Attention exercises for younger students. Games for the development of attention in younger students increase the stability of auditory and visual perception

Shamil Akhmadullin

Psychologist, writer, author of more than 30 books and manuals on effective learning children, including “Speed reading for children. How to teach a child to read quickly and understand what they read, "Development of memory in children." Founder of the network of centers for speed reading, development of memory and intelligence in children TurboRead.ru.

The main activity of younger children school age- education. It introduces significant changes in psychological processes, placing high demands on the concentration of attention. Children's ability to effective work in the classroom - the result of the ability to focus on the learning process, the topic and content of the lesson, the words of the teacher and their own actions. That is why it is so important to develop attention, which will help the child to fully learn and successfully cope with the tasks.

What is attention

Attention is a concept in cognitive psychology, meaning the selective focus of perception on certain objects. This is a special state of consciousness in which the subject (child) is able to focus cognitive processes (thinking, perception, imagination,) on specific objects that have personal or situational significance.

Attention is the concentration of a person on objects and phenomena that are most important to him.

How attention is formed in children

For the formation of attention skills in the learning process, it is important to observe several requirements:

sufficient pace of learning and the absence of long pauses;
reliance on active mental activity (application of tasks for generalization and comparison, search for examples and formation of conclusions);
the absence of external stimuli that attract involuntary attention and distract from cognitive process(loud remarks, comments, sudden movements);
clarity and brevity of explanations before the child starts any work.

It is strictly forbidden to comment on the actions of the child when he is concentrated: to make comments, suggest. Hand in hand, you distract the child from the task and force him to concentrate on your words and again at work, which causes fatigue and loss of interest in the lesson.

The formation of attention is facilitated by various games and exercises for observation. The search for correspondences, mistakes, changes attracts and maintains the attention of the child, teaches him to concentrate without an additional call for attention.

How to improve the attention of children 7-10 years old

Small volume, insufficient selectivity, undeveloped switchability and stability of attention are shortcomings eliminated thanks to special exercises included in educational process. To improve the attention of a child of 7–10 years old, it is necessary to use two types of exercises:

special exercises for the development of the basic properties of attention (stability, distribution, concentration);
exercises that form attention as a personal property.

Inattention is the result of children's focus on the general, and not on particulars. Grasping the general meaning of the story, the essence of the statement or, the children do not delve into the details, do not take into account important elements.

The purpose of specialized exercises is to teach the child to perceive details against the general background.

Development of attention junior schoolchildren with proper organization, it develops into attentiveness - an integral feature successful person. It is important to explain this to the children, convincing them of the need for observation, the ability to look for flaws, compare, and see changes. Tell the children that mindful people always have a goal and achieve it with ease.

By forming a daily routine with your child, you will teach him to pay attention to important events in the complex and separately. By gradually developing an action plan, you will teach the student to concentrate on the details.

No less effective for improving the attention of children are exercises with paired control, when classmates exchange the results of their work and look for each other's mistakes. Seeing the failures and shortcomings of others, children learn from the mistakes of others, being more attentive to their own work and its results.

You can improve the attention of the child by accustoming her to discipline, responsibility and accuracy. Attentive children are collected children who treat things with care, know how to take care of loved ones and themselves. Do you want to make your child responsible and attentive? Start and entrust the student to care for him.

Exercises to train the attention of children 7–10 years old

Constant training of attention and memory is the key to the formation of the skills necessary for effective and successful learning in a younger student. Including the following games in the process primary education positively affects children's academic performance and their ability to concentrate.

Game "I remember everything"

The game is perfect for pairs or small groups (3-4 people). The main task of the players is to memorize the words in a strict sequence, and a third party (parent, teacher, student appointed by the judge) monitors compliance with the conditions, writing down a chain of words. So that the game does not tire the children, use words of the same subject: fruits, vegetables, cities, countries.

The process of the game looks like this: “Carrot,” says the first player. “Carrots, radishes,” says another. "Carrot, radish, tomato..."

A child who mixes up the sequence or forgets the word is out of the game. The winner is the player who did not make a single mistake.

The competitive nature of the game motivates children, making them participate with interest and train their memory and attentiveness.

Exercise "Find the words"

The game is appropriate in the classroom and perfectly complements the grammar exercises. Children are invited to find words in the alphabetic row, highlighting the superfluous according to a certain attribute: part of speech, gender, number, case.

For example:

1 RHA CAT NVPRA COW EURA DOGS CRVM

Correct Answer: dogs superfluous word because it is a plural noun.

2 NRALS COAT EEAR ARB YEA SHAMPOO

Correct answer: shampoo is an extra word, as it is a masculine noun.

Exercise "Name the color"

An interesting exercise that can be turned into a competition with the choice of the winner. The essence of the task is to accurately name the colors in which the words are written. The game develops concentration, because the child focuses on the color of the font, and not on the word for the color.

Exercise "Find the Differences"

A classic mindfulness exercise. The task of the child is to find all the differences between two similar images that can be found on the Internet. The exercise is suitable for both first graders and students in grades 2-4.

Smaller children aged 7-8 years are better shown with images with a small number of large elements in discreet colors. For older children, bright pictures with an abundance of small details are suitable, the consideration of which trains not only attentiveness, but also improves stability and attention span - the ability to concentrate on several objects at the same time.

Types and properties of attention

Attention is closely related to interest and is therefore subdivided into arbitrary and involuntary. Voluntary attention is subject to conscious goals. Subordinating his attention at first to the verbal instructions of the teacher, the student gradually learns to formulate the tasks facing him and organizes his attention. Arbitrary attention requires a certain experience, the ability to organize their activities. Therefore, involuntary attention appears earlier in children, and only later, in the course of their development, voluntary, intentional attention is formed.

Another property is attention span. This is the number of objects that can simultaneously be in the zone of human attention. For younger students, the amount of attention does not exceed 3-4 objects, and for some children even less. A small amount of attention does not give the child the opportunity to concentrate on several subjects, to keep them in mind. Pedagogical correction attention span has limited opportunities. Therefore, the teacher rather simply needs to take into account the small amount of attention. It will increase as the child's brain develops. Experienced teachers, knowing this feature, limit the visibility in the lesson to 3-4 manuals, do not give different examples more than the designated number, even their explanations of the new material are built into blocks that do not exceed the volume of children's attention.

Sustainability of attention it is the ability to keep the concentration of consciousness on a particular object. In younger schoolchildren, the stability of attention actively increases by the age of 9-10. At the beginning educational process it lasts in the time range from 7 to 12 minutes. For the teacher, this primarily means that the explanation of new material with all the preparatory work should not last more than 7 minutes. It would be a mistake to think that the more preparatory exercises we select, the better students understand new topic. This can only be true if the time limit is not exceeded. Often, when explaining educational material, we see that the child seems to be listening to us, not being distracted, not talking, but by looking at it, it is clear that the concentration has weakened. Psychologists advise to interrupt the explanation for a few seconds and ask the guys to ask themselves the question “What am I doing now?” After that, attention span returns.

Distribution of attention is the concentration of consciousness on two different objects at the same time. This property is necessary for younger students, for example, when performing a commented letter (the child must simultaneously say what exactly he is writing down and carry out the writing process), when checking own works(you need to read the written text and at the same time look for spelling, check them and compare them with the written one), when conducting mathematical dictations. As you can see, a very useful and necessary property for learning. However, it must be remembered that it is not formed until 7 years of age with normal mental development child. Therefore, in the 1st grade, children, answering at the blackboard, are able to first say, and then write a sentence. By the age of 8, the distribution of attention to 2 educational objects becomes the norm if one of the necessary actions is at least to some extent automated. If a student has automated the process of writing (he does not need to remember every graphic symbol), then he can learn to speak at the same time.

