Hay varias maneras de memorizar las Escrituras.
- Borrar las palabras
- Escriba el versículo de la Biblia en un pizarrón y haga que cada persona la lea en voz alta juntos. Luego, borre una palabra y pídales que lo lean de nuevo, todavía diciendo la palabra borrada. Continúe borrando palabras y leyendo el versículo en voz alta hasta que todas las palabras estén borradas. En este punto, toda la clase se debe tener memorizado el versículo.
- Escribir el versículo a mano
- Escribir los versículos varias veces hasta que pueda hacerlo de memoria.
- En canción
- Se ha hecho música con muchos pasajes de las Escrituras. Memorizar la letra de una canción es mucho más fácil que memorizar a la fuerza y durará poraños. Si el versículo que está tratando de memorizar ya se ha puesto a música, cambie a la versión del texto que coincida con la canción. Si no se ha puesto a música, haga su propia melodía. Explore diferentes traducciones del texto para ver cuál se presta mejor a su canción.
- Say it aloud
- Hearing it and saying it will reinforce it much better than just "thinking" it will.
- Say it with rhythm
- This is similar to the "in song" approach from above, but it is often easier to make up a rhythm than it is to make up a whole tune. Clap your hands and stomp your feet at various places in the verse if that helps. Turn it into a clapping game like "pat-a-cake" and learn it with a friend.
- Add action
- How many songs do you know that have motions associated with them? If you're making up hand claps and foot stomps, it will help even more if you add other actions such as casting a fishing line, or tracing the outline of a heart in the air.
- Make a rebus
- A rebus uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. For instance, the word "I" is represented with a graphic depiction of an eye. If you spend enough time coming up with a clever rebus for your verse, you will likely have memorized it by the time you are finished.
- Find structure in the verse
- Write the verse out so that it highlights the structure. Recall that Hebrew poetry works by repeating an idea using different words. Line them up! We also find structure in New Testament verses. For instance, 1 John 2:3 could be written like this:
Now by this
we know that
we know Him,
if we keep His commandments.
- This approach lines up the common words "we know" and helps the brain to organize the verse more effectively. It also lines up the third "we" with the first two, so that it's possible to memorize a shorthand for this verse - "we know, we know, we keep". This forms a skeleton upon which we can hang the rest of the words. Look for other structure as well, such as that the word following "we" always starts with a 'k' and has four letters.
- Use a Puzzlemaker Online
- to create written activities for scripture such as:
- Crosswords
- Wordles
- Fill in the blanks/Missing letters
- Blank out (Similar to Hangman)
- Scripture Scrambles
- Step On It
- Print out each word of a passage on paper, one word per page in large print. Lay the paper on the floor and step down on each page as you say the text. Remove words from time to time.
- Writers Block
- Write each word of a passage on blocks of wood, one word per block. mix up the blocks and put the text back together. Two block sets of the same verse makes for an exciting game!
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