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Zaitsev's cubes are a qualitatively new teaching method. The basic principle is to give the child "everything at once." How? See for yourself. When learning to read, the child learns all the warehouses of the Russian language at once, and not one letter at a time, as is customary in the usual education system.

When learning to count, the baby is offered all the numbers up to a hundred, and then up to a million. Isn't such an abundance of information at once harmful? No! Contrary to fears, the child does not get tired and does not get lost from such an abundance of information.

The child immediately establishes the necessary connections between warehouses or numbers. Zaitsev assures that children get tired just from primitive entertainment. According to the method of Zaitsev, the entire Russian language is given to the child in warehouses on cubes and wall tables.

Zaitsev's cubes are a Russian language that you can play with: you can pick it up, examine it, twirling it in your hands, and feel its weight. The author of the methodology pays special attention to tables.

The most complex rules and laws, thanks to his systematization of tables, become clear, understandable and easy to remember. In addition, the table can be called a simulator for vision and posture.

No need to sit still, you can walk and run along the tables in search of a solution. Learning is like a journey. The table is like a map on which many discoveries can be made. The table is always in front of the eyes, the information works constantly, it is repeated as many times as the child looks at the table.

Zaitsev's cubes, a method of teaching reading

To understand Zaitsev's technique, let's remember that in Russian there are consonants and vowels, together they form warehouses (do not confuse with syllables!).

What is a warehouse in the Zaitsev method?

So, there are consonants and vowels, hard and soft, voiced and deaf sounds. No, no, you don't need to explain this to the child, it's just not necessary. You need to remember these terms a little, as they will sometimes appear in the descriptions of the cubes.

Warehouses may coincide with syllables, but may differ. For example, in the word "MAMA" - two warehouses and two syllables, and in the word "ELEPHANT" - one syllable, but three warehouses - C-LO-N. Or the word "SUDDENLY" - one syllable, but four warehouses - V-D-RU-G.

As you can see, the warehouse may consist of:

from a consonant and a vowel (BA, VU, PE, MA, etc.);
from a consonant and soft or hard signs (Pb, DB, Vb, Sb, etc.);
only from the consonant: (N, P, S, etc.);
only from a vowel (A, O, U, etc.);
warehouses never form two consonants together or two vowels (SD, OU, VD, etc.).

Try to break the words into warehouses yourself: HE, CHILDREN, BOOK, CAT, STORK, and now check yourself: o-n, de-ti, k-ni-ha, ko-t, a-and-s-t.

Warehouses are written on the faces of Zaitsev's cubes.

Zaitsev's Cubes is a game aid for learning to read

The game set consists of:

cubes (or, from a cardboard scan, which must be folded into a cube);
fillers for cubes (metal corks "wooden sticks");
tables;
books - manuals for parents;
audio cassettes with songs that are used in teaching.

These original cubes differ in 46 ways, including weight. Cubes are divided into large and small, "iron" and "wooden", "golden" cubes with vowels.

Small - "soft" warehouses.
"Iron" are "voiced" warehouses.
"Wooden" are "deaf" warehouses.

There are five double dice separately. These are warehouses with those consonants that do not combine with all vowels (for example, “zh”, “h”)
Zaitsev's warehouses perfectly fit the melody. The author of the technique proposed to sing warehouses, and then he released an audio cassette, on which warehouses are sung to different melodies.

Having memorized the chants, over time the child will easily find the desired warehouse by singing (pronouncing) and following the warehouses in the table with his finger or turning the edges of the cube itself.

Of course, only children of older preschool age and adults can turn the cubes correctly, but kids are able to look for the necessary warehouses on the table as early as two or three years old.

Warehouse reading technique

Have you ever heard from friends that a child knows all the letters, but does not read yet? Or “reads” by letter, without putting it into a word. The warehouse method avoids such problems, since the child immediately sees the warehouse and pronounces it.

For example, a baby does not read “ke-o”, but “ko” and does not ask questions why it is “be” and “yu”, but for some reason “bu” is read together. If the material is presented correctly, then the warehouse is easier to remember and recognize than a letter.

Cubes and tables are presented all at once. And they immediately show up in action. Words begin to form that can be written with a pointer on the table.

Why all at once? Zaitsev is an opponent of a phased acquaintance with letters, a long “playing out” of the same thing. All cubes at once - this is one of the basic principles of his technique.

Can children absorb this amount of information at once? This question is the most popular among parents. The author of the methodology believes that they not only can, but also learn everything with ease. As an example, he cites, oddly enough, card games.

Many children of four or five years old enjoy playing "The Fool", "The Drunkard" and other games on both 36 and 52 cards. Cards are taken and remembered by them all at once. Why can't 33 letters be learned in a few months?