Concentration of attention - focus on the object of attention, the process of immersion. Sometimes a person is so deep in the performance of this or that business, is carried away by reading a book, watching a movie, that he does not see or hear anything around. Probably, we all dream of students solving problems or writing exercises with such enthusiasm. If the student does not know how to focus his attention, then his consciousness, as it were, glides over objects, without dwelling on any of them for a long time. As a result, the impression of the subject remains vague, fuzzy. There are several reasons for reducing concentration. Surprisingly, one of the reasons is the presence of adenoids in the child. This inflammatory process does not allow the brain to receive enough oxygen and, as a result, forms distracted attention. The biggest problem of today's children is watching TV, and now the computer has also been added. The fact is that the flickering of frames requires a superficial glance, a concentrated look during prolonged viewing causes headache. If children watch a lot of TV, they easily develop a superficial view and transfer it to other activities.

Features of the attention of younger students

During the child’s education at the initial stage, significant changes occur in the development of the process of attention, there is an intensive development of all its properties: the volume of attention increases especially sharply (2 times), by the age of 9-10 children are able to maintain and carry out an arbitrarily set program of actions for a long time. Research shows that different properties of attention have different “contributions” to learning success. So, when mastering mathematics, the leading role belongs to the volume of attention, and learning to read is associated with the stability of attention. From this we can conclude: by developing various properties of attention, it is possible to improve the performance of schoolchildren in various subjects.

How to get the attention of children?

All teachers know how difficult it is sometimes to bring the class back to working condition after a break or a physical education lesson. Overexcited guys are not able to immediately focus on learning tasks. In order to induce a state of so-called pre-attention in children and calm them down a bit, you can use the following techniques:

a) Sign "Attention!" - the teacher raises a circle with a red exclamation point in the center;

b) "Rainbow of Attention" This is a technique for focusing attention. To carry it out, you will need simple equipment: 7 white album sheets with a colored circle in the center, its diameter is 7 cm. The colors of the circles are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple. Each color corresponds to a day of the week. The sheet is attached to the board. Pleasant calm music is turned on. Students silently look at the center of the sheet for 30 seconds, then close their eyes and another 30 seconds. hold in front of them the image of a leaf with a circle.

c) "Hunters of the Yumba tribe" - the teacher invites the children to imagine themselves as Yumba Indians. Their main occupation is hunting. Hunters must be very attentive, be able to notice and hear everything that happens around. Approximate words of the teacher: “Imagine that you are on a hunt. Let's be silent for a while, so that the class becomes completely silent. Try to hear all sorts of noises, guess their origin. To make it more interesting, the teacher can specially organize some noises and sounds.

d) "Who can hear me..." If there is a noise in the class and the children do not calm down, the teacher can quietly say the following phrase: "Whoever hears me, raise your right hand." Some students will surely hear and raise their right hand. Then the teacher quietly says: "Whoever hears me, raise both hands." Some children will raise both hands. The teacher quietly pronounces the phrase, drawing out the words: "Whoever hears me, clap your hands 2 times." Here claps will be heard, which alarm even those who have not yet reacted to the words of the teacher. The teacher quietly says: "Whoever hears me, stand up." After that, all the students usually get up, and there is silence in the class. The teacher achieves his goal - the attention of the children is drawn to him. This technique, unfortunately, cannot be used often in the same class: a lot here is built on the effect of surprise.

e) "Forbidden movement" - this attention game can be used as the final moment of a physical education session. The teacher agrees in advance with the children which movement they will show will be “forbidden” (for example, you can’t raise your hands up). The teacher shows the students different movements (including the forbidden one), gradually increasing the pace. The one who repeated the forbidden movement is out of the game.

e) "Please:the teacher shows various movements, if the word “Please” is pronounced, the movements are repeated by the children, if the word is not sounded, the movement cannot be repeated.

Exercises to develop concentration and self-control

"Correction test": the essence of the technique is that the child is offered to find and cross out certain letters in the printed text. Newspaper clippings, old unwanted books, etc. can be used as material. Conditions for conducting: daily for 5 minutes. at least 5 times a week for 2-4 months.

Conducting rules:

The game is held in a friendly atmosphere, children can be additionally interested, find out in advance who they want to be, say that this training will help them become good drivers, doctors, etc.

Losing shouldn't make you feel bad.

The amount of text viewed does not matter and can be different for different children: from 3-4 sentences to several paragraphs.

As you master the game, the rules become more complicated: the letters being searched for change, they are crossed out in different ways, 2 letters are searched for at the same time, one is crossed out, the other is underlined (syllables, circles, tick marks, etc.)

Option: underline in each line the letter that comes first:

to tro knt kkjub strike kayvya
mitch mr mohamt mychf mts

Another option: first we underline one letter (C), and cross out the other (O), then on the command “Attention!” a line is drawn and the second part of the work begins: C - now we cross out, and O - we emphasize:

A golden flower grew
He became round and fluffy. ("Attention!")
Sasha will blow, laugh,
The fluff will blow in the wind.

A similar exercise can be done on educational material by offering students a grammatical analysis of several texts. In the text, it is necessary to underline nouns with one line, and adjectives - with two lines. Then, at the command "Attention!" - on the contrary, nouns - two lines, and adjectives - one.

Analysis of the results shows that after some time the use of such exercises, the teacher's call "Be careful!" can induce a state of concentration in children. Along with the introduction of such game exercises it is necessary to change the child's attitude to reading a textbook on the Russian language. Children are taught that the exercises in the Russian language textbook, unlike reading, must be read aloud the way it is written - spelling. Based on the results of the work, the number of gaps and incorrectly crossed out letters is counted. The indicator of normal concentration of attention of younger schoolchildren at first is 4 or fewer gaps, more than 4 - weak concentration. Checking can take place as follows: first, this role is assigned to the teacher, and later to the classmate. Winners can, for example, receive a token, at the end of the week the number of tokens is counted, the best one can be rewarded. If you regularly carry out such exercises for 2-4 months, then the number of errors in written works students is reduced by about 2-3 times.

Exercises for concentration and stability of attention

a) copiers : students are invited to rewrite the following lines without errors:

Ammadda bereure avvamava essanessas detailata;
- etaltarrs usokgata enazhloby klatimori liddozoka;
- minotsaprimapavotil shonerkapridyurakeda kuftiroladzloekunm

b) Münsterberg test : words are hidden among the letter row

Options:

The words that are hidden are in italics:

B SUN DEC HEAT EYZY FISH YC

Among the letters, find dictionary words and correct mistakes:

SCH RIBINAPHZ DIREVNYAUYE KVORTIRABOCORTINA

Among the letters, find and underline the words, find the extra word:

ZhE DOGS KOROWALD BOAR

Separate words from each other in a continuous text and write down a saying (you can add a grammar task related to the topic of the lesson - for example, determine the tense of verbs, declension of nouns, etc.)

THE SUBJECT STONE DOES NOT FLOW / Under the lying stone, water does not flow. /

c) "Encryption"

Decipher the words, find the extra:

IAKBNI / Bianki / KVASLADO / Sladkov / URCHSHINA / Charushin / KOVILR / Krylov /

d) "Coding" words using numbers. Each letter has its own number.

For example: encrypt the words METRO, CAKE.

N M E T R A L O S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 23458 , 4854

Replace them with the sum of bit terms;

Name the total number of hundreds, tens, etc.;

Find out how much the first number is greater than the second.

