How to teach children to underline texts

When children reach primary school, they have to assimilate more information and understand the texts they read, that is, they must learn to study, since they will gradually be going away demanding more and, sometimes, for them it is very complicated. In Guiainfantil.com we are going to explain the steps to follow so that they are able to retain in their memory what they read, a good trick for this is to learn to underline the importance of a text.

Tricks to learn to emphasize the importance of a text

- It is very important to have a good atmosphere so that children are relaxed and there is nothing to distract their attention. Para - To begin we will ask you to make a general reading of the whole text, so, the child will know what is being talked about and will be able to make an idea of what he should retain and the message that he wants to convey to him. For example, they will know that the lesson is about means of transportation.

- If there are any strange words for them,

we will explain their meaning to them or we will tell them to look for it , if necessary in a dictionary. Sometimes they "get stuck" with some more difficult word, in this case, we can look for a synonym that for them is more familiar and therefore easier to retain and understand.For example, imagine that in the text the phrase appears: They used some ropes to fasten the bags to the cars.

We will explain the meaning of rope, but if in spite of everything, this word is difficult for you to remember, we will change it by rope, sure much more familiar to the child and therefore easier to retain.

- After doing a second reading, and having clarified the meaning of the words,

we will talk about the importance of underlining the key words . They must learn to discover the most important words in the text, since it is not a question of pointing the whole sentence without any criteria. The purpose is that by reading the words that have been underlined they have made a summary of the most important of the reading.- To emphasize we can

choose a red marker that highlights the text and helps us synthesize what we read. We will start with short sentences and point out the nouns. For example: A car is a vehicle equipped with two wheels and pulled by an animal that is used to transport different objects.

- If we ask ourselves afterwards what is it? How is it? For what? and the underlined answers our questions we are on the right track.

Tips for a good underlining

When the children grow up and the texts are longer, we will teach them to

underline with markers of different thicknesses and colors , and we will talk about the importance of getting used to using the same markers for the contents of the same relevance. For example:- Titles and subtitles in green, main ideas in red, etc.

- When they are small it is good to distribute the study in short periods of time so they do not get tired.

- With these guidelines children will learn little by little to assimilate, understand and memorize texts. Para - To finish we will make it very clear that underlining without reading is a real waste of time.