The fact is, according to Zaitsev, that the cards are "an ingenious design and methodological development." The letters are small, all black. Of course, they are not similar to each other, but looking for differences in them is boring and difficult. And the cards are easy to remember, they are bright, instantly deposited in memory.

The cubes created by Zaitsev differ in 46 features. Show them to your child like cards - all at once, and not 1-2 cubes per lesson.

First, you will need almost all the blocks to start writing words. This can and should be done already in the first lesson.
Secondly, when playing with all the cubes, it is easier for a child to remember them - those same 46 signs - signals - are included in the work.

Zaitsev against!

ABC

Zaitsev opposes numerous alphabets, where the names of the letters are tied to pictures: watermelon - A, banana - B, bucket - C, goose - G, etc. Having met the word CHAIR, for example, a child will remember an owl, a tiger, a duck, a frog, which need to be recoded into a piece of furniture. Not an easy task, right?

Terms

“Letters have not yet been introduced, but the terms have already been laid out: hard, soft, voiced, deaf, vowels, consonants,” writes Zaitsev.

It turns out that learning does not go from the concrete to the abstract, but vice versa.

Methodical tales

In addition to confusion in the head, wasted time on stupid fairy tales and unnecessary terms, such "literature" does not give anything else. “ABC studies”, “A mistaken place”, “Mistake”, “Mysterious Phoneme”, “Bukvinsk”, “Skladisk”, “Chislyandiya”, etc., according to Zaitsev, should not surround the child.

Acquaintance with Zaitsev's cubes

The first acquaintance is only with the name, says Zaitsev. Write the name of the baby in cubes, show, twist the cubes - the name may change.

Wrote a name. Now you can make it out of cubes and write with a pointer according to the table MA-MA, PA-PA, BA-BU-SH-KA, KO-T, KU-K-LA, the names of mom, dad, friends.

Now the child himself chooses the word that you write to him in cubes, and then show it on the table. Everything is fast, neat, no board, no chalk, no pencils and paper is required.

And most importantly - write the cubes themselves!

Mathematics according to Zaitsev's method

The trouble with all initial mathematical programs and the manuals and textbooks that follow from them, Zaitsev believes, is their general attitude to first separate “one” and “many”, then count for a long time within 10, then 20, etc.

Zaitsev does it easier. His manual "A Thousand Plus and More ..." teaches children to count within a thousand.

This is a four-color tape made of cardboard with numbers from 0 to 99 in numbers and in the form of grouped objects - circles and squares. Even three-year-olds pretty soon from the beginning of classes begin to find any named number on the tape. Even and odd are distinguished by color. The composition of the number is also clear to everyone: the number of tens, units.

Split cards represent a number in relation to a hundred (for example, in a 10 x 10 matrix, there are 54 filled squares and 46 unfilled squares).

Children of four or five years old easily move on to addition and subtraction within a hundred.

Six cubes and the second table will help children learn to write and read three-digit numbers, create figurative ideas about their composition - the number of hundreds, tens, units.

The third table introduces children to the entry and name of multi-digit numbers.

The most important thing, Zaitsev warns, is not to bother the child with allegedly methodical approaches: what is more, what is less, by how much, the composition of the ten, the composition of the number, etc. But walk along the tape, count along it, transferring the pointer to the next right when naming the next number cell, it is absolutely necessary for children to look for the given numbers.

What is interesting about Zaitsev's technique

Zaitsev's cube training methodology is certainly interesting and unusual. The “warehouse principle” of teaching reading is interesting in itself. Indeed, the baby will not need to break the word into syllables (there are a lot of syllables, and it is not always possible to distinguish them accurately), add letters to get a syllable, wondering what will come of “p”, “a”, “p”, “a ".

Zaitsev includes all channels of perception of information in the child, and the child himself chooses the “suitable” ones for him. Visuals can examine the material, kinesthetics - touch, twist in their hands, auditory - listen and pronounce (sing).

While doing mathematics, the child quickly moves on to operations with two-digit numbers, thanks to mathematical tables from the first lessons they get acquainted with tens.

Doubts and shortcomings of Zaitsev's methodology

There is an opinion of a number of teachers that children taught to read according to the Zaitsev method subsequently experience difficulties in morphological parsing of words (by composition). It can be difficult for them to distinguish prefixes and roots, suffixes and endings.

For many, this entails a misunderstanding of spelling and illiterate writing. This fact has not been proven, however, an opinion exists and is often cited by opponents of Zaitsev's method.

The disadvantages in the performance of visual material using this technique include the fragility of the cubes. Even cubes reinforced with additional liners in the hands of a two-year-old can quickly become unusable. Hence the reluctance of many parents to give the material into the hands of the crumbs, which contradicts Zaitsev's approach of "giving everything at once."

