Toys are very important for the proper development of the child. But many of the games do not just let the kid have fun, but also teach him to form a variety of skills that will be useful to the child in the present or the future. These toys include, for example, cubes Zaitseva that help children learn to read, even at an early age.

Features techniques

Teacher Nikolai Zaitsev at the time suggested that parents abandon the traditional teaching reading that subaudition combining letters into syllables and then words. In place of syllables came warehouses, consisting of one or two letters. Such warehouses are drawn in special cubes that kid plays. As a result, the child learns not letters and letter combinations at once, and training is much faster than traditional methods.

In this technique has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, the training takes place in a playful way, children learn to be happy. They acquire reading skills much earlier than their peers enrolled in the traditional method. In addition, children will immediately remember the warehouses, drawn up in accordance with the rules of the native language. This means that in the future these kids will never write, for example, the syllable "conductive" through "I".

At the same time, children who are taught the procedure Zaitsev, may experience difficulties in regular school, which adopted other forms of education. These children is difficult, for example, to analyze the composition of the word. In addition, it is often "swallow" closure of words that can create some difficulties.

Special cubes

Probably everyone in my childhood was a set of cubes with letters and corresponding pictures. Children with childhood accustomed to the look of this or that character, and then learn to relate graphical representation of the sound that the letter represents. The last step is usually the most difficulty: a child is difficult to understand why, for example, the letter "A", located next to the image of watermelon, watermelon refers not as such, but only the first sound of his name.

On cubes Zaitseva there are no images - only letters, rather warehouses. And cubes themselves are very different: large, small, different colors, different weights, emit different sounds when shaking, double and single. Unlike traditional blocks, cubes Zaitseva are small square boxes with different filling. As a result, "wooden" cubes muffled tapping, "iron" thunder, and "gold" ring.

On the "wooden" cubes written muted warehouses for "iron" - calls for "gold" - the vowels. Warehouses with a solid sign means "iron-wood" cubes and warehouses with soft signs - "wood and gold." Cubes with solid warehouses are large in size, with soft cubes warehouses - small. On the double consonants are represented by cubes, which according to the rules of language can not be combined with all the vowels. Thus, the combination of "zhy", "shi", "schya" or "chya" absent. To display punctuation used white cube. The letters are written as a different color: according to - blue, vowels - blue and hard and soft signs - green.

Why such complexity? It may be easier to handle dice of size, color and sound? According to the inventor cubes, size, color, shape, weight and sound cubes are very important. The child gradually learns to distinguish between the different warehouses from each other on a number of grounds. This helps the baby not only his vision but also hearing and touch. Instead of rote learning there is understanding of the language, which is very important both for teaching the native language, and the study of foreign languages.

Cubes with their hands

Currently cubes Zaitseva easy to buy in any store that sells educational toys Educational toys . On sale there as a ready-made bricks, and kits for making bricks, which is offered to glue and fill yourself. The cost of these kits ready cubes or "semi-finished" quite high. This didactic material may be some parents can not afford.

But do not buy the cheaper options, which may differ from the original blocks. The cubes Zaitseva value has everything: color, size, shape, weight and content. And if some of these parameters unscrupulous manufacturers neglected, then the effective training of the procedure Zaitseva talk anymore.

Some parents make their own cubes Zaitseva: It is quite possible, if strictly adhere to all the recommendations. This independent production was practiced in the late nineties, when the procedure has just appeared, and buy the cubes could not everywhere.

For the manufacture of bricks, use thick cardboard - enterprising parents often use packages of milk or juice. Using stationery knife cut cardboard blanks of different sizes, which are then combined in the form of a cube, filled and taped together. The next step - paper and pasting blocks putting images warehouses.

For the manufacture of bricks will need:

• Cardboard;
• Color (preferably self-adhesive) Paper for pasting surface cubes - golden, gray, light brown or beige, white;
• Color (preferably self-adhesive) paper cut out of her letters: blue, blue, green;
• Stencils;
• The material for the filling of "gold" cubes - tin caps, coins, bells;
• Material for filling "iron" cube - cutting sheet metal;
• Material for filling "wooden" blocks - wooden sticks, twigs, Kolobash- kin;
• Clay;
• Ruler;
• Stationery knife;
• Pencil.

Total should have fifty-two dice, some of them will be repeated. Cubes can be considered properly made, if they can be sorted out with eyes closed in the twelve categories.

Maria Bykov

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