Flash Card Ideas for Children With Bad Listening Behavior
Helping your child with his homework or helping him learn a new concept can be a monumental task when your child isn't listening. Your school-age child might have bad listening skills because he loses focus. Rest assured that this doesn't mean your child is not intelligent or incapable of listening. Learners come in many types, and your child might be a visual learner. The British Council advises that flash cards, particularly bright and colorful ones, can appeal to your visual child.
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Story Box
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Your school-age child is discovering the wonder of stories and how to create his own characters and storyline. A story box can help him write a story by using object and note cards as prompts. Place a number of small objects inside a box, such as seashells, postcards and toy cars. Use the note cards to write one sentence or a few words to help your child form his story. You can begin by picking up a postcard and asking him to describe it and make up an imaginary place for the story. On the first card, write down the location, such as: "A magical woods on a snowy mountain peak." Note down other aspects of the story onto the cards and help your child put all the cards in chronological order to tell his story and write down.
Drill Cards
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Drill cards help school-age children study and test themselves on their multiplication and division tables, vocabulary and other homework topics. Write the math question or vocabulary word on one side of the card and the answer or definition on the other side. Make the cards colorful and use pictures when possible to help stimulate your child to learn. Let your child study the cards on his own, before helping him practice or giving him a self-test.
Focus Cards
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Your school-age child might begin to wander as you read a story to him. Help him learn to pay attention by giving him blank flash cards to make into "focus cards." This means that he listens to the story, he must write one key word about the character and theme of the story on five to 10 cards. These can include the names of the characters, themes of the story or new words he learned in the story. At the end of the story, have your child explain to you why he wrote each word on the cards. This exercise using flash cards helps him to pay more attention and learn how to tell a story or concept back after listening to it.
Listening Cards
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Propose a system of "listening cards" to your child. When you hold up a flash card, he must look at it and listen to you explain the concept until you put it down. Then he can ask questions and say the word or math problem out loud. You can make flash cards for any subject, including multiplication tables, spelling or a science concept. Using flash cards in this way helps your child to focus on the brief amount of information that is on the flash card, instead of being overwhelmed by all the words on a page or in his textbook. Try to stay on one card until he has learned the information. Explain to your child that it is not about speed, but about how much he understands as he gets through the study topic.
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