Because I have been considering whether to buy a picture book for my daughter recently.

Although I like picture books very much, I don't know if I can accept showing picture books to children who are a few months old, and I don't know what kind of picture books to buy, lest I make the wrong choice and stifle the children's possible interest in reading. ...

So, I found a book dedicated to picture books-Lin Meiqin's What's Great about Picture Books. Lin Meiqin has studied children's reading for more than ten years and has been committed to the promotion of children's reading. She has been invited to give lectures at home and abroad to share her strategies and research results in children's reading. And this book, through the analysis and introduction of nearly 100 picture books, makes people fully feel and appreciate the charm of picture books!

No wonder, in the last lecture, Mr. A Liang said that picture books are suitable for reading at the age of 0-99, and with the growth of your cognitive ability, you will read different experiences and feelings from the same picture book. Even picture books are treasures that can be passed down from generation to generation!

I think everyone can't deny the importance of reading for knowledge acquisition! It can be said that when a person loses his reading ability, he basically loses the channel to acquire indirect knowledge. But few people are willing to spend time between the lines, even though reading is the most popular today:

1992, Birmingham, England launched the world's first baby book-giving program, and found that babies who started reading from infancy had better learning ability and performance than their peers after attending primary school; The American Library Association also launched the "Born to Read" program in May 2000. Japan launched a "parent-child reading activity", requiring parents to accompany their children to study for at least 20 minutes every day.

This book is rich in content, especially through the split and introduction of a famous picture book, which is an eye-opener. The following are some reading notes compiled by myself:

What is reading ability? Reading ability is not only the ability to read, but also the ability to understand and use knowledge. It includes developing the complete ability to understand clues, interpret information, construct meaning, accurately obtain the author's thoughts and intentions, and flexibly use them through the understanding of allusions, the inference of contextual information and the connection between text and meaning.

And reading ability also needs guidance. Learn how to read in order to learn in reading. As for picture books, if they are not used properly, they will make children linger on colorful pictures and lose their thinking activities of word association, thus "seeing" rather than "reading" deeply.

Pictures have two basic forms of expression, one is to describe things in detail with images; Second, signals: images are used as media to express meaning, hint intentions, form images, and express thoughts, emotions and abstract concepts. As a visual art, picture books are also books, which convey the author's thoughts and feelings. Parents need to guide their children to read, turn concrete images into abstract thinking, and let them understand the theme and meaning from the plot.

If we do this, we can develop the reading process from the outside to the inside, better understand and master the abstract text symbols, smoothly develop the ability of deep reading and start the development of reading ability!

I don't know if you've tried. If you just think like this, you will feel different: because of the "image" stimulation of elephant photos, we activate the image thinking of things, making the perceived information more vivid and better presented.

Dr. Edward, an art, education and cognitive psychologist, once explained that "vocabulary and analytical thinking are abstract, and it is difficult to present them without specific expressions. Through the perception of image lines and space, a bridge of perception is built between concrete thinking and abstract thinking, and a way to express abstract thinking is opened up. "

When reading a picture book, we can combine the image information into a picture to understand some emotions, atmosphere and feelings conveyed by it, and then we can slowly cultivate a "sense of picture", so that the brain can feel, imagine and think through the tactile sensation of perception, call out relevant meanings, images and memories in the brain to react and affect the mood, so as to receive the rich information conveyed by the image and feel the emotions and thoughts conveyed by the author.

In the process of improving children's reading comprehension obstacles, American teenagers found that once children associate images and words in their minds, they can easily understand the meaning of words and sentences. For example, when talking about the word "pass", use a picture of two children climbing through a hole to explain the meaning of the word. When children look at pictures several times, they will associate words with pictures, thus gradually improving their understanding of words and reading ability.

The brain absorbs a large number of pictures, transforms them into delicate and vivid mental images through the experience of feeling and emotional communication, and then makes contact with words, so it has mastered the "sense of language" and can continuously produce rich and profound experiences between the lines.

If we can cultivate the ability of "graphic sense" by reading picture books, and then introduce the profound experience of words as an auxiliary buffer to cultivate "language sense", we will have a deeper understanding of reading.

Time, I haven't finished tidying up. Continue next time!