How do you learn best?
Listening? Watching? Doing?
Each of us has a prominent way for knowledge to stay in our mind. When we have information coming at us through various forms, we learn and retain material even better.
A proven means to successfully memorizing information is through mnemonics. This connects information to something that triggers the brain to remember the material. Triggers can be letters, words, images, or associated content.
Both Do LAPS! and Keep on Track use several of these techniques to help you remember and recall the Bible verses that you study and memorize. The Bible verses chosen are meant to draw you into a deeper relationship with God by learning his truths. What should follow naturally is the desire to submit to God and obey him.
The main structure of both Bible verse memory books is an A-B-C approach. Each verse, in your mind, will be compartmentalized by an alphabet letter, for easier recall. The verses are spoken as you review, which is key for auditory learners. On various days you will write the verse, also, which benefits tactile learners.
In Keep on Track, each verse is associated with a diagram to help you ‘see’ the verse in your mind. This most benefits the visual learners. Then, as you sketch the diagram, you are activating the part of your brain that most benefits tactile learners. In Do LAPS!, the tactile approach is used as children do motions while reciting the verse and complete written activities.
Praying God’s Word is important, as it is God’s own words and truths that are being called out to him. Each verse learned in both Do LAPS! and Keep on Track is written as a prayer, which also helps embed the verse and theme in your heart. As the verse is spoken in a prayer, this helps the auditory learner.
When the review of the verses happen every three weeks, auditory, visual, and tactile learning styles are employed.
You have so many things that you choose to put into your mind each day.
Let God’s words be one of them.