006 Using Stories to Support Memorisation
Structuring curriculum sequences in primary history
The power of stories…
It’s a familiar struggle. After going to lengths to plan and deliver engaging and exciting history lessons, we want our children to remember what they’ve been taught.
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve reminds us that children, like us all, forget about 50% of what they’ve been taught within an hour of first encountering it.
While memorising facts listed on knowledge organisers might be an appropriate strategy for secondary-aged children, such a process can be easier said than done for primary pupils.
Carefully sequencing our units of learning both across the key stage and within units themselves can interrupt the forgetting curve but there is another structural tool of which we can also take advantage.
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