In order to satisfy children's exploration, books for children must be able to withstand biting, tearing, pulling and throwing, so glossy hard paper books, plastic books and cloth books are all good choices. At the same time, safety is also a major consideration. Half-year-old babies especially like book corners, and the book corners designed by arc can prevent the baby from being injured.

2 Meet the children's action of turning over books

Children aged 7 to 9 months begin to develop small finger muscles and will want to try to turn pages. When the hard paper book is unfolded, the pages will naturally tilt upwards, which can help children turn pages smoothly. Secondly, the shape and size of the book should also pay attention to whether it is suitable for the baby to grasp and explore.

Bright colors and simple background.

Newborns' visual ability is still developing, and black, white or contrasting pictures can attract their attention. After about 4 months, children's ability to recognize colors is close to that of adults. At this time, they like bright primary colors and more complex graphics. In addition, in order to focus children's reading on the theme, we should choose books with simple background and not too many details.

A named book with one page and one thing.

Eight-month-old children have a basic understanding of people, things and things. Although they can't express it in words, they can understand the corresponding relationship between words and objects in spoken English, such as asking children "Where are the shoes?" "He will point to his shoes. A naming book with one page and one object can help children at this stage to know the names of objects and actions and promote the development of language ability.

Five words have a sense of rhythm.

Although children can't understand the difference between books and toys in the first half of their lives, they have a preference for their parents' voices and often read them, especially rhythmic words, such as nursery rhymes or nursery rhymes, and you will find your baby listening to your beautiful voice quietly and intently. A little older, children will like nursery rhymes or nursery rhymes with simple movements very much, and will slowly sing or imitate your movements with their voices.

When parents choose books for 1 ~ 2-year-old babies.

You can choose from the following directions:

1 Toy books relate play and reading, and there are many forms, including tactile books, page-turning books, spelling books, books with wheels or different shapes. These books are designed to arouse children's interest in books and get close to them through hands-on learning. Toy books are designed for people of different ages, and exquisite pop-up books can't stand the destruction of children. Therefore, when buying a toy book for children, we must pay attention to whether the material of the book is durable, such as whether the seams of small pages in the book are large enough; At the same time, parents themselves need to adjust their mentality. Toy books are consumables for children to explore, so there is no need to protect them too much.

According to Piaget's theory, one-year-old and two-year-old children are developing the concept of permanence of objects, that is, children can still present the image of objects in their minds even if they are not in front of them. The development of this ability makes children at this stage especially like to play hide-and-seek (the game of repeatedly covering their faces and showing their faces) and read books, because every time they open an object, they can constantly verify their abilities.

3 Beginning to introduce paper books In the first few months of one year old, hard paper books and toy books are still the focus of reading, because children's exploration of books is not easy to damage during this period. A year and a half later, ordinary paper books can also be introduced to children. However, at the beginning, children often accidentally tear the pages when trying to turn over the books. This unintentional action can easily arouse children's interest in tearing books. For such behavior, parents should treat it with normality, as long as they teach their children to respect books, tell them that there is no story to listen to when the books are torn, and then stick the pages together with their children with tape. ...

4 pictures and texts can fully cooperate with children at this stage. They think the stories told by their parents come from pictures. When they are listening to the story, they look at the pictures and completely ignore the dark text lines. For example, they will take picture books without words and ask their parents to "read" them to him. Therefore, when choosing books for children at this stage, we should pay attention to whether the picture has a good narrative function and whether it can fully cooperate with the text.

5. Repetition of sentences and rhyme of words. Since the period from one and a half to two years old is the time for children to learn new words, the naming book for naming things is still the most suitable book to read at this stage. Before the age of two, children have begun to form sentences with two words, and they can also be interested in the details of the objects described in the book. Choosing books with rhyming words and repeated story sentences will help children remember the sentences in the book and accelerate the development of language ability.

When adults choose books for babies aged 2-3,

You can pay attention to helping children buy good books from the following directions.

Explore the interesting world of books with children.

1 The theme is related to life experience.

Children like plots related to their own life experiences, such as going to the toilet and sleeping, which can enhance their self-awareness in the process of reading. Children at this stage like to ask questions when reading, like to discuss the feelings and thoughts of the protagonist in the book, and will associate their life experiences with the contents of the book. When choosing books, parents can choose topics related to their children's life experiences according to their own observations, which will certainly arouse their children's preferences and appeal.

The story is simple and repetitive.

Children over two years old can begin to understand stories with simple plots, but when they start reading storybooks to their children, they don't have to read them from beginning to end, because children at this stage are also very concerned about the details on the screen, so sometimes they can let them take the lead in reading. Picture books with repetitive storylines are especially popular with children. They can not only make it easier for them to predict the story, but also help children remember it. When parents read repeated sentences, children will join in reciting, and these sentence patterns will be used by children in their lives.

3. Children's songs and nursery rhymes reading materials

Although the content of children's songs or nursery rhymes is not easy to understand, because of its rhythm and rhythm, although children can't understand the content, it will soon catch on after listening to it several times. In addition, rhymes such as children's songs or nursery rhymes all contain common sense of many language systems, such as rhyme and part of speech. Although children still don't understand it, the experience they heard as children will become the basis for their formal study of literature in the future.

