Nowadays, many mothers seek to develop their child, but basically it includes an entry in special centers, which, in fact, the process takes place. But few know that at all times, even the most ancient existed educational classes for children and some other! With puzzles that know every mother and grandmother especially in large numbers. Perhaps as a child every guess these riddles, immediately forgot about them.

What is taught puzzles?

It would be easy - put forth a riddle, guessed, but in fact behind the apparent simplicity hides a great teaching experience. Riddles demonstrate the beauty of the native language, meet interesting turns of speech, metaphors and allegorical. All of this enhances the child's language skills. Advanced methods of teaching foreign languages ​​is mandatory include familiarization with folk riddles, so it helps to learn the language better.

Puzzles teach the child to think imaginatively, outside the box, look for a second meaning of the phrase, which is actively developing smart and logic. However, they do not tire the child by stimulating curiosity, strengthening memory and teaching in a playful way. Puzzles are always meaning, intonation in their kind, respectful, that will affect the moral and ethical development of the child.

Types of puzzles

Puzzles are different.

• People - a puzzle formed over the centuries and passed from mouth to mouth. They are distinguished by melodiousness, expressed metaphorically as well as the fact that they are quite difficult, almost impossible, to guess yourself. For example: Someone above us upside down? People are so many mysteries, they differ in complexity, which allows you to choose puzzles for different ages, extending the child's vocabulary by outdated and little used words. At the same time folk riddles cover much of the world, which allows to acquaint the child with the seasons, natural phenomena, the vagaries of weather, flora and fauna.
• Rhyming riddles - a puzzle in the form of small poems, often consisting of only two or four lines, which is a mystery, and the solution lies in the last word, which is very easy even called the young children.
• Puzzles-l'oeil - is also magic in the form of a poem, but if you put a word to rhyme - it turns out ridiculous nonsense. It puzzles for preschool and school children, who are forced to move away from simple, but wrong decision puzzles and think about other options. When the puzzles and riddles in rhyme-l'oeil child learns to solve well, it can complicate the task - alternating.
• Puzzles get lost with pleasure the letter to guess the children who have already learned to read, and quite aware of the letter. Usually it rhymed couplets, which in one word, the letters have been replaced. For example: a beetle - onion, bump - a cat. The result is a funny phrase or a poem, in which the hero goes to the cats instead of bumps, and not frightened beetle, and onions. If puzzles are accompanied by pictures - pleasure from them guessing doubles.
• Puzzles Thinking require child care and the ability reasoning. This type of puzzles are puzzles about sitting on the tube A and B, about a duck floating on nothing, and many others.
• Riddles invented themselves - a separate category of puzzles, which can be used even with children, barely learned to speak. For example: one evening from work comes and brings gifts to the daughter? (Dad). Who loves mom and dad? (Daughter). Can I eat the house? (Really - no, gingerbread and - yes). After a while, the child himself will be coming up with puzzles.

General advice that can be given by solving a puzzles with your child:

• Pick up the puzzle according to age.
• Do not overdo it! If the child does not like it - the puzzle aside for a couple of weeks.
• Do not say otgadku quickly, better give a few clues - it's much more interesting.
• I sincerely rejoice when a child guesses the riddle correctly, if not the first time.
• If a child he invented the puzzle, even complete nonsense - praise him and try to solve it.

Svetlana Shimkovich

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