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Every parent wants their child to become a child prodigy (or at least just capable and smart). To organize assistance to adults, there are many methods for teaching a child to read and write, reading and mathematics. These are the systems of Maria Montessori, Glenn Doman and many others. A special place here is occupied by Zaitsev's cubes - a method of teaching reading from a very early age.

Who is Nikolay Zaitsev

The parents of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Zaitsev worked in a rural school. After graduating from school, Nikolai worked for 2 years at the factory, after which he followed in the footsteps of his parents. In 1958, he entered the Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Philology. In his fifth year, he is sent to do an internship in Indonesia, where he works as a translator.

It was this period of time, when he had to teach adults a non-native Russian language, that gave rise to the development of his most famous method of teaching reading and writing. Bringing new techniques to life, creating interesting tables on the go, he tried to "transmit the essence of the language to others."

Having developed his own teaching method, the young teacher decided to test it in the middle classes of a comprehensive school. Here, however, a huge setback awaited him. The students could only memorize the rules without trying to understand them. Accustomed to such training, they could not readjust.

Then, Nikolai Aleksandrovich decided to test his method on babies. The methodology was revised, he conducted all classes in a playful way. And here he was waiting for a huge success. Toddlers as young as 18 months old and preschoolers who had trouble learning to read needed only a few lessons to start reading. Some schools began to fully apply his teaching system, using the "ringing miracle" (as the cubes were called) in their work.

Observing the kids, the teacher came to the following conclusions:

In order to learn to read, crumbs do not need to know what the letters are called at all. Most often in alphabets, letters are associated with pictures. The child remembers the image of the letter and the image that he associates with it. Then it is very difficult for him to explain that CAT (letter K), SCISSORS (letter H), TOY (letter I), MUSHROOM (letter G) and STORK (letter A) add up to one word BOOK.
Reading by syllables is very difficult for a child. Even if the baby learns the names of the letters without pictures, it will be difficult for him to understand how the syllable MA is obtained from the letters M and A. To understand the principle of merging syllables with a crumb, teachers have to use various tricks in their work. But in Russian there are words from one syllable, in which there are many consecutive consonants (for example, VSPLESK). Reading such words will be very difficult for a child who reads by syllables.
It is easier for a person to learn to write first than to read. By writing, he understood the transformation of sounds into signs, and by reading, the transformation of signs into sounds. It will be much easier for the baby to learn to read through writing.

General principles of the Zaitsev technique

Zaitsev's one-of-a-kind author's technique has been around for more than 20 years. However, the famous teacher does not stop constantly improving it. Now many different methods and games have already been created that complement the foundation. With the help of the technique, even very young children can be successfully taught to read and write. At the same time, for preschoolers of 6 years old, just a few lessons will be enough, and you can see that he can already start reading.

This learning method is suitable not only for children who like calm games with blocks, but also for mobile restless children. The use of this technique is suitable for working with hearing-impaired, with very poor eyesight and deviations in mental development of children. When working with them, you can get very good results. You can see a good effect when working with children with autism.

In his methodology, Zaitsev emphasized that the child's cognitive processes must go through all types of perception: auditory, visual, motor memory, touch and thinking. The teacher in working with kids should be able to organize a fun learning game environment, be in the role of a mentor in the learning process.

With dice games:

the baby's vocabulary will expand;
writing skills will be developed;
the child's speech will become more intelligible;
a number of speech therapy problems can be corrected;
develop the logic and thinking of the child;
teach the baby to work independently.

Equipment

The standard set includes:

61 pcs. assembled cardboard cube
6 pcs. cardboard tables with syllables, letters and other graphic signs
4 things. cardboard table format B3
CD for listening with chants for cubes and tables
a teaching aid that you can use as a summary of classes.

What is a warehouse

In his methodology, Nikolai Zaitsev offers an alternative to syllables - he uses warehouses. It is the basic unit of the language. A warehouse can be one letter, a combination of a vowel and a consonant, a consonant and a hard sign, a consonant and a hard sign. This principle of reading - warehouse - is the basis of Zaitsev's methodology. This technique is very similar to the primer of Fedot Kuzmichev, XIX century, and the alphabet of L. Tolstoy. These books also used the principle of learning by warehouses.

Warehouse can be determined by placing a hand below the chin and pronouncing a word. That muscle effort that you feel with your hand will be a warehouse.

Warehouses according to his method are located on cubes and in tables. He used vision, hearing, and tactile sensations to help him learn. analytical thinking, the formation of which is required when reading, develops only by the age of 7. Arranging warehouses on cubes, Zaitsev made them differ in color, sound, size. With this, when the child takes the blocks, various channels of perception are activated.