4 picture books introducing concepts

In addition to knowing specific things, with the development of cognitive ability, children around three years old also begin to learn abstract concepts, such as classification, color, shape, space, numbers, opposites and so on. When choosing concept picture books, parents should pay attention to whether these concepts are presented in a way close to children. For example, children learn through the accumulation and induction of life experience. Therefore, when introducing concepts such as big, small, far and near, we need to explain them with things and places that we can actually touch in daily life.

Most children aged 3-4 like to listen to stories and are curious about books and reading. Therefore, parents can grasp the development characteristics of their children at this stage and their usual observation of their children, and choose good books for their children that meet their interests. However, the physical and mental development of children aged 3-4 is quite unique. So, how to tailor the most suitable reading content for children according to their development characteristics?

1. Stories can attract children's attention. Many parents complain that children often lose patience without listening to stories. In fact, there are two main reasons why children are impatient: one is that the story is too long, and the other is that the story is not attractive enough. According to statistics, when a child is four years old, the average length of attention is only about seven minutes, so too long book content will definitely cause children to be distracted. But if it is in line with the child's interest, his concentration will be improved accordingly. So you might as well choose fun toy books, books full of surprises, picture books with fascinating illustrations and funny stories, all of which are good books that can help to lengthen children's attention.

2. The storyline is what children can understand. At this stage, children begin to enter group life, life experience suddenly develops, and their desire for cognitive learning also increases. Although they only stay in understanding the literal meaning in the reading process, they are more and more keen to observe the progress of the story. Therefore, parents can try to provide their children with slightly more complicated story books, which can indirectly improve their cognitive progress. However, parents should be reminded that when choosing a story book for their children, the content of the book should be avoided beyond the child's understanding; At the same time, the ending of the story should be clear and orderly, and books with vague or ambiguous endings are more suitable for older children.

3. Picture books that can stimulate children's imagination. After the age of three, with the improvement of cognitive ability, children's imagination began to take off; At this time, creative picture books can best meet their interests. Therefore, parents may wish to choose some fantasy picture books to stimulate their children's imagination. But children at this stage will also have some emotional behaviors, such as being afraid of the dark. Therefore, you can also choose a picture book related to your child's emotional experience and read it with your child. This is also a way to help children deal with emotional problems.

4. Social emotional children's books that can increase empathy With the growth of action, expression and cognitive ability, children around the age of three can show more altruistic behaviors. Therefore, reading picture books about social emotions with children will not only help him to better understand his own emotions, but also help him to understand other children's emotional feelings more keenly when he enters kindergarten and has good interpersonal skills. This gives children good interpersonal communication skills, but they are all developed from reading experience!

Selection of Books Suitable for Children Aged 4-6

Don't throw away old books, give them names and become literate books.

Don't throw away the old books you read to your children when you were young! Books named after one page and one thing, as well as picture books with repeated sentence patterns, are all good literacy books now! Like brown bear, brown bear. What are you looking at? In this book, sentence patterns with similar patterns are constantly appearing, which helps children to relate pronunciation and glyphs, and then identify words in sentences; At the same time, this kind of reading materials usually emphasize the rhyme of words and the rhythm of sentences, which can strengthen children's sensitivity to pronunciation and lay the foundation for future pronunciation learning.

Diversified reading enriches children's world.

At this stage, children begin to be interested in the source, use and working principle of things. Therefore, the books provided to children at this stage should have diversified themes, which can expand children's understanding of the world. When children are in doubt, take them to consult all kinds of knowledge-based reading materials and let them know that we can get the information we want through reading. When reading becomes meaningful, children will be willing to take the initiative to get close to books.

The story has an obvious time sequence.

Five-year-old children began to have a correct concept of time, know the relative relationship between present, past and future, and also know the concepts of day, night and four seasons, and began to use compound time words such as this morning and tomorrow afternoon in their language. This feature also enables them to understand the complicated story progress when reading. Therefore, when parents choose books for their children, they can especially choose books with more specific chronological descriptions in the story.

Picture books with interpersonal relationship as the theme.

Children go to kindergarten. In group life, he began to understand what a friend is. He likes to play with friends of similar age, take care of each other and need emotional support from his peers. However, sometimes parents will hear children talk about conflicts with certain children in the park, because children are still in the self-centered period and the necessary concepts of "sharing" and "taking turns" in collective life have not been established. Therefore, theme story books closely related to children's reading and life, such as Friendship and School Life, can not only arouse children's reading interest, but also discuss these issues with children through reading.

Fairy tales with a clear distinction between good and evil

In addition to interpersonal communication, another focus of group life is the cultivation of routines. Kindergarten children are still at the first level of the development of psychologist Kohlberg's moral judgment, that is, obeying authority and rules to avoid being punished. Therefore, children like to read stories with clear cause and effect between good and evil-happy endings in which the bad guys are punished and the good guys are rewarded. Parents can choose some picture books adapted from classic fairy tales, tell them to their children and discuss their views on each role with them.