I told him, "Baby, how about we watch less cartoons and read more books every day?
He said, "Cartoons are good! I don't like reading books!
So I said, do you want to improve your academic performance?
Actually, children want to improve their academic performance, they want to be praised by their teachers and envied by their classmates, so I talked to him about improving his academic performance first.
First of all, don't you think it's hard to write essays and sentences? The first thing you need to do is to get a good grade in language arts. Are you being told that your sentences don't make sense? For example, when you take a quiz, you often lose points in the "order of words" section ...... because your "sense of language" is not good, and how do you develop a good "sense of language"? "How do you get a good sense of language? You have to read more and more other articles, that is to read. One of the major benefits of reading is that it can help you improve your language skills and your writing skills. Of course, this benefit doesn't come in one day, two days, one week, or two weeks. It may take a semester, it may take a little longer, but it will help. There's a saying that "reading a book is as good as writing it".
Secondly, when you are doing math application problems, do you get caught in the "trap" of the topic and fail to see the "trap" it sets? The harder the mind-expanding questions, you may even read a few times can not understand the meaning of the topic. This is because your reading comprehension is not enough. What to do? Read more! There is a saying that "the meaning of a book comes to you when you read it a hundred times".
So, reading is the foundation of learning, and your lack of reading ability will affect your other schoolwork.
In the future, when you grow up, you will have to learn some knowledge that your teachers have not taught you, and you will have to "learn by yourself", that is, you will have to read books by yourself to understand some knowledge. When you can "self-learning", your ability is not very big ah? You won't even need a teacher. He thought about it, hey, this is good, no need for a teacher, sounds pretty awesome. But a self-educated person must be someone who can read, someone who has the ability to read, otherwise he can't read.
Your reading ability is needed everywhere in life. You play a game, you need to read the rules of the game; you go traveling, you need to read the travel guide; you buy a household appliance, you need to read the instructions; you buy insurance, you need to read the insurance contract ...... Examples are many, many.
I then told him, look, Grandpa subscribes to 3 newspapers, every night you fall asleep Grandpa is still reading the newspaper, because there is a lot of information in the newspaper, reading can let us know what is happening in the world, in our country, and around us today, as well as the different views of different people on these things, and what advances in science and technology has our country made? What are the sports results of the East Asian Games? Or even what the weather will be like tomorrow? It's all in the newspaper. So reading is still a good way to get information.
Also, you know that mom's hobby is reading novels. People's hobbies when they are small are usually playing, and when they grow up they don't play, and the hobbies that they can still hold on to by then will stay with them for the rest of their lives. People will encounter many difficulties and ups and downs in their lives. When you are in a bad mood, mom hopes that you can use your hobby to improve your mood, and come out from sadness and anger, which are bad moods. If you know how to play the piano, you can play a song; if you know how to draw, you can go to a place with good scenery to sketch ...... If you can't do any of these, you can at least drink tea and read books. You can see other people's life, other people's wisdom from the book, and you will feel that your immediate troubles are nothing.
My son is taking an extracurricular English class at New Oriental, and I'll give him an example. "Yu Minhong, the founder and chairman of the New Oriental teaching organization, read 800 books in college as an English major at Peking University, and averaged 200 books a year in his four years of college, reading a book in less than two days. Yu Minhong was raised in the countryside, to today's achievements, I think and he likes to read is inseparable.
Another example is that when my mother was in middle school, she went to the school library as a volunteer librarian in order to read more books, and used her spare time to organize the books and register students who borrowed and returned them. One of the students who borrowed books most frequently was Cao Kefan, now a famous host in Shanghai and an alumnus a few grades ahead of me. I remember that even before his senior year of high school, he borrowed books on literature and art, and as you know, he went on to study at a medical university and got a master's degree in medicine, which shows that his reading was not limited to his studies, and this also laid the foundation for his successful career change.
