Teacher Song Juzhi first emphasized that before taking children into picture books, children should first have a rich language experience.
Dr. White, an American psychologist, believes that babies must receive the following three kinds of education within seven months after birth:
1. The baby must have known that someone was loving him seven months ago.
2. Learn to look, listen, move nearby objects to your side, turn over and other simple actions;
3. Protect the child's natural curiosity and encourage him to play.
These three points are closely related and have a decisive influence on a child's life.
How to let a child know that someone loves him? Besides hugging, kissing and paying attention to him, the gentle language of parents is particularly important. This kind of warm words with feelings will promote the sound development of the baby's mind.
Compared with TV, mobile phones, tape recorders and other mechanical sounds, this kind of voice from human beings is the real voice of nature. And always accompany the baby with mechanical voice, which may cause some harm to his spirit when he grows up.
Therefore, talk and sing more to your baby before telling your child the picture book. Let the children clearly feel the parents around them and feel their love. For babies, the most valuable music is not necessarily the works of musicians such as Mozart and Schubert, but children's songs or lullabies sung by parents and family members themselves. Whether it's nice or not, the feelings and ideas in the song will be conveyed to the baby and soothe their hearts. This simple and primitive method is the best way to enlighten children's minds.
First, reading a lot of picture books can exercise children's ability to distinguish between good and bad painting.
Today's baby likes to read picture books in about ten months. Illustrations in picture books are usually the first pictures that children come into contact with. Therefore, the quality of picture book illustrations is very important. If adults make the right choices, children will have access to the best things. On the contrary, children will lose this opportunity.
The more good works you read, the sharper your eyes will be. When you are exposed to a large number of works and new works, the "sixth sense" will come into play, compare with the works you have been exposed to in the past, and then give an evaluation. Unconsciously, this ability will become a part of the feeling, just like a reflection, naturally distinguish the quality of a work.
Before I came into contact with picture books, all the books I bought for my children were very casual. After a lot of contact with picture books in the picture library, I will feel very colorful and even dazzling when I see the books I bought for my children before.
Most of the earliest picture books that parents buy for their children are vehicle picture books or animal picture books. The main function of this kind of picture books is to make objects and pictures form a complete experience in children's minds and learn how to express these "things" in words. These books are of certain significance to the growth of young children. But if the quality of the book is not good, the negative impact of these pictures on children will be particularly serious. The unnatural bright colors make the whole book a tacky artificial coloring album.
Second, picture books can cultivate children's imagination.
Picture books should be books that children like. However, in recent years, parents have cultivated their children to read earlier and earlier, depriving them of this enjoyment.
Reading is not equal to literacy. If we can read it, then as long as it is in Chinese, no matter how difficult and professional the book is, we should be able to read it from beginning to end. The problem is that reading the whole book doesn't mean you understand it. Reading is only when you can really understand the contents of the book.
For children, to really understand the contents of the book, or to listen to stories attentively, they must have the ability to imagine invisible stories into pictures in their minds, which is commonly known as imagination. As long as you have a rich imagination, what you can't see with the naked eye can be seen with your heart.
Rich imagination is not a gift, but acquired through direct or indirect experience. The more experience, the richer the imagination. And picture books can just provide children with more opportunities to experience.
When children's imagination is underdeveloped, picture books can make up for and enrich children's imagination, so the quality of picture books is also very important, because the quality of illustrations will affect the quality of children's imagination. If the illustration is of excellent quality and artistic value, then the image in the eyes of children must be beautiful; On the contrary, some bad pictures will come to mind.
Finding a rich and splendid world from a book, or just digging out limited knowledge, depends entirely on the imagination of readers, and picture books are the enlightenment tools to cultivate children's imagination.
First, read picture books to children.
When adults read picture books, they are used to understanding the meaning of books through words, and seldom look at pictures carefully. For young children, they don't know words at first, and words are meaningless symbols to them. They almost only look at pictures. This may be the most fundamental difference between adults and children when reading picture books.
Therefore, when thinking about the relationship between picture books and children, the most important thing is to realize that picture books are not books for children, but books for adults to read. Even if the child is in the first or second grade and already knows some words, parents should continue reading them to their children.