Listening exercises

These are arithmetic dictations that are well known to us, but the meaning of the exercise is that each task consists of several actions. The teacher can give such an instruction: “Now I will read arithmetic problems to you. You must solve them in your mind. The numbers you receive also need to be kept in mind. Write down the results of the calculations only when I say: “Write!”. The very content of the tasks depends on the age of the children, their readiness and program material. For example:

1 class- Given two numbers 6 and 3. Add these numbers, subtract 2 from the resulting number, then another 4. Write. /answer 3/

Grade 2- Given two numbers 15 and 23. Add the first digit of the second number to the first digit of the first number, subtract 2 from the resulting number, and now add 4. Write. /answer 5/

3rd grade- Two numbers are given 27 and 32. Multiply the 1st digit of the second number by the 1st digit of the first number and subtract the second digit of the number from the resulting product. Write. /answer 4/

4th grade- Two numbers are given 54 and 26. To the second digit of the first number, add the second digit of the second number and divide the resulting amount by the first digit of the second number. Write /5/

Exercises to increase the level of distribution of attention (the ability to perform several actions at the same time)

The sentence is read aloud to the children. Reading is accompanied by a soft tapping of a pencil on the table. Children must memorize the text and count the number of strokes.

The child draws circles in a notebook and at the same time counts the claps with which the teacher accompanies the drawing. The execution time is 1 minute. The number of laps and the counted number of strokes are counted. The more circles are drawn and the claps are counted correctly, the higher the score.

- “Counting with interference”: the child calls numbers from 1 to 20, while writing this sequence on a piece of paper or board, but in reverse order: pronounces 1, writes 20, pronounces 2, writes 19, etc. Then the execution time and the number of errors are counted.

Educational games and exercises

1. Exercise "Watch your speech."

In the twenties of the last century, such a game of attention was very popular. The host says: "The lady bought a toilet. There are 100 rubles in the toilet, buy whatever you want," yes "" and "no" do not say, do not buy black and white. And he begins to ask tricky questions, trying to "pull out" forbidden words from the respondent.

Do you want to buy a black dress?
- I want to buy a green dress.
- Does green suit you?
- I just like green velvet.

Will it be a ball gown?
- Ballroom.
- Does your green dress have to be long?
- Yes(!).
Losing. It was necessary, for example, to say "Of course."

This is a game, on the one hand, to develop the ability to ask psychologically complex, "rainy" questions, thereby diverting the attention of the respondent to thinking about a complex answer from not using forbidden words, and on the other hand, to develop the attention of the answering questions.

You can simply agree on which words or parts of speech cannot be spoken and then ask a variety of questions. There should be many questions. This is a blatant test of attention.

For example, these:
Have you had breakfast today? Do you like your hairstyle?
Are you late for class today? Are you left handed? Do you love cinema?
What flowers do you like and what don't you like? Why?

2. Exercise "Forbidden letter"

In this game, everyone will have to watch themselves, so as not to let it slip.
And it is not surprising to let it slip, as we will see in this now.

One of the participants in the game is appointed as the driver. Turning to the players in turn, the leader asks each one a simple question, demanding an immediate answer to it. For example: "How old are you?", "Who do you sit at your desk with?", "What kind of jam do you like?" etc. The one to whom the question is addressed must immediately give any answer, but without using in his phrase the letter, which, by agreement, is declared forbidden. Suppose that the letter "A" is declared forbidden.

Of course, the driver will try to find tricky questions, answering which it would be difficult to do without the letter "A". "What is your name?" And he will ask, say, a comrade whose name is Vanya. It is clear that he cannot give his name. He'll have to get rid of the joke. "Can't remember!" - he will answer, resourcefully bypassing the trap prepared for him. Then the driver with the same unexpected question will turn to another participant in the game.

The game is played at a fast pace, it is not allowed to think for a long time. Hesitated, did not answer immediately, or, confused, used a forbidden letter in his answer, take the place of the driver and ask questions. We will consider the winners of those who have never fallen into the trap and gave quick, resourceful answers.

As a variant of the game, the condition may be the non-pronunciation of the forbidden letter, i.e. it must be replaced in words with any other.

3. Exercise "Hidden clue"

In this game, it is allowed to prompt, although not in the usual way.

We choose the driver and declare him the guesser. Let's ask the guesser to leave the room for a minute or step aside. In the meantime, let's think of a word. This should be a singular noun, consisting of four or five letters, and all the letters in it should be different, for example, "table", "mosquito", "board", "sail", etc. There are many such words, select they won't take long.

The task of the driver is to guess the word we have conceived. Since this is difficult, you will have to help him, that is, to suggest something, but, of course, not directly, but in some indirect way, relying on his quick wit and attention.

Suppose the hidden word is "mosquito". It is unknown to the guesser.

Please tell me the first letter, - he addresses the players.

It is his right to demand a hint, and any three participants in the game can prompt, each in his own way.

The first letter of the hidden word is "K".

How can you suggest it without directly naming it?

It is done in this way. Three players alternately pronounce one word at a time, one-syllable or two-syllable, which includes the letter "K". Suppose one calls the word "compass", the other - "marmot", the third - "drop".

In all three words, the letter "K" is repeated.

The guesser will highlight this letter and remember it.

Let's get the second letter! he demands.

Three other players will tell him the second letter, say, with these words: "lesson", "elephant", "mole". Having singled out the letter "O" repeated three times in them, the guesser will also try to remember it.

If the guesser is attentive and does not get confused in our tips, then we will give him the right to appoint a new driver himself in order to continue the game. And if he does not guess the word we have conceived, we will again force him to drive: let him still train his attention.

4. Exercise "Hidden word"

In games, they often look for a hidden object.

But you can hide and find not only objects. In the game with which we will now get acquainted, you will have to look for hidden words. And we will hide them among other words.

In such a game, vigilance of the eye and observation will no longer help, other qualities will be needed: concentration, attention and resourcefulness. The game begins, as usual, with the choice of the driver. We will "hide" the words, he will "look for" them.

Let's ask the driver to leave the room for a while and think of some well-known proverb or line from a familiar poem. Let's say we decided to hide the proverb "Language will bring you to Kyiv." Let's break this text into parts: "language", "to Kyiv", "will bring". Why such a breakdown is needed will become clear from the further description of the game.

The driver returns. He is told that the proverb is "hidden" and that, starting to search for it, he can ask any three questions to any three participants in the game. The driver will understand that the text of the hidden proverb is divided into three parts and that the first person to whom he turns with a question must insert the first part of the hidden text into his response phrase, the second - the second part of the text and the third - the last part of the text.

Let's see how it works out.

"What did you see in your dream today?" - suppose the driver asks one of the participants in the game. Tom needs to enter in his answer the first part of the hidden text - the word "language", but in such a way as to better hide it among other words. He can say: "I saw in a dream that I arrived in a foreign city, went into the dining room, and there they served me such a dish that it was impossible to pronounce its name: you would break your tongue." "Where do lemons grow?" - let's say the driver asks another. He can get away with a joke: "In warm countries and in my grandfather's garden: he lives on a collective farm, twenty kilometers before reaching Kyiv."

The phrase seems to be smooth, but the words "to Kyiv" may make the driver alert and take note of them. To the last question, whatever it may be, one can give an evasive answer: "Don't be so curious, it will not lead to good." And now let the driver guess which proverb we have guessed.

5. Game "What has changed?"

The game is played like this. Small items (eraser, pencil, notebook, match, etc. in the amount of 10-15 pieces) are laid out on the table and covered with a newspaper. Whoever wants to test his powers of observation first, please come to the table! He is offered to familiarize himself with the location of objects within 30 seconds (count up to 30); then he should turn his back to the table, and at this time three or four objects are shifted to other places. Again, 30 seconds are given to inspect the items, after which they are again covered with a sheet of newspaper. Now let's ask the player: what has changed in the arrangement of objects, which of them have been moved?

