A mother should have a "happy reading" mentality, not a "reading" mentality. Mothers should not care about how many "English words" their children have learned. Picture book stories can fully satisfy children's emotions and enrich their imagination. Through stories, children will have a deeper understanding of life experiences. Children understand that everything has a beginning and an end, just like a drama, with prologue, turning point, conflict and ending. In classic children's stories, the protagonist will encounter difficulties. Children often assimilate themselves with the protagonist and silently cheer for the protagonist. When reading a page of picture books, mothers can add appropriate emotions to their tone, which can help children understand the feelings of various characters.
Before telling the children the original picture book, the mother can read the picture book herself in advance. When she sees an uncertain word, her mother will look it up in the dictionary to confirm the pronunciation. Read the original English picture book with the children, and the mother can explain the English sentences in the picture book to the children in Chinese. Mother reads English to her children first, and then explains English in Chinese. When children are familiar with the stories in picture books, mothers can read English directly to their children. If possible, it is suggested that the mother play the supporting CD of the original picture book for the child. In order for domestic children to understand the story of the original picture book, mom definitely needs to use Chinese. When a mother speaks Chinese to her child, she can freely interpret and give full play to the content of the story.
When telling children the original picture book, it doesn't matter whether the mother speaks more Chinese or English. What really matters is whether the mother can make her children feel happy and let them enjoy the picture books for a long time while listening to her stories.
Regarding the problem of poor English pronunciation raised by parents, I want to say that the English that parents read to their children is not the only "sound source" for their children! Now many picture books are equipped with CDs, and there are stories in the CDs. Parents with poor pronunciation can listen to the CD with their children, read it with their children, and repeat the CD with their children. In this way, in addition to imitating the standard pronunciation of CD, children can feel that "parents are studying with me", and studying with parents can make children feel safer and happier. Nowadays, children have access to a large number of English audio media and can hear a variety of vivid English pronunciations. Therefore, parents don't have to worry that their children's English pronunciation will have a substantial impact on their children. Parents read picture books to their children, not giving them "pronunciation lessons", but letting them feel the company of adults. In the reading interaction with children, generate prefers parent-child communication.
In April 2009, the State Press and Publication Administration announced the results of the sixth national reading survey, and for the first time announced the reading status of minors under 18 years old. The survey included a "comparative study on whether parents and children like reading". The results show that parents "like and often read books" will directly affect their children's love for reading, and 95% of them say that they like reading because their parents like reading. In the process of teaching, I have also come into contact with many children, who love reading both Chinese books and original English books. Once a parent asked about the "secret", and I replied that the "secret" was to show the children that their parents loved reading when they were young.
In order to cultivate children's interest and habit of reading, mothers should first strengthen their beliefs, gain wisdom and expand their children's future with the spirit of self-practice. Mothers should let their children see how they often read, which is the secret to explore their reading potential. Some parents told me that children read their own books, and we adults do other things, regardless of children. In fact, when reading, children will remember when, where and under what circumstances they read. Therefore, when children are reading, it is best for their mothers to accompany them.
Children without basic knowledge of English can also fall in love with the original books and enter the world of original English books. A mother asked: "The child has just entered the first grade and has no foundation in English. Can he learn the original? " I have such doubts because my mother thinks that children can appreciate a language only if they know it first. In fact, a reasonable way to learn English is to let children appreciate a language first, and then let them get to know it seriously. Mothers should encourage their children to appreciate the original English books. Mother's mood should be full of expectation and yearning, not hesitation and self-confidence. You can't learn swimming on shore, nor can you learn English. The premise of learning English well is to enter the sea of English directly. In primary school, children should not regard English as a subject, but try to turn English into their own way of life.
Appreciate, feel and understand English every day. It is through daily contact with authentic English that children can enrich their vocabulary. Learning a foreign language, like life, is a reconciliation of "happiness" and "bitterness". Children who are new to the original work should be more "happy" and less "hard". Many times, children are "afraid" of learning English, often because their mothers are "too anxious". Children are just beginning to learn the original works. Don't give them hard tasks. Let them concentrate on stories first, and let them contact English every day through the attraction of stories. In fact, children's poor English foundation and small vocabulary are only temporary. As long as children read the original works every day, gradually, children will not feel strange when faced with English articles composed of lines and words. I often advise children to read the whole book again after thoroughly understanding an original book. When children read aloud, they will feel how reasonable, obvious and eloquent everything described in the book is.
I met some parents who brought back a batch of original English books for their children from abroad, but the children had a hard time reading them. So, before long, parents watched the original work being shelved. Here I want to say that when children are struggling to study, they need the help, encouragement and guidance of adults most, rather than giving up blindly. After giving up, you can only have nothing. Obstacles will always be obstacles if they are not solved.
