Everyone is eager to give the baby English enlightenment, but in the face of so much data and information, I don't know where to start, so where to start English enlightenment? How? Let's take a look!
First, the cultivation of English listening ability
Please think about it: where does the baby learn to speak? The best language enlightenment for babies is that parents constantly communicate with their babies in their daily lives.
Shortly after the baby was born, he always stared at his parents, focusing on their faces, expressions and body movements when they spoke. Slowly, they imitate their parents and make all kinds of babbling sounds. And then what about the baby? Say? Many times, parents can't understand. It can be seen from the baby's learning to speak that the baby learns to speak by listening to the parents/adults and children around him. Therefore, children's English enlightenment also conforms to this law. Making time for children to listen to English every day is the first step of English enlightenment.
Second, improve oral English vocabulary.
Parents can read English picture books with pictures and rhyming English nursery rhymes to their children, which can expand their oral vocabulary and improve their oral English ability. In other words, children can associate words that appear in English picture books and nursery rhymes with things that appear in daily life. Of course, in order to improve children's English vocabulary, parents should also read a large number of English picture books to their children, and design some interesting games and activities according to the picture books to help them remember the words in the picture books.
Third, phoneme learning.
? Phoneme? It is the smallest phonetic unit in English pronunciation. English phonemes are composed of vowels, consonants, short vowels and long vowels. Distinguish English pronunciation
It is the ability of children to know, think and use individual phonemes in spoken English in the process of English enlightenment. Through training, children can master the pronunciation of these English phonemes and how to use them in English words. For example, children can realize that there are three factors /c//a/ /t/ in English cat.
Although distinguishing English phonemes is a common word in English enlightenment, people often confuse distinguishing English phonemes with spelling, thinking that distinguishing English phonemes is spelling. In fact, distinguishing English phonemes refers to identifying words that appear in spoken English and are composed of various phonemes. Phonetic phonics is to learn the connection between English letters and pronunciation through English written language.
If parents want their children to learn spelling, they should first teach them the ability to distinguish English phonemes. If children can't distinguish the phonemes they hear in spoken English, it will be difficult for them to learn phonics in written English.
Fourth, letters.
The third step of English enlightenment is to let children understand that some English pronunciations they speak can be associated with ABC in the English alphabet on the basis of mastering simple dialogues. Sure, master this? The principle of alphabetical order? The first step is to learn to recognize English letters such as ABC. Parents can combine their children's English alphabet learning with their daily life through games such as listening to ABC alphabet songs, using magnetic English alphabet posted on the refrigerator, puzzles, modeling with plasticine (see blog post: Early Education without Burning Money: Using plasticine skillfully) and coloring.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Dolci
SightWords Dolchwords/DolchLightwords are the 220 most commonly used words in English primary reading, plus 95 nouns that often appear in children's books, which were sorted out by American scholar E.W. Dolch before the Second World War. The occurrence rate of these words in English textbooks, books, newspapers and magazines is 60% to 85%. So mastering these words is of great help to children's English enlightenment.
Six, the Word family (word family)
There are also many word families in Chinese. Word family is simply a group of rhyming words. Words belonging to the same word family have the same suffix and different initials, such as sat, mat, fat, hat, bat, etc. , or,
Sails, tails, mail, and even more possibilities,
Right, light, vision, etc.
Teaching children to know the word family is an important aspect of English enlightenment. Once children have mastered the skills of identifying phrases, they can use this knowledge to identify words related to a certain word. For example, when a child knows the word mop, he can pronounce it easily when he sees the words top, pop, s top, cop, hop and hop.
There are many examples of using word families in English nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes. For example, in Humpty Dumpty's nursery rhymes, which are very familiar to British and American children, we can find many words belonging to the same word family. When listening to English nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes with children, parents can regard it as a game to let children find out the word family of words.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
The chubby boy had a big fall.
All the king's horses, all the king's men
Can't put the egg heads together again!
This phenomenon of paying attention to word family often appears in English picture books. For example, many picture books in Dr. Seuss are of this type: cats in hats, green eggs and ham. I have a box in my pocket! And so on.
Seven, natural pinyin method
In order to make children spell words successfully, learn the pronunciation of each letter on the basis that children can recognize letters. Parents can use English alphabet pronunciation cards and various interesting games to help their children master the reaction of letters. In future blog posts, I will continue to introduce you to the methods and games of learning English letters. Let children master the pronunciation of English letters correctly in the game red.
English Pinyin refers to the relationship and law between learning English letters and pronunciation. English Pinyin is an important part of reading/spelling in English learning, but it is not the central part of children's English learning. Because English Pinyin is just a tool to help children spell English. Therefore, I think parents should not educate their children in English Pinyin too early.
Eight, spelling
Is this what we often hear? Sound it out? . This is one of the most important parts of children's English enlightenment. Once children know the pronunciation of each letter, they have the ability to spell. Parents can encourage their children to spell simple monosyllabic words, such as /B/, /A/, /T/-bat.
As children practice spelling every day, their spelling ability will be greatly improved. But parents should remember that it is boring for children to practice spelling, so it is very important for parents to develop creative methods, such as reading English picture books to their children and listening to English nursery rhymes through interesting games, so as to make boring spelling learning interesting and vivid.
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