Don't think that answering this question will always be easy! Answers are scored. For each correctly indicated item, the player is credited with winning 1 point, but for each mistake, 1 point is removed from the number won. An error is considered when an object is named that has not been transferred to another place.

Let's mix our "collection", putting the items in a different order, and call another participant in the game to the table. So one by one, all team members will pass the test.

The conditions of the game for everyone should be the same: if four objects were swapped for the first player, then the same number is shifted for the rest.

In this case best result- 4 points won. Everyone who pass the test with this result, we will consider the winners in the game.

6. Exercise "I remember everything" (development of attention and memory)

This fun game can be played by two, three or even four, competing in the ability to memorize words in a given order.
Compliance with this condition is monitored by the judge, who, during the game, keeps a control sheet, writing down the words named by the players. Words are selected on a specific topic, such as the names of cities, the names of plants or animals. Let's say that the theme of the game is the names of cities. Of course, it is better to call cities well-known, they are easier to remember.

So let's start the game. The contestants sit in a circle.

Tula, - says one. The judge immediately writes this word on the control sheet.

The second player, repeating the named city, adds the name of another city to it:

Tula, Poltava.

Tula, Poltava, Omsk, - announces the third.

If there are three players, then the turn goes back to the first one. He should fill up the list of cities with one more name. For example.

Tula, Poltava, Omsk, Vladivostok.

So, each time adding one city, the players in their next turn must repeat all the cities named earlier, mentioning them in the same order and not skipping a single one.

At first, this is given relatively easily, but when the list of names steps over a dozen, you involuntarily begin to stumble. And the judge, attributing each newly added word to his control sheet, vigilantly watches if anyone misses at least one of them.

The one who makes a mistake is out of the game.

The rest continue the competition until one of them is the winner.

Divide everyone who wants to take part in this game into threes. In each trio, someone will be the winner. And then arrange the final meeting of the winners for the title of champion in this interesting game.

7. Where is whose house?

Game for development of stability of attention. Offer the child a drawing of seven different animals, each of which hurries to its own house. Lines connect the animals to their houses. It is necessary to determine where whose house is, without drawing a pencil along the lines. If the task is difficult for the baby, then allow it, but eventually put the pencil aside.

8. Exercises for the development of stability and switching attention

You can play like this. Give your child different words: table, bed, cup, pencil, bear, fork, etc. The kid listens attentively and claps his hands when he comes across a word denoting, for example, an animal. If the baby is confused, repeat the game from the beginning.

Another time, suggest that the child stand up every time they hear the word for a plant. Then combine the first and second tasks, i.e. the baby claps his hands when he hears words denoting animals, and stands up when pronouncing words denoting a plant. Such and similar exercises develop attentiveness, speed of distribution and switching of attention, and, in addition, broaden the horizons and cognitive activity child. It is good to play such games with several children, desire, excitement and a prize for the winner will make them even more exciting.

To develop stability of attention, give the child a small text (newspaper, magazine) and offer, looking through each line, to cross out a letter (for example, a). Record the time and number of errors. Record the results on a daily chart and analyze them. Rejoice in success with your child. Then, to train distribution and switch attention, change the task. For example, like this: "In each line, cross out the letter a, and underline the letter p." Or like this: "Cross out the letter a if it is preceded by the letter p, and underline the letter a if it is preceded by the letter n." Record times and errors. Don't forget to praise your baby.

9. Exercise "What has changed?" (development of observation)

Game for training observation. It is best to play with several children. Everyone becomes in one line. The host calls one child and offers to remember the appearance of each participant in the game. This is given 1-2 minutes. After that, the baby turns away or goes into another room. The remaining participants in the game make minor changes to the costume or hairstyle: you can pin a badge or, conversely, remove it, unfasten or fasten a button, change places with each other, change your hairstyle, etc. Then the memorizer should name those changes in the costumes of his comrades that he managed to notice.

If you do not have the opportunity to assemble a large company, you can modify this exciting game: lay out 10 objects on the table in front of the child, ask him to turn away and at this moment change the arrangement of the objects. Then offer to answer what has changed.

10. Spot the Difference Pictures

All children enjoy looking at pictures. You can combine the useful with the pleasant. Invite the child to look at the pictures, where, for example, two gnomes (or two kittens, or two fish) are depicted. At first glance, they are exactly the same. But, looking more closely, you can see that this is not the case. Let the child try to spot the differences. You can also pick up a few pictures with ridiculous content and ask the child to find inconsistencies.

11. Exercise "Color your soulmate"

There are also such exercises for the development of concentration. You need to prepare several half-colored pictures. And the kid should color the second half of the picture in the same way as the first half was painted. This task can be complicated by inviting the child to first draw the second half of the picture, and then color it. (It can be a butterfly, a dragonfly, a house, a Christmas tree, etc.).

12. Exercise "Number table"

Show the child a table with a set of numbers from 1 to 25, which are arranged in random order. But first, make sure the baby knows all these numbers. Tell him: "Try as quickly as possible to find, show and say aloud the numbers from 1 to 25." Most children 5-7 years old complete this task in 1.5-2 minutes and almost without errors.

Another version of this game: prepare a table with 25 cells, on which the numbers from 1 to 35 are randomly written, 10 of which are missing. Ask the child to find and show all the numbers in a row, and write down the missing numbers (if he cannot write down the numbers, then just let him call them to you). Record the time it took the child to complete this task.

If these exercises turned out to be difficult for a son or daughter, make a simpler table, for example, from 9 cells.

13. A bird is not a bird

A fun game for the attention and knowledge of birds.
An adult reads poetry. The task of the children is to listen carefully and, if a word is heard that means not a bird, give a signal - stomp or clap. Be sure to ask the child what is wrong. Specify:
"And the fly - who is this?"

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
Flies and swifts...

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
storks, crows,
Jackdaws, pasta.,

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
swans, martens,
Jackdaws and swifts,
Seagulls and walruses

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
Chibis, siskins,
Jays and snakes.

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
Seagulls, pelicans,
Mikey and Eagles.
Pigeons, tits,
herons, nightingales,
Perches and sparrows.

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
Ducks, geese, owls,
Swallows, cows

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
Sticks and swifts
Butterflies, siskins,
storks, cuckoos,
even owls,
swans and ducks -
and thanks for the joke!

14. A cow flew

There must be at least three players. Everyone sits in a circle and, turning their right hand palm down, and the left hand palm up, connect their palms with the palms of their neighbors. In turn, they pronounce the word of the verse, clapping the palm of the right neighbor in time with the word:
The cow flew, said the word.
What word did the cow say?

Whoever gets the turn to answer, calls any word, for example, "grass". His neighbor, along with cotton, says the first letter of this word - "t", the next - the second, and so on until the end of the word, until the last "a". The task of the last player is not to gape and have time to remove his hand from under the final clap.

15. Top clap
Game for the development of attention, memory.

The leader pronounces phrases-concepts - correct and incorrect.
If the expression is correct, the children clap, if not correct, they stomp.
Examples: "It always snows in summer." "Potatoes are eaten raw." "Crow is a migratory bird." It is clear that the older the children, the more complex the concepts should be.

16. An exercise aimed at increasing the level of distribution of attention
(ability to do several things at the same time).

Read a little sentence aloud. Reading is accompanied by a soft tapping of a pencil on the table. Children must memorize the text and count the number of strokes.
You can conduct this exercise as a competition: whoever counted correctly, he won. Winners receive, for example, a red circle. Since it is better to play several times in a lesson, the calculation of winnings is carried out at the end of the lesson, and the winners

somehow encouraged.
In the process of classes, the number of sentences used in the text increases.