Description of the technique

Classes should be held only in the form of a game. Children should not sit in one place, they need to move, jump, dance and sing. All movements in the lesson take place in the game with cubes.

Cubes may vary in size. Large-sized dice depict hard-sounding warehouses. On small cubes - with a soft sound. They can be single or double. On doubled cubes there are consonants that do not combine with all vowels (zha-zhu-zhi).

The soundness of the warehouse is indicated by metal, the deafness - by wood.

Gold - vowels. A hard sign is depicted on iron-wood cubes, a soft one - on wooden-gold ones. Punctuation marks are located on the white cube. The color selection for the letters is different from the school one. Here, blue is used to indicate vowels, consonants are indicated in blue, and hard and soft signs are green. Such a difference from school blue, red and green colors, according to Zaitsev, helps children begin to read fluently.

Sets can be different:

a layout for self-gluing cubes can be offered;
may already be assembled;
with plastic base.

In order to glue the cubes yourself, it will take a lot of time. They need to be further strengthened from the inside. This can be done using a cardboard cube of the same size. After gluing, it is better to cover it with elastic bands, this is necessary so that your cube does not fall apart while it dries. For better protection, cover each cube with a film or laminate the cube scan. If you chose this option of cubes, then it is better to make a copy of each scan. So during the game you will definitely have enough warehouses to write words.

Tables should be hung fairly high. This contributes to the prevention of scoliosis and visual impairment. If you are engaged only with your child, then it is better to determine the height by the baby's hand raised up. It should touch the top edge of the table with it. It will be convenient to hang tables in the corners of the room, so it will be more convenient for the baby to look for the necessary warehouses. Tables can also be wrapped with film to increase the service life. The use of tables is just as important as dice games.

According to the method of Nikolai Alexandrovich, all the warehouses on the cubes must be sung. He believes that the effect of this is much better, and it’s more interesting for the baby to play with music, which helps to instill an interest in learning.

Give your child all the blocks to play at once. This study guide should never be taken away from him. They should always be in his field of vision. Let the kid get acquainted with them, carefully consider.

Ask him to choose the one that interests him the most. Warehouses written on its faces, you need to show singing. Ask to find a large cube, then a small one, iron, wooden, gold. The child must understand that all the cubes are different in size and sound.

After he has mastered this information, introduce him to the syllabary tables. Sing one of the columns of the table and ask the baby to bring a cube with the same warehouses. Sing artistically, showing the child what warehouses can be: voiced or deaf, small or large. You can even use appropriate movements. No need to ask the child to sing warehouses to you in response. When he is ripe for this, he will begin to sing along with you and on his own.

Teach your child to write with blocks or a pointer. Singing warehouses and showing them on the table, the baby will begin to understand how words are composed. You can teach your child to write and play outdoor games at the same time. Ask him to write the names of loved ones in different parts of the room. Now let the child run to visit relatives.

Once again, we draw your attention to the fact that all classes should be held only in the form of a game. The child should not sit in one place, give him complete freedom of movement. Each child is individual. He doesn't owe anything in class. Let the baby develop to the best of his ability, do not rush things. Don't make the game a forced activity. Of course, it’s better to do it every day, at least a little, but if the kid is not in the mood for classes today, then it’s better to postpone it than to force it. You can play both in the morning and in the evening. Focus on the mood of the crumbs.

Choose the games that your child will like the most. If you have a fidget, it is better to use outdoor games in class. If your child prefers quiet games, collects puzzles for a long time, then use games that do not involve activity during class.
If the baby loves to build, then invite him to build steam locomotives with names, towers with warehouses, roads, houses from cubes.

At what age can you start learning and what games to play

You can introduce your baby to cubes almost from birth. Keep in mind that at this age the child is not yet capable of classes. Up to six months, the development of the child is very fast. Don't overload it now. The cubes can be used as a rattle, only at times showing him a warehouse or a word. Do not try to see any results during this period, do not expect them from the child. Now, with their help, you will only prepare the child for the learning that lies ahead of him.

After 6 months, the child is no longer interested in playing with cubes, like with a rattle. Now you can start singing warehouses. Until reaching the age of one, continue to show cubes, warehouses, simple words. Let the baby crawl among them. You can try to ask him to give you a die with a certain storage. Leave warehouses on the items whose names you have made up and during the day, show and sing them to the baby.

The older the child becomes, the more difficult the games are offered to him. A one-year-old baby, along with those games that were before, can already increase the level of difficulty by offering new ones. Act gradually. You can use N. Zaitsev's manual “Letter. Reading. Account ”, to which a lot of entertaining games are offered, or you can come up with your own. Connect the kid's fantasy, ask him what games he wants to play.

