There are many methods of developing babies, developed by both Russian and foreign teachers and psychologists. One of the most famous domestic methods of early development of children is the method of the scientist from St. Petersburg, NA Zaitsev.
Being our contemporary N. Zaitsev after five decades of hard work, in 1989 he released his first benefit, deservedly popular, - cubes Zaitsev.
The basis of his methodology (and its distinctive feature) is a different approach to the language unit. Nikolai Zaitsev considers the unit a warehouse, not a syllable. A warehouse is two letters: a vowel and a consonant. The author has placed warehouses on the faces of various cubes.
The size, color and even the characteristic sound of a cube depends on what kind of sounds are in the warehouses written on its faces. Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaitsev suggested filling in the dice on which the deaf warehouses are written, with pieces of wood that produce a dull sound; Vowels warehouses are voiced by copper coins; ringing warehouses - ringing pieces of metal. All this in combination with the use of a certain color for the designation of certain letters allows kids to memorize letters more quickly and after just a couple of hours of practice begin to read the warehouses, and then any words.
Classes with Zaytsev cubes help to increase the speed of reading and even get rid of some logopedic problems. Also in Zaitsev's technique there are tables not for reading, but for singing, which promotes both the development of speech and the improvement of reading skills.
Apply Zaitsev's technique to any child, regardless of age. Kids for up to a year like to play with "sounding", bright cubes, as with rattles, and gradually they learn the warehouses and begin to read much, before other children. First-graders, who were taught at school to read, folding syllables from individual letters, like to train to read storage-letters.
The age of the child, of course, affects the speed of mastering reading by means of the methods of N. Zaitsev, since the training of small "pupils" is slower. But three-four-year-olds begin to read literally in two or four classes and after about 15-20 lessons a kid can already, walking, surprise her mom, after reading the name of the street.
Each lesson in this technique usually lasts 25 minutes, but takes place in such a relaxed atmosphere that it is not perceived as an ordinary lesson, but as a real game. Children are allowed to walk, lie, sit, so they feel most comfortable.
Many researchers believe that the most effective learning, giving maximum results, takes place in a game form. Many children, who started to teach according to the method of Zaitsev from the age of three, were ready to undergo schooling not in the first but in the second and even in the third grades of the general education school towards the onset of school age.
Many schools and kindergartens use this technique as the main one. Classes usually pass easily and freely. The text is written in large letters on the table, so children do not spoil the sight, and since they can move, and not just sit, they do not spoil the posture. Therefore, the kids sing and read the warehouses and start learning to read with pleasure.
It is better to begin classes with the easiest: folding cubes, reading to the child warehouses, adding up his name, reading it, then reading what happened on the reverse side of the cubes. Most likely, there will be something inconsistent on the back, but the kids are happy about this and are doing it with pleasure, as they are amused. Babies can be given at once all the cubes, the entire set, without fear of excessive load due to the extraordinary development of the small brain. It will be easy for a kid to play with cubes if he gets acquainted with all at once, as he will begin to orient in size and color.
Advantages of the technique Zaitsev very much. Scientists have proved that the best age for active and productive development of a child is three to four years, since the brain of a child of seven years of age develops much more slowly. If you start classes with a three-to-four-year-old, then by seven he will know the basic amount of knowledge in the elementary school program.
Fears of parents that the child is not interested in studying at school or that he will have problems communicating with classmates are groundless. Nowadays, many parents devote all their time to the early development of children, so many children who came to school at the age of seven, know the elementary school program, which means your baby will not be the only one.
Private schools and gymnasiums take great pleasure in training developed kids and further develop them, based on the foundation that laid the parents.
The set of cubes Zaitsev includes 52 cubes, having different sizes, color, filling and weight. Warehouses are written on the faces of these cubes. To the cubes additionally attached tables. You can buy ready-made cubes, you can make them yourself from those sets that are available for sale, and you can make completely independently, using either cubes that the kid plays, or by gluing together new ones from the cardboard.