17. Exercise for the distribution of attention

The exercise is aimed at developing the child's ability to perform two different actions at the same time.

a) The child draws circles in a notebook and at the same time counts the claps with which the adult accompanies the drawing. Task execution time - 1 min.
The number of circles and the counted number of strokes are counted. The more circles are drawn and the claps are counted correctly, the higher the score.

b) The task is similar to the previous one. Within 1 minute, you need to simultaneously draw with two hands: left - circles, right - triangles. At the end, the number of drawn triangles and circles is counted.

(Triangles with "rounded" vertices do not count, as do circles with "corners". The child's task is to draw as many triangles and circles as possible.)

Parents can invent tasks of this type themselves. It can be drawing and oral solution simple examples; writing down words and listening to a piece of a poem, etc. It is important to form such a quality as noise immunity in a child.

18. Exercise to increase the concentration of auditory attention

For this, it is very convenient to conduct arithmetic dictations, however, the point of the exercise is that each task consists of several actions.

For example, the teacher says:
"Now I will read arithmetic problems to you. You must solve them in your mind. The numbers you receive must also be kept in mind. Write down the results of the calculations only when I say:" Write!
The very content of the tasks depends on the age of the children, their readiness, as well as on the program material.
Here are some of them:

Grade 3 - "Two numbers are given: 54 and 26 ... Add the second digit of the second to the second digit of the first number
numbers ... and divide the resulting amount by the first digit of the second number ... Write! .. " (answer: 5)

"Two numbers are given: 56 and 92 ... Divide the second digit of the first number by the second digit of the second number ... Multiply the resulting quotient by the first digit of the second number ... Write! .." (answer: 27)

In such exercises, you can introduce a game moment: a magician and a magician who can guess numbers: "Think of a number ... add 5 to it, now subtract 2 ... subtract the number you thought of ... and multiply the resulting difference by 4 ... You did it..."

The above exercises allow you to hold and concentrate attention, and the data obtained may indicate a slow inclusion in the work (with the wrong solution of the first tasks and the correct solution of subsequent ones) or a rapid exhaustion of attention, an inability to maintain its concentration (with the correct solution of the first tasks and the incorrect solution of subsequent ones) which allows the teacher to adjust his work depending on the results obtained.

19. Exercise for concentration and stability of attention

Students are asked to rewrite the following lines without errors:

A) AMMADAMA REBERGE ASSAMASA
GESCLALLA ESANESSAS DETALLATA

B) ENALSSTADE ENADSLAT
ETALTARS USOKGATA LIMMODOR
CLATIMORE

C) RETABRERTA NORASOTANN
DEBARUGA CALLIHARRA
FILLITADERRA

D) GRUMMOPD

D) WATERPROOFETTA
SERAFINNETATSTOLE
EMMASEDATONOV

E) GRASEMBLADOVUNT

G) GRODERASTVERATON
CHLOROPHONIMATE
DARRISWATHENORRA

H) LIONOSANDER

I) MINOSEPRITAMATORENTALI TELIGRANTOLIADZE

K) MASOVRATONILOTOSLAW

K) MUSELONGRINAVUPTIMONATOLIG RAFUNITARE

M) ADSELANOGRIVANTEBUDAROCHAN

H) BERMOTINAVUCHIGTODEBSHOZHANUIY
MSTENATUREPVADIOLUZGLNICHEVYAN

O) OSTIMARE

20. Exercises to train the distribution and selectivity of attention

Words are inserted among the alphabetic text. The child must find and underline these words.

Example (words that the child needs to underline are in italics):

B sun itranv table ryujimet window ggshshchat car
simple rose flower evncid heat mylrkvt bag ldchev fish th

21. Exercise for the development of self-control "Do the same"

Required inventory: a set of geometric shapes made of cardboard (triangles, circles, squares, trapezoids, etc.).
Offer to add simple patterns or drawings from the child’s geometric shapes according to a given pattern, for example:
a square of triangles;
Christmas tree from triangles;
a pattern of geometric shapes;
arrange geometric shapes in a given order.
Options for tasks in this game can be different.

22. Exercise for the development of self-control "Save the word in secret"

The game teaches the child long time be guided by a given rule.
Explain to the child the rules of the game: you say the words that the child must repeat after you, except for names, for example, animals - they cannot be repeated.
Instead, upon hearing the name of the animal, the child should silently clap once.
An approximate list of words: window, chair, chamomile, bear, toffee, millet, shoulder, hamster, closet, cornflower, book, marten, house, song, gopher, etc.
Other variants of the rules in the game:
You can not repeat words that begin with the sound [r].
You can not repeat the names of girls.
When the child begins to follow the rule without errors, proceed to the game with the simultaneous use of two rules. For example:
You can’t repeat the names of birds, you need to mark them with one clap.
You cannot repeat the names of objects that have a round shape (or blue color), you must mark them with two claps.
Enter an element of competition. Score one penalty point for each mistake. Record the result of the game and compare with the result of the previous game. The child must make sure that the more he plays, the better he does.
Remember to switch roles with your child.

23. Exercise for the development of self-control "Bukvozhka"

Tell your child a story:
For the unfortunate letter "a" the gluttonous letter "a" is hunting. Save her. Hide all the letters "a" in this sentence: "The cat saw the mouse."
And now the task is more difficult. Rewrite the story, just insert dots instead of the letter "s".
“The red squirrel jumped off the branch. The branch was next to the roof of the house. A red cat was sleeping on the roof. The red squirrel and the red cat got scared of each other and rushed in different directions.
Note for parents: the condition in this task can be anything. For example, insert dots instead of the letters "o" or "e", instead of soft signs or hissing. Thus, each text can be used multiple times.

24. Exercise for the development of self-control "Fairy Apprentice"

Required inventory: syllable cards.
Let's turn the letter "a" into the letter "o".
Show your child the word cards. He must not
just read them, but in all cases where it occurs
the letter "a", change it to "o": ka - ko, ra - ro, ma - mo
etc.
Working with this exercise, you can come up with a variety of tasks for the child. For example:
skip (do not read) all syllables that begin with "p", or "k", or with a vowel. Instead, you need to pronounce the word "extra";
change in syllables "p" to the sound "s".

25. Exercise for the development of self-control "Butterfly letter"

Required inventory: a playing field in a cage with letters in a different order, a butterfly figurine.
Tell your child: “The butterfly wrote you a letter. You can read it if you carefully follow how it flies, what flowers it sits on. Letters live on the flowers, you must write them down in your notebook so that you can then make a word out of them. Remember: a butterfly flies only to the next cell, it cannot fly far.
Think in advance what word should turn out, and make a “spatial” instruction.
Try to ensure that the child follows the flights of the bee only with his eyes, without moving his finger across the field.
Game example:
“The butterfly was sitting on the letter “y”. Write down this letter. The butterfly flew on. Follow the direction of her flight and stops. Up, up, up, stop. Write down the letter. Down stop. Write down the letter. Right, up, stop. Write down the letter. Left, left, down, stop. Write down the letter. What word did you get?"

This game can be played many times.

26. Exercise for the development of attention "My favorite fruit"

The exercise allows the facilitator to create a working mood in the group, the development of memory, the development of the ability to long-term concentration of attention also takes place.

The group members introduce themselves in a circle. After calling themselves by name, each participant names their favorite fruit; the second - the name of the previous one and his favorite fruit, his name and his favorite fruit; the third - the names of the previous two and the names of their favorite fruits, and then their name and their favorite fruit, etc. The latter, therefore, must name the names and names of the favorite fruits of all members of the group.

