In fact, children with amazing literacy skills are not "high IQ" or "prodigies", but their parents have seized their children's literacy drive and made them interested in writing. Naturally, they should learn more.
Mr. Chen Heqin, the pioneer of early childhood pedagogy research in China, once put forward that "reading is an urgent requirement for children".
Developmental psychology also tells us that children are always active in language learning, and as long as there is a suitable environment, they can blossom and bear fruit naturally.
In other words, a child's literacy is not only his internal development needs, but also an active process. Children can read through the motivation generated by hobbies, which is the internal driving force of children's literacy.
Just like my baby saw a milk box when he was a child, and then pointed to the big letters on it and asked me curiously, "What is that?"
When I told her it was "milk", the child would repeat "milk" with great interest.
Children have a natural curiosity and desire to explore words. If parents know how to make the best use of the situation and control their children's literacy drive, not only can their children's literacy increase, but they can also quickly reach the ability of independent reading.
Edward L. Desky, the founder of self-determinism, put forward:
A man who only pursues the values and goals imposed on him by the outside world is not free, because he has lost his inner motivation and real autonomy.
If parents rigidly ask their children to read and intend to complete a certain amount of literacy every day, they just pursue how many words their children can read, whether they are interested, and how to use this word in a real language environment, which is equivalent to pulling out the seedlings and encouraging them.
Even if children know a lot of words, they will eventually lose the motivation to learn. Like a good machine. If the motor breaks down, it's all scrapped.
Then, why do so many experts disapprove of children's pre-school literacy? They claim that children can read ahead of time and they will not be able to study hard after entering primary school.
In fact, it's not that children don't have the ability to study hard, but that parents always put their children in a passive position to absorb knowledge in the process of giving them early literacy, which makes them unable to digest, and the brain is forced to become a container for storing information.
This hinders children's active thinking, exploration and creation, and also undermines their natural literacy drive.
Parents who force their children to study are mostly utilitarian. When they see that other children are more literate, they want their children to study. When they heard other mothers talking about their children's literacy, they were very restless. ......
Many mothers want to satisfy their vanity and relieve their anxiety, but let their children read, instead of really standing on the child's side, looking for the signal that the child wants to read, and then guiding the child to read.
Parents who want to cultivate their children's literacy drive can try to do the following.
1) indicates that the child wants to study.
Capturing the signal that children want to read shows that children's literacy motivation is in sight. This time is the prime time for children to read, and mothers can start reading to their children.
So, what kind of behavior does the child show that he wants to study?
For example, when my baby is almost 3 years old, every time he reads a picture book, he will take the initiative to identify the title. When he sees the name of the shop on the road and the sign next to the sculpture in the garden, he will ask what the word is. These are all signals that children want to read, and mothers need to be a conscientious person.
Montessori pointed out: 3.5~4.5 years old is a sensitive period for babies to write, that is, children in this period are good at transforming sounds into concrete symbols, which is the best period for learning to read.
2) Guide children to read correctly and let them fall in love with literacy.
Huang Yiheng, who was the output of poetry in the program "Chinese Poetry Conference", is only 5 years old, can read more than 3,000 poems and recite 500 poems! The reason why there is such an amazing amount of literacy is because her grandmother revealed the secret: reading poems to Yi Heng from an early age aroused his interest in literacy.
Grandma said, "I usually watch him read slowly, word by word." One day, I suddenly found that he could pick up the poem I said. For example, when I say' I woke up easily in this spring morning', he can connect the word' small' when I say' I didn't fall asleep in the spring'. "
Good poetry has the beauty of rhythm, and children naturally like it. In addition, grandma will often interact with him in poetry, just like playing games, and Xiao Yiheng's interest in literacy suddenly arises spontaneously.
In short, if children's natural needs are met and literacy is turned into a game, then children can read quickly and efficiently.
3) Activate children's literacy motivation with a good set of books.
Chinese Game Book, which is highly recommended by Chinese teachers, is a good book that integrates poetry, nursery rhymes and games and can stimulate children's reading and writing ability.
A * * * There are 8 volumes, including more than 20 kinds and more than 500 kinds of interactive games, which are suitable for children aged 3-7.
The separation of characters and pictures makes the method more scientific, transforms boring literacy into a pull-tab game, and the literacy process is easy and efficient.
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Let children feel the fun of Chinese characters with rhythmic ancient poems.
There are some repetitive words in catchy and rhythmic nursery rhymes. When a mother reads to her children, they will naturally become interested in words with high repetition rate, and they can naturally teach them, just like Xiao Yiheng's grandmother.
When spreading words, don't just remember pictures and forget words.
The image of the picture is easier for children to remember. Separate the Chinese characters from the pictures. The words on the left page and the pictures on the right page spread.
Children can understand the meaning of Chinese characters in the corresponding position with the help of intuitive pictures, but the words and pictures are not closely combined, lest children only remember the pictures but not the words.
It is better to integrate the game mechanism into reading and writing ability and learn while playing.
Game design of traditional fill-in-the-blank questions. Check whether the child knows these words and understands their meanings.
Practice logical thinking while examining reading and writing ability.
Mobile phone, octopus tentacles, playing basketball with hands, steering wheel with both hands.
Guide the children to think about which word is related to the four pictures.
Read together to understand the upper and lower structure and left and right structure of Chinese characters.
In the game, I learned Chinese characters happily, and also cultivated children's logical thinking and concentration.
Eight volumes * * * contain 720 Chinese characters, covering all the new words that need to be mastered in the first-grade Chinese textbook.
Suitable for children aged 3-7, that is, preschool children and first-grade pupils.
The original price 150, now the group purchase price is only 58.5 yuan, only more than that in 7 yuan. Recommended for parents who are about to enter the first grade of primary school.
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Activate children's literacy drive, make literacy a happy process, and make children not far from independent reading.
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Author: Wendy Mummy, a former senior editor of a well-known maternal and child magazine in China, is now a psychological consultant of Chinese Academy of Sciences, deeply studying scientific parenting mothers, focusing on the healthy physical and mental growth of infants.