Describe the Ways in Which Memory Skills Might Affect Children’s Learning. Discuss Some Strategies That Might Be Useful in a Classroom or Group Activity Context to Support Children with Difficulties with Poor Short Term Memory.

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Describe the ways in which memory skills might affect children’s learning. Discuss some strategies that might be useful in a classroom or group activity context to support children with difficulties with poor short term memory. "What is read with delight is commonly retained, because pleasure always secures attention but the books which are consulted by occasional necessity, and perused with I, seldom leave any traces on the mind." – Samuel Johnson (1759). This assignment will describe how the lack of memory skills may affect a child’s learning, and look at some strategies that may be useful when supporting children who have short term memory difficulties. Whilst this assignment will be focusing on short term memory problems, it is important to also take in to consideration other types of memory which are all interlinked and understand the differences between them. Short Term Memory can be defined as the memory that holds onto information on a temporary basis, for example the instructions for baking a cake, whereas Working Memory would not only be able to recall the instructions, but be able to utilise them correctly (Alloway T.P. 2010). Long Term Memory refers to information that has passed through Short Term and Working Memory and is then stored for retrieval at later date. Short Term Memory processes the information that is received and then makes a decision as to whether it should then be stored in the Long Term Memory. All types of memory arise from the connection of neurons in the brain known as synapse; in the case of Short Term Memory these of Long Term Memory connections are temporary, whereas in they are permanent (Robson S. 2012). To enable a child to learn proficiently, they need to be able to remember what they have been taught; and in addition to this memory allows a child to develop life skills that without memory they would not be able to, for

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