Verbal thinking is a person’s ability to express his thoughts and feelings in words. Its carrier is speech. The owner of good verbal thinking has a rich vocabulary, knows how to correctly use speech to convey his thoughts and exchange information.
Instruction manual
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Word, a powerful tool for interaction, communication. Verbal thinking needs to be developed from childhood. From birth, the child hears speech and perceives it, then tries to copy, combining non-verbal and verbal methods of transmitting information. While he cannot explain in words what and where he needs to get, he will indicate this with signs or with his hand. Reluctance is, he expresses the fact that he will turn away from a spoon with food. Or he will reach out, nod in agreement when fruits are offered.
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When playing with a child, you need to talk to him as much as possible. Involving the child in the game, arouse in him the desire to "speak out" as he knows how, let it be only attempts at non-verbal communication. Returning from a walk, for example, and asking questions: “What did you see, heard, whom did you meet, what is the weather like?”, The elders should help the child answer the questions posed. But it is imperative to attract his attention, demanding confirmation of answers. His brain will be intensely searching for words. Gradually, the speech format deepens and by the age of 3 he is able to express his thoughts not in simply connected words, but in whole sentences. Let the speech is still very simple, but already has color, volume.
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Help, color the world for the baby. "We saw a big blue sky, the sun was shining, in the green meadow we played with a red ball." Including the concepts of warm, cold, strong, weak, you complicate the questions and get non-primitive answers, thereby developing verbal thinking. Develop the ability to generalize, highlight the general in different objects, sensations. Warm sun, fur coat, heating battery. But a bright light bulb, the sun, Christmas lights.
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From word to sentence, from sentence to story, the process of identifying the meaning, language unit will be improved. A certain period must pass so that the level of development of verbal thinking becomes higher. A person, as a result of this, will be able to fluently use many concepts in his thoughts and convey meaning to his interlocutor.
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What can be used in training? Pictures, objects in the room, on the street. Expand concepts. First transport, then the difference between air, land, water transport. When playing with words, attract both children and adults, praise for the detailed description of the subject, each time complicating it (color, size, volume). Looking at the pictures, make a comparative characteristic of the studied object. A fly, a bee, a bumblebee, which of them is more, who is useful, who can fly.
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Developing verbal thinking, we give the child the opportunity to clearly put his thoughts into words. In mobile, active children, the vocabulary is large, they speak the word correctly, but this does not give confidence that they will show the same abilities in other subjects at school.