So, now that the Internet is so developed and TV programs are so abundant, is there still a need to read? It's better to just watch TV and surf the net. I think reading online is of course also a kind of reading, but the traditional reading method still has many advantages. For example, you can borrow books from the library; for example, the place of reading occasions, time, posture can be very casual; for example, the latest version of the book online is not available for free download, there are copyright issues; and then, for example, if you have the conditions of their favorite books can be collected, you can see when you can make a mark on the top, and in a few years to come out and read it again because with the age and experience of the growth of the content of the book, your understanding of the contents of the book may not be the same. Same ...... As for film and television programs and written works, I don't think they're really the same art form. Just like the movie "The Sound of the Wind", which had a very high attendance a while ago, I have read almost all the novels of his original author Mai Jia, "The Sound of the Wind", "The Secret", "Declassified", "The Military" and so on. In fact, novels and movies are not the same thing at all. Novels give people more room for imagination. It is not said that "a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their hearts"! Movie and TV are re-created by writers and directors according to their understanding, so several famous novels will be remade over and over again. Also, the beauty of the text is the need to read to savor, such as Zhu Ziqing's "Moonlight in a Lotus Pond", the child will be asked to memorize, "zigzagging above the lotus pond, looking at the field of leaves. The leaves come out of the water very high, like the skirts of a pavilion dancer." It's hard for a movie or television picture to bring out the beauty of these words.
It says my point of view "Why should we cultivate children's interest in reading". Here's how I stimulate my children's interest in reading, and how I do it.
It can be said that so far I have not found a "one-trial, all-trial" approach. I can only tell you a few ways I've tried, and they are staggered and combined, so you can see if they work according to your own child's characteristics.
One, arouse his curiosity and whet his appetite.
For example, if you take a book that you want to recommend to him and deliberately look at it in front of him, but also laugh and sigh from time to time, he will be curious and will ask: Mom, what are you reading? Suitable for this approach with the book is to be close to the child's life, like the "Naughty Boy Ma Xiaoping" series, "Ma Mingjia" series, "Boys Jari", "Girls Jame", "Big Headed Son Little Headed Dad" and so on.
Two, engage him with other art forms.
When I was a child, I once went with my parents to see a movie, a foreign movie, in the early eighties when going to see a foreign movie is an unusual thing. The name of the movie was The Monte Cristo Feud which is The Count of Monte Cristo, and it was very long, divided into upper and lower episodes. I watched it, but I didn't understand it. I didn't understand the background of that era at all, and I didn't understand human nature. Then I borrowed and bought the book and read it over and over, and then read it again a couple years ago.
That is to say, you can use cartoons ah, comic strips ah, TV movies ah, first lure him a little. Then recommend the original book to him. This trick is suitable for the more classic books.
The boy's father even tried to watch TV's "The Hundred Schools of Thought" and "Cultural China" programs in front of the boy, hoping to arouse his interest in literature and history, and although it didn't work out too well, he did know that Yi Zhongtian's "Taste of the Three Kingdoms"; and Qian Wenzhong's interpretation of the "Three Character Classic". Perhaps, one day in the future, he suddenly remembered something and suddenly became interested. Children do not seem to think about it, but in fact, they are imprinted in his brain. Last year we traveled to Xiamen, he proposed to go to Xiamen University to see Yi Zhongtian, I was very happy to hear, that Yi Zhongtian left him a deeper impression.
Three, read to him.
The child's initial reading behavior comes from his parents reading aloud to him, and the child's interest in reading begins here. I bought some cassette tapes from my child's kindergarten class, such as "Sister Swallow Storytelling" and so on. Among them are "The Tortoise and the Hare", "Here Comes Gourdon", "The Three Monks"...... with fairy tales and fables. The main. Every night put to the child to listen to, first raise his habit of listening to stories.
When these tapes are not addictive, I will read to him myself.
I remember the summer before first grade, I was worried and upset about my child's ability to adjust to elementary school. I bought a copy of "First Grade Maminga", one of which "Maminga's New Schoolbag" was later learned in the language text of the first and second grades. I read it to him, piece by piece, so that he could imagine and yearn for life in first grade.
By the time he had reached a certain level of literacy, in second and third grade, I had to use the tantalizing trick again. I intentionally read halfway through the book, and told him that ah ah no time to read on, I'm going to do what what ...... he can not help ah, want to know how to only read on their own. This trick is suitable for a little suspenseful books, such as detective novels, Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tales, "Journey to the West", and so on.
Four, read the newspaper.
