Primary Lesson Preparation for LDS Teachers

Primary teachers have one of the most important callings in the Church - the gospel truths children learn in Primary often stay with them for life. The challenge is making doctrine simple enough for a child to understand without making it shallow. The best Primary lessons use stories, activities, and repetition to plant seeds that grow for decades. LDS Sunday School helps you understand any passage well enough to teach it to a child.

Key Principles

• ✓Children learn through stories - find the story in the passage and tell it vividly
• ✓Simple questions with real answers are better than rhetorical ones
• ✓A short activity that illustrates the principle sticks longer than explanation alone
• ✓Repetition of the central truth reinforces it - say it more than once in different ways
• ✓Bear your testimony in simple words - children understand sincerity even before they understand doctrine