Children's life experience is very limited, and it is difficult to understand the story by reading picture books. Adults have rich life experience and reading experience, and can fully understand the author's mood and thoughts when reading. Readers combine their own connotations with picture books and convey the true meaning of books and their feelings to children. This kind of verbal experience and spiritual communication is something that children can't experience when reading books by themselves. Therefore, it is very important for children to read adult picture books for their psychological and intellectual growth. Moreover, the deeper the reader knows about the book, the stronger the voice of * * *, and the more the listener can go deep into the book and enrich his experience.
Second, don't deprive children of the fun of reading picture books.
The most important function of picture books is to bring happiness to children. However, many parents believe that reading picture books to their children can help them read and read earlier, develop the habit of reading, improve their writing ability, cultivate noble sentiments and expand their knowledge. These high-sounding reasons often make parents afraid to tell stories easily.
In addition, parents like to ask their children all kinds of questions when reading picture books to them. For children, in order to deal with these problems, children can't immerse themselves in stories, but listen to stories while assuming questions and preparing answers. This way of reading will only make children reject and hate picture books.
As mentioned earlier, children read picture books from pictures, so to choose books with pictures that can tell stories, only by looking at pictures can they understand the content of the stories.
Illustrators of picture books should be able to fully express stories, and should not pursue the cuteness of paintings or the bright colors. "Shape" is more important than "color" in illustration. "Shape" is the protagonist of the story, and "color" is only a supporting role to increase the effect. Sometimes, without color, it is easier to express the content of the story, or it is easier for people to understand.
To judge the quality of a picture book story, you can read the text of the picture book first, and then describe the plot of the story in your mind. If the scene in the story automatically emerges, it is an easy-to-understand article.
When the picture books are completely consistent, children will confidently enter the world of picture books and experience the fun of picture books. Therefore, when choosing a picture book, adults must pay attention to whether the Chinese pictures in the book are consistent and whether the theme is described in a way that children can understand.
Don't deliberately avoid the topic of cruelty or death about the story ending of picture books. Taking three little pigs as an example, the ending of the original version has been adapted into different versions. Some wolves ran away after being burned, which made them miserable. Although it is for educational reasons, it is actually fooling children and looking down on their wisdom, because from the development of the whole story, it is impossible for pigs and wolves to make up.
About innocence and cuteness, parents want their children to be innocent and lovely, and it is also wrong to choose innocent and lovely illustrations for their children. Because children just want to grow up quickly, can do things like adults, tall, strong, kind and trustworthy. It is healthy for children to be older. From this perspective, a picture book with innocent and lovely style is not a healthy picture book.
In addition, Mr. Song Juzhi doesn't quite agree with Disney's picture books. In his view, the colors in Disney picture books are lifeless, and you can't see the motion of the movie at all. He described the color of Disney's picture books as dead and as stiff as a corpse.
Mr. Song Juzhi thinks that Disney has extracted the essence of world famous works, adapted them without authorization, and made some specious things with the original contents. Compared with the original, Disney picture books have greatly reshaped the characters of the original, exaggerated the unimportant parts, completely ruined the spirit of the original, and turned the artistic creation that could stimulate children's imagination into a cheap commodity chasing the market.
First, establish a close relationship between parents and children.
The words in the picture book are carefully selected and sorted out, and the words are full of the artist's rich emotions and rational understanding. Parents tell their babies these words sentence by sentence with their own mouths, just like sowing the seeds of language one by one. When a seed takes root in a child's heart, an unbreakable intimate relationship is established between parents and children.
Second, build a bridge of communication between parents and children.
The content of picture books can constantly stimulate dialogue, and using picture books as a medium can help adults and children communicate with each other.
At the same time, adults can talk to their babies through picture books, or let adults and children feel their love through reading and talking between parents and children.
Third, family education and kindergarten education can be organically combined, using a language.
One of the meanings of reading picture books to children in kindergartens is to communicate the language between teachers and children. When languages are interlinked, hearts will also be interlinked, resulting in * * *. * * * The more voices there are, the more they can combine with the heart, resulting in a sense of identity. With this foundation of common life, group parenting can be carried out.
So is the family. Through parent-child reading, children and parents have a * * * experience and language and can understand each other.
Whether in kindergarten or at home, children can have a language exchange environment through picture books that are familiar with each other. Therefore, it can also promote the organic combination of family education and kindergarten education.