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Remembering Beginning of Scripture Verse
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My DS is doing good with memorizing but he has the hardest time remember the first couple words and I have to prompt him or have him look it up.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to help him remember the first few words? I have had him do it as copywork and use the Fighter Verses app and he is still having a hard time remember the first couple words.
Thanks
Jessica
Are you using the SCM Scripture Memory System?
If so, first I’d say that perhaps you’re letting him try to remember it too soon after not enough times of looking at it on the index card. My dd trys to remember too early, like the second time, and I always have to make her look at it for the first several times before doing it by memory.
Is he holding the card in his hand and reading it out loud? He needs more times looking at it and reading it aloud.
Stop prompting him at all since he knows you will and then he won’t put as much effort into remembering.
HTH
We use the SMS but we don’t have them written on cards. I use it more for me to split it up between the days for review. It is almost ALL his verses and recitation that he can’t remember the words. If I give him the first couple words, he will say the whole verse, passage or recitation with no problem. Just the first couple words and some of these are ones he has done for a couple months.
If it’s not written on cards, where is it written and how are they looking at the verse (and holding the card-it’s multi-censory) at the beginning of the process of learning it?
We have an app that he can see it written and review it on his own. Then at a different time during the day, we recited it. In the beginning, we say it all together as a family until they are ready to say it own their own.
My kids and I are the same. We have trouble remembering which passage goes with each reference. It’s not a matter of not knowing the words, just not connecting the words with the reference. It’s a tricky skill! I’ll remember the passage, but then just remember that it’s found “Somewhere in Matthew? Maybe?” My kids love testing me, which is good for me as well!
I’m going to start doing a bit of drill going the other direction – I’ll give the first few words, and they have to come up with the reference. Hopefully that will help make the connection. I also need to be more consistent in requiring them to repeat the reference before we start reciting the passage, so that it is connected in our minds that way.
Another idea I’ve seen used is to practice connecting the references to a keyword about the passage. You could play “Memory” or “Go Fish” with cards, matching the reference to the keyword. Then when you are reciting, you could give any one of the three (reference, or keyword, or first few words) and then have the child give the rest before you start reciting.
Joanne
WE use keywords and sometimes pictures to associate the verse, which is easily learned, with the reference, which in my house is not. Only my middle son has been able to easily associate the two without some sort of memory aid. We also play games as mentioned above. We find this especially important when large amounts have been learned–my kids now review 5-8 verses on each numbered day of the month.
Thank you ladies for you help. Joanne described much better what I was trying to say. And I like the game idea. And we recently started using the Fighter Verses app so it will quiz you to fill in words of the verse, find reference for verse and find verse for reference among other things.
Thanks again,
Jessica
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