Workable strategies for Cognitive development in early grade children

1. Cognitive Development

2. What is Cognitive Development
Cognitive development is the
construction of thought processes,
including remembering, problem
solving, and decision-making, from
childhood through adolescence to
adulthood.
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3. Strategies to promote Cognitive Development
 Working Memory
 Sorting and Classifying
 Sequencing and ordering
 Pretend and imaginary games

4. Working Memory
 Recognition

5. Working Memory
Recall
 Story Recall
 Poem (actions recall)
 Flashcards for Associations
 Recall items through situation e.g.
In-group enlist some players for a roundtable memory game. The first person declares
he or she is packing a suitcase with one item; the next person repeats the declaration and
adds an item. A player is “out” when he or she misses a previously inserted item.

6. Sorting and Classifying
 Button sorting
 Transport sorting
 Leaves sorting
 Size( bid, medium, small), shapes (circle,
triangle, square, rectangle), colour (blue, red,
yellow, green) sorting
 Toys,leaves, rocks

7. Sorting and Classifying (where Do I belong?)

8. Sequencing and ordering
 Poems
 Stories
 Process (Tea making/ sandwiches)
 Numbers/ alphabets sequencing
 Event sequencing (farmer grows wheat)

9. Pretend and imaginary Play
 being superheroes,
 playing 'mummies and daddies',
 playing shopping,
 dress-ups,
 playing flying to the moon,
 tea-parties,
 playing trucks in the sandpit and
 playing with dolls and teddies