In the Hong Kong English test, there was no grammar multiple-choice question, but there was a 20-line English poem. In fact, many grammar rules are always difficult to master when children are young. But when the child is older, it will be easy to master. Children have read many excellent original English books, and English is naturally authentic. In a higher sense, English teaching is to cultivate an interest and cultivate children's aesthetic appreciation of English. Words, sentence patterns and grammar are only attached to literary works. Children should not be bored in learning English. Children should meet their own needs when learning English, not those of others. Just recite words, grammar and papers, and don't get close to literature, just like children don't go to the vast grassland and appreciate the beauty of the sky, but stay in a small room all day and stare at eagle specimens.
There is a famous saying in education: "To cultivate a focused reading habit is to cultivate half a genius." Children get into the habit of reading original works. Even if they only learn three words every day on average, they will master nearly 9,000 words from Grade One to Grade Two. In English teaching, there is a theory of incidental vocabulary learning to illustrate this point. Mastering English at the age of 7 ~ 15 will give children a big advantage. After all, the domestic environment is still exam-oriented education. Some teachers joked that what is junior high school? Junior high school is the primary stage of education. What is high school? Senior high school is the advanced stage of exam-oriented education. Children from Grade Two to Grade Three have a very heavy learning burden in all subjects. After the third grade, facing the senior high school entrance examination, mathematics, Chinese, physics, chemistry, politics, biology, so many subjects are pressed down. If the children's English foundation is poor at that time, it will be difficult to make a qualitative leap only by intermittent tutoring. The top teenagers in English are all children with a solid foundation when they were young. The longer you put off learning English, the more passive you become.
Another advantage of reading is that it can promote children's writing level. After reading a work, children can seriously reflect: if it is my turn to write, can I think of cutting in from this angle? If it were me, could I still make the first paragraph so attractive? Can I write the last paragraph longer? Can I think of a fresh metaphor that the author came up with? Can I write the verbs and adjectives in the article by myself? After the children finish reading, take a little time to reflect, even if they only reflect for 5 minutes at a time. The accumulation after several years is the wealth of their own writing. Reading and reflection are the starting points for writing a good composition.
Children often take some English proficiency tests, and in order to take the tests, they also attend pre-test training classes. After children entered junior high school, due to the increasing burden of science study, English learning almost degenerated into drawing and looking up questions, memorizing words and grammar on paper, feeling that English progress was slow, so they continued to participate in training courses. Families with good material conditions don't like poor teaching in large classes and give their children more expensive "one-on-one" tutoring. One-hour tutoring in 200 yuan is just a common price).
All the above descriptions belong to "beating around the bush" at the airport, which is a typical "low-level repetition". When learning English, I am most afraid of "low-level" repetition, because this repetition will kill children's interest and confidence in English. This is also the reason why a large number of parents of middle school students generally report that their children are "not interested" in English. It can be seen that it is not a core advantage to arrive at the airport ahead of other children. Only children boarding in advance is the core advantage! If the children don't board the plane in time, others will catch up sooner or later. This is why many "post-90 s" children who started early have obvious advantages in English when they first entered primary school. Began to "eat old money" in junior high school; Entering high school, I feel that English "can't get up, can't get down".
Therefore, when talking about foreign language learning, Mr. Ji Xianlin expressed the view that getting started is not a problem, but what should I do after getting started? Whether in Chinese mainland, Chinese mainland, Hongkong or Singapore, children who are really good at English start early (arrive at the airport early) and receive systematic and strict English literature training in time (board the plane early).
/KLOC-The most important German linguist in the 0/9th century, Xianlian von humboldt, pointed out: "Without a literary foundation, it is impossible for us to deeply understand a language." Some parents asked, how to tell whether the child is "around the airport" or "boarding"? The simplest criterion is: if children are always learning textbooks, grammar knowledge, how to take exams, and "report to training classes for a long time", that is "beating around the bush". If your child reads twenty or thirty pages of the original with relish before going to bed every day, I congratulate your child on flying to new york!
In English learning, the real spiritual part is the cultivation of reading comprehension ability. Reading comprehension is a key training. When children are reading English, teachers should try their best to cultivate children's thinking methods of understanding words and teach them to sort out the logical context. Interpret English, be reasonable and pay attention to the GAI of interpretation. Adults must explain this to their children. Reading comprehension is the most interesting and spiritual reading enjoyment. After reading A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhang Ailing (1920- 1995), a talented woman in the literary world, noticed a detail: in the first eighty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin did not describe Lin's clothes with complicated and meticulous pen and ink like introducing other women. Why is this? As a reader, being able to ask such questions and explain them can best highlight the author's initiative and obsession. Reading can also cultivate children's concentration.