Our family uses Xinmin Evening News. In kindergarten class, the teacher asked the children to do a weekly news clipping, which is very effective, the child in order to get the teacher's praise, seriously looking for news in the newspaper. Therefore, before he started elementary school, we didn't teach him to "read from pictures", but he could recognize all the headlines of Xinmin Evening News. As soon as he started school, he was able to read and help with copying, and his self-confidence grew, which was a great start to his elementary school studies.
Now we let him read the "Luminous Cup" section of the New People's Evening Post every Sunday night, with excellent essays by students from all grades, as well as "Satire and Humor," which he also enjoys.
Fifth, recitation or storytelling training.
These exercises are suitable for children who are expressive and have some literary skills. This training will require her to read and recite quite a few poems, essays, stories and so on.
Sixth, buy teaching aids.
Like "Approaching Reading", "Elementary School Reading" and so on, the equivalent of reading analysis exercises, a short article, and then there are a few questions and answers, the answers at the end of the book.
In short, make reading fun for your child, and don't promote pressure. Our kid's dad used to have "extreme leftist" behavior. He once borrowed the children's version of "Five Thousand Years of Chinese History" and asked his son to retell two stories a day during the summer vacation, which made the kid scared to death. Luckily, his father couldn't care less once the summer vacation ended and school started. Therefore, we should pay attention to protecting children's interests, and we can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. It is important to take a step-by-step approach and to be consistent.
All of you must have your own tips and tricks, and I'd love to have a chance to hear what you've learned.
Here's a few words about where books come from, book choices, and good reading habits.
It's great that you can now let your child borrow two books every two weeks at school. It's easy to borrow books and the content is guaranteed not to be unhealthy or detrimental to children.
Also, books can be borrowed from some district libraries. Get a library card, provide your ID number, 100 deposit, and I think it's 50-60 yuan deposit for kids. Their books can be borrowed or read inside. We've gotten a library card at the Huangpu District Children's Library. There is also a children's library on West Nanjing Road, formerly known as the Song Qingling Library, West Nanjing Road near Maoming Road, subway Shimen Road out, 4-story building, nice environment, there is a children's playground, computer room, etc. Now it seems that the Xuhui District Library also has a library. Now it seems that the Xuhui District Library also has a children's library, usually open on weekends, winter vacation open time will be a little more interested can go to see, in Nandan Road near Tianyaoqiao Road. The library is relatively safe, children read books, adults can be close to shopping.
When we were young, we also went to Xujiahui Gateway Plaza on the fifth floor of the Xinhua Bookstore to read books, children sitting on the ground, the ground is quite clean, a variety of children's paintings to read, do not take out without paying. Now that bookstore has shrunk. The bookstore in the building across the street from Metro City's Kodak Cinema is still pretty big.
Children in this age group love to read humorous and amusing stories, so we recommend choosing stories that are full of humor and fun. At the same time for children love fantasy characteristics, recommend imaginative, can be exaggerated a little bit of books. I don't think you need to worry about him being too childish, he will mature slowly.
There are also some good habits to keep in mind when reading. For example, don't strain your eyes too much, don't read in bad light, don't read in a shaking car, don't read while lying down. Choose the word is not too small book, paper color is best soft a little bit not too white. The book you borrowed should be taken care of, not scribbling, playing math drafts on it, not folding the corners, not finished with a bookmark or a note to clip it.
When I encounter a word I don't know, I don't think I need to ask him to look it up in the dictionary right away. I can guess the meaning in context first, and stopping frequently to look it up in the dictionary may interrupt his interest in reading. I do let my child ask me directly, I tell him the pronunciation and meaning directly, and then form a word or make a sentence to explain.
The atmosphere in which you read is also important. I try not to interrupt my child when he is reading, and I never watch TV while my child is doing homework or reading. I also ask his dad not to look at the computer at the same time, because the child thinks that if you look at the computer, you are entertaining, playing games, or looking at stocks. So as not to distract him or think it's unfair for adult children.
Lastly, I would like to say that educating children is a big question, and the process of children's learning is also the process of re-learning for us parents. Today, I am very grateful to the school for providing me with an opportunity to look back on my experience of growing up with my children over the past few years. I am also very grateful to all the parents for their patience in listening. I hope to learn from all of you in the future.