Developing auditory and verbal memory skills

Working Memory-developing auditory and verbal memory skills (Team Licence)

Description

This WIP (Words in Pictures) pack is designed to encourage children to improve their working memory skills in order to develop both auditory and verbal memory. In the classroom, for example, working memory is used when:

listening to a sentence and then writing it down
carrying out mental arithmetic problems
responding to lengthy instructions, such as the teacher saying, ‘Before you go to lunch, you need to tidy away, put your books on my desk, and then go and sit quietly on the carpet.’

This pack is ideal for children at KS1 and KS2.

Ref: T-WIP8-2 Download Sample

Designed by Highly Specialist SLT Helen Rippon, this pack targets working memory, and developing auditory and verbal memory skills. Working memory is a skill which is essential for learning success and refers to the ability to temporarily store and manipulate information which is needed at that particular time but is not required to be permanently stored, for example listening to a sentence and then writing it down from memory.

This product offers a range of colourful and charming activities for developing auditory and verbal memory skills in pupils from 7-11 years (KS2). It is designed to encourage children to use their working memory skills and also includes suggestions to extend these skills in the classroom setting.

These activities include a number of memory games, as well as instructions on how to carry out other activities including visualisation techniques.

Research indicates that working memory is associated with academic ability and is a predictor of achievement on national assessments at the ages of 7 years and 14 years (Gathercole S.E. et al 2004). Fortunately, research is also providing evidence that specific training can have an impact on working memory.

This pack of resources provides illustrated activities, each accompanied by clear instructions, which can be carried out either in one-to-one or group sessions. In addition, it includes information on how to develop more general memory strategies such as visualisation and rehearsal techniques.

Activities include:

look and remember (including suggestions to add demand to the task)
listen to this (activities that target verbal and working memory)
using your memory (including suggestions to add demand to the task as required)

Aims: Although primarily designed to develop memory skills, teaching staff and therapists may also find the activities useful for pupils with attention and listening difficulties and SpLD.

Age Range: 7-11yrs, KS2.

Contents: PDF file, 136 pages including instructions, 57 colour pictures and Black and white alternatives.

Snippet: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this resource include activities to encourage the child to use their working memory skills and to develop a child’s memory through the technique of visualisation.

Look and remember: Which pictures have you seen? A game to practise using visualisation techniques.
Listen and find: Can you find a happy, spotty dog with a ball? Can you find a spotty spider with eight hairy legs? A game to find the exact picture being described by the adult from amongst four very similar pictures!