• Food
  • Family
  • Beauty & Health
  • Style
  • Great Women
  • Events/Win
  • Food
    • Eating Out
    • Cooking Tips
    • Festive Food
    • Asian Recipes
    • Food
    • Celebrity Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Healthy Recipes
    • Quick & Easy Recipes
    • Western Recipes
  • Family
    • Family
    • Save Money
    • Parenting
    • Sex & Marriage
    • Travel
  • Beauty & Health
    • Beauty & Health
    • Skincare
    • Makeup
    • Hair
    • Awards
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • Fitness
    • Wellness
  • Style
  • Great Women
    • Career
    • Great Women of Our Time
    • Real Life
  • Entertainment
  • EVENTS/WIN
  • #SchoolForLife
  • Hair Awards
  • Great Escape
  • Explore Singapore
  • Also available at:
Privacy Menu
SPH Media

Copyright © 2022 SPH Media Limited. Co. Regn. No. 202120748H. All rights reserved.

  • Food
  • Family
  • Beauty & Health
  • Style
  • Great Women
  • Events/Win

Family

3 Expert-Approved Ways To Improve Your Child’s Memory And Learning

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Family

3 Expert-Approved Ways To Improve Your Child’s Memory And Learning

Focus on training your child’s brain with these study tips

March 19, 2022

Credit: 123rf

Meaningless lists and rote memorisation are stressful methods and can kill your child’s interest in learning. Just recall when you were last in school and forced to remember a ton of materials and how unpleasant that was. Plus, recent changes to the school curriculum in Singapore mean that children are now being encouraged to think laterally, and piece together their own answers, instead of just memorizing lists. Help them by focusing on boosting their memory skills with these easy, expert-approved study tips.

READ NEXT

How To Make Your Child Smarter Without Tuition, According To An Expert

Singapore Mums Share Why They School Their Kids Through Home-Learning

Impart These 10 Good Habits And Values To Your Preschooler

https://www.womensweekly.com.sg/gallery/family/how-to-boost-your-kids-memory-skills/
3 Expert-Approved Ways To Improve Your Child's Memory And Learning
Use Flashcards
image

They serve as both pictorial and verbal reminders for the same information – teachers call it dual-coding. And this double method can enhance junior’s ability to recognize new words more easily, says Trevor Xu, senior curriculum manager at Stamford Education.

Flashcards are especially useful for smaller children, but learners of almost any age can benefit from the constant visual help of flashcards – it can help children learn vocabulary words, introduce language rules, sentence constructions, you name it.

You can make life easier with flashcard apps. Most offer a free and a paid version. AnkiApp is compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and supports text, images, and sounds. Or try Quizlet Flashcards or  Pleco Chinese Dictionary.

123rf
Supplement storybooks with daily news
image

As most storybooks targeted at preschoolers consist of basic words and simplified content, your child remembers only superficial concepts. Even sophisticated primary school readers tend to focus on books that interest them – so if your daughter is mad about mermaids, she’ll tend to read books on mermaids and ignore most everything else. It’s normal, but such a narrow range of input won’t help her communicate well when she writes compositions.

To inculcate meaningful understanding, read about world affairs and discuss them together. This helps your child grasp the relevance of real-world events.

Keeping the content open-ended not only enhances memory capabilities but also stimulates their diverse interests, says Trevor.

123rf
Plan trips with physical landmarks and mental milestones
image

For smaller children, try encouraging them to practice mental imaging. When you travel around town, aim to associate meaningful content with each landmark. Try to add new landmarks every day. For example, you can say, “Oh look, that’s the park where we met the man with the dog you liked.” or “That’s the road that leads to the beach.”

When your child grows familiar with these landmarks, challenge them to suggest a new route using the information they have remembered. This skill of mental imaging not only stimulates their ability to remember locations, it also helps them understand time, distance, and spatial relationships.

 

123rf
Show children how to jot down memory notes
image

Your child may say ‘I will remember without writing it down,’  but they probably won’t.

If you write something down, you have to engage different parts of your brain, and this forces your brain to process information in a detailed way. In turn, this helps you to successfully load that information into your memory.

As parents, you can tutor your child in how to take useful memory notes, says Rum Tan at SmileTutor. Teach them how to jot down key points to help jog their memory later in the day. They can jot notes in a book, on their tablet – as long as they’re easy to access again.

Say the topic is ‘Verbs’. The teacher says ‘a verb is an action word or doing word’. The student’s notes will look something like this:
Verbs = Action or doing word.

They don’t have to write down every word. Just the key points so they can remember what they learned.

Article first published by Young Parents.  Updated March 2022

Read Next

How To Motivate Your Child To Study, According To Experts

4 Bilingual Preschools In Singapore To Strengthen Your Child's Mandarin Proficiency

6 Considerations Before Choosing An Enrichment Class For Babies And Toddlers

123RF
  • TAGS:
  • #schoolforlife
  • BackToSchool
  • development
  • education
  • preschool
  • primary school
  • school for life
  • schoolforlife
SHARE THIS ON

What’s Hot

Family

Why Fann Wong & Christopher Lee Had To C...

Family

12 K-Drama Couples Who Got Married In Re...

Family

12 Best Hiking Trails And Nature Parks I...

Family

14 Father's Day Gift Ideas For Every Typ...

Family

Sicilian to Botanical: 7 Themed Afternoo...

Family

7 Family-Friendly Activities To Do From ...

Family

Mother's Day Gift Guide: 16 Fab Ideas Fo...

Family

Best Money Changers In Singapore And Tip...

Family

Denise Keller Has Welcomed A Baby Girl

Family

14 Best Indoor Playgrounds In Singapore ...

Family

How This Couple Feeds Their 8 Kids With ...

Family

3 Expert-Approved Ways To Improve Your C...

Don’t Miss These
  • Awards Get A Year-Round Beauty Glow & Sun Protection With This S...
  • Awards Increase Your Hair Growth And Decrease Hair Loss With Thi...
Editor’s Picks
  • Family Why Fann Wong & Christopher Lee Had To Cut Short Their Maldives Holiday
  • Save Money Daiso Price Hike: What's Worth Getting?
  • Family 12 K-Drama Couples Who Got Married In Real Life
  • Parenting 12 Things You Do That Unintentionally Hurt Your Kids' Feelings
  • Entertainment Gardens By The Bay Has A Children's Festival With Giant Inflatables This June
  • Entertainment Staycation Review: The Newly Rebranded Voco Orchard Singapore
Don't Miss Out Ever Again!
Tips & tricks to stay sane + win invites to our events!

By signing up, you indicate that you have read and agreed with our Privacy Statement
Footer Menu
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Conditions of Access
  • PDPA
  • Privacy Policy
?>
SPH Magazine

Copyright © 2022 SPH Media Limited. Co. Regn. No. 202120748H. All rights reserved.