What is Each Word with Its Family generator?

A word-association generator for children's semantic memory that prompts matching words to their categories using word-association tasks, designed to practice understanding and grouping concepts.

What cognitive skills does the activity work on?

Trains semantic memory, concept understanding, categorical association, abstraction, and reasoning and decision-making when categorizing objects correctly.

Can the activity be personalized for each child?

Customizable phases and two available templates allow adapting difficulty, instructions, and prompts to each child's needs, including timing and operation settings.

What parameters can be set in the generator?

Parameters include category type (general or specific), operation mode, maximum time, inactivity warning, instruction modifications, and the option to show a visible timer.

In what formats is Each Word with Its Family available?

Available in paper and digital formats for use in both in-person and online sessions.

Why is category association important for children's memory?

Associating by categories improves memorization, concept understanding, abstraction skills, and supports reasoning and decision-making during categorization tasks.

Generator for Working on Semantic Memory in Children: Each Word with Its Family

Today we present a new generator to work on children’s semantic memory called Each Word with Its Family.

What does this activity for working semantic memory in children involve?

This activity consists of Word Association using the same category to which the words belong.

Below, we show you an example of the activity Each Word with Its Family to work on children’s semantic memory:

What does this activity work on?

With this generator we train semantic memory, ensuring that the child knows the meaning of the concepts and is able to associate it with the category it belongs to.

This is a highly beneficial activity to incorporate into the daily routine. For example, being able to associate by categories helps us memorize concepts and understand them better. Additionally, it helps them learn to abstract different characteristics of those concepts and associate them with each other according to what is most important and appropriate in each case.

These tasks not only facilitate memory, but also foster their reasoning and decision-making abilities when categorizing objects correctly.

Personalization of the activity

You can create customized phases to adapt them to the specific needs of each child.
Also, at NeuronUP we provide two templates that you can find in the same section.

Parameters

In this generator we can define the type of category, choosing between general and specific.

General aspects

You can choose other general aspects such as:

Operation,
the maximum time,
inactivity warning for the user,
modification of the instructions, in case you want to give any additional detail to your user,
whether or not you want a visible timer for the activity.