An Adventure with Positional Words When Your Kid Is 7
If Your Child Has Difficulty with Positional Words, Here is the Solution.
Left and right are problems for most adults, but it is a considerable confusion if you have to learn them as a child, at least for my children. They walked with red and green bands on their wrists for a long time, hoping this would help them. The red band was for the left and the green for the right. Unfortunately, it didn’t work with my kids. Eventually, they connected left and red, but things went wrong again when we removed the tape. The feeling wasn’t there. Playing games with positional words was ultimately the way to teach them.
At the age of, the foundation is laid for understanding positional words, such as front, behind, next to, between, left, and right. Play is a practical and fun approach to strengthen this learning process. It becomes knowledge, and they also put it into practice. Especially with games, something is at stake, which makes children more alert and eager to do well. In addition, children learn actively and remember better when they move—muscle tonus increases and, therefore, brain tonus—just the right time to learn something.
Here are some ideas and examples to practice positional words at seven years:
