In the children's section of the bookstore, this conversation should not be too strange:
"Mom, can I buy books? 」
"Yes, like reading is a good thing, pick to pick. 」
After a while, the child came running excitedly.
"I have chosen, it is good to buy these three books. 」
Mother took three books, flipped through them and frowned at one of them:
"Brother, what is this book about? 」
"Oh, this is very special. It's about a little squirrel who can write poetry. 」
"ah? How strange! Is there any scientific or biological knowledge in it? " My mother asked.
"No ... I saw the boy's disappointed expression, and probably he already knew the subsequent development.
"Then go and change it. It is good to borrow this interesting book from the library and buy some useful books. 」
The book The Magical Little Squirrel Who Can Write Poems won the newbury Literature Gold Award in 20 14. A middle-aged and high-grade child meets his favorite literary story in the vast sea of books, and is willing to spend time reading novels under the increasing pressure of schoolwork. Parents can't see their children's excellent reading taste and literary potential, and even call the award-winning novels "useless books".
Read this useless book in a different scene. After my child entered the second grade, I continued to be a story mom every other Friday, and one of them was the magical squirrel on page 269. No props, no beautiful illustrations, no dramatic storytelling tone. These juniors need to remember the translated protagonist's name first, and then change scenes with the chapters in the book. An endless story needs to wait two weeks to continue. Finally, it took us three times to simply read the story.
None of the children at the scene thought the squirrel writing poetry was funny. The little girl who saved her life is not happy in real life when her parents are divorced. She often uses her imagination to kill time. Besides, there is a strange little boy next door who always wears sunglasses and is worried about having a cup of coffee. I simply read out the important plot in the story and presented the key dialogue in an authentic way. Twenty-two pairs of eyes under the stage stared at me closely. No one is doing anything else, and no one can't sit quietly and make noise. They absorbed in digesting the story they heard and painted a picture full of stories in their minds. I read this book every two weeks, and no one forgets where I read it last time. There are even children who help me remember which pages and urge me to start quickly in case there is not enough time.
They are more attentive than when reading picture books. This is the magic of literature-children correspond to their own lives in the plot and try to figure out their own solutions and abilities.
But the market will speak for itself. All kinds of "practical" reading materials are always very popular, whether online or physical bookstore rankings; In order to make children study happily and love reading, we try our best to "put" all kinds of "subject knowledge" in through comics, detectives, jokes and personification. It doesn't matter if we don't want to read. We release DVDs, cartoons, dolls, applications and video games ... all kinds of "taste-oriented" learning methods, only hoping to cram what children should know and what schools will teach.
When "functional reading" becomes the mainstream taste of reading, the good novels that publishers have the courage and painstaking efforts to publish are ignored, and even teachers must be invited to write articles and guide how to "turn applied novels into teaching materials" to get some attention. Our children seem to love reading, but they gradually lose their imagination, their taste in reading, their ability to identify content, and all they get is what Google can know.
So what can useless books do?
In fact, the use of useless books is the most difficult ability to cultivate and teach in words in education. In children's minds, we should first understand all kinds of metaphors and metaphors in the novel, then connect the plot clues given in each chapter, and also understand the hidden but not obvious emotional hints. Only by automatically operating the operation mode of integrating information in your mind can children understand the taste of novels and be fascinated by them, and may even be accompanied by some pictures for easy memory. This whole interpretation process is undoubtedly the highest realm of evolutionary training.
In addition, the "nutrients" given by each novel are also very different, and children can accumulate a lot of life experiences without personal experience. They will know that every family has a hard experience, that bullying doesn't just happen to them, that they can do it when they are angry, that the betrayal of their friends is sometimes not what you think, that youth is invincible, but they may die young, and that they think about what I want in life before the end of the world earlier than adults.
What information is more useful for children's real life? Even more helpful to parents' education? Are there different answers?
Finally, I chose this seemingly inexplicable word: "seal fat" to end this article-the children of squirrels who can read and write poems can smile when they hear these four words. They all learned this big move to change their mood from books. If you are curious, why don't you read novels with your children to find answers and enjoy all kinds of life similar to yourself in literature?
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