawings in ancient poetry books, and they will use bookmarks as swords, and they will also imitate the clothes of the characters in the book, such as wearing red cloaks. I will also prepare a red cloth for them to wear on their bodies, so that they can feel the situation and artistic conception in the ancient poem more deeply and enhance the memory effect.
The third step is to skillfully enrich children's knowledge of ancient poetry and history and culture
Children sometimes feel bored and bored when reciting their favorite ancient poems. Children have novel preferences when recognising, and are more likely to focus on fresh, stimulating elements of the surrounding environment to bring different sensory experiences.
The introduction of new ancient poems at the right time may have unexpected effects.
When I read to my child, I like to read an ancient poem that he is already familiar with, followed by a new poem that he has not touched, so that he can expand his horizons and gain more knowledge. I will introduce expanded ancient poems in due course to help him convert unintentional attention into intentional.
In the process of reading, children may accidentally see some pictures related to historical and cultural knowledge in the book, arouse curiosity, and ask "What is this?" ”。 I seized the opportunity to explain the relevant historical and cultural knowledge to the children, and Erbao gradually began to understand a lot of historical and cultural knowledge.
We will use maps to find the birthplace of each ancient poem. Erbao is very curious about the map and wants to see it every time. I showed him the map and let him see it to his heart's content. He always asked curiously: "Which province is this?" What province is that? I told him one by one.
When Xiao Erbao saw the same words as in ancient poems, he would recite one smoothly. For example: "Qinghai Changyun dark snow mountain, lonely city looking at the jade gate pass." Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken. ”
The map also has an excellent place to illustrate many ancient poems, which excites children. When I read the name of each ancient poem, he always recalled the corresponding ancient poem immediately.
Even if they don't remember it at the time, the child will insist on looking in the book. He eventually learned how to use a table of contents to find ancient poems and know which books had his favorite poems.
Er Bao is still young, but he began to understand ancient poetry early, he was not interested in the three hundred Tang poems before, but now he likes some of them, such as maps, ancient poems with small train patterns, large fonts, comic illustrations, colorful, these are one of the reasons why children love it.