What should I do if my child has difficulty memorizing?

Although the country is vigorously promoting quality education, in many places, children are still under great pressure to study. They usually need to memorize a lot of things. The situation of each child is different. Some children memorize things quickly and remember them easily, but some children will have obstacles in memorizing. This problem will give parents a headache. As parents, you must not be anxious at this time. You must calm down and accompany your children to memorize. You can use the following techniques specifically.

What should I do if my child has difficulty memorizing?

1. Grasp a principle - memorize it by heart

In fact, recitation often goes directly into the stage of memorization, so there are many ways of reciting, one sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time. In fact, when reciting, people often ignore the basis of reciting. Why can a person recite it? That's because you are familiar enough with the content. If a child cannot even read aloud what he is supposed to memorize, then even if he memorizes it haltingly it will only be a temporary memory. As the ancients said: Practice makes you memorize. The prerequisite for memorization is to be familiar with the content and be able to read the entire article freely and quickly. Without this principle, memorization is just empty talk. For more learning materials, please follow: ABC Micro Classroom

2. Master a method - high frequency and multiple times

Since the goal is to become proficient, then find a way to help your child become proficient in the content to be recited. So what content should you be proficient in? First, the pronunciation, then the text, and finally the meaning. When reciting English, meaning is not the primary concern, because understanding the meaning does not help memorization as quickly as becoming familiar with the phonetic flow. I always emphasize in class that memorization is not about rote memorization, but about memorizing it by habit. So I’d like to share with you the secret of memorization, which most people don’t tell you!

Step 1: Listen to the recording 5 times and read it silently 5 times.

Step 2: Look at the book and read along with the recording 5 times (for beginners, this number may need to be multiplied 10 times)

Step 3: Read the book 5 times by yourself (for beginners, this number may need to be multiplied by 10)

Step 4: Take the knowledge list and recite it 5 times according to the prompts (for beginners, this number may need to be doubled)

Step 5: Recite it 5 times directly.

In fact, all things are difficult at the beginning. There was a child in the class who followed this method. He read it many times for the first time and then memorized it by looking at the knowledge list. He succeeded in his second attempt without any prompts. After that, the child's recitation became much faster, and he no longer needed the knowledge list as a reminder. With the confidence in reciting, children’s reciting speed and memory efficiency will be greatly improved. This kind of memory is effective and useful. High-frequency, multiple-time reading aloud is the key to memorization.

3. Create an atmosphere - English Walkman

In the process of helping children become familiar with the language. By making use of various fragmented time to let children listen to the text continuously, they can also improve their pronunciation, intonation, etc. imperceptibly. Help children use and remember language more naturally.