Written by:Family Dynamics Psychotherapist Children’s Play Therapist Lee Wai Ting
In the new school year, children will begin to take dictation tests again. Although dictation may look simple, the skills required are actually very complicated. The skills required are called “distracted concentration”, where you have to find the strokes of the words in your head and write them out by hand while listening to the teacher and remembering the next sentence to be dictated. Writing while listening and remembering, sometimes writing the wrong word and deleting it before writing, racing against time, it’s super hard!
Therefore, in order to master the dictation skills and get good grades, we need to master the three skills of “listening, writing, and remembering” at the same time, as well as improve the “distracted concentration” which can be used in several ways.
To make dictation become enjoyable, you can turn these skills into games. On the one hand, the fun of the game increases children’s interest in learning, so that a tiresome exercise becomes a parent-child playtime; on the other hand, it is more important to increase children’s sense of success, and children will naturally enjoy learning more and more when they get encouragement from adults in the game.
The following are some examples of games that can be played separately to train several skills, so parents can try them out!
A.(1) Listening games
(B) Chinese and English writing games
Chinese characters are complicated and difficult to remember, and writing with a pen is not only abstract for children, but also difficult to remember. Instead of writing with a pen, you can try to use different parts of the body to write words and use different senses to enhance memory. For example:
(C) Distraction games
In fact, many games are designed to train this kind of concentration, for example, “Competing for a chair”, where you have to listen to music while paying attention to the position of the chair and responding to it; “Slapjack”, where you have to count/listen to the numbers and open the card while paying attention to the matching numbers and responding to it, and so on.
Some of the table games are designed in this way. We introduce a game called “Morse code”, where the child has to listen to the code, think of the pattern in his mind, remember the order of the code, and finally find the card with the matching pattern.
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