Play Zoo. Let the kid settle various animals around the zoo, making up their names from warehouses. In the "Shop" he can put the goods on the shelves. Going on a "Journey" it is necessary to pack a suitcase. Let him stay in the role of a cook, adding the names necessary for making soup or a favorite dish, ingredients into a saucepan.

Invite the child to play the game "Who will name more." Name words that begin with a given warehouse. You can make this game themed.

Put the cubes in front of him, from the warehouses on them it should be possible to make up his name. Let the kid try to do it on his own. Complicate the task next time, he must find suitable warehouses himself. Let him add the words from the cubes, and then look for these warehouses in the table, pointing to the necessary warehouse with a pointer.

In the games that you came up with together, the child will play with great pleasure, because they are much more entertaining for him than those offered by the author. These games will be exactly the ones that he likes, designed with his interests in mind.

Pros and cons of the technique

Like every modern technique, learning to read using Zaitsev's cubes has both its advantages and disadvantages. Let's consider in more detail.

Advantages

Children learn to read very quickly. It takes a little time for a child to start doing this. Moreover, the older he is, the faster the learning process proceeds. According to the author himself, even children who are only 4 years old can start reading on their own after 4 lessons. Of course, this does not apply to all children. On average, kids 3-4 years old need six months to study, an older preschooler needs 10-12 lessons, a child of 6-7 years old will already have enough weeks.
Zaitsev's teaching method is not tied to any specific age. You can start practicing when the child is 6 months old, or you can use it for first graders.
Different in timbre, height and volume, the sounds made by the cubes will contribute to the development of hearing, memory, and will perfectly develop a sense of rhythm.
As a result of games with cubes, fine motor skills of the child's hands are actively developing, which is very important for the development of intelligence.
Learning takes place at a pace that allows the child's abilities. Everything is very individual. No one rushes and drives the guys, does not tell them that they owe something.
Mastering the technique is not difficult. It can be successfully used at home.
Children immediately learn to write correctly. There are no warehouses on the cubes, which are impossible in Russian (such as CHYa, ZhYY).
Zaitsev's teaching method contributes to the prevention, preservation and promotion of health. While playing, the child trains the eye muscles. This helps maintain vision. Its safety is facilitated by the location of large text on the tables in different places, the bright color of the cubes, which does not irritate the eyes.

Game aids, located at the proper height and in different places, taking into account the requirements of the methodology, serve as an excellent prevention of posture disorders, physical inactivity, and didactics workload during classes.

In general, such a game method of teaching reading successfully helps in the development of a comprehensively developed harmonious personality.

The method is built on the principles of cooperation pedagogy, which avoids conflicts between children, parents and teachers.
Children play by themselves. This is great for developing independence and self-organization. Even short sessions are enough for successful learning. Playing with them constantly, the invisibility of their conduct on the principle of "by the way", will give an excellent result in training.
The technique is very simple, systematized, visual.
The child does not have to learn how to merge letters into syllables, he learns ready-made warehouses, which contributes to the ability to read fluently and without hesitation.

The technique of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Zaitsev is today considered one of the best developmental systems for teaching preschoolers to read, write and count. This method is universal - it is perfect for working with one and a half year old children, and with three-year-olds, and with older children. Moreover, the Zaitsev system gives very good results when working with babies with developmental delays, as well as with visually impaired, hearing impaired and deaf children.

Also, Zaitsev's cubes and tables are successfully used to teach Russian to foreigners.

Learn by playing

Zaitsev's cube-based training methodology is based on Nikolai Alexandrovich's vast pedagogical experience. Its creator is not a theoretician. For many years he worked in various children's institutions and watched both normally developing babies and those who had any problems or lags. As a result, a whole system of early childhood development has emerged, based on the following basic principles:

Principle one - lack of coercion. Children learn by playing. Sometimes they do not even suspect that the learning process is going on, because there are no tables or desks, kids can run, sit, come closer or stand aside - as they like. Children do not have to repeat the words after the teacher - everything happens only on a voluntary basis.
The second principle warehouse reading. Children do not learn letters, but read at once in warehouses. Just do not confuse with syllables! A warehouse is a speech unit of the Zaitsev method, it is a consonant-vowel pair, or a consonant and a hard or soft sign, or one letter. All warehouses are written in tables and on the faces of the cubes.
The third principle Let's start with the letter. Children show the necessary warehouses in the table or find cubes to compose a word, that is, they turn sounds into signs - and, after all, this is a letter! The essence of the Zaitsev method is to show the child words, and not to explain how individual letters merge into syllables, and then into words.
The fourth principle use of multiple senses. When learning, hearing, vision and touch are involved, there are a lot of cubes - large and small; light and heavy; "golden", "iron", "wooden" and white; with different fillers that sound louder or muffled. The inscriptions on the cubes are bright, clear, multi-colored - they can be seen from afar. "Sounding" cubes become one of the most favorite toys of almost all babies, starting from six months.