27. Exercise for the development of concentration, distribution of attention "I won't go astray"

The psychologist offers the following tasks:

count aloud from 1 to 31, but the subject should not call numbers that include three or multiples of three. Instead of these numbers, he should say: "I won't go astray." For example: “One, two, I won’t go astray, four, five, I won’t go astray ...”

Sample correct count: 1, 2, -, 4, 5, -, 7, 8, -, 10, 11, -, -, 14, -, 16, 17, -, 19, 20, -, 22, -, -, 25, 26, -, 28, 29, -, - _the line replaces numbers that cannot be pronounced).

28. Exercise for the development of visual attention "Observation"

In this game, the connections between attention and visual memory are revealed.

Children are invited to describe in detail the school yard from memory, the way from home to school - something that they have seen hundreds of times. The younger students make such descriptions orally, and their classmates fill in the missing details.

29. Exercise for the development of concentration of attention "Fly 1"

This exercise requires a board with a nine-cell 3x3 playing field drawn on it and a small suction cup (or a piece of plasticine). The sucker acts as a "trained fly". The board is placed vertically and the host explains to the participants that the movement of the "fly" from one cell to another occurs by giving commands to it, which it obediently executes. According to one of the four possible commands ("up", "down", "right" and "left"), the "fly" moves according to the command to the neighboring cell. The starting position of the "fly" is the central cell of the playing field. Teams are given by the participants in turn. The players must, relentlessly following the movements of the "fly", prevent it from leaving the playing field.

After all these explanations, the game itself begins. It is held on an imaginary field, which each of the participants represents in front of him. If someone loses the thread of the game, or "sees" that the "fly" has left the field, he gives the command "Stop" and, returning the "fly" to the central cell, starts the game again. "Fly" requires constant concentration from the players.

30. Exercise for the development of concentration, stability of attention "Selector"

For the exercise, one of the participants in the game is selected - the "receiver". The rest of the group - "transmitters" - are busy with what everyone counts aloud from different numbers and in different directions. The "receiver" holds a wand in his hand and listens silently. He must tune in to each "transmitter" in turn. If it is difficult for him to hear this or that "transmitter", he can force him to speak louder with an imperative gesture. If it's too easy for him, he can turn down the volume. After the "receiver" has done enough work, he passes the wand to his neighbor, and he himself becomes the "transmitter". During the game, the wand makes a full circle.

31. Exercise for the development of switching attention, the arbitrariness of the execution of movements "Flies - does not fly"

Children sit or become a semicircle. The leader names the items. If the object flies, the children raise their hands. If it does not fly, the children's hands are lowered. The host can deliberately make mistakes, many guys will raise their hands involuntarily, by virtue of imitation. It is necessary to hold back in a timely manner and not raise your hands when a non-flying object is named.

32. Exercise for the development of concentration of attention "My birthday"

The members of the group, as in the previous version, take turns giving their names, but each member adds the date of his birthday to his name. The second - the name of the previous one and the date of his birthday, his name and the date of his birthday, the third - the names and birthdays of the two previous ones and his name and the date of his birthday, etc. The latter, therefore, must give the names and dates of the birthdays of all members of the group.

33. Exercise for the development of stability of attention "Ladoshki"

Participants sit in a circle and place their palms on the knees of the neighbors: the right palm on the left knee of the neighbor on the right, and the left palm on the right knee of the neighbor on the left. The meaning of the game is to raise the palms in turn, i.e. a "wave" ran from rising palms. After the preliminary training, the palms raised at the wrong time or not raised at the right time are out of the game.

34. Exercise for the development of switching attention "Edible - inedible"

The host takes turns throwing a ball to the participants and at the same time names objects (edible and inedible). If the object is edible, the ball is caught; if not, it is discarded.

35. Exercise for the development of concentration, switching attention "Fly"

The exercise is carried out in exactly the same way as the previous version, only in a more complicated version: the number of flies is increased (there are two of them). Flies commands are given separately.

36. Exercise for the development of visual attention, memory "The most attentive"

Participants must stand in a semicircle and determine the leader. The driver tries to remember the order of the players for several seconds. Then, on command, he turns away and calls the order in which the comrades stand. All players in turn must take the place of the driver. It is worth rewarding those who are not mistaken with applause.

37. Exercise for the development of auditory attention, auditory memory "Phone"

The verbal message is whispered around the circle until it returns to the first player.

Fairy tale "Bubble, straw and bast shoes"

Once upon a time there was a bubble, a straw and a bast shoe. They went into the forest to cut wood; reached the river and do not know how to cross it. Bast shoe says to the bubble: "Bubble, let's swim across you?" “No,” says the bubble, “it’s better if the straw is dragged from shore to shore, and we will cross it!”

The straw was drawn; the bast shoe went over it, and it broke. The bast shoe fell into the water, and the bubble began to laugh - laughed, laughed and burst!

38. Anagrams and puzzles.

Solve anagrams and eliminate the extra word

1. BEROVOY, PRADOEEL, GAPOYUP, CHLASKOTA;
2. LARMDAEM, MANOCHED, KLADERAS, ROSIBAK;
3. POLIDEVES, MATOKAS, NULOHDOSP, COLIRI;
4. DATRET, BUNEKICH, DASHRAKAN, SOLESYP.

1. NOTKLOB, KABOCHBA, KRUCHA, LOVARS;
2. ELEUTISOR, PYUMOKTER, CHELIK, NOMIROT;
3. KRIPCAS, NIANIPO, LARNETK, KOLOMO.

1. MAROKSH, BOKASA, TSURIKA, NJAVIS;
2. VOKMOR, CLAVES, FELTOCAR, TYULIK;
3. TERYUPI, TURNAS, RAAST, LYAZEM.

1. BORSUG, GENS, DEL, LOTEP;
2. AZHAR, KINKO, LIFE, KSANI;
3. BUSH, OLET, KASHAP, FRASH.

1. UROCHKASNEG, MASHKARO, VOROZHDEST, AROKPOD;
2. KAYOL, SHAKIR, LANSHYD, LANDAGIR;
3. VEZDAZ, SVEACHER, ROTT, JLYAP.

1. LOKOBYA, NDARINMA, RUSHAG, SHALLOW;
2. SONLARK, VINAMAL, RIEPO, TIRABUNO;
3. MAIZ, GYUVA, KATHOSAM, NEG.

1. ELOR, BONE, DEEP, VASO;
2. OWL, PAKHACHERE, CODILCRO, SHKAGULE;
3. LONS, GRIT, NASTE, FRIGE.

1. TUFBALL, NETNIS, STING, KEYHOK;
2. ASKIKR, SHIKARANDA, BOMAL, SLOCHI;
3. CHUTA, ZIKAFI, MIYAKHI, LOGYABIO.

1. RYS, FIRKE, METHANAS, CHYAM;
2. GROPI, FETAKON, CHRUKA, TROT;
3. NALJUR, BLASAKO, SKASISO, LETATOK.

1. REBEZA, CELONS, OSNAS, YALOBNYA;
2. ZANEBUDKA, SIVALEK, ASLOM, DYSHLAN;
3. RELPA, RAMT, AYM, SNERG.

1. LOST, TOOLS, FASHK, UHAM;
2. ABYR, DUMIZA, RESLOK, FINDEL;
3. RECHNIK, BLUKNIK, MLYAZENIK, CHEVRYAK.

1. GARC, SVORETSK, TRIZHS, URETSOG;
2. KASHOK, RIETER, LIKOL, SATAK;
3. DYSHLAN, KALFIA, NETAMO, CHIKVANODU;
4. DEZPO, TUSKAK, SITAK, LETOSAM.

