There is still ongoing research as to whether or not you can change working memory What we do know is that working memory is constrained and genetically defined. What you have is what you keep.
You can't change a child's working memory capacity, but what you can do is overcome limitations by:
building schema
structuring lessons good in order to minimise cognitive overload
building content to automaticity
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