How to read English picture books? These practical skills help children learn easily!
Develop good reading habits
The sooner you read to your child, the better. Even in infancy, let the child sit in your arms. When you speak, your children listen to your voice, look at your face and learn the sounds, rhythms and language patterns you hear.
Reading aloud will improve children's memory, which will last longer and they can hear written language patterns. Set aside some time to read with children every day, such as before dinner or before bed, which will help children develop good reading habits. Learning needs to be accumulated, and spending a little time every day is better than spending a lot of time every week.
Take children to participate in reading experience activities, so that children can understand that reading is an activity that can be arranged on many occasions to cultivate reading habits. Turn off TV, mobile phones and computers and other factors that interfere with children's reading. Create a suitable reading environment for children.
Parents can draw letters on the sand and use magnetic letters, building blocks or key letters when accompanying their children to learn letters and letter pronunciation. Refers to reading or doing some interesting exercises related to reading, puzzles, coloring, connecting lines, walking mazes, etc.
Stimulate reading interest
Choose books according to children's interests. If TA likes animals, read more picture books about small animals. Turning the characters in the story into children's names will make children very happy and feel that they are the protagonists of the story. Encourage children to act out the interesting scenes they read, choose their favorite stories, and reproduce them with a brush or other forms with TA. In the process, you can also review the story.
Children's attention and control ability are limited, and they are prone to anxiety when doing a difficult thing. Therefore, the time for each English reading should be controlled within a suitable time to avoid children's disgust.
Practical reading skills
Slow down reading and give children enough time to digest the pictures, words and thoughts in the story. Choose some new words in the story and discuss their meanings. Let the children try to make sentences with these new words.
When you meet various letter signs on the road or other occasions, such as "P" and "M" (McDonald's), you can guess their meanings with your children and learn a lot of interesting knowledge. After the child draws his favorite plot, you can help the child write a sentence under the screen to describe the scene.
Many English picture books are accompanied by children's songs, which can be sung with children. If you don't have a picture book of children's songs, you can also find a melody that children are familiar with and sing together. Reading in turn is very interesting, which can reduce children's fear when reading, make children become primary school teachers, and read together to correct pronunciation and intonation.
Ask children to describe a character or animal, and then parents guess which one. Encourage children to use keywords and actions to assist. You can take turns to play and exercise your child's expressive ability and listening ability. When going out for a trip or outing, bring books on related topics. Life is directly related to reading, so take the contents of these books as preparation before going out.
If a child is infatuated with an anime character, encourage this enthusiasm of TA and read all the books about this character. Ask your children to tell you TA's favorite role, encourage them to describe the characteristics of TA's favorite role, and stimulate their imagination. Encourage children to boldly predict the ending of the story, regardless of whether the child's prediction is the same as the ending of the story, but in the process, they exercise their imagination and thinking ability.
After reading with children, encourage them to tell the story in their own words. This can exercise children's expressive ability. Use children to adapt the story and adapt the more important plot in the story, if? What will happen? In order to stimulate children's imagination.
Encourage children to create their own picture books.
Find a story with two protagonists and a lot of dialogue, and let the children choose the role played by TA. You take turns reading your roles aloud. Encourage children to draw pictures of family trips or other interesting activities. Parents can help their children mark the meaning of each page in English.
In addition, imitating the actions and language of the characters in the story will also make children feel the fun of performing.
Help children remember.
Try to perform action words with your children. Children can better remember these words through body language. Help children learn the pronunciation of letters and turn learning the pronunciation of letters into playing games, such as "I'm thinking of an object that starts with the sound' mmm'." I'm thinking about something that starts with the pronunciation of' m' and pointing out any words that start with' m' to my children.
Prepare a new theme every week, such as music, sports and food. Collect and learn vocabulary on this topic with your children this week. Using graphic dictionaries to help children understand new words, graphic dictionaries are not reference books for adults, but like picture books and picture books, they classify words differently and set scenes and example sentences. Through finger reading and the help of parents, children can quickly master common words and sentences in life.
Write new and interesting words on the calendar. Learn to spell words with your children every day and discuss the meaning of words. Make flashcards for high-frequency words and read them aloud constantly, so that children can remember them easily.
Encourage children to look for clues in the pictures of the story, design a game for them when they meet unfamiliar words, and encourage them to look for answers by looking at the pictures.
Discuss with your children words with similar pronunciations and meanings, such as: tickle, Rinrin, crash (tickle, Rinrin bell, click)! Let children come up with more onomatopoeia words! When reading, explain to children that there are many words with similar meanings, which are called synonyms, and encourage children to play games to collect synonyms.