? Emotional mothers initially agreed that children should not be encouraged to read a lot before entering school and should not start literacy education too early. Children should be allowed to participate in a lot of free play, work and rhythm with their bodies and senses, and avoid excessive use of their brains. In this regard, some experts suggest that children's early literacy will affect their imagination of images and objects, thus having an irreversible impact on children's auditory memory and auditory understanding.
? Here, there is a real case from the United States:
? 1968, a 3-year-old girl in Nevada was named Edith. One day, she told her mother that the letter 1 of "OPEN" on the gift box was read as "O". Mother was very surprised, but not happy. She then asked, "How do you know this word?" Edith said, "Miss Vera from kindergarten taught me."
? Subsequently, the mother brought the kindergarten to court with a complaint, claiming $6.5438+million, on the grounds that the kindergarten taught the children to read and destroyed their imagination. Before knowing the letter "O", Edith could describe it as a football, an apple, the sun and other round things, but after teaching 26 letters in kindergarten, she no longer has this associative ability.
? The lawsuit quickly caused an uproar in the whole state. Most people think that the mother is crazy and makes a mountain out of a molehill. Even lawyers think that litigation is just a waste of energy. But three months later, the court ruled that the kindergarten lost the case.
? But as a rational father who studies the development of Chinese character reading and writing ability, he strongly opposes the above view. Can early literacy destroy children's imagination?
? Logical dad insisted:
? Educator Suhomlinski has long said that the earlier children start reading, the more complicated the thinking process when reading, and the more conducive to intellectual development. Learning to read before the age of seven can cultivate a very important skill-reading, thinking and understanding.
? In order to convince the sensible mother, the rational father began to look up the relevant scientific research progress, and finally found that there was no scientific evidence to prove that early literacy had a negative impact on children's other abilities. On the contrary, many evidences show that early literacy reading is beneficial to children's brain development and subsequent academic development!
? First, promote children's brain development.
Children's brains develop faster than before in the first six years of life, and some brain functional connections closely related to cognitive development are established at this time, which is the basis of intellectual development and academic performance. Hong Lan, a famous brain scientist and educator in China, clearly pointed out in his speech that extensive reading is one of the three magic weapons to develop children's brains, and reading is the fastest way to absorb information. Reading can internalize other people's experience into your own, and you can learn infinite knowledge with limited life. Stimulation of external environment is an important prerequisite for promoting brain development. A large number of brain sciences have confirmed that a rich and complex environment is very important for the development of cranial nerves. Children's early exposure to and learning of words can promote the functional differentiation of reading brain areas earlier, that is, develop specific reading processing brain functional areas. This functional specialization can accelerate the efficiency of the brain in processing visual text information, which is of great significance to the subsequent development of reading ability (Brem, et al., 2009; ; Church et al., 2008). For example, an important brain region used for character recognition is called Visual Word Form Region (VWFA) (Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 20 10). Professor Gabrieli of Massachusetts Institute of Technology et al. (20 18) found that the response level of preschool children's visual glyph area to visual letters can predict the subsequent development level of reading ability. It can be seen that early writing experience is very important for the development of brain reading ability functional areas. Moreover, the potential of a child's brain is enormous. The more stimulation, the more use, and the better development. There is no scientific evidence that this development of literacy and reading ability will be at the expense of other brain functions.
Second, lay an early foundation for the development of academic achievements.
On the premise of ability development, children can read and have a certain initial reading ability, which actually opens a window to develop children's early knowledge acquisition and ability development. It is found that children can improve their language-related ability, vocabulary, reading fluency, attention span and attention when they are young. From a more realistic point of view, this early development is also beneficial to their academic performance after entering school. Our country pays more and more attention to Chinese education, and paying attention to reading will become a long-term policy tendency. Even in mathematics, biology, chemistry and other disciplines, a large number of popular science reading questions began to appear, which put forward higher requirements for students' reading ability. Therefore, it is very important to lay a good foundation for reading at an early stage.
Third, cultivate positive psychological quality.
? Reading can stimulate curiosity about others and the world, improve children's problem-solving ability and cultivate creativity and imagination. When children can acquire the knowledge they are interested in through independent reading, their self-confidence and independence will be well developed. This spirit of active exploration is the core ability that children need and can really affect their life development.
In our home, there is a corner for children's books. When he was less than two years old, he liked to browse in it at will. It is a great pleasure and enjoyment to see him sitting among the books, staring at the contents of the books, laughing, thinking or thinking. Seeing such a picture, I can't bear to stop him from reading in full swing.
? Children's education is an art, and one view cannot be applied to all children. Before you are a few years old, there are no strict rules about what you must and cannot do. Parents need not worry too much. It doesn't matter if you read too early. You can start at any time as long as your child shows enough interest and is willing to take the initiative to learn.
? Brain science research has found that there are great individual differences in children's brain structure, and there are also differences between Chinese characters and pinyin characters. Chinese character itself is a graphic character, which is a perfect combination of functionality, structure and aesthetics. There are significant differences in brain functional areas between Chinese character recognition and pinyin characters. So what we advocate is: don't copy western experience and book knowledge, don't force teachers, and don't aim at how many words to learn, but read naturally.
? Here, there are some educational points to share with you:
Environment, from "reading atmosphere" of family to "cultural edification" of library.
? Since the birth of Maotou, emotional mothers have taken the lead in not brushing mobile phone information at home, but reading books with their babies. When Maotou was one year old, he set up a children's book area, where children's books that can be easily obtained were placed everywhere, creating a family atmosphere in which everyone studied. On weekends, we go to the first map, the national map, and even travel to which country. We will take our hair to the local library to read for a long time before leaving.
In terms of methods, from clingy "half-reading before bed" to hungry "independent reading"
Because the emotional mother has to go to work during the day, the reading time of parents and children is fixed before going to bed, and the sheep head chooses books independently every time. In this way, we didn't deliberately teach the youth to read. After a year, he unconsciously learned a lot of words. After that, he began to read independently, and often shared with us what he saw in books, short stories in history, and the customs of all countries in the world ... all of which made him full of enthusiasm.
Content, from hip-hop "animation reading" to professional "classic reading"
For example, when Mao was almost three years old, we bought him a matching children's book when he watched Bears on TV in the shopping mall. He leafs through his favorite books every day and says to me, "It's better to buy books. Books can be read again and again, and they are interesting every time. Unlike toys, it is boring to play. " Later, he began to read animated books, such as Super Flash, Plants vs Zombies, Mr. Octopus and Sheriff Black Cat. These books look like hip-hop, but they have opened his reading interest and made his literacy soar. Later, from the big edition of The Journey to the West to the History of Teenagers' Reading, the content of the book naturally became a classic.
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