Briefly retell the text - the skill necessary for the child not only in school, but also in everyday life, as this is a skill that helps formulate your own thoughts. In fact so often there are small children who can not correctly retell the news heard in a garden or an event with them. Therefore, in order to be fully prepared for school, it is important for parents to develop the oral retelling skills of a child long before that.
How to teach a child how to correctly recite the text?
- First, select a text that will match your child's age. Preschoolers and junior schoolchildren will be approached by a fairy tale or a small literary story. And in case your child already knows how to read, it will be better if he reads it himself.
- Divide the story into several parts and analyze each with the baby, while highlighting the main storyline, characters and sequence of events. Then ask the child questions about the content of the text. Try not to deprive the child of the opportunity to formulate his own thought, and if he has difficulties - tell me.
- In the process of discussion, make a plan for retelling - small phrases that characterize each of the parts of the text you have highlighted.
- Ask the child, based on the plan, to compile a brief summary. Do not require too much from the kid, let it be too brief and monosyllabic. Then together go back to the story you are studying and analyze the answer.
- Read and discuss the text a second time. Give clear examples of descriptions that characterize each point of your plan. Tell the child expressive definitions, metaphors, images - everything that will help him to make more detailed
offers. Now, you can ask the child to compile a retelling of the study text in more detail, while helping him to formulate his thoughts correctly. - For a better understanding and memorization, read and work through the text a third time. Focus on secondary activities, but do not go deep into it, because the child can get confused between the essential details and the non-essential ones. Finally, refresh the content of the text in the child's head, let him answer simple questions: who or what, where, why and why.
- Now it is possible to offer the child again, but already independently, to compile a brief summary.