These principles are the basis of training according to the Zaitsev method. After all, the development of intelligence in children under one year is not the same as in seven-year-olds. Young children cannot think analytically, they have difficulty turning abstract letters into sounds and then putting them into words, but they are especially susceptible to signals from the senses. Therefore, the cubes help to distinguish between different sounds - vowels and consonants, soft and hard.

When and how much to practice

Zaitsev's cubes and the method of teaching reading can be used almost everywhere - in kindergartens, at schools or at home, of course, group classes led by an experienced teacher give the best results. With the right approach and the implementation of all the rules of the methodology, six-year-old children begin to read after just a few lessons, four-year-olds - after about 16-20 lessons, and two-three-year-olds - after six to nine months.

Zaitsev's technique provides for two classes per week for 30-60 minutes. If you study at home, you can allocate as much time for training as you see fit. If the child is really interested, you can practice daily for 30 minutes a day. Moreover, it is absolutely not necessary to adhere to some kind of strict schedule - the main thing is that the child has a good mood and desire! In no case should you force him or tear him away from his favorite activities. Learning should be an interesting game and should not cause negative emotions.

You can introduce children to Zaitsev's cubes from three months. Of course, at first they need to be used simply as rattles. But starting from 6 months, you can sometimes make simple words from cubes, name and show them. For example, a wardrobe, a table, a chair, a bear ...

From the age of two or three, you can already start learning to read.

Classes according to the Zaitsev method

Today, "Zaitsev's Cubes" can be bought in so many children's goods stores. The set usually includes:

6 cardboard sheets with tables, format 520×720 mm;
4 sheets with tables, format 360×520 mm;
61 cardboard cubes (50x50mm and 60x60mm);
audio CD;
color "Textbook for parents, educators, teachers";
packing box.

tables

Before starting classes, you need to glue the tables and hang them on the wall. The height at which the tables are located depends on how many kids will be engaged at the same time.

For group lessons. In classrooms, as a rule, tables are hung at a distance of 160-170 centimeters from the floor - so everyone will be able to see clearly. There are three shelves under the tables - on them the kids put words from cubes. There must be a long pointer in the class - the teacher and children will show warehouses and “write” words with it. The cubes do not need to be sorted - the kids must learn to quickly find the right warehouses themselves.
For homework. For one child, the tables are attached in such a way that they are located just above his height. Well, you can just stack the cubes on the table.

Cubes

If you bought blanks, then you will first have to assemble or glue them. Even if the baby has expressed a desire to do it on his own, it is better to control the process - then he will not be tempted to “gut” the “ringing” cube and study its filling.
It makes sense to strengthen paper cubes with cardboard from the inside and tape along the edges. The most frequently used warehouses are best "duplicated". Before assembling, just copy the images and make several identical cubes - then the baby, without any problems, will be able to add any words.

Audio CD

Classes on Zaitsev's cubes are usually held with musical accompaniment. The package includes an audio CD with 35 melodies. Under them, the children at each lesson will “sing” all the warehouses. This is a very important part of learning, because babies learn to pronounce sounds distinctly and clearly. The game principle makes this process fun and tireless - as a rule, children sing along with adults with great pleasure. By the way, many educators and parents note that after learning according to the Zaitsev method, the child’s speech becomes much cleaner.

Benefit

The set "Zaitsev's Cubes" includes a methodological guide, of course, it is better for your child to learn from an experienced teacher who has mastered the Zaitsev method well, for example, in a kindergarten or in a children's development center. But you can do it yourself with the baby. To be honest, there is nothing complicated here, just read the manual carefully - the whole process is written there in an accessible language and in great detail, there are also descriptions of many games and interesting tasks with which you can start learning. Later, you will be able to come up with games that will be interesting to your baby.
If for some reason singing warehouses is a problem for you, pronounce them in recitative. Singing or pronouncing warehouses, show them on the table with a pointer or on a cube, turning it in front of the child - this is very important! Simultaneous exposure to sound and vision dramatically increases the effectiveness of learning. In addition, the child trains vision and memory, and also learns attention.

Advantages of Zaitsev's technique

There are many! Adherents of this system of education note that:

Children quickly begin to read fluently. Moreover, reading is not perceived as something complicated and requiring additional efforts - everything happens in the game, as if "by itself".
Memory improves, the ability to think logically develops.
Children subconsciously remember the correct spelling of words.
Regular pronunciation of words corrects the shortcomings of speech, the child begins to speak more clearly and distinctly.
The vocabulary is rapidly expanding.
Trains - and sometimes even improves! - vision, because the eyes must constantly follow the pointer.
Classes are not harmful to health - children move a lot, they are forced to raise their heads, which is very useful for posture.
The ability to concentrate is formed, the child learns to work independently.
The Zaitsev method is universal, it is suitable for children of any age, it can be used to teach children with various disabilities.
The technique is quite simple, with a certain perseverance, even “unprepared” parents can use it at home.