1. EZDPO, TSYNOZHNI, KAGOLI, KITNA;
2. GRIT, VEL, UZHK, PAGERD;
3. NITSAGUSE, BOCHKABA, CHKARU, VYAKCHER;
4. BLOKOYA, RUSHAG, BASAKOL, MONLY.

1. TRAB, RASEST, UNCLE, SHAP;
2. SAKOCCH, VINYASH, ROVED, UDOKACH;
3. ELOP, CHMYA, BANKIT, TAROOV;
4. DIOR, ELETVISOR, KACHASH, ELEPHONE.

1. LIGRAB, KALOD, SURAP, TAKAN;
2. CHUBRO, RUSAP, CHIMYAK, SKALKAKA;
3. DANCE, MAPANA, PKEKA, KISNO;
4. CHERKINA, LIMAN, BASAKOL, ZEMKANIL.

1. OSINOVIKPOD, BASAKOL, BIRCHVIKPOD, CHKALISI;
2. STIKAMNAGI, LPAVAINE, RADTEET, LEYVOBALL;
3. POTCOM, LAZHANBAK, DORMIOP, TSEOGUR.

1. ZHERONOEOM, MOLINAD, STIGNASHT, ZHORINOEP;
2. ZHLYAP, KRECHA, TORKRAT, KESOP;
3. KAMAY, TYROSH, FRASH, KISON.

1. WAIT, CHENEEEP, ZHULA, TONZ;
2. VORAP, QYASEM, Vezdaz, Chon;
3. OLTE, TSELF, WINGNIP, EROM.

1. IVIK, RONOVA, NABAN, SHURAGH;
2. GENS, TARM, ARPEL, MIA;
3. BREZA, TMESANA, FIRAZH, ELV.

1. TANAEMS, FIREK, GIRT, VOGORT;
2. HAIR, PANZESHIM. SHAKTYRMA, RILGOLA;
3. LOTOPOK, TENAS, FARASAN, ONOK.

1. TURO, YEND, TELOMAS, ERVECH;
2. BASAKOL, CHINAVET, LEKASED, KOKORO;
3. TsAYAZ, KLOV, GAYUPOP, RAW.

1. LASTIPLIN, SKIRAK, RANDASHIKA, NAPAMKA;
2. RASHCHEBUKA, DILKOROK, ZNAYNEKA, SHPAKOLYAK;
3. RUKSK, RITUKSK, ROZENOEMO, VAKSOM.

Have you noticed that the child is “inattentive”, or have you heard these words from a caregiver or teacher? They say that he constantly has his head in the clouds ... Is he really inattentive or is he just bored in class? Let's see what parents should pay attention to.

Volume, stability, concentration and others qualities of attention that need to be developed

There are six properties of attention in total. Violation of each of them in its own way affects the activity of the child.

1) The amount of attention. With a small amount of attention, the child is not able to concentrate on several objects at the same time and keep them in memory.

2) Sustainability and 3) focus. Work in this direction if the child is quickly distracted by extraneous matters, cannot concentrate for a long time.

4) Selectivity of attention. This property is extremely important in order to be able to focus attention on a meaningful process. And at the same time, do not pay attention to secondary, distracting stimuli. Problems with selectivity of attention prevent you from completing what you started.

5) Distribution of attention. It is difficult for a child to perform two tasks at the same time.

6) Switching attention. The ability to quickly and easily shift attention from one activity to another. Does the child have difficulty transferring attention from one object to another, switching too slowly? Develop the flexibility of attention.

Observe what is more difficult for a child: to perceive information visually or by ear? Given this, you will be able to more intelligently select games and exercises for attention.

Now that the problem is clear, let's get down to useful activities! Games will help to teach the child to control attention.

Choose games and tasks by age

Games and exercises for attention for children 4-5 years old

Preschoolers have the hardest time sitting still, so game form occupation suits them the most.

Game "Forbidden color"

Before starting the game, set the rules:
- you can not name forbidden colors, for example, green and red;
You can't name the same color twice.

Now ask questions: “What color is the sky? What color is the grass? What color is the sun? What color is the strawberry? Possible answers: “Blue; like a lawn; yellow; like a heart."

Game "Invent a car" Develop selective attention

Invite the child to imagine a car passing by, which returns each time. What does he look like? What sounds does it make? Gradually, the picture should become more vibrant and rich.

Give your child hints, but do not comment on his every action. So he can be distracted from the game and lose interest in it.

Game "Find the extra" on concentration and distribution of attention

Read the poem to your child and ask him to clap his hands if he hears extra words.

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
storks, crows,
Jackdaws, pasta.

The birds have arrived:
Pigeons, tits,
swans, martens,
Jackdaws and swifts,
Seagulls and walruses.

Game "LOGIC Schulte" develops concentration and attention span

Schulte's tables are chaotically placed with numbers that need to be quickly found in the correct sequence. In addition to attention and peripheral vision, this type of task develops the skill of speed reading.

Games and exercises for attention for children 6-8 years old

Younger students are easily distracted by extraneous things (smartphone, TV, view outside the window), so try to eliminate any irritants before class. Come up with a code word (“attention”, “begin”) and ask the child to focus after you say it.

Game "Catch up with the robot" concentration, selectivity and attention span

Draw such a square with a robot. It will move up, down, right and left at your command. Dictate a few moves and ask the child to indicate which cell the robot has moved to. You can't run your finger across the field.

Exercise "Listening and counting" We develop the distribution of attention

Read the sentence by tapping the pencil on the table. The child must memorize the text and count the number of strokes.

Exercise "Read and count" on switchability and distribution of attention

Game "Defenders of the Islands" develops shifting attention

This game can be called a sea battle of a new level. Instead of the usual square playing field, the action takes place on a pie chart. The player can choose from three difficulty levels.

Game "LOGIC Y" develops the volume, stability and switchability of attention

The game has 3 difficulty levels:

"Beginner" - the player must remember and repeat in any order the location of the dots on the screen.
"Experienced" - you need to remember the location of the numbers in correct sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
"Master" - you need to remember the location of the fruits on the screen in the right order.

Games and exercises for attention for children 9-10 years old

For older children, more complex attention exercises are suitable. It’s good if they don’t strongly resemble school assignments so that the child can be distracted from school and spend free time fun and helpful.

Exercise "Remember everything" on concentration and distribution of attention

Invite the child to carefully examine some object without touching it. For example, a table lamp, a vase or a bunch of keys. Then have the child close their eyes and try to describe the object. What color and size is it? What does he feel like?

Exercise "What has changed?" Developing attention span

Lay out about ten items on the table. You can take, for example, stationery: pens, pencils, a pencil case, a ruler, etc. Then ask the child to remember how the objects lie.

Exercise "Forbidden figure" on concentration and distribution of attention

Count aloud from one to 41, without saying the numbers that contain the number 4. Instead, say: "I won't go astray." Have your child repeat the exercise.

School of Yuri Okunev

Hello friends. With you Yuri Okunev.

Question from life. Your child comes home from school, does his homework, brings you to check. And then you find that:

Something is missing in the solved problem - two actions, three numbers and one answer. You look into the draft, you see an exemplary correct solution, everything seems to be in place;
The grades in the notebook have a certain geometric pattern: after the three comes the five, after the five the three (as an option: after the two the five and so on).

Is the situation familiar? Those who said "no" can only be envied. Discuss with others today effective method dealing with the problem: exercises for developing the attention of younger students.

In the first grade, our fidget still cannot gather his will into a fist and work.

Well, how do you get together if a fat fly is crawling on the windowsill, and the neighbor in front of you has a big white bow, which you just want to pull! And you have to work: if you don’t understand the material, you will get a deuce in your diary, or “a cloud with rain”.

