Between reading, writing, math, social studies, and science, there's a lot of material for your child to know. Here's how to help him absorb it all.

1. By: Esther Wachs Book
FEELING CONFIDENT LANGUAGE CENTER
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2. • Between reading, writing, math, social studies, and
science, there's a lot of material for your child to know.
Here's how to help him absorb it all.

3. • 1. Get the details:
"Studies have shown that parents can have a long-term
impact on memory development by including many
questions and specifics in conversations about past
events with their children," says researcher Catherine
Haden, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at
Loyola University Chicago. When you talk about a recent
trip to the circus, for instance, ask your child, "What was
your favorite act?" or "What did the big top look like?" Fill
in the details if he can't provide them.

4. • 2. Play memory games.
The card game Concentration and toys such as
Simon
and Bop It are good ones. In the car, try
games like "I'm
going on a picnic, and I'm taking . . .
," in which everyone has a turn adding an item and
repeating the
ones said previously.

5. • 3. Suggest strategies:
Look for memory tricks that can help your child.
For example, when you teach left and right, have her
hold up both hands in the shape of an L. The hand
with the
forward-facing L is the left one. To help her
recall how to read a word with two consecutive
vowels, tell her,
"When two vowels go walking, the
first does the
talking."

6. • 4. Divide and conquer:
If your child has to memorize a short poem or
some lines in a class play, have him break the task
down into parts and work on the toughest sections
first.

7. • 5. Practice, practice, practice:
Offer to quiz your child on her spelling words or
multiplication tables. Try repeating the numbers
aloud
with her to make them easier to recall.
After testing her on spelling, have her highlight and
rewrite the difficult
words. Once your child
realizes that memory is an
active process, she'll
feel smarter and more confident
that she can
tackle tricky topics.

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