Later, I signed up for an English training class, and the effect was not good. Therefore, taking advantage of this summer vacation, she plans to spend time with her children and analyze what went wrong.
I especially understand how my best friend feels. After all, judging from the score ratio of the English test paper in the Chinese college entrance examination, the sentence "the reader wins the world" is really extremely correct!
Take Beijing as an example, the English score in the senior high school entrance examination is 120, and the reading comprehension score is 50. NMET scored a perfect score of 150 in English and a total score of 40 in reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension is the topic with the highest score. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as reading comprehension is done well, English test papers can easily get high marks.
If you want to help children improve their English reading ability systematically and efficiently, my most recommended method is to read a large number of English graded books in a planned way from an early age.
Oxford reading tree), random house grading series (stepping into reading) and so on.
Every time my mother leaves a message saying that there are many doubts about graded reading:
How is graded reading graded?
How to choose a graded reading suitable for your baby?
What are the high-quality reading resources?
Before the summer vacation, I'm going to pay this overdue bill and have a good talk with you.
What is graded reading?
Grading book is a scientific reading plan provided according to the intelligence, cognition and psychological development of children at different ages. To put it bluntly, it is to choose books with different difficulties according to children's different reading levels.
Graded reading contains a wide range of contents, mainly involving five aspects:
Phoneme consciousness
phonetics
Fluency (fluency)
Vocabulary (vocabulary)
Comprehension (comprehension)
These five aspects are not isolated and separated, but interrelated whole. It's just that at different age stages of children, the emphasis is different.
Pre-school and lower grades of primary school, focusing on phoneme cognition and natural spelling; Senior students pay more attention to the cultivation of fluency, vocabulary and understanding.
Graded reading evaluation standard-A-Z scoring method
Graded reading has been widely accepted and used in European and American countries after decades of development. At present, there are four commonly used grading standard systems in the world:
Lexile framework (lance graded reading evaluation system)
AR Graded Reading Evaluation System (Accelerated Reader)
Developmental reading assessment system (developmental reading assessment)
The reading guidance grading system (GRL) is the most widely used grading system in American primary schools. It was developed by two reading experts Fountas and Pinnell through long-term teaching practice and theoretical research. Therefore, it is usually called Fountas &；; Pinnel Graded Reading System.
Fountain & Pinnel
GRL grading system also has a well-known name-A-Z grading method, because it divides reading materials into 26 grades in alphabetical order from A to Z, among which A-level reading materials are the least difficult and Z-level reading materials are the most difficult.
We often find that the reading materials in American primary school classrooms and libraries are arranged according to A-Z grading, that is, following A-Z grading method.
A-Z Grading and Corresponding Map of American School Scores
A-Z grading is a combination of computer calculation and manual grading, which involves many text features such as problems, structure, subject matter, theme, literariness, sentence patterns, words, readability, illustrations, layout and so on.
Six reading stages of readers
1. Early readers
Embryonic readers are generally in the stage of reading books with difficulty from A to D. Readers in this period have just come into contact with the concept of printed matter and know that they can read from left to right, understand the basic spelling knowledge of letters and handle disyllabic words.
2. Early reading (emergency readers)
Early readers are generally in the stage of reading books from E to F, at which time readers can recognize multiple high-frequency words and read books of various styles. The process of reading becomes a natural process without reference to reading.
3. Develop readers.
4. Early independent readers.
In the early stage of independent reading, readers are generally at the stage where they can read books with difficulty from N to P. Readers can read articles of various styles, even some unusual styles, automatically process unfamiliar words, read complex sentences and deal with complex article structures in their brains. All these reading processes are done automatically and subconsciously.
5. Cultivate independent readers.
Readers in the development period of independent reading are generally in the stage of reading difficult books from Q to S. Readers can read books with complex themes, read pure text books with almost no pictures, and deal with occasional words and languages other than their mother tongue in reading.
6. Independent readers (independent readers)
Readers in the independent reading period are generally in the stage of reading difficult books from T to Z. Readers can read very long books independently, grasp the critical significance of the books and understand difficult words.
Raz- children
Just mentioned, among the four grading reading evaluation systems, A-Z grading reading system is the most widely used in the United States. Today, the online graded reading Raz-Kids(www.raz-kids.com) I want to introduce to you adopts the A-Z grading system.
Raz- Introduction to Children's Curriculum
1. Orthodox American English textbooks
Raz-Kids is a world-renowned online reading product developed by American Learning A-Z company, focusing on students' autonomous English reading learning.
In the United States, Raz-Kids is the first choice for 80% public schools.
In North America, more than half of primary schools are using Raz-Kids；; .
Its coverage has exceeded the global 180 countries;
Nearly 6.8 million students are using the website, and the website has more than 6.7 billion readers.
