Poems Every Child Should Know is a free book of poetry that children will be excited to encounter of their own free will.
Memorizing: Yes, It Does Have Its Uses! {5 Things to Memorize}
Love it or hate it memorizing does have its uses: Do you remember the last time you memorized something — even a phone number? With technology ever at our fingertips, we don’t need to commit much of anything to memory now. Yet, rote memory — the process of repeating information until it is lodged firmly […]
Three Years With the Poets {Free eBook}
Three Years with the Poets compiled by Bertha Hazard, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1904, is a collection of poems created: To be memorized by children during the first years of school. The idea was to provide an easy means to “train the memory,” by asking children to memorize at least a few lines of […]
4 Ways to Incorporate Poetry
Poetry? Depending on the age of the student, the word might draw a blank look, an unhappy expression, or a dark scowl! But, if we do this right, from the beginning (and yes, it may be too late for some of us!), we can grow our children into poetry. We can take advantage of one […]
Activity: Copying
Copying is one activity that takes an individual from childhood through adulthood. Many young children will use copywork to practice their handwriting skills. Many adults will keep a copybook or other notebook to store valued quotations and words of inspiration. Copying and dictating are the two basic lesson activities in the natural method. Just as […]
Bloom’s & Critical Thinking: Remembering
The Remembering or Knowledge level (Bloom’s Taxonomy) involves bringing to mind the information to be recalled. That’s it. Simple. Simple unless you have a difficult time remembering things, or the information to be remembered had little or no significance to you at the time you encountered it. Remembering requires bringing back to mind something we […]
Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing ~ Free eBook
OK. We can forget the “required” part. Granted. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing is a wonderfully arranged collection of poems for the primary student featuring the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Whitcomb Riley, Edward Lear, Longfellow, Wordsworth, Mary Howitt (“The Spider and the Fly”), Charles Kingsley, Shakespeare and many others. The easiest way […]
5 Tips for Memorizing Scripture
Memorizing Scripture has been a family activity over the years. Here are 5 tips for memorizing Scripture: 1. Know why you are memorizing Scripture Having a firm purpose in doing something provides the motivation for actually doing it. When we don’t have a solid reason for memorizing Scripture (or any other activity, for that matter) […]
20 Suggested Scripture Passages for Memory
We have memorized several passages of Scripture as a family over the years. If you and your family are looking for passages to memorize, we hope these favorites will provide you with a starting place. (These links are to the King James version of the passages, as many prefer to memorize that literary style of […]
Free Memorization Tool
There are a whole host of reasons why memorization is important — and even more reasons why is important to memorize Scripture. If you or your children have trouble memorizing Scripture (or anything else), you’ll appreciate this free memorization tool. You simply copy and paste the text you wish to memorize into the top box. […]