My friend told me that although my children have participated in many training courses, they have never been very interested in English. After hearing what she said, I went to the children's bookshelf and rummaged through several English books, and found that they were all boring "tofu blocks". I thought to myself, how can a child really "love English" when he is 9 years old and still reading such English stories? Children over 7 years old have entered the primary education stage, and the learning burden is increasing day by day. Therefore, children over 7 years old must consider the "input-output ratio" of time and energy when learning English.
Children should have real English reading education from the first grade of primary school. The significance of English reading education in primary schools is not to get high marks (of course, high-scoring candidates are children with strong reading ability). The real value of English reading education in primary schools lies in "laying pipelines". Children need to use English as a "channel" to absorb ideas from western books.
English learning is compatible from top to bottom In other words, as long as children are familiar with the original English, they can naturally learn simple English easily. Children over the age of 7 can start learning the original textbook directly. If children are exposed to English from kindergarten, by the age of 7, they can advance to a new stage of learning English by reading the original book more freely. If children have not been exposed to English before the age of 7, it is necessary to slow down their progress and give them an adaptation period in the first six months of learning the original plain text book. After the adaptation period, children will become more and more familiar with English.
It must be based on "continuity and authenticity". Persistence refers to "continuous practical opportunities"; Truth refers to "real communication needs". For example, a week in the English village in Korea.
Learning a foreign language requires at least three strengths: teaching in place, learning the original language materials and studying hard. After the age of 7, children can no longer "tinker" with English. They can't just listen to English, speak English, read short stories and live in an English village. Observing the primary school students in Singapore, in addition to reading the original chapter books, they have to complete more and more difficult extracurricular exercises. I suggest that parents should be clear that it is impossible to learn English well without serious reading training and hard work.
If we can get into the habit of reading the original works in primary schools; Read more original books similar to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone before junior high school, so that English can enter the state in time, and English learning in senior three can be more active.
The "basic construction" of primary schools is to cultivate children's learning literacy and reading ability. No matter how the times change, dedicated and persistent learning accomplishment is a virtue; No matter how the times change, the foundation laid by children through reading a lot of Chinese and English is the starting point of thinking and innovation. To cultivate children's English advantages, we can learn from American children's methods. Chinese classes in American primary schools are almost equal to reading classes. American teachers (including parents) will assign a bibliography to their children, and then let them choose which bibliography to read.
In reading training, the difference between China and the United States is that American teachers always let children read a whole book, while we always let children read articles. In my opinion, when learning English, domestic children should also pursue to read a book completely from beginning to end. 7-year-old children, parents should not be impatient at the initial stage. They can let the children focus on the story first, and then concentrate on learning the words and sentence patterns in the book after listening to the story several times and getting familiar with English. Children should not only have a certain length (for example, at least 150 pages), but also have literary literacy when reading the original work. For the sake of literary quality, I recommend children over 7 years old to read Charlotte's Website by American essayist E. B. White, and try to read less funny original children's books.
Every time a child takes a shot, whether the action is effective or not, and whether it hits the target, the child can see it clearly. Therefore, as long as the child aims at the target and constantly adjusts his movements, he will gradually become an excellent shooter. However, the situation of children reading the original works by themselves is very different. Children look at the dense English and don't know what an accurate understanding is unless someone tells them. If no one tells the child, the child will either not understand, or "swallow" or "think he understands", which is actually a misunderstanding of English. Therefore, to teach children to read the original foreign language, my suggestion is that children must see how English "breaks sentences" and explain the meaning of English "meaning group" thoroughly, and then encourage children to read the whole original fluently. Only in this way can children completely melt the language of the whole original and have the foreign language strength to read the original independently.
When I was explaining two original works, Charlotte's Web and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, I took pains to tell my children to read according to the meaning group, so as to combine the training of "understanding" with the training of "speed reading" bit by bit and help them develop correct English reading habits. Understand first, then quickly.
When children read the original, they will encounter words and phrases that they don't understand, and they will encounter paragraphs that they don't understand. All they have to do is tell them clearly. When children hold a pure text of the original, the difficulty of reading goes up a big step. Children will encounter unfamiliar words, and children will also encounter inexplicable English expressions. Many times, even if some sentences have no new words, children don't understand why the author wrote this sentence. If the child is reading the original work, if it is a feeling of "seeing flowers in the fog" and the child has other homework, the child naturally cannot persist. Therefore, the teacher must explain the original work to the children. The sooner the children "see through" English, the sooner they can integrate the original work into their lives.
How can children read English to stay awake and sleepy? There are many reasons why children are inattentive and sleepy when reading English books. One of the main reasons is that children don't master the reading strategies of meaning groups and don't know how to break sentences in English. Many children read English word for word instead of word for word. If a child reads English word for word, there are only two consequences: either daydreaming or yawning.