A child of 7-8 years old is characterized by instability of attention and rapid fatigue. He is not able to do one thing for more than 30-35 minutes, he is often distracted by trifles. The more monotonous the activity, the more difficult it is for a first-grader. It is easier to solve the problem under an asterisk, but interesting. It is also difficult to switch from one occupation to another. Say, solve a problem and say its solution out loud.

By the end of the study period in primary school voluntary attention and the habit of working for a long time and with full dedication, that is, stability of attention, should be developed. I foresee someone's sigh of relief: well, the child will grow up and take up his mind, he will carry fives. Do not hope that everything will come by itself. Will not come, and there will be no freebies! No teacher will do your job!

Everything comes with training

Using the tasks given in this article to develop attention in elementary school students, you will achieve visible results after a month of systematic training. Practice for half an hour a day, stick to a certain schedule, be demanding but patient.

Conduct the lesson in a playful way;
Praise the child, notice his every achievement;
Alternate tasks, thereby stimulating interest;
Set a specific goal and achieve it.

Exercises for training attention are divided into 3 sections.

Concentration of attention

Concentration of attention is the ability of a student to fully concentrate on solving a problem.

"Letter from an Aboriginal". A card with a set of letters of the Russian alphabet is laid out in front of the child. This set contains encrypted words. The child must find them.

AVROGAZETAATMNIVSLShKDOMRVMCHEVNGMSh
SHAONSRVIKEYURINSVLGMLGSTIMSPACKETD
AVMLBERYOZAVLNGSTRYICHENSSCKNIGAMSHVAL
WONGARSIYPCHLSCHATCATASPPRINGAUUKYMCHSYA
ZVNKPENALVAXSHNMTVLDCHBYUVNLESVNAOSTV

Cross out all the letters "B" and circle all the letters "E"

Walking through the labyrinths(lay a path from one point to another). There are two difficulty options in this developing task.

Lightweight (no crossovers)

Increased complexity (with intersections)

"Draw a picture". This task builds perseverance

Piano game. The number of people from 3 or more (the more, the more interesting). Children like this game very much. Everyone sits on chairs in one row. Hands are placed on each other's knees. You need to take turns clapping on the knee of a neighbor, observing a given pace. The last person in the row claps 2 times and the game is reversed. The one who fails or misses the clap is out of the game.

Distribution of attention

This is the ability to engage in 2-3 activities at the same time.

"Julius Caesar". To do one action with one hand, the other - another at the same time and without straying:
a) draw a circle with one hand, a square with the other;
b) transfer peas from plate to plate with one hand, and leaf through the book with the other hand, etc.;
"Pair account". We count 1, 30, 2, 29, 3, 28 and so on;

"Counting Elements".The child is offered a card. It is required to count in this order: the first square, the first circle, the first triangle, the second circle, the second triangle, etc.

In turn, we show the student 4 cards with geometric shapes, each time calling a number from 1 to 9. Then, from memory, have him draw all the numbers and shapes, observing the same order.

attention span

City game. An adult calls the name of the city, for example, PENZA. The child repeats and adds another city: PENZA-MINSK. Adult PENZA-MINSK-MOSCOW and so on, until someone goes astray;
"Detectives". Game task, very exciting and useful. In a group of children in the amount of 3-6 people, a driver (Detective) is selected, who carefully examines everyone, remembers the details. Then he leaves the room, and the rest try to change 5 details in their appearance. The detective enters, his task is to find all the changes.

Wikium simulator for younger students

One of the reasons for the sharp deterioration in attention in the lower grades is the craze computer games. This leads to distraction and transition to clip consciousness. The brain stops remembering, analyzing - it just “stupidly” accepts pictures in order to immediately forget them. Try asking your child to learn a poem or a rule after two hours of playing on a tablet - it will take a lot of time.

How to be? Of course, you can ban the game, but I will say that there is a better option. You will kill two birds with one stone! Suggest to your son or daughter instead of another shooting game simulator for brain development and attention correction Wikium. The child will definitely be carried away, the toy is very interesting, and also developing.

Wikium techniques were developed by Russian scientists in such a way as to act on a subconscious level, activating the brain. And the longer the child plays, the more his brain will work and develop. The results are noticeable within a week. blog is already dedicated to the Wikium service. Everything is described in detail. I recommend.

Allow me to bow out on this. If the article was useful, recommend it to your friends and acquaintances. Subscribe to blog news. Waiting for comments. Bye!
Yours, Yuri Okunev.

Exercise "My favorite fruit"

The exercise allows the facilitator to create a working mood in the group, the development of memory, the development of the ability to long-term concentration of attention also takes place.

2. Exercise "I won't go astray"

Exercise for the development of concentration, distribution of attention

The psychologist offers the following tasks:

Sample correct count: 1, 2, -, 4, 5, -, 7, 8, -, 10, 11, -, -, 14, -, 16, 17, -, 19, 20, -, 22, -, -, 25, 26, -, 28, 29, -, - _the line replaces numbers that cannot be pronounced).

3. Exercise "Observation"

Exercise for the development of visual attention. In this game, the connections between attention and visual memory are revealed.

4. Exercise "Fly 1"

An exercise to develop concentration

5. Exercise "Selector"

Exercise for the development of concentration, stability of attention

For the exercise, one of the participants in the game is selected - the "receiver". The rest of the group - "transmitters" - are busy with what everyone counts aloud from different numbers and in different directions. The "receiver" holds a wand in his hand and listens silently. He must tune in to each "transmitter" in turn. If it is difficult for him to hear this or that "transmitter", he can force him to speak louder with an imperative gesture. If it's too easy for him, he can turn down the sound. After the "receiver" has done enough work, he passes the wand to his neighbor, and he himself becomes the "transmitter". During the game, the wand makes a full circle.

6. Exercise "Flies - does not fly"

Exercise for the development of switching attention, the arbitrariness of performing movements.

Children sit or become a semicircle. The leader names the items. If the object flies, the children raise their hands. If it does not fly, the children's hands are lowered. The leader can deliberately make mistakes, many guys will involuntarily raise their hands, by virtue of imitation. It is necessary to hold back in a timely manner and not raise your hands when a non-flying object is named.

7. Exercise "My birthday"

Exercise to develop memory, the ability to long-term concentration.

8. Exercise "Palms"

Exercise for the development of stability of attention.

Participants sit in a circle and place their palms on the knees of the neighbors: the right palm on the left knee of the neighbor on the right, and the left palm on the right knee of the neighbor on the left. The meaning of the game is to raise the palms in turn, i.e. a "wave" ran from rising palms. After a preliminary training, palms raised at the wrong time or not raised at the right time are out of the game.

9. Exercise "Edible - inedible"

An exercise in developing attention shifting.

The host takes turns throwing a ball to the participants and at the same time names objects (edible and inedible). If the object is edible, the ball is caught; if not, it is discarded.

10. Exercise "Fly"

Exercise for the development of concentration, switching attention.

11. Exercise "The most attentive"

Exercise for the development of visual attention, memory.

12. Exercise "Phone"

Exercise for the development of auditory attention, auditory memory.

The verbal message is whispered around the circle until it returns to the first player.

Fairy tale "Bubble, straw and bast shoes"

The straw was drawn; the bast shoe went over it, and it broke. The bast shoe fell into the water, and the bubble began to laugh - laughed, laughed and burst!

Literature:

1. Kruglov Yu.G. Russians folk tales– M.: Enlightenment, 1983.

2. Panfilova M.A. Game therapy of communication - M .: Publishing house GNOM and D, 2000.