Disadvantages of the technique

However, the reviews about Zaitsev's cubes are not only positive - some parents and teachers have a lot of complaints about this technique. And not to say about them - just not fair:

The main disadvantage of the Zaitsev method is its incompatibility with the official school curriculum.
At school, children have to relearn from reading in warehouses to reading in syllables. And sometimes this process is very painful.
The color scheme of the cubes does not correspond to the color scheme adopted at school for consonants, vowels, voiced and deaf sounds.
Children who have learned according to the Zaitsev method have difficulty mastering word analysis by composition and phonetic analysis - after all, they are used to dividing words only by warehouses.
Class aids are expensive, bulky, and time-consuming to assemble.
Not all parents succeed in quickly teaching their child to read. The method is more suitable for classes with an experienced teacher.

Conclusion

As you can see, learning with Zaitsev's cubes is undoubtedly a very interesting and noteworthy method. It is good because it is suitable for any children, regardless of age, abilities and temperament. Whether to use cubes or rely on classical learning methods is up to you.

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Author: Zaitsev N. A.
Publisher: N.Zaitsev Methods LLC, St. Petersburg.

Tutorial. Set for home, group, class.

The kit includes:

6 cardboard sheets of "B2" format tables (520 × 720 mm).
4 sheets of "B3" format tables (360 × 520 mm).
61 cardboard cubes (50 x 50 mm and 60 x 60 mm).
Audio CD (size 5").
"Textbook for parents, educators, teachers" (128 pages, color printing).

Packing: corrugated box.
Weight: 3.50 kg.
Size: 660×380×70mm

retail price, without delivery

p 4500

€ 59

"Zaitsev's Cubes" is a manual for teaching reading from the age of two and can be used in the family, kindergarten and school. The technique gives good results in working with children diagnosed with ZPR, ONR, MMD, alalia, autism, as well as with visually impaired, hearing impaired and deaf. The manual can be used in teaching children and adults for whom Russian is not their native language.

Education is based on the analytical-synthetic method using warehouse blocks and takes place in the form of a fun and exciting game, during which preschoolers have time to start reading before the fun gets bored.

The letters on the cubes and in the tables are of such a size that they are clearly visible even from ten meters - it is important that from the very beginning the children do not experience any visual strain. The tables are located on the wall, their lower edge is at a height of 165-170 cm from the floor - in order to avoid violations of posture, you need to work more often while standing, with your head up. Under the tables there is a shelf of three boards to make up words from cubes on it.

The cubes differ in color (“golden”, “iron”, “wooden”, white with green punctuation marks), volume (large, small, double), weight (filled with pieces of iron and pieces of wood included in the kit), the sound of the filler, which is distributed when shaking them. The goal is to provide involuntary, fast, reliable memorization.

Writing with a pointer through the cells of the tables also connects the “memory of the body”: are the necessary letters located above, below, left, in the middle or on the right? Looking for books on the shelves, we not only remember their color, thickness, height, but also their location: the legs themselves step where they need to, the hand stretches, the head turns. And only at the last second the gaze is focused.

In the audio recording, the columns and rows of tables, the alphabet, to the accompaniment of bayan and balalaika, are sung to 35 popular, mostly folk melodies. Rhythmic pronunciation, and even better singing with musical accompaniment, is a powerful means of influencing memory.

"Side" results accompanying the process of entering the reading:

literate writing skills develop
speech therapy defects are corrected,
speech becomes clearer and more distinct, thanks to the constant pronunciation and singing of warehouses,
rapidly expanding vocabulary
logical thinking is formed,
develops the ability to work independently, the ability to obtain the necessary knowledge.

The technique is natural and health-saving. The guys not only do not lose health as a result of training, but cases of correction of existing shortcomings (improvement of vision, correction of incipient scoliosis) have also been recorded.

The long-term practice of teachers working according to Zaitsev's methods allows us to provide statistics on the terms of training for children of different ages (provided that classes are held for 30-60 minutes 2 times a week).

How Zaitsev's cubes appeared

Nikolai Zaitsev was born and raised in a family of rural teachers and had no doubts about his choice of specialty: after school he entered the Faculty of Philology of the Pedagogical University. Herzen. In the fifth year he was sent as a translator to Indonesia. There, Nikolai Alexandrovich began to teach Russian as a foreign language. This event became the starting point in the creation of his unique system of teaching reading and writing. One of the most difficult languages in the world - Russian - had to be taught in the shortest possible time. The students were adults, already unaccustomed to learning people - officers. Such a task seemed overwhelming, but Zaitsev coped brilliantly. He invented new methods on the go, came up with original tables, tried to penetrate the essence of the language, so that - in the words of Zaitsev himself - "learn to pass it on to others."

