Comments on: Memorization Technique Anyone Can Use

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:23:37 +0000

In youth group settings, and at times with our 3 young learners we have used a 'round' method.
I start off by saying the verse outloud several times. Then I'll say a few words and have them echo those words, repeating until they are familiar. Once the entire verse is 'familiar' we begin breaking it down into one or two word fragments. We sit in a circle and go around and around, each person only saying one or two words (decided ahead of time how many)
This gives us all the opportunity to participate as well as say different parts as we go around the circle.
Works great!

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:08 +0000

We have often used this technique as well, it works like a charm! For variety we will sometimes just write the first letter of each word.

That break you mentioned is oh so important (for some more than others). My daughter will struggle with a verse and we just try again the next day and she knows it first time through!

Sometimes it just needs to simmer a while.
~Erin

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:23:13 +0000

I tried this with my kids a couple of years ago, thinking I was so smart to use something that we did when I was a kid. Well, my kids pointed out that they used this technique every week in AWANA and that, not only was it useful, but it was old news to them!

My son has a terrible time with memorization, but a large part of it is because of his dyslexia. Language things just don't come easily to him. My daughter, on the other hand, is a whiz with memorizing just about anything.

Blessings,
Catherine

By: Kimberly @ Raising Olives

Kimberly @ Raising Olives — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:17:24 +0000

We do this, except without the white board. We all say the verse together and then I stop saying important words while the little ones (or whomever I'm working with) continues to say the verse and so on as you describe.

I've never thought of using a white board, that may be useful for those that read.

We usually memorize long passages of scripture, does the white board method work well for that or do you split it up into segments?
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By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:31:11 +0000

We don't use any special techniques for memorization. DD just reads the what she is memorizing each day and then every Friday, she tries to say it without reading it. We keep going until she has it memorized. She is only 4yo, so what she is memorizing tends to be short, but she has memorized poems of up to about 12 lines in this way, usually in about 2-3 weeks. I think it makes a difference that she gets to choose what she is memorizing, so she is more motivated.
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