When the child pointed to a page in the picture book and explained the answer clearly, we found that there were so many mysteries hidden in the original picture. Looking back, I think how many wonderful details I missed from those picture books! How many doubts are hidden in the children's hearts and have not been answered?
Nowadays, many families and schools pay more and more attention to picture book reading, such as the family's parent-child reading experience, the collective reading perception of picture books in kindergartens, the cultivation of primary school students' learning ability and reading ability, and even the application in junior high school and high school classrooms.
Picture books seem to be more than simple picture books, so what is a picture book? Why is it important? How should I read it?
If you have time, take a look at the answer given in the book "Open the Eye of the Picture Book"!
The author of this book is the pioneer of Japanese picture books, and is known as the "father of Japanese picture books". He has written theoretical works on picture books such as Seeds of Happiness, My Picture Book, Eyes to Look at Picture Books, and created picture books such as Momotaro, The Carpenter and the Ghost 6, Blinking at the Lamp, etc.
Below I will share the essence of books with you from the following two key points, namely: picture books are the windows to open the reading world; Look at picture books from the eyes of adults and children.
Let's talk about the first point: picture books are the windows to open the reading world.
Let's go back to the first question. Many adults think that picture books are simple picture books, and reading stories to children is a mere formality. However, from children's reaction after reading picture books to more and more attention to picture books, we have to rethink: what is a picture book? The author of this book discusses this problem from the perspective of "book" and "person".
The author believes that picture books, as "books", are picture books that combine wonderful language and illustrations. A book consists of a cover, a ring lining (the page after the cover is opened), a title page (with the title and author's name written on it), a copyright page (with the publication date, publishing house and other information printed on it), a body, a back ring lining and a back cover.
Understanding picture books from the perspective of "people", the author thinks that picture books are read by adults to children, and adults convey the wonderful language and pictures in picture books to children with their own voices. The happier and more beautiful they are, the deeper their feelings will be. Therefore, picture books are the crystallization of love between readers and listeners, and also the bridge between parents and children.
Both families and schools pay more and more attention to picture book reading. Then why do adults and children have to read picture books? Why are picture books so important?
First of all, reading picture books can enhance the emotional communication between parents and children. The author points out that reading picture books means that adults and children should get along, and the language people read is full of emotions and emotions, which can make children feel happy, angry or sad. To discuss the interaction in the reading process is to communicate with each other.
Secondly, cultivate children's rich imagination. The author quoted this sentence: "For parents who are worried about their children's education,' knowledge' is less than half as important as' awareness'". This means that instead of instilling knowledge into children, it is better to let them feel the experience for themselves. Children's emotions and rich experiences can stimulate their imagination. Childhood is the best time to cultivate imagination, so it is very beneficial to read picture books to children from an early age.
Third, improve understanding and learning ability. Words or situations that are not clearly expressed in some languages can be clearly presented in picture books. Taking the "little house" in the book as an example, Burton shows the passage of time invisible to the eyes through the change of the expression of the sun, and readers can feel the change of time at a glance.
You can also develop good reading habits and enhance your aesthetic awareness. Parent-child reading and school collective picture book reading are all for children to find happiness in reading picture books. Children have keen insight and observation ability, and can always find small details in books. Some children always ask to read the same picture book over and over again. This kind of repeated reading experience is that children's perceptual ability is constantly budding, which unconsciously enhances their aesthetic consciousness.
For adults, the most important thing is to form the habit of parent-child reading, protect and cultivate children's rich imagination, and accompany children to spend a happy childhood.
Then let's talk about the second point: look at picture books from the eyes of adults and children.
The author suggests that reading a picture book requires reading pictures and words. Many adults think that they have finished reading the picture book after reading the words and glancing at the illustrations. In fact, I only read less than half of the content, because the key to reading picture books lies in "looking at pictures"
The key to looking at a picture is: look at it carefully page by page without looking at the words, and observe the lines, shapes and composition of the picture; Then pay attention to the details in the picture; Then pay attention to the continuity and change of each picture, whether it ensures the integrity and dramatic effect of the story.
Only when adults master the method of reading picture books can they better give children a complete picture book experience. So how do you read a picture book for your child?
By appreciating the classic picture books of Mary House, Felix Hoffman and Virginia Lee Burton, the author provides us with a way to read picture books.
First of all, before reading to children, adults should first understand the structure and characteristics of the book, understand the author's creative intention, and then read aloud with words. For example, in In the Forest by Ace, the blank space of the ring lining is the artistic conception of bringing readers into the forest. Before the front cover and the back cover are closed, they can be unfolded together to reproduce the main stages of the story and leave the aftertaste of the story.
Ace created this picture book to commemorate the happy time with her husband. The author believes that perhaps Ace also wants to understand the child's simplest childlike innocence and state through games. Therefore, when reading picture books to children, adults need to maintain a childlike innocence and feel the happiness in the fantasy world with children.
Secondly, read page by page from the front cover to the back cover, and interact with children in the reading process, leaving room for imagination for children. For example, in Hoffman's Sleeping Beauty, the little helper wears a hat in front, but it falls off at the back. If you don't look carefully, you think the author is mistaken. If you look carefully, you will find the hat hanging on the fence. Moreover, the author accurately speculated that it was exactly one hundred years from the head of the little helper to the hat hanging on the fence.
If adults read these details too quickly, they will miss the opportunity to discuss problems with their children. Only by observing carefully and leaving room for imagination can they appreciate the wonderful picture.
Then, read the illustrations in the picture book with the eyes of adults and children, and combine pictures and texts to obtain information. Generally, adults only appreciate illustrations as a kind of painting, ignoring pictures and telling stories. But children can keenly grasp the details of the picture and read wonderful content from the picture.
Therefore, reading picture books is something that adults and children should pay attention to. Children who can't read get information by looking at pictures. As an adult, it is the real reading picture book to turn pictures into rich language and express them to children.
To truly understand picture books, we should pay attention to the following points: before reading, we should understand the author's creative intention, and then tell the story to children with emotion, which will produce emotional voices with them; Interact with children when reading, so that children can fully think and imagine; At the same time, think from the child's point of view and explore the wonderful stories in the picture. You can't impose the idea of adults reading on children.
If parents' language is the source for children to explore the world, then picture books are fertile ground for nourishing children's imagination. Reading with parents, that kind of happiness is not available through reading aloud by machines or electronic devices.
With the rapid development of science and technology and the internationalization of information, electronic equipment and online media cover our lives, and many families are getting farther and farther away from books. From birth, children are forced to immerse themselves in a strongly disordered visual experience, as well as mechanical language and noise. As the source of language, parents' language expression ability has deteriorated rapidly.
Therefore, our parents need to put aside impetuousness and impatience, pick up children's books and enjoy reading with their children. Picture books have no borders, explore in a multicultural world with curiosity and childlike innocence, give children an imaginative childhood, open our eyes in wonderful words and pictures, and thus get an extremely happy experience.