In China, Shanghai Bao Yugang Experimental School and Shanghai Sheikh Bilingual School have also introduced Raz-Kids as classroom materials.
In the United States, Raz-Kids is aimed at children aged 4- 1 1 year, which spans from kindergarten to the fifth grade of primary school. For children in China, according to their English level, they can be extended to middle school students.
Raz-Kids online * * * has more than 2,000 "Encyclopedia+Stories" books. These books are selected according to the two basic principles of qualitative and quantitative, and the scientific collocation of knowledge points and language difficulties conforms to children's psychological and cognitive characteristics.
Raz-Kids is divided into 29 levels from aa to Z***, and each level contains dozens of books. When a child successfully completes a level, the system will automatically jump to a higher level of learning.
2. Different grades of reading materials
Compared with graded reading books such as Oxford Tree, the biggest feature of Raz-Kids is that at the same level, there is basically no difference in the difficulty between readers, and there will be no situation that the first few books are simple and the last few books are more difficult.
The advantage of this setting is that the reading difficulty is maintained at a stable level, which is conducive to expanding children's reading breadth and increasing the background knowledge reserve.
When we know the children's reading level, we can gradually open the children's reading breadth. For example, if the child is in E-level, Raz-Kids can read all books from AA-E level.
Compared with picture book stories, Raz-Kids covers a wide range of subjects, including both novel series including picture book stories and popular science non-fiction series.
Once a child's reading breadth is opened, his reading fluency, vocabulary and comprehension will be greatly improved.
More importantly, his background knowledge has accumulated more heavily. We should know that both adults and children accept and absorb new knowledge on the basis of old knowledge. Therefore, the richer the known information, the faster the acquisition of unknown information.
3. Full coverage of listening, reading and testing.
Every book of Raz-Kids contains three parts: listening, reading and testing:
Raz-children are hungry when they read frogs.
Listen: Keep playing the reading video and let the children listen word by word. At the same time, the corresponding text subtitles will be displayed on the screen, and the words read will be highlighted through color changes to help children understand the one-to-one correspondence between pronunciation and vocabulary.
The red button in the upper right corner is used for "Record" and the green button is used for "Pause".
Reading aloud: After listening, children can imitate the original sound and read the video they just heard. Subsequent audio can be recorded and uploaded.
Test multiple choice questions
Quiz (test): After listening and reading, children can test by supporting after-school questions, including multiple-choice questions and open-ended questions. Supporting exercises are conducive to cultivating children's logical thinking, critical thinking, and the ability to distinguish facts and opinions.
In the process of independent reading, Raz-Kids provides many convenient marking tools (highlighting, underlining, checkmark, question mark, etc. ) used to take notes and marks to help children develop the habit of taking reading notes.
Robot image
Raz-Kids has its own reward mechanism-after successfully completing the reading task, children will get corresponding little stars. These little stars can be used to buy ornaments from Raz rockets to decorate their robots, houses and planets.
Different tasks get different stars.
Such an incentive mechanism is a virtuous circle, just like the game of "upgrading monsters", which can greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of children. In order to get more stars, children will work harder and seriously to complete reading tasks and supporting exercises.
3. In addition to the web version, there are more convenient apps.
In addition, Raz-Kids runs a web version and an APP at the same time, in order to enable children to conduct reading training anytime and anywhere.
Apple and Android phones, iPod Touch, iPad and kindle all have corresponding versions of applications.
4. How to buy it
Finally, I want to talk about buying. Click the Order Now button directly in official website, follow the step-by-step operation, fill in the personal information and pay to get the Raz-Kids account.
The annual cost of a class in Raz-Kids is about RMB in 700 yuan, and the class can accommodate up to 36 children. Such a child is about 20 yuan a year. A treasure also sells accounts, the price is about tens of dollars, but there may be various problems in use, which will affect the experience.
In addition, the official website of RAZ-Kids provides some free reading samples, including four parts: listening-reading-testing-worksheet. However, the reading part is provided in the form of PPT, and there is no recording function.
The only drawback is that when visiting Raz-Kids official website in China, the internet speed is slow, and sometimes it takes more than ten minutes to open a book.
If you want to buy Raz-Kids, you can go to official website to experience some free samples and see the children's reaction before making a decision.
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As a teacher, I deeply understand the basic role of content in children's learning process, which directly determines what children can learn in the future, and even how to learn. Therefore, we must be scientific and rigorous (without any mistakes), cover a wide range (not only stories but also knowledge), the difficulty coefficient is gradual (children are naturally improved), and the forms are rich and diverse (learning, practice and examination).
In English learning, there is another important factor to consider, whether it belongs to the orthodox school. Americans or British people, or "China people" who enjoy themselves.
Raz-Kids is excellent in all aspects, and multimedia (image, sound and video) teaching methods can also arouse children's interest. Students who are interested in buying can add me to WeChat (huyu 12 19).