The success inspired the young teacher to develop his own teaching system. The system, which takes into account the psychological characteristics of the perception of the Russian language, is free from unnecessary conventions and cumbersome rules, is clear. Zaitsev began testing his method of teaching the Russian language in the middle classes of schools. The result of the test was depressing: Nikolai Alexandrovich was faced with the fact that the students did not understand their native language at all, they preferred to memorize the rules, rather than delve into them. The children, of course, were not to blame. After all, they are used to learning.

Then Zaitsev turned to preschoolers, including the smallest - children from one and a half years old. The techniques were adapted for kids - learning was reduced to games. And here the teacher expected success. His invention - cubes - was called the "ringing miracle". Children with difficulty learning to read and write began to read in just a few lessons. The methodology proved itself so well that a number of schools decided to completely switch to training according to Zaitsev.

We don't need an alphabet

After observing the children, how they comprehend the letter, Nikolai Zaitsev came to the following conclusions.

A common phenomenon: mother bought the alphabet, the child learned the letters, but cannot read. His words don't stick.

"The alphabet is harmful," says Nikolai Aleksandrovich. In the alphabet, a picture is given for each letter: A - stork, B - hippopotamus, etc. The kid will remember both the letter and the picture, but how then to explain to him that a zebra - a stork - a lizard - a heron, flashing in his mind, should form the word "hare". And even if the child did not learn letters from the alphabet, which makes it difficult to remember the names of the letters, it is still difficult for him to immediately realize that B and A turn into the syllable BA. That is why teachers are forced to go to different tricks to show how two letters merge into a syllable.

In Russian, a syllable can contain from 1 to 10 letters. You will meet in the text such a surname as Pfeldrt or Mkrtchyan - you will not read it right away, but there is only one syllable. Of course, the baby does not need to read such complex words, but even a simple one-syllable word "splash" will cause certain difficulties for a child reading in syllables.

3. A person first learns to write, and then to read.

It is easier for a child to go to reading through writing. Just like an adult when learning a new language. Provided, of course, that by writing we mean not "scratching with a pen in a notebook", but the transformation of sounds into signs, and by reading, respectively, the transformation of signs into sounds. Therefore, if you have ever tried to teach a child to recognize the most native words and wrote "mom", "dad", "grandmother", "grandfather", "Sasha" on asphalt or paper, and then asked: "Where is dad? And where grandmother? Where is your name?", then the child did not read, but wrote. He turned your sounds into signs written by you.

Alternative to syllables - warehouses

The basic unit of language for Zaitsev is not a sound, letter or syllable, but a warehouse.

A warehouse is a pair of a consonant and a vowel, or a consonant and a hard or soft sign, or even one letter. For example, SO-BA-KA, PA-RO-VO-3, A-I-S-T, etc. The warehouse principle of reading is the basis of the Zaitsev method of teaching children to read.

Why warehouse?

"Everything we say is combinations of a vowel-consonant pair," Nikolai Alexandrovich explains. "A consonant must be followed by a vowel sound. It may not be indicated on the letter, but it is there." Our ancestors felt this and put "yat" at the end of nouns ending in a consonant. Say, for example, the word: "o-a-zis", holding your hand on your throat, and you will feel the force of the ligaments before "o" and before "a", or, in Zaitsev's terminology, "the muscular effort of the speech apparatus." This very effort is the warehouse.

Warehouses on cubes

The baby sees warehouses not in a book, not on cards, but on cubes. This is the fundamental point of the Zaitsev system.

Why cubes?

Reading requires the work of analytical thinking (letters are abstract icons; the brain converts them into sounds, from which it synthesizes words), which begins to form only by school. That is why we and our parents at this age began to learn to read.

The lack of analytical thinking is compensated in the child by a heightened perception of the signals that the sense organs supply to him. Therefore, Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaitsev relied on vision, hearing and tactile sensations. He wrote warehouses on the faces of the cubes. He made the cubes different in color, size and sound that they make, so each time they are accessed, different channels of perception are turned on. This helps children to feel, rather than understand, the difference between vowels and consonants, voiced and soft.

Using these cubes, the child makes up words and begins to read them. Zaitsev's idea is simple: what is good to show, you don't need to talk about it for a long time (it's better to see it once). Children must first be interested in showing the subject of study, let it play, and then sum up the definition. This is how the holy law of learning is observed: from the concrete-figurative through the visual-effective to the verbal-logical.