Our children learn the first verses by heart in the program of preschool institutions. Tasks of this type include the high school program. Itβs not difficult for anyone to memorize rhyming lines, but for others itβs a real torture. How to learn a verse and correctly tell it?
Learn poems with children
Talking with a child is necessary from the first days of his life. In families where they talk, read and sing a lot with the kids, often already at the age of one and a half to two years, children can memorize short rhymed counters, nursery rhymes and quatrains.
Love for literary works begins with interest. Read poetry with expression to the children, changing the intonation and timbre of the voice. Help to understand what is at stake, show pictures and offer associations. Choose poems from different authors and follow your preferences, and then at school your child will never have a question about how to learn a poem.
Each person has one of the most developed perception systems. It is easier for someone to memorize βby earβ, while others need to see letters and imagine color pictures. Try memorizing lines differently. However, even for those who perceive by ear, it will not be superfluous to remember the plot of the poem and imagine it visually.
Poems for schoolchildren and children visiting the garden should be read with expression, emphasizing their rhyme and rhythm. Not sure how to learn a verse with a child? Turn classes into a game. This will simplify the process of memorization. You can also offer your child to remember and recite the lines as a gift for someone from their loved ones. Parents should understand how important encouragement is for the child - approval and praise are mandatory even if not everything comes out right away.
If you need to learn a verse by a certain holiday or as part of the school curriculum, but the child has no interest and desire, try the following tactics. Read the work together several times, during breaks not only explaining the meaning of the lines, but also telling interesting facts from the authorβs biography and some funny stories.
How to learn a verse quickly and efficiently?
To quickly memorize a large volume of a poetic text, one should read it carefully several times. Imagine everything described, and try to divide the work into logically finished parts. They may or may not coincide with the division into paragraphs of the original.
If you wish, you can even write a short plan of a poem for yourself or draw. After that, you can read the text, referring to the abstract, and then without it. Try to tell from memory, you can check the plan. Then take a break, after which repeat both steps. Take a rest, forget about the poem for a while. Then try to play it, then read and repeat again.
After completing the proposed sequence of actions several times, you will suddenly notice that the lines are recalled by themselves, and you need to access the plan and the source text less often. Be sure to read the work before bedtime, lying in bed, and, not trying to repeat, go to bed. In the morning you can tell what you have learned, without resorting to the source. If the text is very large, it may take another day to read and repeat.