Some mothers say that children should pay more attention to reading English word for word. In fact, children are forced to read word for word because of their poor understanding. This kind of delay in reading makes it impossible for children to "understand" the contents of the book immediately. When children are reading, if they can't "immediately understand" the contents of the book, then their brains will be "idle". Once the brain is "idle", it is easy to "think", which is why children are distracted. And once the brain is "idle" for a long time, it will completely relax, which is why children yawn.
Children should cultivate the reading habits of Italian groups from the age of 7. If children are not used to reading in English, it will be difficult. Let's look at the following example: As long as children/children are interested in the theme, as long as teachers/teachers read it to children in detail/directly, they can/can read American/China books of the same age/people directly. How's it going? Is this sentence difficult to read?
Next, let's read this sentence again in the form of "meaning group": as long as it is/children's interest/theme, as long as it is/teachers/intensive reading, children can/directly read/American peers/books. The meaning group consists of several words. If children can read English according to the above meaning groups, their reading efficiency will be greatly improved. Children can capture the meaning of a series of words at a glance, and such reading efficiency is the basic condition for children to read the original works with taste. I once taught an excellent student and studied Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone carefully for three times in the sixth grade of primary school. During the summer vacation of junior high school, children began to read roald dahl's Charlie's Chocolate Factory independently.
For example, children can read a long sentence of 66 words according to the following meaning groups:
Her body swelled/deformed/so fast/that within a minute/it became a huge blue ball, in fact, a huge blueberry ball, and all violette B. Carrigard left was a pair of small feet/and a pair of small arms with huge round fruits/and a small head on it.
It is to encourage and help children to walk into an English book, just like holding their hands and walking into an exotic garden. We saw a lot in this garden. We see wisdom, we see ideals, we see the light of morality, and we see the road to human dignity. Teachers need to guide their children to read the original English carefully, and accept the words they read modestly and understand them patiently.
A few years ago, my parents asked me, "Where should I start to teach my children to read the original English books carefully?" Every answer is recommended to start with Charlotte's Net Power, and take children into the world of original English books. To recommend a work is to recommend an author. E b white is recommended by Charlotte's website. At the age of 58, e b white wrote: "The theme of my life is to face the complexity and stay happy. The theme of my life is to become complicated through happiness. Personally, I like e b white very much, his life and his writing style.
E b white is like the American version of Tao Yuanming. His works are full of good care for people, animals, mountains and nature. In addition, there is another more important spiritual clue in e b white's literary creation: defending and worrying about personal dignity, freedom and rights. E b white made brilliant expositions on major topics in the 20th century, such as racism, cold war confrontation and freedom of speech. I encourage children to learn English well, and when their English level is high, they can read these articles by themselves.
Of course, children can't "read" the original work in a muddle. Children must thoroughly understand the original text before they can consciously "read" it. Therefore, children should first "read the original carefully and taste every word". Children should first "see through" the brilliance and smoothness of the original English text, fully understand English expressions and remove most word barriers. Only on this basis can children imagine themselves as the protagonist in the story, use their own life experience, enter the state, and accurately grasp the tone and expression of reading. On the basis of understanding the original text, let children read the original English books every day, so that children can gain a sense of accomplishment in reading and they will be more willing to read English.
The better a child reads aloud, the more confident he is to show his reading aloud. Parents can find some like-minded "small partners" for their children, and reading with their peers with similar English level can play a positive role in promoting each other. I believe that seeing other children reading English will stimulate their enthusiasm for reading, and the children think to themselves: What I do, other children can do! "Children learn from each other, which is also an inspiring force. As long as children concentrate on their studies, English will inevitably enter China. No matter in Singapore or in China and Hongkong, pupils with the best English pay special attention to reading aloud.
It doesn't matter if the child just starts reading, even if he is afraid of reading half a page! Children should read the original work carefully before reading it, so that the interest in reading and the aesthetic feeling of reading can blend together. This auspicious English learning is profound and elegant.
I encourage children to combine reading with reading the original works on the basis of understanding the original works in foreign languages. I call this combination The Reader's Theater. I hope the original Reader's Theater can become children's daily activities, so that children can "show" their English level at home. The "reader's theater" can help children keep up with the development of reading and speaking ability in the shortest time. Cultivate a sense of accomplishment and fun, and parents can participate together. Whether reading fast or reading aloud, it is very important to break sentences according to the meaning group. When reading aloud, don't read too fast, and pay attention to the rhythm of sentence breaking. The rhythm of sentence breaking when reading aloud should be closely related to the breathing rhythm of people.
In a good literary work, the author draws the reader's emotions in the narrative process, so that the children's emotions are either passionate or calm, happy or sad, nervous or relaxed, or warm or indifferent as the story unfolds. The ups and downs of children's reading emotions are the internal emotional rhythm of the text. It is precisely because of the "emotional rhythm" that children can't help dancing or screaming when reading the original. Only when children are tempted can they really master English.