Both sides seem reasonable, but they have more or less adverse effects on children's learning process. Children who persist in illiteracy will have dyslexia more or less when they enter the first grade; Children who read too early do have a broken imagination and can't draw at all. Almost every child will have a sensitive period of literacy between the ages of 4 and 7, when children will have a strong interest in Chinese characters. How to correctly grasp this sensitive period? Is there no win-win solution?
The answer is of course: yes! For a mother who has made mistakes in literacy enlightenment, it is a little pity and a little happy to learn this "win-win" learning method. She regretted not finding this book earlier, which made her brother miss the sensitive period of literacy in vain, but she was glad that everyone finally didn't have to jump into this pit. Chinese characters are so extensive and profound, why do we have to learn them in a boring and rigid way? Itsumi Taro, a master of picture books, said in his picture book language that children can fall in love with and know Chinese characters in interesting and humorous pictures. This is also the most important reason why The Picture Book of Chinese Characters is recommended to all children who have just started to learn Chinese characters and those who are about to learn Chinese characters.
Itsumi Taro is the most famous picture book writer overseas. He has won the children's cultural publishing award of Japan's Sankei, the illustration award of the children's book fair in Bologna, Italy, and the 22nd Japanese "Stone of Tao Literature Award".
Itsumi Taro 1945 was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Department of Industrial Design of Misawa University. Is a prolific and creative writer and painter. He writes his own works, draws his own illustrations and designs his own layout. Although Itsumi Taro joined the creation of picture books at the age of 30, his creativity is rich. In just over 20 years, he has more than 230 picture books, which is a pioneering work in the field of children's picture books.
His picture themes are all-encompassing, novel and unique, colorful, vivid and interesting, and full of sense of humor. His unique style makes many children become his "fans" and makes every child who has just come into contact with picture books fondle admiringly. So far, he has created more than 300 picture books for children. Among them, "Who ate it" and "Who hid it" won the children's publishing culture award of Sankei Shimbun, "Spring of the calf" won the original exhibition award of the international picture book in Bologna, Italy, and "Sometimes Boys" won the roadside stone award. Dozens of his picture books have been translated into foreign languages. Among them, The Picture Book of Chinese Characters is the masterpiece of Itsumi Taro, a master of picture books, which has been sold well in Japan for more than 30 years and reprinted more than 50 times.
His talent is so dazzling, but what is more respectable is his unpretentious innocence and humor, as well as his cheerful and healthy temperament. These precious creative qualities make more and more readers who like him follow him. Lin, a famous illustrator who has known each other for more than 20 years, commented: "No matter how trivial things in life, you can get inspiration from them. He is positive and optimistic about life. Every time I talk to him, I feel young again ... "
His personality also determines the characteristics of his picture books. Itsumi Taro believes that painting is a basic human right, and no one can violate it. He strongly disapproves that many adults infringe on children's painting imagination in the name of education. He believes that painting, like singing and dancing, is a way for human beings to express their feelings. People who hate painting may miss a way to express themselves. Therefore, each of his picture books has left a broad imagination space for children, rather than one-way interest indoctrination. Chinese character picture books are like this. It not only follows the development of children's imagination, but also draws lessons from the characteristics of Chinese ideographic characters. It superimposes the traceability literacy method in the form of pictures, so that children can vividly connect Chinese characters with their meanings and understand and remember Chinese characters in the fastest, most effective and most associative way.
A picture book of Chinese characters, less than 50 pages, contains 122 commonly used Chinese characters (1 19 is a compulsory word in the first grade of People's Education Press). Itsumi Taro carefully designed each painting, put each Chinese character into a specific scene, and let the children see the Chinese characters. The meaning and usage of Chinese characters will naturally come to mind. Children can be guided to look at pictures and talk, and the relationship between pictures, meanings and Chinese characters can be understood by looking at pictures and talking:
For example, through the comparison of pictures, the comparative relationship between "big and small" and "before and after" is displayed.
For example, show the relationship between "ear and insect" and "water and flower" through picture connection.
For example, through games to show the progressive relationship between trees, forests and forests;
For example, show mountains, forests, villages, forests, fields, rivers and grasses through panoramic pictures.
In the Picture Book of Chinese Characters, every Chinese character is accompanied by vivid and humorous pictures of Itsumi Taro to show its meaning, which makes children feel that Chinese characters are really interesting, so that they can easily understand and remember Chinese characters naturally.
It can be seen that even children who have never been exposed to Chinese characters can easily understand that every Chinese character has a meaning after reading this picture book. This not only achieves the goal of literacy, but also inspires children to explore the meaning of Chinese characters. For example, when children see the relationship between eyes, hair, mouth and ears and insects, they may be curious to ask whether eyes are eyes. What will the eyes see? At this time, the enthusiasm for literacy began to inspire, and the meaning of literacy was upgraded. A mother even took her children to learn the panoramic view of Itsumi Taro to guide them to learn more words:
Itsumi Taro's Picture Book of Chinese Characters is only the beginning of Chinese character enlightenment. What we ultimately want to learn is that, besides reading picture books, we can also learn from Itsumi Taro's way, so that children can connect Chinese characters with life and constantly explore the meaning and application of Chinese characters and their relationship with reading and writing. This is the purpose of our real literacy. Isn't it?