Remember pictures [1]
Short description | Make up a story as a mnemonic for remembering elements | ||
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Group size | SOLO PAIRS SMALL GROUPS CLASS | ||
Materials | Picture cards (e.g. memory) | ||
Duration | 10 minutes | Level | 1️⃣ |
The aim of this exercise is to improve
strategies to develop the children's memory
the children's linguistic competence
the special accuracy in visual perception
The children learn that it is easier to remember individual, loose contents if they are put in a certain order and even easier if this order is held together by a story.
Instructions
For this exercise, a memory game or picture cards are needed.
The child is allowed to choose five or seven pictures and then put them in a (random) order.
He/she thinks up a short story about the pictures and tells it.
Then the cards are turned over.
The child should now remember the individual pictures and also name them by telling the story again.
Variations
a) Can the child tell the same story in reverse order, from back to front?
b) What happens to the story if the order of the pictures is reversed?